What do you get when you bring a group of theatre arts students together to produce a show and all you have to begin with is a title? You get a ‘devised play’ called overcome. It’s the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts Program’s Spring production and it streams on You Tube through May 2.…
Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater has announced their season lineup for the 2021/22 season, but has held off on announcing specific dates for onstage productions “until there is more clarity around reopening, gatherings and social distancing guidelines.” This will be the first season under the auspices of new Artistic Director Nathan Cummings. Their 49th season will be comprised…
My guests on the Thursday, April 22 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Reed Martin and performers Sky Hernandez and Chris Shayota from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts streaming production of overcome, a devised play. Click below to listen: **********
Stop me if you’ve heard this one – a shy, nerdy high school senior secretly pines for the “popular” girl at his school and makes a fool of himself (well, he throws up on her) when he tries to talk to her. Ok, how about this one – a shy, nerdy high school senior tries…
I’ve been attending/covering the SFFILM Festival for another web site since 2009. I thoroughly enjoyed spending weekends in the city hopping from venue to venue to catch a variety of narrative, documentary, and short films from around the world. Well, THAT isn’t happening. Like everyone else, they’ve turned mostly to streaming. Here’s my look at…
Heroines, Harpies and Harlots, a theater project born to let all who identify as female have a voice, returns for a second year with another festival of theatre pieces that delve beneath the surface of what society thinks a woman should be to find who they actually are through individual stories. They are presenting, in…
Mill Valley’s Marin Theatre Company has announced that Meredith Suttles has joined the company as Managing Director, effective April 8, 2021. Ms. Suttles has had a long and distinguished career in senior management in performing arts organizations, including TheatreWorks USA, Soho Repertory Theatre, Theatre Communications Group, New York City Opera, and The Public Theater. “I…
Think theaters will be opening up anytime soon? Not so fast. If you’re an Equity house, you gotta have a few protocols in place before your curtain comes up, and their implementation is going to cost a lot of money. While there aren’t very many Equity houses in the North Bay, several do utilize Equity…
North Bay Stage and Screen 