My theatre guests on the Thursday, October 14 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were actors Jess Headington and Trevor Hoffman from the Cinnabar Theater production of Dancing Lessons. Click below to listen: ***********
“Fully Committed” is the term a pricey New York restaurant demands its reservations clerks use to inform potential guests that there’s no room for them at the table. It also describes what an actor has to be to take on 40 characters in a solo show that centers on the harried life of one of…
The centuries-old debate on just who did write the plays attributed to William Shakespeare takes center stage at the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center with their presentation of Amy Freed’s The Beard of Avon. Freed comes down squarely on the side of those who think Edward De Vere deserves the lion’s share of the credit and…
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: ***********
My guests on the Thursday, September 9 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Amanda Vitiello and Kellie Donnelly from the Cinnabar Theater production of Cry It Out. Click below to listen: ***********
Patty from HR is pissed. After being fired from her dream job as the Human Resources Director at The New Yorker magazine, she’s been reduced to conducting Zoom training sessions for the uninformed. Well, she will be if she can get past her inaugural session/audition. That’s the premise of Patty from HR: A Zoom with…
My guests on the second of two theatre segments on the Thursday, August 26 broadcast of KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Producing Artistic Director Keith Baker and writer/director/performer Michael Phillis from the Main Stage West production of Patty from HR: A Zoom with a View. Click below to listen: ***********
