A lot of “firsts” were achieved when Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun debuted on Broadway in 1959. It was the first time Broadway produced a play written by a Black woman and the first Broadway show helmed by a Black director. The show was a critical and commercial success and spawned a film…
My guest on the second of two Theatre Thursday segments on the March 2 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke was Leontyne Mbele-Mbong, director of the 6th Street Playhouse production of “A Raisin in the Sun”. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Our guests on the first of two Theatre Thursday segments on the March 2 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Leslie McCauley, Trevor Braskamp, and Nate Musser from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of Gloria. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for…
Ky Boyd hosted Greg Laemmle, head of the Laemmle theater chain in Los Angeles, on the Rialto Cinemas Big Friday Movie Segment on the The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO. Greg is the centerpiece of the new documentary Only in Theatres, which tells the story of the the 84-year old family-owned…
My guest on the February 23 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke was Robert Zelenka, Artistic Director of the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center and director of their upcoming production of Swimming in the Shallows. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Some Stephen Sondheim musicals are more recognizable and identifiable than others. Sweeney Todd? Murderous barber. Into the Woods? Fractured fairy tales. Assassins? Assassins. A Little Night Music? Ummm… clowns? Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, now running at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through Feb. 26, received a dozen Tony nominations in 1973…
My guests on the second of two February 16 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Keith Baker and Ivy Miller, the leadership team at Sebastopol’s Main Stage West, about the decision to close the theatre. Click below to listen: **********
My guest on the first of two February 16 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO was Taylor Diffenderfer. Taylor is currently appearing on stage in Sebastopol in Open, which turns out to be Main Stage West’s final production . Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic…
Legendary music and film producer Lou Adler joined Ky Boyd on the Rialto Cinemas Big Friday Movie Segment on the February 10 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke. Lou joined them for a discussion about the release of the concert documentary Carole King Home Again: Live in Central Park The new…
My guests on the February 9 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Dani Beem and Larry Williams from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of A Little Night Music. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Sonoma Arts Live brings a little retro-television to the Rotary Stage in Sonoma with Sidekicked, a one-woman show about actress Vivian Vance. Vance is best known as America’s favorite TV neighbor Ethel Mertz, a character she played for nine seasons alongside Lucille Ball. The Michael Ross-directed show runs in Sonoma through Feb. 19. It’s 1960…
My guests on the second February 2 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Danielle Cain and John Craven from the Left Edge Theatre production of The Children. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
My guests on the first of two February 2 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Michael Ross and Libby Oberlin from the Sonoma Arts Live production of Sidekicked. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Actor Cameron Britton joined Ky Boyd on the Rialto Cinemas Big Friday Movie Segment on the The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO. Cameron is a native of Sonoma County and was an active member of Sebastopol’s Analy High School theatre program before graduating in 2004. He’s built a substantial film and…
My guest on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the January 26 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO was James Newman, the Artistic Director for the last 16 years of the Santa Rosa Junior College’s nationally-known Summer Repertory Theatre program, to discuss the recent announcement of the…
North Bay Stage and Screen 