Courtroom dramas have long been a staple of mass entertainment. From TV’s Perry Mason to plays and films like The Caine Mutiny Court Marshall and A Few Good Men, audiences have long enjoyed the compact drama provided by a judicial trial. Playwright Selina Fillinger has written a worthy addition to that canon with Faceless, running…
My guests on the Thursday, May 30 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Jaime Love and Jennifer King from the Sonoma Arts Live production of The Belle of Amherst. Click below to listen: **********
The members of a James Dean fan club reunite twenty years after his death in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, the latest Novato Theater Company production running through June 9. It’s set in the Kressmont Five and Dime in West Texas, just a stone’s throw from where James Dean…
A young man walks into a police station. Either unable or unwilling to speak, he non-verbally asks for something with which to write. Given a pen and a piece of paper, he scribbles down and displays the following: “I am Donovan Reid”. So begins Donovan Reid, a film co-written and directed by former Petaluman Austin…
My guests on the Thursday, May 23 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were actors Ilana Niernberger & David Yen and director Craig Miller from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Faceless. Click below to listen: **********
Who knew that an employee break room could be such a fertile setting for compelling theatrical drama? First, David Harrower set his harrowing Blackbird in a nameless one, then Samuel Hunter (The Whale) set his fascinating A Bright New Boise in the break room of an Idaho Hobby Lobby. The College of Marin brings Boise…
My guests on the Thursday, May 16 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were David Lear, Sharia Pierce, and Jared Wright from the Main Stage West production of Lungs. Click below to listen: **********
Serendipity. Fate. Chance. Destiny. Karma. Fortune. Kismet. Call it what ever you like, but playwright Steven Dietz (Becky’s New Car) doesn’t believe in it so much so that his play This Random World, running through May 26 at Left Edge Theatre, is even sub-titled The Myth of Serendipity. The connections that people have, make, or…
My guests on the Thursday, May 9 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Brittany Law and Zachary Hasbany from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Cinderella. Click below to listen: **********
The Oxford Dictionary defines ‘jazz’ as a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm. The same definition could be applied to Nambi E. Kelley’s Jazz, her theatrical adaptation of Toni Morrison’s 1992 novel of the same name. Awoye Timpo directs the Marin Theatre Company…
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