Eccentric families have long been a source of humor for popular entertainments from TV’s Addams Family to film’s Royal Tenenbaums. Kaufman and Hart’s You Can’t Take It with You may be the preeminent stage production on the subject and is one of the most produced plays since its premiere in 1936, but Noël Coward beat…
My guests on the April 13 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Laura Downing-Lee, Michael Coury Murdock, Austin Aquino-Harrison, and Gwenevieve Nelson from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of The Addams Family Musical. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for…
My guests on the April 6 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on KSRO were M. Graham Smith and Byron Guo from the Cinnabar Theater production of Tiger Style! Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Our guests on the first of two Theatre Thursday segments on the March 2 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Leslie McCauley, Trevor Braskamp, and Nate Musser from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of Gloria. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for…
My guest on the February 23 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke was Robert Zelenka, Artistic Director of the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center and director of their upcoming production of Swimming in the Shallows. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Some Stephen Sondheim musicals are more recognizable and identifiable than others. Sweeney Todd? Murderous barber. Into the Woods? Fractured fairy tales. Assassins? Assassins. A Little Night Music? Ummm… clowns? Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, now running at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through Feb. 26, received a dozen Tony nominations in 1973…
My guest on the first of two February 16 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO was Taylor Diffenderfer. Taylor is currently appearing on stage in Sebastopol in Open, which turns out to be Main Stage West’s final production . Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic…
Sonoma Arts Live brings a little retro-television to the Rotary Stage in Sonoma with Sidekicked, a one-woman show about actress Vivian Vance. Vance is best known as America’s favorite TV neighbor Ethel Mertz, a character she played for nine seasons alongside Lucille Ball. The Michael Ross-directed show runs in Sonoma through Feb. 19. It’s 1960…
My guests on the second February 2 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Danielle Cain and John Craven from the Left Edge Theatre production of The Children. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the January 26 broadcast of the The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Gillian Eichenberger and Noah Sternhill from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Little Shop of Horrors. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more…
