Healdsburg’s Raven Players is one of the few local companies to wear the phrase “community theater” as a badge of honor. Absent a delusion of grandeur and pretenses of ‘Broadway quality’, the Players simply make the commitment to be a place that all are welcome, both on and off the stage. Their casts are frequently…
My guests on the March 22 “Theatre Thursday” (on Friday) segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Craig Peoples and Waylon Hessler from the Raven Players production of The Wizard of Oz. The show runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through April 7. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more…
The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle announced the nominations for their 47th Excellence in Theatre Awards and North Bay theatre companies received 59 nominations over 18 categories. Active since 1976, the Circle rewards excellence in all phases of theatrical production through the Circle’s annual awards. The Circle eliminated gender distinction in their performance…
My guests on the March 14 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Clark Lewis and Jared Wright from the Roustabout Theater production of Uncle Vanya. The show runs at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa through March 31. Click below to listen: Note – Technical difficulties prevented the…
If live theatre, which is in crisis, ends up in a doom spiral, it won’t be for a lack of talent and energy from the current generation of performing artists. The stages at College of Marin and Santa Rosa Junior College recently hosted productions featuring some very good work by their youthful casts. Napa Valley…
My guests on the March 7 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Libby Oberlin and David L. Yen from the 6th Street Playhouse production of The Book of Will. The show runs in Santa Rosa through March 30. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
Gender fluidity flows like the Russian River after a torrential rain in the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts Department production of Orlando. Laura Downing-Lee directs the Sarah Ruhl-penned adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel. The show runs in the Frank Chong Studio Theatre in the Burbank Auditorium on the SRJC Santa Rosa campus through…
My guests on the February 29 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Colin Cameron and Lizzy Bies from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of Orlando. The show opens on the SRJC Santa Rosa campus on March 1 and runs through March 10. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE…
My guests on the February 22 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Robert Zelenka and Tika Moon from the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center production of Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class. The show opens in Cloverdale on March 1 and runs through March 10. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more…
My guest on the second of two February 15 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive on 95.5 was Steven David Martin, Artistic Director of the Raven Players in Healdsburg, for a conversation about the Raven Performing Arts Theater’s upcoming Winter Gala, to be held February 23, and what the future holds for the Raven Players.…
