My guests on the 09/18/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Amanda Claiborne and Nick Charles from the Curtain Call Theatre production of Exit, Pursued by a Bear. The show runs at the Russian River Hall in Monte Rio through September 27. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information…
Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day is a play with deep Bay Area roots. Originally commissioned by Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre and performed in 2018, it won the 2019 San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Original Script and Theatre Bay Area’s Will Glickman Award for best new play to premiere in the Bay Area. It…
by Harry Duke It’s been 50 years since Michael Bennett’s A Chorus Line took Broadway by storm. The musical tale of the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of those who seek a life in the theatre won nine Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize and held the record for longest running Broadway musical for 14 years.…
True West Film Center, the non-profit film organization, today announced its opening dates for the Cinemas at True West, the newest destination for North Bay movie goers. The cinemas are the focal point of the film center’s James Redford Campus located at 371 Healdsburg Avenue. Cinema doors will open to the public on Friday, October…
by Harry Duke Jukebox musicals, with few exceptions, are not known for their intricate plots or dramatic surprises. They exist to provide their audiences with musical comfort food. Case in point, the Sonoma Arts Live production of A Night with Janis Joplin. The show is heading into its closing weekend on the Rotary Stage in…
My guests on the 09/11/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Nathan Cummings and Zane Walters from the Cinnabar Theater production of Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood. The show runs at Warren Auditorium in Ives Hall on the campus of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park through September 28. Click below…
The Marquee Theater Journalists Association has announced the nominees for their 2025 MTJA Norbay Theater Awards. The Association, originally formed by a group of Sonoma County-based theater journalists in 2015 but dormant since the COVID pandemic in 2020, has reformed and restarted their awards program in affiliation with the North Bay Bohemian. There are 16…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 09/04/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Steven David Martin and Chelsea Jennings Bell from the Raven Players production of Eureka Day. The audience will join the cast on stage at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg from September 5 through September 28.…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 09/04/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Jaime Love and Libby Oberlin for a discussion about the Sonoma Arts Live production of An Night with Janis Joplin. The show runs on the Rotary Stage at the Sonoma Community Center in Sonoma through September 21.…
by Harry Duke If a dearth of penises and flatulence on North Bay stages has kept you from returning to live theatre, Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre has got a show for you. It’s Taylor Mac’s Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus and it’s currently covering the stage of The California with blood, guts, and…
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