Theatre

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Cheryl King interviews Rachel Wynne, choreographer for HAIR, playing now at 6th Street Playhouse

.A relatively recent newcomer to the West Coast, Rachel spent a decade in New York City working as a dance artist. Originally from Ireland, she has taught and performed in the UK, US, India, Costa Rica, and Austria. Recent work in Sonoma County includes Dancing Lessons at Cinnabar, Barely A Person (a film exploring postpartum depression) for Heroines, Harlots and Harpies at Cloverdale Performing Arts Center, Fairy Worlds for Shakespeare in the Cannery, Equus, and A Little Night Music at 6th Street. She is the founder of the expandance technique, a somatic movement practice. Learn more about Rachel’s company at expandance.com Q.  It’s been more than 50 years since HAIR was first produced, and […]

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Cheryl King interviews Aja Gianola-Norris about her experience directing HAIR at 6th Street Playhouse

Aja Gianola-Norris is a Sonoma County-based director, whose passion is “empowering and connecting our community through music and theater.” She’s directed or music directed over 85 musicals, including The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables, Grease, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, and The Wiz, to name a few.  In this interview she answers a few questions about her process, her work on this production and how HAIR, the musical, is still relevant and powerful more than 50 years after its original production. Q. It’s been more than 50 years since HAIR was first produced, and the US and the world have seen major cultural […]

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Joey Abrego on The Art of Drag and Transformation & Starring in 6th Street Playhouse January Production

6th Street Playhouse is anticipating our upcoming production of The Legend of Georgia McBride, running Jan 6-30 on the Monroe Stage. More info at: https://6thstreetplayhouse.com/show/the-legend-of-georgia-mcbride/ This cast of five features Alexander Howard as Casey, the Elvis impersonator whose career goes awry, whose life falls apart, and who ends up needing to learn how to work in drag. Joey Abrego is the fabulous Miss Tracy Mills, who teaches Casey how to do it. The following is a slightly edited interview I conducted with Joey, who arrives next week from LA to begin rehearsals on the show. CK – In The Legend […]

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Celebrate the Holidays with Transcendence

Experience an all-new holiday show in 2021 from Transcendence Theatre Company. This year, the Broadway Holiday Spectacular will be live on stage at Belos Cavalos, an enchanting equestrian estate in Kenwood. At this magnificent temperature-controlled location ‘under the big top,’ Broadway performers will fill the season with music, dancing, and holiday cheer in a show suitable for all ages. Join us for a more intimate and immersive experience in this magical new setting! Location: Belos Cavalos Estate, KenwoodDates/Times:Friday, December 3, 2021 @ 7:30pSaturday, December 4, 2021 @ 2:00p and 7:30pSunday, December 5, 2021 @ 2:00p and 7:30pFriday December 10, 2021 @ 7:30pSaturday, […]

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Playwright Matthew López makes history as first Latino to win Tony for best play

Playwright Matthew López made history by becoming the first Latino to win the Tony Award for best play.  On stage at the Winter Garden Theater on Sunday night, López paid tribute to “three queer men” who inspired him to write his Broadway play, “The Inheritance.” He praised Howards End” writer E.M Forster; the late Terrence McNally, whom López described as “the spiritual godfather of this play,” and Miguel Piñero, the first Puerto Rican playwright to be produced on Broadway.  Broadway is back: 2021 Tony Awards celebrate the return to the stage SEPT. 26, 202102:52 “This is the 74th Tony Awards and yet I am only the first Latiné writer to win in this category. I say that … to highlight the fact that the Latiné community is underrepresented in American theater, in New York […]

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Metropolitan Opera season to open with first-ever opera by Black composer

Charles Blow recalls being in the audience at the premiere of the opera based on his memoir, “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” and watching the scene that depicts his sexual abuse as a child by an older cousin. “To be honest,” he said, “it was more uncomfortable watching everybody watching me. Because they were so unnerved by it they worried about my reaction.” They needn’t have been concerned, Blow said in an interview. “When I wrote the book I’d already dealt with all that,” he said. “I don’t have the residual trauma that a lot of people expect me […]

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“Murder for Two” blends music, mayhem, and murder at Sixth St. Playhouse

Madcap antics from Ginger Beaver and awesome piano playing from Trevor Dorner. And vice-versa! And now you have three more chances to see it! 6th Street’s production of Murder For Two, which previewed Sept 16 in the GK Hardt Theatre, is adding extra dates–Friday, Oct 8 and Sat, Oct 9 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, Oct 10 at 2 pm! This musical whodunit was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and has been performed worldwide since its opening in Chicago in 2011. It’s a blend of Agatha Christie-like intrigue, vaudeville, slapstick and two terribly talented […]

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Live Musical Theatre Fun at Occidental Cent for he Arts This Weekend

Saturday August 28 & Sunday August 29 @ 4:30 pm. Occidental Center for the Artsproudly presents: ‘Something’s Coming..Something Good’! Join us for an afternoon of musical theatre fun for all ages in our amphitheater! Enjoy popular selections from Wizard of Oz, West Side Story, Hair and The Drowsy Chaperone, performed by talented children and adults from our community. Directed by Starr Hergenrather, Musical Direction by Miles McKenzie. The safety of our audience is always a priority. Limited capacity for this outdoor event – get your tickets early! Advance tickets required. $20 adults/ $10 children,15 and under. Discounts for OCA Members. www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org Please […]

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Occidental Center for the Arts presents Reader’s Theater June 26

Saturday June 26 @ 8 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts presents’ Readers Theater Revealed’. Enjoy a fine selection of theatrical readings by members of our Readers’ Theater group! This virtual event will be shared on our YouTube Channel beginning at 8 PM on June 26th, and available thereafter to view. Dramatic readings include a scene with Lady Bracknell and Jack Worthing from “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde, “A Debutante at a Dance” monologue by Ruth Draper; scene from “The Lion in Winter” with Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II, “I’m Still Here” from the Follies […]

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Occidental Center for the Arts Literary Series presents Shakespeare Everywhere May 16

Sunday, May 16th@ 4-5:30pm. Occidental Center for the Arts Virtual Literary Series presents ‘Shakespeare Everywhere’, conceived and hosted by local and beloved author Jean Hegland (Into the Forest; Still Time). Jean will join in conversation with a four-person panel of far-flung artists: a rapper, a cartoonist, a zine editor, and a Young Adult novelist who are incorporating Shakespeare into their own work in fresh, exciting, and powerful ways. These fabulous artists will share a taste of their work with us and discuss how and why Shakespeare has inspired them. This is a fundraiser for OCA: Although a free event for OCA members, we encourage […]

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