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…
What’s a community theatre to do when it wants to put on a large-scale family musical in the age of COVID? Well, if you’re Napa’s Lucky Penny Productions, you hire Scottie Woodard to direct the show and follow his lead in assembling a really creative design team and cast. Their production of Disney’s The Little…
The circle of life takes center stage in the North Bay with two plays featuring females dealing with challenges ranging from child rearing to senior living. Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater invites you to Cry It Out while the Ross Valley Players would love for you to come and pull a Ripcord. Proof of COVID vaccination and…
My guests on a special Wednesday, September 15 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Laura Downing-Lee, Ginger Beavers, and Trevor Dorner from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Murder for Two. Click below to listen: ***********
North Bay Stage and Screen 