It’s been a while since I’ve attended a film festival, so an invitation to attend the Healdsburg International Short Film Festival after a radio interview with Festival co-founder Patricia Demorest got me back in the film fest mood. The Festival began in 2011 as the Bodega International Short Film Festival, then moved to the now…
My guests on the 09/26/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Elly Lichenstein and Jared Emerson-Johnson, founding members of the newly formed Mercury Theater of Petaluma. Their opening presentation is called Welcome Home and happens on Saturday, October 5 at the (former) Cinnabar Theater building. Welcome Home “will be one part variety…
As I read the program’s synopsis of Opera Modesto’s production of The Marriage of Figaro in my seat in the Gallo Center, waiting for Annalisa Winberg and her husband Roy Stevens to welcome everyone (by encouraging us to yell “bravo!” and “brava!” and “bravissimo!” like they do in Italy), I learned something very interesting: The…
By Beulah F. Vega When playwright Will Arbery was asked what his play Heroes of the Fourth Turning was about, he had a simple answer: “Listening.” Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre has a production closing Saturday, September 21 with a 1:00 pm matinee performance at The California. Set in 2017 soon after the election of…
My guest on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 09/19/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 was David R. Gordon from the Transcendence Theatre Company production of The Gala: A Sentimental Journey, the fourth and final summer production in Transcendence’s “Broadway in Sonoma” series. The show is running on the Field of…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 09/19/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were actors Julianne Bretan (via phone), Drew Bolander, and Keith Baker from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. The show runs at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park from…
Cinnabar Theater opens their 52nd season on the road with a production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Oklahoma! Having vacated the little red schoolhouse on the hill in Petaluma while awaiting construction of their new theatre, Cinnabar is utilizing the Warren Auditorium at Sonoma State University for their mainstage performances. It runs there through…
My guests on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 09/12/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Cinnabar Theater Artistic Director Nathan Cummings and Director/Actor Zachary Hasbany from the Cinnabar Theater production of Oklahoma! The show is running at Warren Auditorium in Ives Hall on the campus of Sonoma State University in…
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 09/12/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were actors Michael Bauer and Joanna Lynn Bert from the Sonoma Arts Live production of Young Frankenstein. The show runs on the Rotary Stage at the Sonoma Community Center through September 22. Click below to listen:…
Mel Brooks followed up his incredibly successful Broadway adaptation of his film The Producers with a musical adaptation of what he considers his finest film, Young Frankenstein. Not nearly as successful with audiences or critics as The Producers, it’s still a solid show for fans of the film and others looking for light amusement. Sonoma…
North Bay Stage and Screen 