The Raven Players theater troupe, based at the Raven Theater in Healdsburg, has never lacked ambition, going after the rights to big Broadway shows that can be difficult for community theaters to get — “Rent” in 2010, “Chicago” in 2011. So the latest news from the plucky little company makes [...]
Having a blue Christmas season so far? What you need are some laughs. A good place to find them is the 6th Street Improv troupe’s “Holidaze” comedy show at 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, at the 6th Street Playhouse, 52 West 6th St., Santa Rosa. “We'll have elf [...]
Every year during the holidays, we can count on seeing some version of “The Nutcracker” and “The Christmas Carol,” but local journalist, playwright and actor David Templeton likes to do something different. This year he’ll present “Twisted Christmas Live No. 10,” his 10th annual “literary-comedy-variety show,” at the Glaser Center, [...]
The North American tour of Disney's “The Lion King,” has broken the box office record at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco for the highest grossing week of a Broadway show. “The Lion King” grossed $1,674,059 for eight performances during the week ending Nov. 25. This marks [...]
The latest national tour of "The Lion King" opened earlier this month at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco, and the show proved as powerful as ever. The Tony-winning costumes, astounding puppetry, now-classic songs and South African chorus make the show a magical experience. And yet, one might [...]
If you’re hoping for a spoonful of sugar next spring, you’d better take action this week. Tickets for the San Francisco presentation of the Broadway hit musical “Mary Poppins” go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday at shnsf.com, (888) 746-1799 and the Orpheum Theatre box office, 1192 Market [...]
Tickets went on sale today (Tuesday, Oct. 23) for two live broadcasts of Garrison Keillor's ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ radio show from San Francisco in January. The shows are scheduled at 2:45 p.m. two Saturdays in a row — Jan. 5 and 12 — at the War Memorial [...]
Tim Kniffin, a Santa Rosa actor who has divided his time successfully between Sonoma County and the rest of the Bay Area, has a new show opening in Berkeley. The Berkeley Playhouse production of “The Sound of Music,” featuring Kniffin as Captain Von Trapp, opens Oct. 27 at [...]
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.