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I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change & Heroes - August 15, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - August 15, 2018 15:25 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRelationships are front and center in two very different shows now running on the North Bay’s northernmost stages through August 19. The Cloverdale Performing Arts Center is presenting Heroes, playwright Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of a 2003 French play about three World War I vets in a retiremen...
Shall We Dance - August 8, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - August 10, 2018 01:03 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTranscendence Theatre Company’s seventh season of “Broadway Under the Stars” continues with a dance-centric production entitled, appropriately enough, Shall We Dance. The show runs through August 19 at the Jack London State Historic Park in Glen Ellen. Transcendence imports Broadway and nationa...
Pericles, Shakespeare in Love - Aug 1, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - August 01, 2018 13:36 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating‘Tis the season for Shakespeare al fresco so pack a picnic, grab a blanket and check out these North Bay productions: Marin Shakespeare closes out its season under the stars with Pericles, a play whose authorship by Shakespeare has fostered many a debate. Plot points include incest, assassinatio...
Always... Patsy Cline - July 25, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - July 25, 2018 14:37 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJukebox musicals have become the bread and butter for a lot of community theatre groups. Minimal casts, simple sets and the built-in audience that comes with a popular singer or musical group is tough for an artistic director to resist. Around since the 1970’s, the genre really exploded onto the...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - July 18, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - July 18, 2018 13:56 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Hunchback of Notre Dame was originally scheduled as the closing production of the Spreckels Theatre Company’s 2017-2018 season. The musical, whose development by Walt Disney’s theatrical arm started in Germany and ended in New Jersey (having never made it to Broadway), is an atypical Disney ...
School of Rock - July 11, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - July 11, 2018 14:08 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOne might think that the talents behind Downtown Abbey and Phantom of the Opera would be odd choices to make a Broadway musical out of a 2003 comedy starring Jack Black. One would be correct. School of Rock, now on the San Francisco stop of its National Tour, is Julian Fellowes and Sir Andrew Ll...
llyria - July 4, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - July 04, 2018 22:16 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn a world of theatre based on movies and television shows, why not Shakespeare? Such is Illyria, a musical adaptation of Twelfth Night first produced Off-Broadway in 2002 and now running at Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse. Don’t let the words ‘Shakespeare’ and ‘musical’ chase you away. Peter ...
Stairway to Paradise - June 27, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - June 27, 2018 14:15 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSonoma’s Transcendence Theatre Company opened its seventh season of “Broadway Under the Stars” in Jack London State Park with Stairway to Paradise, the first of four staged concert events scheduled this year. The company takes performers with Broadway, touring company, film and television experi...
The Fantasticks, Bullshot Crummond - June 20, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - June 20, 2018 13:49 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTwo community theatre workhorses have galloped onto North Bay stages. Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater is presenting The Fantasticks, the 1960 musical that ran for a record 42 years Off-Broadway and then had a revival in 2006 that ran for another eleven years. It’s a modest production with a sweet s...
Honky - June 13, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - June 13, 2018 23:26 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating“Everyone’s a little bit racist” sing the puppets in the musical Avenue Q. Playwright Greg Kalleres takes that thought and runs with it in Honky, running now at Left Edge Theatre. It opens up with a commercial for Skymax 16’s, the latest craze in athletic footwear. It ends with the tag line “S’...
Hands on a Hardbody - June 6, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - June 06, 2018 15:37 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTen down-on-their-luck Texans gather on a car lot to compete for a cherry red Nissan pickup. They must lay their gloved hands upon the truck and, except for scheduled breaks every six hours, never let go. The last person standing wins. That’s the premise behind Hands on a Hardbody, a 2012 musical...
Mamma Mia - May 30, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - May 30, 2018 23:03 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHigh atop Mount Tamalpais, at about the 2,000 foot level, sits the Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre where the “great outdoor theatre adventure” known as The Mountain Play has been produced for the past 105 years. Your all-day adventure includes a slow, winding ride up the mountain, a hike to the 4,0...
Jeeves Intervenes, The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) - May 23, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - May 23, 2018 18:59 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThat the name ‘Jeeves’ immediately conjures up the image of a staid British manservant is a tribute to the staying power of author P. G. Wodehouse’s character. Since his first appearance in 1915, he’s been featured in films, television, and even an internet search engine. There was but a single t...
Women In Jeopardy, Eurydice - May 16, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - May 16, 2018 14:14 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFemale protagonists in peril are the focus of one very silly and one very melancholy production running now in the North Bay. Left Edge Theatre’s “Women in Jeopardy!” is a laugh-out-loud look at the changing dynamic among a group of single friends once one of them begins a relationship. That t...
Peter Pan - May 9, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - May 09, 2018 14:12 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJ. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan has been seen on stage in one form or another for well over 100 years. It’s survived being Disney-fied and even Christopher Walken-ized in a disastrous live television spectacle. The most popular adaptation is the 1954 musical starring Mary Martin. It’s that version that ...
La Cage aux Folles - May 2, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - May 02, 2018 14:36 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt’s been thirty-five years since La Cage aux Folles took Broadway by storm. What began in 1973 as a French stage farce followed by a series of films, the Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Herman musical was considered daring for its time with its portrayal of a happily domesticated male couple thrown f...
Into The Woods - April 25, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - April 25, 2018 13:03 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Santa Rosa Junior College theatre season ends with their production of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. It’s a fairy tale mash-up with elements of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood set to a classic Sondheim score. As in the original ta...
Death of a Salesman, Farragut North - April 18, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - April 18, 2018 14:40 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDramas old and new dominate North Bay stages with two good ones continuing their runs. Film, television, and theatre veteran Charles Siebert headlines the 6th Street Playhouse production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Miller’s Pulitzer Prize and multi-Tony Award winning treatise on the...
Lost in Yonkers, Time of Your Life - April 11, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - April 11, 2018 13:04 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPulitzer Prize-winning dramas hit North Bay stages, first with the Raven Players production of Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers. Simon, whose best-known works are comedies tinged with a little melancholy (The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys) won the 1991 Pulitzer for Yonkers, which is a melancholy fami...
Amadeus - April 4, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - April 04, 2018 16:55 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, Count Franz Orsini-Rosenberg assesses Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro with the criticism that it has “too many notes.” Cinnabar Theater’s current production suffers from the opposite - it’s missing a few. Amadeus is actually the story of Antonio Salieri (Richard Pall...
By The Water - March 28, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - March 28, 2018 15:40 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOne wouldn’t think that a play that deals with the wreckage left behind by a natural disaster would be particularly attractive to North Bay residents right now, but Sharyn Rothstein’s By the Water speaks to what our community is going through. While it’s set in 1992 on New York’s Staten Island af...
Blackbird - March 20, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - March 21, 2018 13:26 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAt a post-show Q & A following the opening night performance of Main Stage West’s Blackbird, director David Lear stated he felt that one of theatre’s responsibilities is to make an audience “a little uncomfortable.” He more than succeeds with this production. The lights come up and through the w...
Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter - March 14, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - March 14, 2018 14:24 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhile time may heal all wounds, a little human kindness along the way doesn’t hurt. That’s the basic takeaway from the Santa Rosa Junior College production of Julie Marie Myatt’s Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter. Originally produced in 2008 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, it was one of the first ...
The Realistic Joneses - March 7, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - March 07, 2018 14:33 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOne of the oddest plays I’ve seen in a while, Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses isn’t particularly real in its examination of two suburban couples who share the same surname. It does, however, often ring true. Set in an unnamed town, Bob and Jennifer Jones (Chris Schloemp and Melissa Claire) ar...
Tenderly - February 28, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - February 28, 2018 14:29 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAsk anyone under fifty years of age who Rosemary Clooney is and they’re likely to respond “George Clooney’s wife?” They’d be in the ballpark (she was his aunt) but what they probably don’t know is that she was an immensely popular musical performer who charted numerous hit songs in the 50’s and 6...
Equus - February 21, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - February 21, 2018 14:21 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhy? It’s a question we seem to be asking ourselves daily as we wake up to the news of the latest national tragedy or act of incomprehensible behavior. That too-oft-asked question with the most elusive of answers is at the heart of Peter Shaffer’s Equus. Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Craig Mille...
South Pacific - February 14, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - February 14, 2018 14:37 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWorld War II didn’t seem like ancient history in 1949 when South Pacific made its Broadway premiere. Sadly, its warnings of the damage that bigotry and prejudice can do aren’t ancient history now as it bows at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center. Based on James Michener’s Pulitzer Prize-winnin...
Buried Child, Good People - February 7, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - February 07, 2018 14:47 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe choices in life that haunt you take center stage in two terrific productions running now in North Bay theatres. Sebastopol’s Main Stage West is presenting Sam Shepard’s Buried Child while Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater has David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People. Shepard’s forty-year-old, Pulitzer-...
Disgraced - January 31, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - January 31, 2018 15:27 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBlistering drama takes the stage at Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre with the North Bay premiere of Ayad Akhtar’s 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Disgraced. Akhtar has taken the “friends drink to excess and soon truths are revealed” theatrical trope (along the lines of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wo...
The Dining Room - January 24, 2018
KRCB-FM: Second Row Center - January 24, 2018 16:05 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe plight of the vanishing New England WASP is the subject matter of A. R. Gurney’s The Dining Room, running now at Sonoma Arts Live. No, it’s not a science lecture on the more annoying cousin of the honeybee but a look at the cultural transformation of a specific component of 20th century Ameri...
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