The proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” takes on added meaning for those rearing a child with special needs or chronic illnesses. The usual ‘village’ of family and friends grows exponentially as caregivers and support services enter the mix. It’s a world with which playwright Amy Herzog is very familiar. Mary Jane is…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the August 31 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were director Brad Surosky and choreographer Michael Callahan from the Transcendece Theatre Company production of An Enchanted Evening. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the August 31broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were cast members Mary DeLorenzo and Mercedes Murphy from the Left Edge Theatre production of Mary Jane. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
What happens when Hollywood comes to town is a well-worn plot device best exemplified by the classic ‘Mayberry Goes Hollywood’ episode of The Andy Griffith Show. Mayberry’s reactions to the arrival of a film company in their quaint Southern town was played for gentle humor as the residents go about changing everything about the town…
North Bay fans of Shakespeare “under the sun” have at least four options this summer including two – count ‘em – two different productions of Twelfth Night going up in Marin. Sonoma County’s entry in this summer of Shakespeare ‘fest’ is The Comedy of Errors. Healdsburg’s Raven Players return to West Plaza Park with a…
There was a period of time when musical theatre creators temporarily averted their gaze from Hollywood as a prime source for material and looked to the British film industry instead. Films like Billy Elliot and Kinky Boots had very successful musical adaptations on Broadway, but the trend started with The Full Monty. Transcendence Theatre Company…
The name Damon Runyon probably means little to most today, but in the early to mid-twentieth century he was a celebrated journalist, sports columnist, and author. His short stories about New York and Broadway contained such colorful characters that the term “Runyonesque” was coined to describe the type of gamblers, gangsters, hoods, and show people…
Several North Bay theatre artists move to the big screen (well, a big television screen, at least) with War of the Wills. It’s the hoary old “spend the night in a haunted house and inherit a million dollars” plot with a few adjustments. The Sonoma County-lensed thriller is now available for rent on Amazon Prime.…
If Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has the feeling of a school show done large, it should come as no surprise that it was originally commissioned by a London Prep School as a piece for their boys’ choir. This early collaboration of a then-teenage composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and twenty-something lyricist Tim Rice started…
The Venn diagram that displays the relationship between lovers of the works of William Shakespeare and musical theatre probably shows very little overlap. Nevertheless, if you’re in either category – and especially if you’re in that overlap – you should head to Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse and catch one of their remaining performances of…
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