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Traveling Bard, Shakespeare Goes Site-Specific
In 2003, Los Angeles-based artist Nicola Vann wanted to do accessible, stripped-down Shakespeare that didn’t feel like an English class. She texted some friends,...
Sleep on It, ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ Staged in Sonoma
Sonoma Arts Live closes out its 25/26 season with Once Upon a Mattress, the musical reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Princess and the...
Green Thumb: ‘The Secret Garden’ Planted by Cinnabar
Cinnabar Theater’s final show of the ’25/’26 season is the musical version of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic 1911 novel, The Secret Garden. Jane Erwin...
Lessons: Book of Matthew Musical in Napa
These days, it has become common to throw Bible verses at each other like poisoned javelins.
That is not necessarily a new phenomenon. Throughout history,...
Peter Pan in Wonderland: a Fictional Meeting of Literary Inspirations at Lucky Penny
What’s the cost of childhood fame? Is it always exploitative? How do children navigate being adults in a world that refuses to see them...
1,000 Words: Immersive Theater Featuring Dorothea Lange Photos in Sonoma
The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art has jumped headfirst into the pool of found space theater with its current exhibition, Last West: Roadsongs for...
‘Ride the Cyclone: The Musical’ at SRJC
A Wild 'Ride'
A metaphysical Gen Z Breakfast Club musical would be a fairly accurate yet wholly inaccurate description of the joyful, weird, chaotic, and...
Sweet Life, Left Edge Stages ‘Bootycandy’
Left Edge Theater has a habit of pushing boundaries to their breaking point, pinning them in place, taking two steps back and grabbing a...
