‘Six Degrees of Separation’ is the concept that every individual on the planet can be connected to every other individual through six or fewer social connections. First posited in the late 1920s, it entered the cultural lexicon via John Guare’s same-named play in 1990, so much so that a parlor game in which participants were…
My guests on the 01/30/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Libby Oberlin and Jonathen Blue from the Sonoma Arts Live production of Six Degrees of Separation . The show runs on the Rotary Stage in the Sonoma Community Center in Sonoma through February 16. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE…
For audiences who didn’t get their fill of Noël Coward with the recent Ross Valley Players production of Blithe Spirit, the Novato Theater Company is offering a second helping of Coward comedy with their production of Present Laughter. The show runs in Novato through February 16. But Coward purists beware. Audiences expecting a traditional production…
My guests on the 01/23/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were David Templeton and Sheri Lee Miller from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Mary Shelley’s Body . The show runs in the Condiotti Experimental Theatre at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through February 2. Click below to listen:…
My guests on the 01/16/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Trevor Hoffmann and Zane Walters from the Cinnabar Theater production of Gutenberg! the Musical! The show runs in Warren Auditorium in Ives Hall on the campus of Sonoma State University through January 26. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for…
My guests on the 01/09/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Bronwen Shears and Nadia Hill from the 6th Street Playhouse production of What the Constitution Means to Me. The show runs in Santa Rosa through January 26. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
North Bay Stage and Screen 