When I see a show late in its run, or the run itself is short, I’ll take some time and provide a short take on the production… It’s a Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play – Spreckels Theatre Company, Rohnert Park Pluses: source material, performances, live sound effects Minuses: not really how a live radio…
by Cari Lynn Pace Where do playwrights come up with the ideas for such laughable plots? Featherbaby, David Templeton’s latest play, features a young woman and her foul-mouthed and aggressively possessive parrot, a bird who schemes to separate its owner from her suitors. Just imagine Spreckels Theatre Company having a casting call to audition actors…
My guests on the 08/21/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were director Skylar Evans and cast member Nate Musser from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Featherbaby. The David Templeton-penned comedy premieres in the Condiotti Experimental Theatre at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park on August 29 and runs through…
My guests on the 05/01/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Andrew and Maeve Smith, cast members from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Company. The musical runs in the Codding Theatre at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through May 18. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for…
My guest on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 04/24/25 on The Drive on 95.5 was Diane Dragone, Executive Director at Cinnabar Theater. Diane promoted Cinnabar’s Broadway Bash, a fundraiser featuring Broadway and film musical performer Liz Callaway. The Bash will help raise funds to build a new Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma. Diane…
How interesting can a play be if it tells the story of an unremarkable person’s life told by that unremarkable person and the unremarkable people that surround them? How unremarkable? So unremarkable that playwright Simon Stephens doesn’t even give them names in his cast list for Morning Sun, now playing in the Condiotti Experimental Theatre…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 03/20/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Joe Gellura and actor Elliot Davis from the Raven Players production of The Bridges of Madison County. The musical runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through March 30. Click below to listen: **********…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 03/13/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Lauren Heney and Molly Noble from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Morning Sun. The show runs in the Condiotti Experimental Theatre in the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through April 6. Click below to…
My guests on the 12/12/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Sheri Lee Miller and Drew Bolander from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914. The show runs in Rohnert Park for three performances only from Dec. 13 – Dec. 15. Click below to listen:…
My guests on a special Monday edition of “Theatre Thursday” on The Drive on 95.5 were director Jenny Hollingworth and actor Nic Moore from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of It’s a Wonderful Life – A Live Radio Play . The show runs at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through December 15.…
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