Marin County’s venerable Curtain Theatre returns to the Old Mill Park Amphitheatre in Mill Valley for their more-or-less annual offering of Shakespeare al fresco. This year it’s Two Gentlemen of Verona, what many consider the Bard’s first (but still lesser-known) play. If you find Shakespeare difficult to follow, fear not! The plot is fairly simple…
My guests on the August 25 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Left Edge Theatre’s Argo Thompson and Emily Jansen-Adan from their season-opening production of Fun Home, which will also be the inaugural production at The California, downtown Santa Rosa’s newest entertainment venue. Click below to listen: ********** Click…
Jane Austen’s Bennet sisters have enjoyed something of a theatrical renaissance in the last few years courtesy of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s Christmas in Pemberley triptych. For those unfamiliar with those works, they took the characters and plot line from Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and continued the story by moving the focus off of…
Fall is usually marked by the local theatre community with a series of ambitious announcements heralding the shows each company plans to produce for their new season. COVID continues to be a factor as companies optimistically make plans while struggling to fill casts and schedule rehearsals. Some companies have reacted to the continued uncertainty surrounding…
Documentary filmmaker Lori Miller joined Steve Jaxon, Harry Duke, and Ky Boyd on the Rialto Cinemas Big Friday Movie Segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO for a discussion about her film Living Wine, now showing at the Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol. The film follows the journeys of natural winemakers in Northern California…
A fun interview on today’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO with Blake McIver and Emerson Collins about their show I Dreamed a Dreamgirl, running this weekend at Sonoma Arts Live. Click below to listen: Click the graphic below for more information:
For many people, when they drive past a homeless encampment or encounter a hungry person asking for spare cash, they quickly choose from a very short list of actions: looking the other way, offering help, writing letters to public officials or making a mental note to “do something” in the future. When Petaluma writer Nathaniel…
Local filmmaker C.M. Conway and star Cassie returned to The Drive to tell us about the reception her film received at the recent Summerfield Cinemas public premiere and about its upcoming screening at the Occidental Center for the Arts. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
Documentary filmmaker Katherine Parsons joined Steve Jaxon, Harry Duke, and Ky Boyd on the Rialto Cinemas Big Friday Movie Segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO for a discussion about her film The Fire Cats: Save Something Small, having its West Coast premiere on Sunday, August 14 at the Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol.…
My guest on the second “Theatre Thursday” segment on the August 11 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO was Craig Miller. He’s back in the North Bay performing Every Brilliant Thing at the Lucky Penny Community Arts Center in Napa and at 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa. Click below to listen:…
North Bay Stage and Screen 