Marin-based AlterTheater has announced the inaugural members of its new playwright residency program. Designed for recent students, their AlterLab First Acts program is designed to provide a supported environment for BIPOC playwrights early in their careers. The inaugural “class” includes Texas natives lily gonzales and Alicia Margarita Olivo, New Yorker Devin Porter, Chicago-based Jasmine Sharma,…
My guests on the second Thursday, September 10 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Friends of the Petaluma River Executive Director Stephanie Bastianon and author/actor David Templeton to chat about about their upcoming streaming presentation of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the mysterious seventh chapter of Kenneth Grahames’s The…
My guests on the first of two Thursday, September 10 theatre segments on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Brad Surosky and Amy Miller from the Transcendence Theatre Company. Brad and Amy previewed Transcendence’s upcoming on-line Gala Celebration. Click below to listen: **********
My guests on the Thursday, September 3 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Yavé Guzmán and Sandy Ziviani from the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center’s upcoming New Works Festival of Injustice. Click below to listen: **********
My guests on the Thursday, August 27 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Argo Thompson and actor Mike Pavone from the Left Edge Theatre production of Sweat. Click below to listen: **********
Left Edge Theatre has announced the cancellation of their 2020/21 season production of Fun Home. The show, originally scheduled to open in January 2021, is now planned for their 2021/22 season and will be replaced with a New Works Festival. “We came to the conclusion that we could not do Fun Home justice over Zoom…
Zombies soon to be seen in Wine Country No, I’m not referring to the usual plethora of out-of-town tourists after all-day tastings. Napa Valley College Performing Arts has announced auditions for their fall production of Night of the Living Dead. The community is invited to submit video auditions for their upcoming live stream performance of…
North Bay theaters adapt to Covid-19 “Creative people are like the shark that has to keep moving forward to live”, says Barry Martin, Managing Director of Napa’s Lucky Penny Productions. “If we don’t tell stories, who are we?” That “show must go on attitude” continues as local theatre companies adjust to the pandemic-necessitated limitations on…
My guest on the Thursday, August 13 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Tony Gonzales, Artistic Associate of the Transcendence Theatre Company, to discuss I Hope You Dance, the latest “show” of their 2020 Best Night Ever online season. **********
With the return of live theatrical performances no where in sight, many companies have resorted to Zoom technology to live stream shows while others have found themselves turning their theatres into video production facilities. Napa’s Lucky Penny Productions is the latest to invest in a multi-camera system and has announced a new theatre festival to…
