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Apr 22, 2025
Laugh In: Comedies Take the Stage
No less a source than the Mayo Clinic recommends laughter as a great source of stress relief. And in these stressful times, two North...
Apr 8, 2025
Wastin’ Away with Jimmy Buffett’s ‘…Margaritaville’ at 6th Street
Jerome Kern. Richard Rogers. Oscar Hammerstein II. Stephen Sondheim. Jimmy Buffett.
Something seems off there.
Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Gypsy, Escape to Margaritaville.
Something really seems off there.
“Ol’...
Apr 1, 2025
‘The Shark is Broken’ at Left Edge in Santa Rosa
Theatrical adaptations of popular movies populate American theaters to an often-nauseating extent.
Frequently transmogrified into musicals, producers mount them in the belief there’s a built-in...
Mar 26, 2025
You’ll Like Napa Valley College’s ‘As You Like It’
Napa Valley College has an excellent track record with youth-centric, large-scale Broadway musical productions. They’ve done a great job with past productions of such...
Mar 25, 2025
Things Happen as ‘Morning Sun’ Rises in Rohnert Park
How interesting can a play be if it tells the story of an unremarkable person’s life told by that unremarkable person and the unremarkable...
Mar 18, 2025
It’s Not a Musical: ‘Awake and Sing!’ at Roustabout
The name Clifford Odets probably means little to the modern theatergoer, but there was a time he was considered a titan of American theater.
Odets...
Feb 25, 2025
My Fair Adam, Neil LaBute Play in Healdsburg
Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things opens with the line, “You stepped over the line,” which could be a criticism of LaBute’s writing in...
Feb 18, 2025
On Repeat with ‘Groundhog Day’ at 6th Street Playhouse
For folks who think local theater has gotten too repetitive, has Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse got a show for you. Groundhog Day: the...