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:…
Napa’s Lucky Penny Community Arts Center opened just about ten years ago with a production of Lionel Barts’ classic musical Oliver! The musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist has long been an audience favorite since its debut at a Southwest London theater in 1960. It’s a big show, in many ways, and not the…
My guest on the 12/05/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Laura Downing-Lee, cast member from the Left Edge Theatre production of POTUS, Or Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. The show runs at The California in Santa Rosa through December 21. Click below to listen:…
Old-fashioned holiday musicals don’t get much more old-fashioned than Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. The David Ives and Paul Blake adaptation of the 1954 film that starred Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen runs at Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse through Dec. 22. Fans of the film won’t be disappointed as it’s a faithful…
My guests on a special Wednesday edition of “Theatre Thursday” on The Drive on 95.5 were Caroline Flett and Ella Park from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas: The Musical. The show runs in 6th Street Playhouse’s GK Hardt Theatre in Santa Rosa through December 22. Click below to listen: **********…
Theatergoers in search of a big dollop of holiday nostalgia would do well to seek out the Spreckels Theatre Company production of It’s a Wonderful Life – A Live Radio Play. The Condiotti Experimental Theatre at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park hosts the Jenny Hollingworth-directed show through Dec. 15. Based on Frank…
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.…
Audiences headed for a performance of the Raven Players’ production of Cinderella who are expecting anything along the lines of a Disney musical are in for a bit of a surprise. This particular production, running at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through Dec. 1, is done in the style of a British pantomime,…
My guests on the 11/14/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Nicholas Augusta, Lily Gibson, and Declan Hackett from the Raven Players production of Cinderella – A Family Holiday Panto. The show runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through December 1. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for…
The holiday season will soon be upon us and with it a plethora of live theatre choices with which to escape pushy crowds, long lines, traffic, overbearing relatives, and the thought of what January 20, 2025 holds in store for our nation. There’s a conspicuous absence of productions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol this…
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