My guests on the 05/01/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Andrew and Maeve Smith, cast members from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Company. The musical runs in the Codding Theatre at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through May 18. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for…
My guest on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 04/24/25 on The Drive on 95.5 was Diane Dragone, Executive Director at Cinnabar Theater. Diane promoted Cinnabar’s Broadway Bash, a fundraiser featuring Broadway and film musical performer Liz Callaway. The Bash will help raise funds to build a new Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma. Diane…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 04/24/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Lauren Heney and actor Drew Bolander from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. The show runs on the Monroe Stage at 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa through May…
No less a source than the Mayo Clinic recommends laughter as a great source of stress relief and in these stressful times, two North Bay productions may be just what the doctor orders for local audiences. The SRJC Theatre Arts Department is presenting Neil Simon’s Rumors through April 27, while Sonoma Arts Live presents the…
My guest on the 04/17/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Amy Miller, Creative Vision Director of Transcendence Theatre Company. Amy previewed TTC’s upcoming summer series of shows. Their “Broadway Under the Stars” series kicks off on June 13 in Sonoma with Broadway’s Best Night Ever. Click below to listen: ********** Click…
Jerome Kern. Richard Rogers. Oscar Hammerstein II. Stephen Sondheim. Jimmy Buffett. Something seems off there. Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Gypsy, Escape to Margaritaville. Something really seems off there. “Ol’ Man River”, “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin”, “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”, “Cheeseburger in Paradise”. Ok, I think you see where this is going. In the pantheon of…
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…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 04/03/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were sound designer Jared Emerson-Johnson and cast member Amanda Vitiello from the Mercury Theater production of Meet Me at Dawn. The show runs in Petaluma through April 19. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information…
Theatrical adaptations of popular movies populate American theaters to an often-nauseating extent. Often transmogrified into musicals, producers mount them in the belief there’s a built-in audience guaranteed to show up and buy tickets en masse. While successful Bay Area runs of such shows as Mrs. Doubtfire and Back to the Future might be proving their…
Napa Valley College has an excellent track record with youth-centric, large-scale Broadway musical productions. They’ve done a great job with past productions of such shows as Matilda the Musical and Spring Awakening. It was inevitable that Jennifer King, Theatre Arts and Film Studies Coordinator at NVC and founder of Shakespeare Napa Valley, would find a…
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