With no date in sight for the resumption of live, in-house theatre, Left Edge Theatre becomes the first North Bay company to move forward with a full season of streaming productions beginning with Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Sweat. The show streams through Sept 27. The play opens with a parole officer (Corey Jackson)…
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…
One of the most unique theatre entities in the North Bay has closed shop. After 46 years traveling and entertaining the world with their unique style of performance art and puppetry, Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller have decided The Independent Eye will no longer be an operating concern. They’ve released the following statement: “As of…
My guest on the Thursday, July 9 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Tony Gonzales, Artistic Associate of the Transcendence Theatre Company to discuss the opening “show” of their 2020 Best Night Ever online season. Click below to listen: **********
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