Which of the following does not belong: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, School of Rock. It’s a trick question because they are all Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals. Even School of Rock? Yep. Webber bought the stage rights to the 2003 Richard Linklater/Mike White film…
My guests on the 06/26/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Declan Hackett and Sylvia Whitbrook from the Raven Players production of School of Rock. The musical runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through July 13. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
My guests on the 06/19/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Jared Emerson-Johnson, President of the Board of Mercury Theater of Petaluma, and mezzo-soprano/actress Leandra Ramm. Leandra is currently appearing in the one-act operas Trouble in Tahiti and Service Provider, running in tandem at Mercury Theater in Petaluma through June 22. Click…
Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse has conspired with the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop to drag Shakespeare out of the parking lot and back into the comfy confines of a black box theater with their co-production of Hamlet. Their truncated version of what no less an authority than Laurence Olivier called “the tragedy of a man who…
My guests on the 06/12/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Lukas Raphael and Chris Schloemp from the 6th Street Playhouse/Jacobethan Theatre Workshop co-production of Hamlet. The show runs on the Monroe Stage of the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa through June 21. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for…
The Healdsburg International Short Film Festival (HISFF) is looking for volunteers to provide housing for the filmmakers attending the 2025 festival, which takes place September 26-28. Hosts will enjoy meeting a remarkable collection of creative artists from all over the world and they’ll receive passes to individual screening blocks of the riveting collections of work presented…
by Beulah F. Vega 6th Street Playhouse, in collaboration with the Jacobethan Theater Workshop, is presenting a ‘stripped down’ version of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet on their Monroe Stage through Saturday, June 21. For those unfamiliar with the Jacobethan Theater Workshop, it’s the company that for the last few years has produced “Shakespeare in the Parking…
In my original review of the 6th Street Playhouse production of The Pirates of Penzance (running in their GK Hardt Theater through June 21), I noted that the five principal roles were double-cast. The performance I originally attended and reviewed featured the “Bones” cast – Aidan Cumming, Caroline Flett, Drew Bolander, Ginger Beavers, and Ted…
My guests on the 06/05/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Megan Bartlett and David Bradbury from the Cinnabar Theater production of Bright Star. The musical runs at Warren Auditorium in Ives Hall on the campus of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park through June 29. Click below to listen: ********** Click…
Every well-rounded theatre-goer should see at least one Gilbert and Sullivan production in their lifetime and Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse is presenting a delightful opportunity to do so right now. Their robust production of The Pirates of Penzance runs through June 21. Perhaps W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s most-produced piece, the comic opera debuted…
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