How interesting can a play be if it tells the story of an unremarkable person’s life told by that unremarkable person and the unremarkable people that surround them? How unremarkable? So unremarkable that playwright Simon Stephens doesn’t even give them names in his cast list for Morning Sun, now playing in the Condiotti Experimental Theatre…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 03/20/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Joe Gellura and actor Elliot Davis from the Raven Players production of The Bridges of Madison County. The musical runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through March 30. Click below to listen: **********…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 03/20/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Chuck Noland and actor Robert Bauer from the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center production of 1984. The show runs in Cloverdale through March 23. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
The name Clifford Odets probably means little to the modern theatregoer, but there was a time he was considered a titan of American theatre, fitting somewhere in between Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller. His “working class dramas” of the 1930s (like Waiting for Lefty) were extremely popular with audiences and influential with up and coming…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 03/13/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Clark Lewis and Jeff Savage from the Roustabout Theater Company production of Awake and Sing! The show runs in the Carsten Cabaret of the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa through March 30. Click…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 03/13/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Lauren Heney and Molly Noble from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Morning Sun. The show runs in the Condiotti Experimental Theatre in the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through April 6. Click below to…
My guests on the 03/06/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Shanay Howell and Tajai Britten from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Clyde’s. The show runs in Santa Rosa on the Monroe Stage at 6th Street Playhouse through March 23. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on…
I recently ventured out of my usual “sphere of attendance” of North Bay theatre after receiving an invitation from Contra Costa County’s Pittsburg Theatre Company to join them for their season opener. They’ve titled their season “Rising from the Ashes 2025” as they recover from a devasting warehouse fire where they basically lost everything from…
My guests on the 02/27/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were director Ely Sonny Orquiza and dramaturg Estrella Gonzalez from the Sonoma State University School of Performing Arts production of Perfect Arrangement. We chatted about the show and the impact of the budget issues at SSU on the students and the program.…
“You stepped over the line.” is both the first line of Neil Labute’s The Shape of Things and also a criticism leveled at LaBute for a lot of his writing. Sometimes labeled a misanthrope and other times labeled a misogynist, Labute’s plays and films like In the Company of Men often feature terrible people doing…
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