The 222 is a non-profit, member-supported arts, culture, and entertainment venue that’s housed in the Paul Mahder Gallery in Healdsburg. Open since 2021, to date it’s presented musical programs, literary readings, film presentations, and other community events. Professional theatre now enters that mix with a series of productions programmed by well-known Bay Area theatre artist…
My guests on the final Theatre Thursday broadcast on June 1 on The Drive on KSRO were David Lear and Lorenzo Alviso from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Something Rotten! Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse has announced a major restructuring in staff and leadership. Managing Director Anne Clark and Artistic Director Jared Sakren will leave their positions at the end of May. Clark has been Managing Director of the Playhouse since 2020 but recently made the decison to join the team at Mill Valley’s 142…
Conversations overheard during the intermission of a show often provide fascinating insights into an audience’s immediate reaction to what they’re experiencing. Topics can range from the temperature in the theater (“too cold”) to the running time of the first act (“too long”) to the volume level of the actors when delivering dialogue (“too low.”). All…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the May 18 broadcast of The Drive on KSRO were stage manager John Ruzika and cast member Keene Hudson from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Smart People. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the May 18 broadcast of The Drive on KSRO were director Katie Watts-Whitaker and cast member Steven David Martin from the Raven Players production of Hay Fever. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
Eccentric families have long been a source of humor for popular entertainments from TV’s Addams Family to film’s Royal Tenenbaums. Kaufman and Hart’s You Can’t Take It with You may be the preeminent stage production on the subject and is one of the most produced plays since its premiere in 1936, but Noël Coward beat…
Large-scale, family-friendly musical theatre returns to the North Bay with the Spreckels Theatre Company’s production of Tuck Everlasting. The stage adaptation of Natalie Babbitt’s 1975 children’s novel about immortality had a very brief life on Broadway in 2016. If the Spreckels production – running in Rohnert Park through May 21 – is any indication, the…
My guests on the May 4 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on KSRO were Larry Williams, Nico Alva, and Molly Belle Hart from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Tuck Everlasting. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Lovers of musical theatre in general and the works of Stephen Sondheim in particular would do well to head out to Sonoma and catch Sonoma Arts Live’s Side by Side by Sondheim. The musical revue runs on the Rotary Stage in Andrews Hall through May 7. Like most musical revues, there’s not much of a…
North Bay Stage and Screen 