KSRO Interview: “Love, Linda”
My guests on the Thursday, December 13 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Elly Lichenstein and Clark Sterling from the Cinnabar Theater production of Love, Linda. Click below to listen: **********
Review: “The Odd Couple” in Ross
There’s no more proven commodity for community theatres than Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple. A reliable audience-pleaser since its 1965 Broadway debut, the story of mismatched roommates has been adapted for film and television numerous times and Simon himself rewrote it for an all-female cast. The Ross Valley Players production running through December 16 is…
KSRO Interview: “It’s a Wonderful Life – The Live Radio Play”
My guest on a special Wednesday, December 12 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Carmen Mitchell from the Redwood Theatre Company production of It’s a Wonderful Life: The Live Radio Play. Click below to listen: **********
Reviews: “Annie” and “The Tailor of Gloucester”
I doubt any of the tykes attending the 6th Street Playhouse production of Annie have any idea of its origins as a newspaper comic strip which ran for 86 years. Their exposure undoubtably comes from the 1982 film or its television remakes which all have their genesis from the 1977 Broadway musical. That the show…
Reviews: “Nuncrackers” & “Polar Bears” in Ross and San Rafael
For Marin audiences seeking some live holiday-themed entertainment, local theatre companies are presenting a couple of non-traditional seasonal shows. Audiences can choose between an ecclesiastical musical and a one-man holiday reminiscence. In 1985, writer/composer Dan Goggin adapted his line of greeting cards that featured nuns saying outrageous things into a cabaret show and then an…
Review: “Scrooge in Love!” in Napa
Movies and television have long been a haven for sequels and spin-offs. Live theatre? Not so much. Which is why it’s interesting that North Bay theatres have programmed three such shows for the holiday season. Marin Theatre Company is presenting the latest installment of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s Christmas at Pemberley extensions of Pride…
Review: “The House of Yes” in Sebastopol
Calling Wendy MacLeod’s The House of Yes a “family” show – while accurate – is not entirely truthful. Calling it a “fucked-up family” show would be infinitely more precise. The jet-black comedy is running now at Sebastopol’s Main Stage West through December 16. Meet Mrs. Pascal (Laura Jorgensen), the matriarch of a family that has…
KSRO Interview: “The Tailor of Gloucester”
My guests on the Thursday, November 29 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were composer Janis Dunson Wilson and Spreckels Theatre Company Artistic Director Sheri Lee Miller from the Spreckels production of The Tailor of Gloucester. Click below to hear that interview: **********
Preview: Once More at Pemberley
In 2016, the Marin Theatre Company participated in the “rolling” world premiere of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. The ‘continuation’ of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was born, according to Gunderson, of the playwrights’ desire “to write something fun, grand, female-driven, and hopeful but with that wonderful wit and complication…
Preview: The Return of “Twisted Christmas”
Once upon a time, way back in the summer of 2003, Bohemian contributor David Templeton and producer Dan Zastrow were having a conversation about a strange Christmas story that David had written. “You know what would be cool?”, David said, “Maybe someday finding some interesting people to gather on stage and read a bunch of…
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