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. …
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the October 6 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were director Marty Pistone and actor Skylar Evans from the 6th Street Playhouse production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the September 28 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Elly Lichenstein and Sheri Lee Miller from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Hello, Dolly! Due to some administrative issues, the show’s scheduled September 29 opening has been temporarily delayed. Click the link at the bottom of…
I have a soft spot for Fiddler on the Roof. The 1971 film adaptation was the first movie musical I saw on the big screen, and I made my musical stage debut as Motel the Tailor nine years later in a Millville Senior High School production. I can still recite the lyrics of “Miracle of…
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the September 21 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Reed Martin and Austin Aquino-Harrison from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of Clue On Stage (NOT Clue the Musical). Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
North Bay Stage and Screen 