by Harry Duke For years, Healdsburg’s Raven Players has been presenting a summer Shakespeare production “under the stars” at the perfectly serviceable but rather bland West Plaza Park. They’ve upgraded a bit this year by relocating to Bacchus Landing for their production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. The Wine & Event Center is hosting the…
My guests on the 07/31/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Declan Hackett, Alyssa Rempel, and Kate Edery from the Raven Players production of William Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona. This Raven production of the Shakespeare classic is being set in 1950’s Italy and is being presented at Bacchus Landing in Healdsburg…
My guests on the July 24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were David Lear and Ally Bray from the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop production of Shakespeare’s Othello. Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) returns to Santa Rosa with this first of two productions in the meadow adjacent to the 6th Street Playhouse parking lot.…
Fans of the movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will be pleased to hear that the Broadway musical adaptation sticks pretty close to the Steve Martin/Michael Caine comedy. Sonoma Arts Live has a production directed by Carl Jordan running on the Rotary Stage at the Sonoma Community Center through July 27. Suave and debonair con man Lawrence…
My guest on the July 17 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Daniel Savio, composer/lyricist/musician and Musical Director for the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s latest production, Disruption. The show is playing at various venues throughout Northern California, including at La Plaza Park in Cotati on July 27. Click below to hear the…
I last spent time with The Sugar Bean Sisters eight years ago at a production by the Spreckels Theatre Company in Rohnert Park. My general reaction at the time was that it was a very strange show. The sisters have returned to Sonoma County – Cloverdale to be exact – with a production running at…
My guest on the 07/10/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was David R. Gordon from the cast of the Transcendence Theatre Company’s production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. The show, part of TTC’s “Broadway Under the Stars” series, opens on August 7 and runs through August 17 in Sonoma at the…
My guests on the 07/03/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Rebecca West and Lynn Stevenson from the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center production of The Sugar Bean Sisters. The show opens in Cloverdale on July 12 and runs through July 27. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on…
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.
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