Folks who like their fairy-tale endings in the “and they lived happily ever after” vein may find themselves challenged by Marisela Treviño Orta’s The River Bride. Part Brazilian folklore and part Brothers Grimm at their grimmest, it’s the tale of two sisters and the men in their lives. Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse has a…
Our guest on the second of two Theatre Thursday segments on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO was David Templeton for a discussion of two upcoming performances of his one-man Christmas show Polar Bears as well as the return of his Twisted Christmas show as a benefit performance for comedian Will…
My guests on the first of two Theatre Thursday segments on the November 17 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Reed Martin and Samuel J. Gleason from the SRJC Theatre Arts production of The SpongeBob Musical. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
Play titles don’t get more succinct than The One-Act Play That Goes Wrong. You get both an approximate run time and a plot synopsis in six simple words. It’s an abridged version of The Play That Goes Wrong, which was itself expanded from its original one-act roots after becoming a hit in London where it…
My guests on the November 10 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke were Bethany Regan and Terrance Smith from the 6th Street Playhouse production of The River Bride. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
The roots of racism run deep in the American housing market. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry addressed the issue in 1959 with A Raisin in the Sun, the first play written by an African-American woman performed on Broadway and the first to have an African-American director. Playwright Bruce Norris took Hansberry’s story and in 2010 wrote a…
Adaptations of the works of Stephen King for film and television have been hit or miss over the years. For every The Shining or ‘Salem’s Lot, there’s a Firestarter or The Langoliers. Mainstream theatrical adaptations have been limited to a 2018 musical version of Carrie (a major Broadway flop but cult hit) and Misery, which…
My guest on the October 20 “Theatre Thursday” segment of The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO was Tim Kniffin, director of the Cinnabar Theater production of Stephen King’s Misery. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Steve’s guest on the October 13 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO was playwright David Templeton for a discussion about his “warm up” fundraising performances of Polar Bears. David is taking his autobiographical show to the United Solo Theatre Festival in NYC in late October. Click below…
American musical theatre doesn’t get any more old-fashioned than it does with The Music Man. Broadway is currently hosting a revival of Meredith Willson’s melodic tale of con man Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian but North Bay audiences looking to travel back to turn-of-the-century River City, Iowa need only head to Rohnert Park. The…
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