My guests on the Thursday, April 18 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Leslie McCauley and Ariana LaMark from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Click below to listen: **********
My guests on the Thursday, April 11 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Sandra Ish and Steven David Martin from the Raven Players production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Click below to listen: **********
Every holiday has its own traditions, and watching certain holiday-themed movies has long been part of many family’s annual observations of Halloween, Christmas, Valentine’s Day and others. Easter is no exception. As practiced in America (and many other Western countries), Easter has become an especially odd blend of sacred and secular, as some approach the…
I’ve been covering the San Francisco International Film Festival for over ten years now, so long that it’s changed its name. Now it’s known as the SFFILM Festival and it’s running now through April 23 at a variety of venues in the Bay Area. My day began with a “check-in” at the Festival Lounge. This…
The venerable Ross Valley Players have a long history of presenting new works to their audiences. In 1984, they initiated the Ross Alternative Works (RAW) program, dedicated to staged readings and full productions of original works by Bay Area playwrights. This season brings Scott & Zelda: The Beautiful Fools, running now through April 28. Written…
In the pantheon of great American musicals, one would be hard-pressed to find Clark Gesner’s You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown on the list. What began as a concept album in 1966 soon transmogrified into a very successful off-Broadway show that never really cut it on Broadway. Its first run in 1971 lasted less than…
God takes center stage in two North Bay productions running through April 14. Sebastopol’s Main Stage West transports to you to 1840 and an Appalachian Heathen Valley, while Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater takes you on a passage to India in search of A Perfect Ganesh. Heathen Valley is referred to in the play as “the land…
My guests on the second Thursday, April 4 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Samantha Bohlke-Slater, Ellie Paul, Dylan Kupper and Poliento Ico from the Redwood Theatre Company production of The Tempest. Click below to listen: **********
My guests on the first Thursday, April 4 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Elly Lichenstein and Laura Jorgensen from the Cinnabar Theater production of A Perfect Ganesh. Click below to listen: **********
By David Templeton Everyone’s heard that famous Shakespeare speech (or some of it, anyway) about how all the world is a stage, and how men and woman are just actors walking on and off. How each one of us gets to play a lot of different parts in their life, beginning with the role of…
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