My guests on the first “Theatre Thursday” segment on the November 16 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Kevin Bordi and Brady Voss from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of The Metromaniacs in Rohnert Park. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
If the displays in Costco are any indication, the holiday season apparently began in mid-September. How odd then that theatre companies seem to wait until mid-November to unveil their holiday-themed productions. This season, North Bay audiences in search of holiday entertainment will have a variety of shows from which to choose from the traditional to…
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the November 2 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Jim Frankie Banks, Daniel Marchbanks, and Liddy Freeman from the Revolving Theatre production of The Dutchman at the Arlene Francis Center in Santa Rosa. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the October 26 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were director/actor Troy Thomas Evans and actor Bohn Connor from the Raven Players production of Evil Dead: The Musical running now at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more…
If the lack of a splatter zone is what’s kept you from returning to live theater, do the Raven Players have a show for you. Evil Dead: The Musical is running at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through October 29. Based on the Sam Raimi classic cult horror film trilogy, playwright George Reinblatt…
Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse continues to provide trips down memory lane for this reviewer. Their recent production of Fiddler on the Roof made me harken back to my days in high school theatre, while their current production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow plunged me further back into my youth. The West Coast premiere…
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the October 20 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Director David Yen and actor Justin Thompson from the Left Edge Theatre production of Ideation running now at The California Theatre in Santa Rosa. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
In the ten or so years I’ve been doing theater journalism, I’ve probably seen close to one thousand shows, with about one-third of them being productions of Mamma Mia! (The Addams Family Musical is rapidly approaching that number.) Lately, the repetitive nature of theater programming has been getting to me. I have found it difficult…
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the October 13 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Development Director Thom Butler and Theatre Programmer Aldo Billingslea from Healdsburg’s ‘The 222’. Thom filled us in on what ‘The 222’ is all about while Aldo discussed their production of My Name is Asher Lev. Click below…
North Bay audiences finally got a chance to say “hello” to Dolly Gallagher Levi after the curtain rose on the bureaucratically-delayed Spreckels Theatre Company production of Hello, Dolly! Veteran director Elly Lichenstein makes her Spreckels debut with the Jerry Herman classic now running at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through Oct 15. …
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