For more than a decade, Janey Hirsh and the American Dream Theatre have been producing original musical comedies at a steady pace. The West Sonoma County troupe opens "The K-9 Caper," its new "comic mystery with music," April 30 at its current home, the Graton Community Club, 8996 Graton Road, [...]
There are so many local fund-raising events, all for good causes, and so many pleas for publicity. One does try to be fair and objective in evaluating all these requests, and yet, when the worthy cause is a newspaper, one tends to perk right up and pay attention (especially if [...]
The playwright Moliere is enjoying a mini-revival in Sonoma County this spring. Not bad for a guy who's been dead for more than 300 years. Sonoma State University will stage his satire about about a wealthy, healthy man who thinks he's dying, "Imaginary Invalid," Friday, March 19, through March 27 [...]
Without the title, could you still tell who wrote it? Here's the plot. Two sets of identical twins, separated in infancy by a shipwreck, end up as young adults in the same city without knowing it. Yep, it’s Shakespeare. "Comedy of Errors," co-starring real-life twins Justin and Jerod [...]
The two-man touring comedy show, "The Black/Jew Dialogues," scheduled for tonight (Thursday, Feb. 18) on the Sonoma State University campus, has been canceled. Due to a snow storm in Iowa, causing flight cancellations, performers Ron Jones and Larry Jay Tisch will not be able to get to Rohnert Park for [...]
Have you heard this one? These two guys walk onto a college campus ... Well, if you want to get this joke, you'll have to go see the two-man comedy show, "The Black/Jew Dialogues" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, in Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall, on the Sonoma State University [...]
After well-received runs in Santa Rosa and Sebastopol, North Bay writer and performer David Templeton is taking his "one-sinner show" south to Marin County. "Wretch Like Me," Templeton's autobiographical tale of religious zealotry opens Jan. 20 at the 142 Throckmorton Theatre, located (logically enough) at 142 Throckmorton Ave. in Mill [...]
The Smothers Brothers have been clowning and singing, from time to time, at Santa Rosa's Wells Fargo Center for the Arts ever since it opened in the early '80s as the Luther Burbank Center. And they'll be back next spring. Tickets go on sale at noon Friday, Dec. [...]
A one-man show is normally a fairly straight-forward production,without a lot of complex personnel issues, but when that one man can't go on, there's a problem. Actor John Rowan opened in the new Pegasus Theater production of John Sedaris' "Santaland Diaries" as planned, on Dec. 5, but illness has forced [...]
What is art? Whether it’s oil on canvas or actors on stage, dancers on their toes or comedians doing stand-up, Press Democrat staff writer Dan Taylor covers the fine and lively arts in Northern California. Meet the people, go behind the scenes and get ahead on what’s coming up.