Preview: Sonoma/Napa Winter Theatre

North Bay theatre companies have their collective fingers crossed that audiences will continue to come out and support them in 2025. Holiday-themed shows now give way to the usual mixture of comedies, dramas, and musicals from classics to contemporary works to a short play festival. Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse gets things going in early…

Preview: Marin Winter Theatre

Marin theatre companies have their collective fingers crossed that audiences will continue to come out and support them in 2025. The New Year in theatre begins with a classic comedy, a musical adaptation of a Sundance Film Festival favorite, and a political drama that was banned for decades in its native England. The Novato Theatre…

2024’s Top Torn Theatre Tix

It’s time for this critic to take an end-of-year look back at local theatre. To start, I’m happy to report that no theatres closed in this area. As a matter of fact, there’s a new company in town with the formation of Petaluma’s Mercury Theater. So, continuing on that positive note, here, in chronological order,…

Interview – “A New Year’s Bash! Starring Snoopy” at Redwood Empire Ice Arena

My guests on the 12/19/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Santa Rosa Figure Skating Club President Amy Thomason-Richardson, performer Ruby Rae Richardson, and director/choreographer Karen Kresge from the upcoming Santa Rosa Figure Skating Club production of A New Year’s Bash! Starring Snoopy. There are two shows only on Monday, December 30.…

Review: “Oliver!” in Napa

Napa’s Lucky Penny Community Arts Center opened just about ten years ago with a production of Lionel Barts’ classic musical Oliver! The musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist has long been an audience favorite since its debut at a Southwest London theater in 1960. It’s a big show, in many ways, and not the…