‘Tis the time for critics of all ilks to release their “end of year” lists. For almost twenty years, this publication has presented a “Top Torn Tickets” list featuring the year’s best North Bay theatrical productions. Those years, however, had the advantage of having an entire calendar year’s worth of shows to consider. With the…
My phone-in guests on the Thursday, January 7 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Paige Picard and Abbey Lee from Left Edge Theatre’s Hindsight 2021 Short Play Festival. Click below to listen: **********
Perhaps the niche-iest of niches in modern literature is the bathroom reader. Usually a collection of essays, short stories, jokes, or comics that can be absorbed in a few minutes time, they are the dog-eared, soft-covered books you find on your neighbor’s bathroom counter that you pick up and thumb through when necessity requires you…
I spent the weekend catching up on two high-profile, gay-themed streaming productions – Netflix’s The Boys in the Band and The Prom. The former is a star-studded remount of Mart Crowley’s ground-breaking 1968 Off-Broadway production (and William Friedkin’s 1970 film adaptation) directed by Joe Mantello with the latter being a star-studded remounting of the 2018…
My phone-in guest on the Thursday, December 10 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Michael Gene Sullivan to preview their radio production of A Red Carol. Click below to listen: **********
My guest on the Thursday, December 3 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Transcendence Theatre Company’s Resident Artist Meggie Cansler Ness to preview this year’s Broadway Holiday at the Drive-in program. Click below to listen: **********
Guests on the Thursday, November 19 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director John Shillington, composer Janis Dunson Wilson, and actor Alexx Valdez from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of It’s a Wonderful Life: the Musical. Click below to listen: **********
Guests on the host-less Thursday, November 12 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Sonoma County-ans Emily Cornelius and Brooke Dengler from the Victor Herbert Renaissance Project LIVE! virtual concert Heart O’Mine, an Irish-themed concert with works by Victor Herbert and his Irish grandfather Samuel Lover. Click below to listen: **********
My guests on the Thursday, November 5 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Jeanie K. Smith and actor Denise Elia-Yen from the Left Edge Theatre streaming production of The Thanksgiving Play. Click below to listen: **********
The Marquee Theater Journalists Association has annouced the recipients of the 2020 MTJA Awards program. The Association recognized the exemplary work of Sonoma County theater artists with awards in eighteen categories whose nominations were culled from the thirty-five pre-pandemic productions attended by MTJA members. The qualifying season for the awards program usually runs from September…
