Despite a severely truncated theater season, the Marquee Theater Journalists Association has decide to move forward with its 2020 awards program and has released its list of nominees for the 5th Annual MTJA Awards. The Association recognized the exemplary work of Sonoma County theater artists with nominations in eighteen categories that were culled from the thirty-five…
6th Street Playhouse has announced the appointment of Anne Clark to the position of Managing Director of the Santa Rosa theatre company. She takes on the role with over two decades of experience working in theatre. “The Playhouse is very lucky to be able to add Anne Clark as Managing Director of our organization. With…
My guests on the Thursday, September 17 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Michael Fontaine and actor Laura Jorgensen to talk about the Cinnabar Theater streaming production of The Lady with All the Answers. Click below to listen: **********
Marin-based AlterTheater has announced the inaugural members of its new playwright residency program. Designed for recent students, their AlterLab First Acts program is designed to provide a supported environment for BIPOC playwrights early in their careers. The inaugural “class” includes Texas natives lily gonzales and Alicia Margarita Olivo, New Yorker Devin Porter, Chicago-based Jasmine Sharma,…
My guests on the second Thursday, September 10 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Friends of the Petaluma River Executive Director Stephanie Bastianon and author/actor David Templeton to chat about about their upcoming streaming presentation of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the mysterious seventh chapter of Kenneth Grahames’s The…
My guests on the first of two Thursday, September 10 theatre segments on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Brad Surosky and Amy Miller from the Transcendence Theatre Company. Brad and Amy previewed Transcendence’s upcoming on-line Gala Celebration. Click below to listen: **********
With no date in sight for the resumption of live, in-house theatre, Left Edge Theatre becomes the first North Bay company to move forward with a full season of streaming productions beginning with Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Sweat. The show streams through Sept 27. The play opens with a parole officer (Corey Jackson)…
My guests on the Thursday, September 3 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Yavé Guzmán and Sandy Ziviani from the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center’s upcoming New Works Festival of Injustice. Click below to listen: **********
My guests on the Thursday, August 27 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Argo Thompson and actor Mike Pavone from the Left Edge Theatre production of Sweat. Click below to listen: **********
North Bay Stage and Screen 