Welcome to Almost, Maine. You won’t find it on a map as its citizens were never organized enough to get it declared an official town. The almost-town has a mill, a bar, a snowmobiling club, and a couple of dozen residents whose main activity is falling in (or out) of love. That’s the premise behind…
Every thirty years or so, musical theatre manages to produce something to which the younger members of a generation latch onto. From Hair in the 1960’s through Hamilton today, composers and lyricists’ use of the music of their time has been an effective way to entice younger audiences into theaters. The 1990’s brought Jonathan Larson’s…
Joining me on the March 17 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Anderson Templeton and Molly Larsen-Shine from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Almost, Maine. We apologize for the incomplete audio. Click below to listen: **********
Santa Rosa’s Roustabout Theater is best known as one of the leading theatrical training and performance programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a focus on youth ages 11 to 20, their Apprentice Program and Summer Theater Camp productions lean toward lighter fare, like this summer’s scheduled production of The SpongeBob Musical. Roustabout also…
My guests on the March 10 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Laura Downing-Lee, Theo Marvin, and Alex Delzell from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Click below to listen: **********
Napa’s Lucky Penny Community Arts Center has been transformed into a high school gymnasium dolled up for the prom for their presentation of Roger Bean’s The Marvelous Wonderettes. The nostalgic jukebox musical runs through Mar. 13. It’s 1958 and Springfield High’s Songleader Squad has been asked to entertain at the Senior Prom. The four perky…
My guests on the March 3 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Clark Lewis and Kate Brickley from the Roustabout Theater Company’s Professional Ensemble production of Apologia. Click below to listen: **********
North Bay playwright David Templeton has been named as one of five finalists for the 2022 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) New Play Award and Citations. The award and citations recognize the playwrights of the best scripts that premiered professionally outside of New York City in 2021. Templeton’s Galatea, which premiered at…
A “classic” is defined as something judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind. In theatre, it can be a mark of a quality script that is at the mercy of the artists producing it. I’ve seen plenty of non-classic productions of classic plays. The Glass…
My guest on the February 24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO was Jenny Hollingworth, director of one of the short plays in Left Edge Theatre’s Hindsight 2022 International Festival of Short Plays. Click below to listen: **********
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