By Cari Lynn Pace When I was 20, I listened to Carole King’s album Tapestry so often it’s a wonder the phonograph needle didn’t cut through to the other side. I sang along with the gusto of youth and the emotion of young love. I was nurtured by all the heartfelt lyrics to “It’s Too…
by Harry Duke The “green-eyed monster” is running amok in the field next to the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa with the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop’s Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) production of Othello. The show has two remaining performances – Saturday, August 9, at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, August 10, at 6:00 pm. After…
My guests on the August 7 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Justin Thompson and Mari Pagan from the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop production of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) continues in Santa Rosa with this second of two productions in the meadow adjacent to the 6th…
by Harry Duke For years, Healdsburg’s Raven Players has been presenting a summer Shakespeare production “under the stars” at the perfectly serviceable but rather bland West Plaza Park. They’ve upgraded a bit this year by relocating to Bacchus Landing for their production of Two Gentlemen of Verona. The Wine & Event Center is hosting the…
My guests on the 07/31/25 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Declan Hackett, Alyssa Rempel, and Kate Edery from the Raven Players production of William Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona. This Raven production of the Shakespeare classic is being set in 1950’s Italy and is being presented at Bacchus Landing in Healdsburg…
My guests on the July 24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were David Lear and Ally Bray from the Jacobethan Theatre Workshop production of Shakespeare’s Othello. Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) returns to Santa Rosa with this first of two productions in the meadow adjacent to the 6th Street Playhouse parking lot.…
Fans of the movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will be pleased to hear that the Broadway musical adaptation sticks pretty close to the Steve Martin/Michael Caine comedy. Sonoma Arts Live has a production directed by Carl Jordan running on the Rotary Stage at the Sonoma Community Center through July 27. Suave and debonair con man Lawrence…
My guest on the July 17 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 was Daniel Savio, composer/lyricist/musician and Musical Director for the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s latest production, Disruption. The show is playing at various venues throughout Northern California, including at La Plaza Park in Cotati on July 27. Click below to hear the…
I last spent time with The Sugar Bean Sisters eight years ago at a production by the Spreckels Theatre Company in Rohnert Park. My general reaction at the time was that it was a very strange show. The sisters have returned to Sonoma County – Cloverdale to be exact – with a production running at…
by Beulah F. Vega San Francisco’s Magic Theatre is just a quick hop over the Golden Gate and should be on the radar of every North Bay theatre lover. Their current production of Luis Alfaro’s Aztlán, which they commissioned, has had its run extended through July 20. Kinan Valdez directs the story which flits between…
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