by Cari Lynn Pace Playwright Robert O’Hara’s Bootcandy is a series of semi-autobiographical vignettes that take place on a bare stage (or a minimalist set), each delivering a biting and often hilarious look at supposedly real encounters throughout his life as a black gay person from childhood to present day. It’s definitely outrageous, often quite…
My guests on the 10/23/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Matthew Witthaus and Katie Watts-Whitaker from the Raven Players’ production of Willliam Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The audience is invited to sit on the stage and surround the performers at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg from October 24 through November 9.…
My guests on the 10/16/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Ken Urso and Jamie Parnell from the THTR production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. The stage musical upon which the cult classic movie was based will have three performances – October 23, 24 and 25 – at The California…
Over 150 members of the North Bay theater community gathered on Sunday night at The California in Santa Rosa for the 2025 Norbay Theater Awards. The Awards, a reboot of the Marquee Theater Journalist Association Awards of 2015-2020, recognized outstanding work in 16 categories. Sonoma and Napa County productions in the 2024-2025 season that were…
The Marquee Theater Journalists Association has announced the nominees for their 2025 MTJA Norbay Theater Awards. The Association, originally formed by a group of Sonoma County-based theater journalists in 2015 but dormant since the COVID pandemic in 2020, has reformed and restarted their awards program in affiliation with the North Bay Bohemian. There are 16…
The Marquee Theater Journalists Association, a North Bay-based critics group originally formed in 2015 but dormant since the pandemic, has announced their “rebooting” and the resumption of their annual theater awards program. The following message was emailed on September 1 to the leaders of the North Bay theatre community from MTJA member Harry Duke: Back…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 04/03/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Dana Hunt and actor Dylan James Pereira from the Left Edge Theatre production of The Shark is Broken. The show runs at The California in Santa Rosa through April 11. Click below to listen: ********** Click…
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