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Review: “Death of a Salesman” in Ross (opens the original)
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To many, Death of a Salesman is the classic American play. From its Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Broadway debut in 1949 through multiple revivals, theatre companies return again and again to Arthur Miller’s dissection of the American dream to draw audiences. The Ross Valley Players open their 97th season with a production running in…
Review: “Dear Evan Hansen” in Rohnert Park (opens the original)
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by Cari Lynn Pace * Spreckels Theatre Company opens their 2026/27 season with the North Bay premiere of the contemporary musical Dear Evan Hansen. Written by Steven Levenson, with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, this multi-Tony-Award-winning show exposes the teen angst so prevelant today. It runs in the Nellie W. Codding…
2nd Review: “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” in Novato (opens the original)
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by Cari Lynn Pace * Welcome to Putnam County, where a middle school spelling bee championship takes place with a ragtag collection of juveniles and two clearly biased judges. William Finn wrote the clever words and music to two dozen numbers based on Rachel Sheinkin’s book presented onstage at the Novato Theater Company. Adults play…
Interview – “Dear Evan Hansen” at Spreckels Theatre Company (opens the original)
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My guests on the 09/24/26 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 FM were director Kim Bromley and lead actor Addison Brown from the Spreckels Theater Company’s production of Dear Evan Hansen. The Tony Award-winning musical has its North Bay premiere run in the Codding Theater at the Speckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert…
Review: “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” in Novato (opens the original)
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by Harry Duke * Musical theatre is an art form that rarely comes with a trigger warning. One wouldn’t think that a show as innocuous as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee would need an alert that the show’s subject matter may cause distressing psychological or physiological reactions, especially in people who have previously…
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