by Harry Duke * An upside-down family gets right-sided with the help of a practically perfect nanny in P.L. Travers classic Mary Poppins. In between the 1964 Disney film adaption and its belated 2018 sequel, Cameron Mackintosh put together a Broadway musical that featured elements of the Disney film along with new material. Santa Rosa’s…
by Beulah F. Vega * Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse delves into the world of Shakespeare once more with its production of Romeo & Juliet running through Feb. 15 on their Monroe Stage. Director Drew Bolander’s adaptation is a traditional (almost) fully uncut production. If you don’t know Romeo & Juliet, the simplest explanation of…
My guest on the second of two 02/05/26 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 FM was Jennifer King, currently appearing in Sonoma Arts Live’s production of Shirley Valentine. The show runs on the Rotary Stage of the Sonoma Community Center in Sonoma through February 22. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for…
My guests on the first of two 02/05/26 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 FM were Caroline Flett and Celina Kegerreis from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Mary Poppins. The show has two casts of main characters appearing on diffferent nights through March 1 in the GK Hardt Theatre of Santa Rosa’s…
My guests on the 01/29/26 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were YWCA of Sonoma County Chief Executive Officer Madeleine Keegan-O’Connell and Press Democrat columnist Chris Smith to talk about their upcoming benefit performance of A. R. Gurney’s Love Letters. The one-night-only performance will be held Friday, February 13 in the Carsten Cabaret…
by Harry Duke * Two men are conversing while one of them fishes off of a Chesapeake Bay dock. The fisherman regales the stranger with tales of fishing with his son. The stranger seems somewhat confused by the conversation. A woman soon approaches. As they converse, we learn they’re not strangers at all. They’re a…
My guests on the 01/22/26 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were director Drew Bolander and actor Tina Traboulsi from the 6th Street Playhouse production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. The show runs January 23 through February 15 on the Monroe Stage of Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse. Click below to listen:…
My guests on the 01/15/26 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Brittany Law and Trevor Hoffmann from the Cinnabar Theater production of My Fair Lady. The show runs in the Warren Theater on the campus of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park from January 23 through February 8. Click below to listen:…
My guests on the 01/08/26 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Stage Director Elizabeth Craven and Music Director Tom Martin from the Mercury Theater production of Woody Guthrie’s American Song. The show runs January 9 through January 25 in the former Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE…
Now that Ralphie got his BB gun, Scrooge became a better person, and George Bailey decided he really did have a wonderful life, it’s time for North Bay theatre companies to get their 2026 shows on the road. Petaluma’s Mercury Theater is first out of the gate with Woody Guthrie’s American Song. It’s a musical…
