Mary Mason

If you've attended theater in the Bay Area with any degree of regularity over the past few decades, chances are you've seen actress Lorri Holt - a lot! Since the 1980's, Holt has become a veritable local treasure, performing with theater companies large and small across the Bay Area, creating roles in scores of new plays along the way. Among many career highlights, she was part of the fabled Eureka Theatre Company that commissioned Tony Kushner to write Angels in America where Holt originated the role of Harper Pitt. Holt's latest performance, in Who Killed Sylvia Plath? by award-winning playwright Lynne Kaufman, is enjoying a virtual return engagement on MarshStream November 28th and 29th after winning the award for Best Full Length at the recent MarshStream International Solo Fest. The play had premiered at The Marsh in 2019 before being adapted into a virtual offering for Solo Fest. For further details on the livestream, visit the MarshStream website. BroadwayWorld speaks with Holt from her home in Nevada City, California where she relocated just prior to the Covid pandemic.

Damsel Productions today announces Abi Zakarian's Fabric in support of Solace Women's Aid, a charity which works to bring an end to the harm done through domestic and sexual violence. Hannah Hauer-King directs a brand new production with Nancy Sullivan as Leah. Opening at Soho Theatre on 13 September, with previews from 11 September, and closing on 22 September, the production then tours to non-traditional theatre spaces in four of Solace's target London boroughs from 24 September to 6 October.

The Black Box Theatre Company presents The Creature, a live recording and podcast of a new digital adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Live before a studio audience Oct. 30 at 8:00PM at San Francisco's Magic Theatre. The world premiere podcast will then air the following day, Halloween Oct. 31 at 5:00PM online.

Kritzerland's latest CD release, 'Simply Sondheim: A 75th Birthday Salute' will have its debut at an L.A. CD release party at The Colony Theatre in LA

Simply Sondheim--A 75th Birthday Salute will feature Lisa Vroman and others on December 5th in San Francisco