Brooke Tansley, a theatre artist who worked with the Transcendence Theatre Company (TTC) from 2011 through 2015, has added her voice to those seeking change at the company. In a post on the Medium web site, Tansley afffirmed the recent claims of Nikko Kimzin and Leah Sprecher of a hostile work environment at TTC, expanding…
Two of the Transcendence Theatre Company’s original founders and Board members have called for the company’s Artistic and Executive Directors to resign from the Company’s Board of Directors. In a post on the Medium web site, Leah Sprecher, who resigned from the company in 2017, relays experiences with the company that support the allegations of…
The Transcendence Theatre Company has apparently reacted to the outcry following the public resignation of Nikko Kimzin, its former Director of Education and Community Engagement. In a post dated February 10, 2021 on the Medium web site, Kimzin attributed his resignation to “…the Transcendence Executive Team’s ongoing suppression of equity, diversity, and inclusion practices and…
Nikko Kimzin, up until a few hours ago the Transcendence Theatre Company’s Director of Education and Community Engagement, has announced his resignation via a public post on the Medium web site. Kimzin, who first performed with the company in 2017 and joined it full-time in 2018, gives his reasons for his resignation as “…the Transcendence…
My guests on the Thursday, February 11 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Larry Williams and Mark & Julianne Bradbury from the Sonoma Arts Live streaming production of David Templeton’s Pinky. Click below to listen: **********
My guests on the Thursday, January 21 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Nathan Cummings and Mike Pavone from Cinnabar Theater’s The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. Click below to listen: **********
Marin County’s Mountain Play announced the cancellation of their 2021 season via Twitter. The two-part Tweet read as follows: “In support of the health and well-being of our community and staff, the Mountain Play announces the cancellation of our 2021 Season Production of INTO THE WOODS. We will safely return to Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre on…
‘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…
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