The centuries-old debate on just who did write the plays attributed to William Shakespeare takes center stage at the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center with their presentation of Amy Freed’s The Beard of Avon. Freed comes down squarely on the side of those who think Edward De Vere deserves the lion’s share of the credit and…
My guest on the Thursday, October 7 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was director (and Sebastopol cookie magnate) Bronwen Shears from the Main Stage West production of Topdog/Underdog. Click below to listen: ***********
My guests on the Wednesday, October 6 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Beulah Vega and actor Martin Gilbertson from the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center production of The Beard of Avon. Click below to listen: ***********
Billy Wilder’s 1950 film noir classic Sunset Boulevard reeks of cynicism. The story of a hack Hollywood writer who stumbles into an opportunistic relationship with a faded silent screen star is a tragedy of operatic proportions. The film’s star, Gloria Swanson, spent years trying to bring a radically altered musical version to the stage and…
My guest on a special Friday, October 1 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Steven David Martin, Artistic Director for Healdsburg’s Raven Players. Click below to listen: ***********
My guest on a Thursday, September 23 segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was actor/former North Bay resident Kurtis Bedford, who began his Hollywood acting career as the second-to-the-last listed cast member of Wes Craven’s seminal horror film Scream. Click below to listen: ***********
My guest on a special Wednesday, September 22 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was 6th Street Playhouse’s Managing Director and Education Director Anne Clark. Click below to listen: ***********
My guest on the Wednesday, September 22 segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Ky Boyd, proprietor of the Rialto Cinemas to discuss their COVID vaccination policy and the current state of film exhibition. Click below to listen: ***********
My guests on the Thursday, September 23 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Carl Jordan and actor Maeve Smith from the Sonoma Arts Live production of Sunset Boulevard. Click below to listen: ***********
One way theatre companies have responded to the pandemic and its related restrictions is to produce smaller shows. Solo performances, two-handers, small-cast dramas and comedies and stripped-down musicals have been the season openers on most local stages. Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse opens their GK Hardt Theatre with Murder for Two, a title that neatly…
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