KSRO Interview: “Oliver!”
My guests on the Thursday, November 7 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Patrick Nims, David Yen, and Brittany Law from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Oliver! Click below to listen: **********
Reviews: “Wait Until Dark” & “Between Riverside and Crazy” in Santa Rosa
Local theatres seem to be in a New York state of mind with two very different shows set in the Big Apple running on North Bay stages. 6th Street Playhouse brings the somewhat ironically titled Wait Until Dark to their Monroe Stage while Left Edge Theatre puts their audiences somewhere Between Riverside and Crazy. Wait…
Review: “Sweeney Todd” in Novato
Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd is an exceedingly difficult show to produce. More opera than musical (San Francisco Opera actually did a production in 2015), the vocal demands alone create a significant casting challenge for most theatre companies. The complexities of Sondheim’s score and the requirements of the set design add to the…
North Bay Theatre Recognized at 6th Annual TBA Awards
North Bay theatre was well represented at the 6th Annual TBA Awards held Monday night at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. The TBA Awards are designed to honor excellence in professionally oriented theatre through a peer-based, Bay Area-wide adjudication process of artists and productions from companies who are members of Theatre Bay Area and…
Curtain Going Up Again at North Bay Theatres
With the Kincade fire no longer posing an imminent threat and with PG&E enlisting a full contingent of wheel-running squirrels to power up the area, North Bay theatre companies that were forced to shutter their productions last week are looking forward to resuming their runs this weekend. Here’s the status of all Sonoma and Marin…
Review: “The Laramie Project” in Healdsburg
It’s been more than two decades since 21-year-old college student Matthew Shephard was kidnapped, beaten, tortured, tied to a fence and left to die in a remote area near Laramie, Wyoming. The savageness and “How could it happen here?” nature of the crime grabbed the world’s attention and Shephard’s funeral and subsequent trials of the…
Review: “The Rocky Horror Show” in San Anselmo
If being hit on the head by a piece of sponge form toast or across the face by a flying condom isn’t your cup of tea, then perhaps you’ll want to avoid Marin Musical Theatre Company’s The Rocky Horror Show, which has two remaining performances at The Playhouse in San Anselmo on All Hallows’ Eve.…
Update – Most North Bay Theatres Shuttered
With PG&E suspending power service through much of the North Bay, the Kincade Fire raging through northern Sonoma County, and multiple communities under a mandatory evacuation order, most North Bay theatre companies have cancelled their weekend performances in the interest of their patrons’ and artists’ safety. Here is the current status of all North Bay…
North Bay Theatre Companies Scramble to Deal with Fire & Potential Power Outages; Many Shows Cancelled
Planning to see a live theatre performance this weekend? Not so fast. Multiple theatre companies are reporting that they have been notified by PG&E that their venues may be in the area designated for a massive Public Safety Power Shutoff scheduled for early Saturday evening. Also, nearby mandatory evacuation orders are leading companies to make…
Review: “Luna Gale” in Petaluma
The term “MacGuffin” was popularized by film director Alfred Hitchcock to describe objects or events that took place in his films that were necessary to begin the plot and motivate the characters but were essentially irrelevant. It may be harsh to refer to a baby as a MacGuffin, but the title character in Luna Gale,…
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