My guests on the 11/07/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Ken Urso and Imri M. Tate from the upcoming CollabWERKS production of Midsummer. The show is a wild, immersive, theatrical dance party based (loosely) on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Nikko Kimzin. It’s being performed at The California in Santa…
Several hundred costume-clad theatre goers filled the Santa Rosa Junior College’s Burbank Auditorium on Halloween night for the opening of their production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. This was quite a change from my initial Rocky Horror experience in 1978 when my brother and three of our friends were joined by just one…
My guests on the 10/31/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Janis Dunson Wilson and Molly Larsen-Shine from the upcoming Mercury Theater of Petaluma presentation of With a Scene and a Song. The show is an evening of musical theater songs and theater scene excerpts from some of your favorite shows. It’s…
My guests on the 10/24/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Alex Delzell and Austin Aquino-Harrison from the upcoming Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. The show opens on the SRJC Burbank Auditorium Main Stage in Santa Rosa on Halloween night and runs through…
My guests on the 10/17/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Lexus Fletcher and Reilly Milton from the Left Edge Theatre production of Our Dear Dead Drug Lord. The production runs through November 9 at The California in Santa Rosa. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the…
My guest on the 10/10/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Nikko Kimzin, founder of Kimzin Creative and developer of the Kimzin Creative BIPOC Producers Lab in collaboration with Creative Sonoma. The lab is an innovative, nine-month professional development program designed to foster the growth and success of two emerging Sonoma County-based…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 10/03/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were director Patrick Nims and performer Chloë Angst from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Lizzie: The Musical. The show is running in 6th Street’s GK Hardt Theatre in Santa Rosa through October 27. Click below…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 10/03/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were director Leslie McCauley and actors Maverick Cheney and Orion Pudoff from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of All in the Timing: An Evening of Comedy by David Ives. The show runs in…
As jukebox musicals go, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is a pretty darn good one and the production at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through October 13 is a pretty darn good one, too. While most jukebox musicals use a flimsy book as connecting material for a plethora of songs by a…
My guests on the 09/26/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Elly Lichenstein and Jared Emerson-Johnson, founding members of the newly formed Mercury Theater of Petaluma. Their opening presentation is called Welcome Home and happens on Saturday, October 5 at the (former) Cinnabar Theater building. Welcome Home “will be one part variety…
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