by Cari Lynn Pace A Chorus Line opens with a backstage look at dozens of dancers trying out for a part in a new show. The live music is energizing and brassy; the director of the audition is pushy and demanding. After dance eliminations, only seventeen remain onstage. They’re exhausted and nervous as they urgently…
The Marquee Theater Journalists Association, a North Bay-based critics group originally formed in 2015 but dormant since the pandemic, has announced their “rebooting” and the resumption of their annual theater awards program. The following message was emailed on September 1 to the leaders of the North Bay theatre community from MTJA member Harry Duke: Back…
by Cari Lynn Pace Where do playwrights come up with the ideas for such laughable plots? Featherbaby, David Templeton’s latest play, features a young woman and her foul-mouthed and aggressively possessive parrot, a bird who schemes to separate its owner from her suitors. Just imagine Spreckels Theatre Company having a casting call to audition actors…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 08/28/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were Phil Mutz, Ken Urso, and Danny Gorman from the THTR production of Gay Camp. The raucous 90 minute quick-change comedy will have one performance only on Saturday, August 30, at the R3 Hotel in Guerneville. Click below…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on 08/28/25 on The Drive on 95.5 were director Lorenzo Alviso and choreographer Hannah Woolfenden from the 6th Street Playhouse production of A Chorus Line. The show runs in the G.K. Hardt Theatre at 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa through September 28. Click below…
In Galatea, local playwright David Templeton examined humanity through the eyes of a synthetic human. In his latest play, Featherbaby, Templeton looks at humanity through the eyes of a… foul-mouthed parrot? Questions, questions, questions. Where does he come up with these things? Playwright David Templeton – “In my 20s, I had a girlfriend who owned…
By Harry Duke The Jacobethan Theatre Workshop’s Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) summer series concludes with a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. The Shakespeare comedy features one of the Bard’s greatest characters as well as the usual masquerading and comeuppances.The show has two remaining performances – Saturday, August 23, at 7:30 pm, and…
My guests on the 08/21/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were director Skylar Evans and cast member Nate Musser from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Featherbaby. The David Templeton-penned comedy premieres in the Condiotti Experimental Theatre at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park on August 29 and runs through…
My guest on the August 14 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Lukas Raphael, Artistic Director of the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop. The JTW’s second Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) production for this season is The Merry Wives of Windsor. It runs in the meadow adjacent to the 6th Street Playhouse parking lot…
by Harry Duke It’s been fourteen years since the Transcendence Theatre Company landed and took root in the Sonoma Valley with their Broadway-caliber musical revues. They added the occasional fully-produced Broadway show to their repertoire in 2018 with A Chorus Line and in 2023 they showed The Full Monty in Glen Ellen. After a few…
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