Musicals seem to be the season openers of choice for North Bay theatre companies with two more joining the Spreckels Theatre Company run of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. 6th Street Playhouse is hosting 4 Guys Named José… And Una Mujer Named María! in their GK Hardt Theatre while Sonoma Arts Live brings Young…
Former Windsor resident Francine Schwartz has long remembered the stories her mother and grandmother told her about living in occupied France during World War II and of the German soldiers billeted in their home. For the last decade, she has been working on a piece based on her family history and what began as a…
by Bob Duxbury Heroes of the Fourth Turning caused a stir when it was first produced in 2019, not least because the normally liberal theater community produced an energetic defense of conservative Catholic doctrine adapted for popular consumption from the cerebral The Fourth Turning. The book, by William Strauss and Neil Howe, is a favorite…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 09/05/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Lukas Raphael and Michael Girts from the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop “Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot)” productions of Macbeth and As You Like It. The shows run in rep in the parking lot of the Arlene…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 09/05/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were playwright Francine Schwartz and director Steve David Martin from the Raven Players production of The Germans Upstairs. The show runs at the Raven Performing Arts Theater through September 15. Click below to listen: ********** Click…
With the deep connection between Charles Schulz’s and his world of Peanuts and Sonoma County, one might expect a production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown to be running locally in perpetuity. Instead, local theater companies dutifully trot it out every couple of years to give local folks the opportunity to visit with live-action…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 08/29/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Amanda Claiborne and Ashley Kennedy from the Curtain Call Theatre production of God of Carnage. The show opens September 6 and runs through September 28. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 08/29/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Brady Voss and Chase Thompson from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The show opens August 30 and runs through September 15. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE…
The predominant story in Bay Area theatre for the past year continues to be company closures and the regular announcement of emergency fund raisers to stave off further closures. No theatre company is immune to the financial pressures created by the combination of the increase in costs of doing business and the reduction of income…
The predominant story in Bay Area theatre in the past year continues to be company closures and the regular announcement of emergency fund raisers to stave off further closures. No theatre company is immune to the financial pressures created by the combination of the increase in costs of doing business and the reduction of income…
North Bay Stage and Screen 