Theatre

Transcendence Theatre Company presents Dance the Night Away August 5-7, 12-14, and 19-21 featuring show-stopping dance numbers celebrating tap to Fosse and everything in between combined with powerful vocal performances to create a rousing evening of entertainment. ”Dance the Night Away” will pay tribute to many well-known dancers and singers sharing some of their most popular music,” remarked show director Tony Gonzalez. He continues his description of the show: “The concept of ‘dancing the night away’ actually goes beyond the standard idea of dancing. This is about getting lost in the joy of movement and music, which is really something […]

  Hamlet’s world has been utterly destroyed: his father is dead, his throne is usurped, his mother remarries, his girlfriend abandons him and there are spies everywhere. Then Hamlet is told to kill the king.  What’s a young person to do? Sonoma State University Dept. of Theatre Arts & Dance presents this main stage production of “Hamlet” with a limited run of performances from May 4 to May 8, 2016. (The opening performance on May 3 is sold-out). Featuring one of the most compelling characters ever created, “Hamlet” is a revenge tragedy about an innocent young man plunged into a […]

  Classic fairy tale stories and characters merge in Stephen Sondheim’s 1987 award-winning musical “Into the Woods,” a modern version of what happens after “they all lived happily ever after.” Characters from “Cinderella,” “Rapunzel,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “The Baker and his Wife” and “Little Red Riding Hood” are featured in this fractured musical fairy tale where desires, curses and consequences determine their fate. After all their wishes have been granted, enchantment turns to reality when characters pay for their selfish ways in this moving musical morality tale. The Sonoma State University’s Departments of Music and Theatre Arts & Dance […]

You haven’t even made it through Thanksgiving and Christmas yet, so you’re probably not making plans for next year just now. But tickets are on sale for some promising shows during 2016 at both Green Music Center in Rohnert Park and Wells Fargo Center in Santa Rosa. If you want the best seats, it’s not too early to order. Here’s a lucky-seven list top picks: 1. Comedian Lily Tomlin, riding high with her current Netfilx TV series “Grace and Frankie,” co-starring Jane Fonda, will perform June 4 at Wells Fargo Center, just a few days after the television series returns […]

Do you know the play “You Can’t Take It With You?” Although written some 80 years ago, it addresses the issues of today: do we live a small life: in fear,& resistant to change, or do we live a joyous, inclusive, and fancy free life? The story of this play centers around a family that live an uninhibited and joyous life and the people driven by fear, who are inspired by them. It’s funny and it’s poignant. And by the way, our son Elijah is the lead, as Grandpa. Award Winning AnalyTheatre Dept. presents  “YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU” […]

Sonoma State University Department of Theatre Arts & Dance presents “The Hummingbird Wars” written by Carter Lewis and directed by Judy Nava. Carter Lewis’s new satire captures the outrageous and harrowing extremes of life when a man and his family fight against the threat of middle-class extinction in the 21st Century. Ripped from today’s headlines the play examines the consequences of evolving realities of modern life in the suburbs. Hot from the stages of Miami’s Arts Garage, “The Hummingbird Wars” follows the frustrations of an Afghan war-hero father and husband as he battles teenage cyber-bullying, pharmaceutical and cable conspiracy theories, […]

  Spreckels Theatre Company has announced its main stage and studio theater productions for its 2015 to 2016 season including an encore presentation of “Mary Poppins” and award-winning musicals “The Light in the Piazza” and “Kismet” Located in Rohnert Park, Spreckels Theatre Company is a semi-professional resident theater company which has garnered critical and audience acclaim, media accolades and S.F. Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle awards for its artistic values and depth of performance. With a pledge to raise the bar of excellence, Spreckels Theatre Company strives to present the best musical productions and plays in the North Bay – […]

Pegasus Theater Company is pleased to present William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the inaugural performance at the newly-opened Riverkeeper Stewardship Park in downtown Guerneville. Yes, it’s in iambic pentameter (incidentally, so is your heartbeat). It also uses archaic language and everybody knows that there may be jokes that only an English teacher could love. Nobody, though, really needs this play translated; we all instinctually understand what deep meaning it has: Namely, sex. It is a play about choosing who we want to have sex with and when. The play is also about flaunting your disrespect for autocratic authority […]

The indomitable Mary Gannon Graham meets the invincible Mother Jones in this new one-woman musical by the legendary singer/songwriter and activist, Si Kahn. Many people know the name Mother Jones, but most have no idea of the impact and power of her life story. THE STORY: Mother Jones wakes up in heaven, which to her surprise and delight, turns out to be an Irish Pub. There she meets a trio of musicians who spend a power-packed evening recounting the events of her life through song and yarn. Mary Harris Jones was born in 1830 in County Cork, Ireland. She lost […]

  Yesterday Again follows the stories of Eric Baxter and Bella Kadie in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood—simultaneously. The play explores how people change, the stories that thread throughout our lives, and the ripple effects of trauma. Poetic in its form and honest in its portrayals, this original theatre piece promises a new way of storytelling; one where three distinct periods of life intersect, interweave, and in their interplay, reveal a dark truth about human nature.  The show is directed by Sheri Lee Miller. CAST: Tice Allison, John Browning, Lyla Elmassian Isaac Jay, Alyssa Jirrels, Pam Koppel, Lucy London, Barry Martin, Craig A. Miller, Sharia Pierce, Olivia […]