This time last year, Ross Valley Players brought tears of joy to our collective eyes with a brilliant production of Karen Zacarias’ “Native Gardens.”Directed by Mary Ann Rodgers, the slyly incisive comedy won a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle award for the 2023 season. Rodgers and Ross Valley Players are back at it […]
In the beginning was “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the 1975 film that skewered legendary King Arthur, his Knights of the Round Table, their idyllic home of Camelot and their pointless quest for the chalice supposedly used by the Savior at the Last Supper. Then the film’s co-writer Eric Idle and his musical comrade […]
Probably every living American has seen Frank Capra’s classic film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” with Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey, the selfless fighter for small-town justice in fictional Bedford Falls, New York. Each December, the televised film runs pretty much round-the-clock as part of traditional holiday fare. Deservedly so: It’s not merely one of the […]
The “all together spooky” Addams Family has been deeply ingrained in American culture since the debut of the 1960s television sitcom. Charles Addams’ darkly dysfunctional family comedy was so successful that it spawned a knockoff series (“The Munsters”), at least two movies and at least one musical a show so popular that three or […]