Sometimes the most interesting dramas are the simplest – a single set, a few characters, a conflict. “Naturalistic” plays, as they are sometimes referred, were the result of a movement in late 19th century European theatre to enhance the realism of plays with an understanding of how heredity and environment influence an individual. The most…
My guests on the Thursday, February 21 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Diane Dragone, Clark Sterling, and Michael McGurk to talk about the Cinnabar Theater’s Broadway Bash. Click below to listen: **********
My guests on the Thursday, February 14 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Elizabeth Craven and llana Niernberger from the Main Stage West production of After Miss Julie. Click below to listen: **********
“Who are you?” That’s the opening line from Laura Eason’s Sex with Strangers, running now through February 17 at Left Edge Theatre. It’s a question that lingers throughout the Diane Bailey-directed production. In the good ol’ days, getting to know someone meant hanging out, dating, talking on the phone for hours, etc. With the advent…
My guests on the Thursday, February 6 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Elly Lichenstein and John Shillington from the Cinnabar Theater production of Underneath the Lintel. Click below to listen: **********
To see or not to see? That is the question. Anyone with even the slightest interest in theatre has probably seen a production or two of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in their lifetime. Considered by many to be Shakespeare’s – if not the world’s – greatest play, it’s one-third ghost story, one-third dysfunctional family drama, and…
My guests on the Thursday, January 31 theatre segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Lynne Morrow, Rachel Levin and Noah Evans from the Sonoma State University production of Sweeney Todd. Click below to listen: **********
Serial killing would seem to be rather ghoulish subject matter for a comedic play, yet Arsenic and Old Lace has been a reliable audience-pleaser for over seventy-five years. Sonoma Arts Live has a production running through February 10. Joseph Kesselring’s tale of the Brewster sisters and their penchant for helping lonely old men meet their…
My guests on a special Wednesday, January 23 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Keith Baker and Eric Thompson from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Hamlet. Click below to listen: **********
Theatre companies love to produce theatre about theatre. 6th Street Playhouse gets in the act with Ken Ludwig’s 1995 door-slamming farce Moon Over Buffalo, running through February 3. Buffalo’s Erlanger Theater is hosting the repertory company of George and Charlotte Hay (Dodds Delzell & Madeleine Ashe), grade-B actors and grade-A hams who never made it…
