On Stage in Sonoma County
Experience the magic of theatre!
Theatre offers a captivating experience for audience members. Unlike a movie, a theatre performance is never the same show twice; it’s a vibrant experience that is unique to that particular audience. So get out and see a show!
Nov. 22-Dec. 22: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas: The Musical at 6th Street Playhouse
GK Hardt Theater
Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by David Ives and Paul Blake.
Big production numbers and classic Irving Berlin songs, including “White Christmas” and “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm,” help tell a heartwarming story. With romance in mind, successful song-and-dance men Bob Wallace and Phil Davis follow the Haynes sisters, Judy and Betty, to their holiday gig in snowy Vermont.
White Christmas is an uplifting old-fashioned musical everyone will enjoy.
Dec. 6-22: Little Women presented by Sonoma Arts Live
Louisa May Alcott’s beloved novel is brought to glorious musical life in this tale of the indomitable March girls of Concord, Massachusetts. In a time of great social upheaval, Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth grow from childhood to womanhood through the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of America divided by Civil War, and this journey comes to life beautifully in song. This show is the perfect holiday choice for the whole family.
Directed by Sandra Ish
Musical Direction by Sherrill Peterson
Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI)
Winner of the Broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite New Broadway Musical
Jan. 17-26: Gutenberg The Musical! at Cinnabar Theater
It’s the story of two best pals named Bud and Doug who put on a show together because they just love each other so damn much. It’s art imitating life imitating art!
In this two-man musical spoof, a pair of aspiring playwrights perform a backers’ audition for their new, hilariously ill-advised project – a big, splashy musical about printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg. Only they know very little about musicals and even less about history.
Written and composed by Anthony King and Scott Brown.
Jan. 24 to Feb. 2: Mary Shelley’s Body at Spreckels Performing Arts Center
The legendary writer of Frankenstein is irritated to find herself a ghost, consigned to a dreary graveyard in Bournemouth, England. Reluctantly compelled to tell the story of her life, Mary masterfully delivers a spirited tale encompassing her passionate loves and heartbreaking losses, the real inspiration behind her greatest work of literature, and the terrifying secret she had always hoped to take to her grave, a secret that refuses to let her go until she’s faced it once and for all. Packed with poetic prose and mysterious twists, Mary Shelley’s Body – a one-woman show featuring Spreckels Artistic Director, Sheri Lee Miller – is a stormy collision of romance, horror, historical fact and fiction, and unforgettable storytelling.
Opens Jan. 9: What the Constitution Means to Me at 6th Street Playhouse
Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the U.S. In this hilarious, hopeful and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.
Nominated for two Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Schreck’s boundary-breaking show breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans.