While musicals may be the bread and butter of local theatre, much can be learned about a community through the plays programmed in a company’s season. Comedies seemed few and far between this year, which may be a reflection of our local and perhaps national feelings of unease with what’s going on in our schools…
Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater has announced their plan to relocate after 50+ years in the “Little Red Schoolhouse” on the hill. The company’s website announced the following: “Cinnabar is at a crossroads after five decades of producing shows. The infrastructure of our current space, built in 1908, cannot support modern theater technology, limiting the scope of…
Live theatre continues to struggle to find its footing in a post pandemic world. The year was marked by audience numbers still failing to return to pre-pandemic levels, the use of understudies becoming more prevalent as a way to reduce cancellations due to COVID, the passing of some beloved members of the local theatre community,…
My guests on the December 14 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Grant Bramham and Izzy Peregrina for a discussion about North Bay Productions and their presentation of The Gift: 7 Pounds, 3 Ounces now running in Sebastopol. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
Of course they made a Broadway musical out of the 2003 Will Ferrell comedy Elf. Bob Martin and Thomas Meehan took the basic elements from the film, softened one of the major characters, added more “Christmas spirit” and music by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin, and came up with Elf, the Musical. It’s a show…
My guests on the December 7 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were director Serena Elize Flores and performers Jonathen Blue and Molly Larsen-Shine from the Left Edge Theatre production of [title of show] now running in Santa Rosa. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
My guests on the November 30 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were 6th Street Playhouse Executive Director Emily Lynn Cornelius and actor David Bradbury from their production of Elf, the Musical now running in Santa Rosa. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
Just aside the Bohemian Highway on the outskirts of the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it hamlet of Monte Rio sits the Russian River Hall. For fifteen years, it’s hosted the productions of Curtain Call Theatre, a company comprised of a dedicated group of local volunteers who bring live theatre of all sorts to the West County. The productions usually…
A cranky member of the 1% spends years exploiting the labor of his employee by paying a sub-standard wage and forcing him to work unregulated hours in an unsafe work environment. Spectral social activists attempt to persuade the capitalist exploiter to see the error of his ways, but it takes the threat of death for…
My guest on the second “Theatre Thursday” segment on the November 16 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 was Matt Smart, Music Supervisor for the Transcendence Theatre Company, for a conversation about their upcoming Broadway Holiday show in Sonoma. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
North Bay Stage and Screen 