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…
by Cari Lynn Pace A Chorus Line opens with a backstage look at dozens of dancers trying out for a part in a new show. The live music is energizing and brassy; the director of the audition is pushy and demanding. After dance eliminations, only seventeen remain onstage. They’re exhausted and nervous as they urgently…
The Marquee Theater Journalists Association, a North Bay-based critics group originally formed in 2015 but dormant since the pandemic, has announced their “rebooting” and the resumption of their annual theater awards program. The following message was emailed on September 1 to the leaders of the North Bay theatre community from MTJA member Harry Duke: Back…
by Cari Lynn Pace Where do playwrights come up with the ideas for such laughable plots? Featherbaby, David Templeton’s latest play, features a young woman and her foul-mouthed and aggressively possessive parrot, a bird who schemes to separate its owner from her suitors. Just imagine Spreckels Theatre Company having a casting call to audition actors…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 08/28/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Phil Mutz, Ken Urso, and Danny Gorman from the THTR production of Gay Camp. The raucous 90 minute quick-change comedy will have one performance only on Saturday, August 30, at the R3 Hotel in Guerneville. Click below…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 08/28/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Lorenzo Alviso and choreographer Hannah Woolfenden from the 6th Street Playhouse production of A Chorus Line. The show runs in the G.K. Hardt Theatre at 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa through September 28. Click below…
In Galatea, local playwright David Templeton examined humanity through the eyes of a synthetic human. In his latest play, Featherbaby, Templeton looks at humanity through the eyes of a… foul-mouthed parrot? Questions, questions, questions. Where does he come up with these things? Playwright David Templeton – “In my 20s, I had a girlfriend who owned…
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