Lovers of musical theatre in general and the works of Stephen Sondheim in particular would do well to head out to Sonoma and catch Sonoma Arts Live’s Side by Side by Sondheim. The musical revue runs on the Rotary Stage in Andrews Hall through May 7. Like most musical revues, there’s not much of a…
Award-winning scholar Professor Joshua S. Goldstein and legendary three-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone joined Harry Duke on The Drive on KSRO for a conversation about their film Nuclear Now. The documentary will have two screenings on May 1 at the Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol. The film, co-written by Goldstein and Stone with narration and…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the April 20 broadcast of The Drive on KSRO were Farrah McAdam and Aleen Phelps from the Sonoma State University Spring Dance 2023 program. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
My guest on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the April 20 broadcast of The Drive on KSRO was Andrew Smith, director of the Sonoma Arts Live production of Side by Side by Sondheim. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
When it comes to jukebox musicals, Always… Patsy Cline may be North Bay theatergoers’ favorite. That’s evidenced by the number of productions put on in the area in recent years. Sonoma Arts Live reprised their 2018 production late last year, and now Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse has mounted a Jared Sakren-directed production that runs…
My guests on the April 13 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Laura Downing-Lee, Michael Coury Murdock, Austin Aquino-Harrison, and Gwenevieve Nelson from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of The Addams Family Musical. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for…
My guests on the April 6 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on KSRO were M. Graham Smith and Byron Guo from the Cinnabar Theater production of Tiger Style! Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Director of the new documentary film WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS? John Scheinfeld and BS&T co-founder/drummer Bobby Colomby joined us on The Drive today for a fascinating conversation about the film. It screens at the Rialto Cinemas Elmwood in Berkeley on Saturday, April 8 at 1 pm and the Rialto Cinemas…
One would think that the regular killing of students and staff on American school campuses would lead to some sort of meaningful change in how our nation deals with the issue of guns. Sadly, as we read the news reports and watch the horrifying video footage of the latest school shooting (as of the date…
Documentary film producer/director Lisa Cortés joined me on The Drive for an interview about her latest film Little Richard: I Am Everything. It’s screening across the country for one night only (including at the Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol) on Tuesday, April 11th. The film tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’…
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