Sonoma Arts Live has announced their 2018 – 2019 season under the heading “A Toast to the Classics”. Their six-show season will consist of three musicals, two comedies, and a one-woman show. Here’s what’s will be playing on the Rotary Stage of Andrews Hall in the Sonoma Community Center in the coming year: Hello, Dolly!…
Local vintner Robert Mark Kamen of Sonoma’s Kamen Estate Wines also happens to be one of Hollywood’s most successful screenwriters. Kamen, who back in 1979 took the money from his first script sale and invested it in Sonoma property, is responsible for three extremely successful film series – The Transporter series starring Jason Statham the…
Main Stage West revealed its 2018 – 2019 season at a season announcement party held Sunday night at its Sebastopol theatre. Artistic Director Elizabeth Craven announced the following productions: Savage Wealth – a world premiere comedy by Bob Duxbury running August 31 through September 16 and directed by John Shillington The Night Alive – Conor McPherson’s…
By David Templeton On Friday, April 20, Marin Theatre Company (MTC) acknowledged the 19th anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado, with a casual but keenly poignant reading of playwright Lauren Gunderson’s one-woman-play, Natural Shocks. On the same evening, all across the country, hundreds of schools, theaters and nonprofits gave simultaneous readings…
Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse has announced the departure of Craig Miller. Miller, who’s been the Playhouse’s Artistic and Education Director for the past seven years, is leaving to join the faculty of the University of Idaho as Assistant Professor of Acting and Directing. “To leave my wonderful artistic home and family here in Santa…
Sonoma County artists and theatres took five production awards and one Special Award at the 42nd Annual San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle (SFBATCC) Excellence in Theatre Awards Gala. The event was held on Monday, March 26th at San Francisco’s historic Victoria Theatre. Over 300 members of the community gathered as 67 production awards…
It used to be, not that long ago, that when a theater announced its upcoming season of shows, it did so with a simple press release and an update of its website. These days, there tends to be a certain amount of hoopla necessary, and that’s just fine with us. Theater, after all, is theater,…
North Bay Shakespeare fans – thousands of whom reportedly make the annual trek to Ashland between February and October – have long prepared themselves for the eventual departure of Artistic Director Bill Rauch, who’s held the post for the last 12 years. Since taking over for Libby Appel in 2007, he’s elevated the already renowned…
To Sonoma County film fans — including roughly 100 Santa Rosa Junior College cinema students per semester — there is no movie-going experience quite like the Petaluma Film Alliance’s year-long movie-and-lecture series at Petaluma’s Carole L. Ellis Auditorium. Open to the public as well as to students, taking place every Wednesday evening during school term,…
The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle has announced the recipients of its four Special Awards for 2018. The Special Awards will be presented as part of its 42nd Annual Excellence in Theatre Awards Gala to be held on Monday, March 26, 2018 at San Francisco’s historic Victoria Theatre. The event will be hosted…
