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Why is there so much live theater produced in the North Bay? How is it that every...
Irreconcilable Differences: Noël Coward ‘Comedy’ at Mercury Theater
After a couple of rabble-rousing, politically-bent productions, Petaluma’s Mercury Theater shifts to British comedy with their production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives. The Michael...
Grounded: ’60s French Farce ‘Boeing Boeing’ at SRJC
For centuries, France has produced such famous playwrights as Molière, Beaumarchais, Rostand, Sartre and Ionesco and such plays as Tartuffe, The Marriage of Figaro,...
An Unused Life: ‘Shirley Valentine’ in Sonoma
A middle-aged British woman, wife, and mother wonders whatever became of herself and sets out to rediscover life in Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine. Jennifer...
‘Mary Poppins’ Lands at 6th Street
An upside-down family gets right-sided with the help of a practically perfect nanny in P.L. Travers’ classic Mary Poppins. In between the 1964 Disney...
On With the Show: North Bay Theater Companies Raise Curtains on 2026
Now that Ralphie got his BB gun, Scrooge became a better person and George Bailey decided he really did have a wonderful life, it’s...
Humbug: Musical ‘Scrooge’ in Sonoma
What’s Christmas without a production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) on a local stage? Sonoma Arts Live fills...
Regifting: North Bay Theater Companies Bring Back Holiday Faves
If there’s one word to describe North Bay theater companies’ choices for their 2025 holiday productions, it’s “familiar.” One company is repeating their selections...











