Spreckels Theatre Company opens their season with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Simon Stephens’ adaptation of Mark Haddon’s 2003 novel about a boy with ‘behavioral difficulties’ took England and Broadway by storm and earned multiple awards on both continents. Christopher (Elijah Pinkham) is a 15-year-old boy with an unspecified behavioral…
If you’re only going to see one “five British women of varying ages, socio-economic statuses and body types bonding over pole dancing” play in your lifetime, might as well make it Dave Simpson’s The Naked Truth. A big hit in England, director Argo Thompson imports it to the North Bay for its U.S. premiere at…
Guests on the Thursday, September 13 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon included artists from Healdsburg’s Raven Players “Mini-Rep” productions including director Steven David Martin and Priscilla Locke from Church & State and director Caitlin Strom-Martin and Maureen O’Neill from Time Stands Still. Click below to hear that interview: **********
Guests on the second Thursday, September 6 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon included actors Bonnie Jean Shelton and Angela Squire from the Left Edge Theatre production of The Naked Truth. Click below to hear that interview: **********
Guests on the first Thursday, September 6 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon included director Elizabeth Craven and actor Elijah Pinkham from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Click below to hear that interview: **********
Theatregoers with a hankering for a classic or the desire to see something new have two productions running that fit the bill. Cinnabar Theater presents the 50-year-old classic Cabaret. The Kander and Ebb musical, which has gone through significant changes via numerous revivals since its 1966 debut, is the tale of two couples whose lives…
September marks the opening of the new artistic season for many North Bay theatre companies. Here’s some of what they have in store for local audiences: Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater (cinnabartheater.org) transforms itself into Berlin’s Kit Kat Club and bids you willkommen, bienvenue, and welcome to the classic Kander and Ebb musical Cabaret. Broadway veteran Michael…
Like an Elizabethan game of whack-a-mole, as soon as North Bay theatre companies knock out one outdoor summer Shakespeare production, another one seems to pop up. Marin Shakespeare brought us Pericles at Dominican University’s Forest Meadows amphitheater, the Raven did A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Healdsburg’s Seghesio Winery, and Shakespeare in the Cannery did Shakespeare…
Guests on the Thursday, August 16 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon included playwright/director Jacinta Gorringe and actors Chazz Madeiros and Ella Jones from the Petaluma Shakespeare Company production of Speechless Shakespeare. Click below to hear that interview: *** Fore more information, got to petalumashakespeare.org
So, what’s former Spreckels Performing Arts Center Manager Gene Abravaya been doing since his retirement to the Arizona desert? “I’ve been enjoying my retirement and developing style and techniques for the abstract sculptures I am interested in designing,” he says. “Oh, and I’ve been working on a new play.” That play, The Trial of John…
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