My guests on the 10/09/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Thomas Gibson and Max Chittister from the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center production of Clue. The show based on the popular 1985 movie opens in Cloverdale on October 17 and runs at the CPAC through November 2. Click below to listen: **********…
When I see a show late in its run, or the run itself is short, I’ll take some time and provide a short take on the production… Into the Woods – Spreckels Theatre Company Pluses: cast, live orchestra, costumes, puppetry work Minuses: show length, repetiveness, audio issues Long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe started to…
The Drive on 95.5’s Daedalus Howell and Rialto Cinema’s Joe Mulcaire interview producer Blake Wellen and writer/director Julie Rubio about their documentary The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & The Art of Survival. The film is a visually stunning and sweeping feature documentary that traces the life and survival of the renowned painter through…
On September 28, 2025, the Sonoma and Napa County theatre communities gathered at The California in Santa Rosa to celebrate outstanding work in local theatre for the 2024 – 2025 season with the MTJA Norbay Theater Awards. Photos by Eric Chazankin
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 10/02/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Kimberly Kalember and Sylvia Whitbrook from the 6th Street Playhouse production of The Bad Seed. The show performs on the Monroe Stage at the Playhouse in Santa Rosa through October 26. Click below to listen: ********** Click…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 10/02/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Reed Martin and Gwen Nelson from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel). The show runs in the Frank Chong Studio Theatre on the Santa Rosa Junior College campus…
Over 150 members of the North Bay theater community gathered on Sunday night at The California in Santa Rosa for the 2025 Norbay Theater Awards. The Awards, a reboot of the Marquee Theater Journalist Association Awards of 2015-2020, recognized outstanding work in 16 categories. Sonoma and Napa County productions in the 2024-2025 season that were…
My guests on the 09/25/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Maddi Scarbrough and Megan Bartlett from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Into the Woods. The show runs in the Codding Theatre at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through October 12. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE…
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…
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