KSRO Interview – “Slow Food”
My guests on the Thursday, June 3 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Argo Thompson and Denise Elia-Yen from the Left Edge Theatre production of Slow Food. Click below to listen: **********
Review – “Slow Food”
It’s been fifteen months since local audiences could set foot inside a theatre. Pandemic-necessitated closures and restrictions have limited performing arts organizations to streaming their shows to remain active and connected to their patrons. Try as they might, though, that “style” of production is simply not a replacement for live, in-person theatre. With the availability…
Review: “Eat the Runt”
A well-crafted theatre review should contain a hint of plot, introductions to the characters, and evaluations of the performances, direction, and stagecraft. This is all to give a potential audience member some idea what they can expect to experience should they spend some of their hard-earned money on a ticket with the caveat that each…
KSRO Interview – “overcome, a devised play”
My guests on the Thursday, April 22 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Reed Martin and performers Sky Hernandez and Chris Shayota from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts streaming production of overcome, a devised play. Click below to listen: **********
KSRO Interview – “She Kills Monsters”
My guests on the Thursday, March 4 theatre segment* on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Leslie McCauley, performer Claire Grodrian, and designer Kris Hakim from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts streaming production of She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realm. * The audio file for this segment is incomplete. The file will…
KSRO Interview – “Pinky”
My guests on the Thursday, February 11 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Larry Williams and Mark & Julianne Bradbury from the Sonoma Arts Live streaming production of David Templeton’s Pinky. Click below to listen: **********
KSRO Interview – “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey”
My guests on the Thursday, January 21 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Nathan Cummings and Mike Pavone from Cinnabar Theater’s The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. Click below to listen: **********
Review: “Hindsight 2021 Short Play Festival”
I love short play festivals. You get a bunch of different stories and a bunch of different storytellers and, should there be a lemon in the bunch, welllll… it’s over in a few minutes and you move on to the next one. Left Edge Theatre is presenting their Hindsight 2021 Short Play Festival, featuring twelve…
KSRO Interview – “Hindsight 2021”
My phone-in guests on the Thursday, January 7 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Paige Picard and Abbey Lee from Left Edge Theatre’s Hindsight 2021 Short Play Festival. Click below to listen: **********
Reviews: Would “The Boys in the Band” go to “The Prom”?
I spent the weekend catching up on two high-profile, gay-themed streaming productions – Netflix’s The Boys in the Band and The Prom. The former is a star-studded remount of Mart Crowley’s ground-breaking 1968 Off-Broadway production (and William Friedkin’s 1970 film adaptation) directed by Joe Mantello with the latter being a star-studded remounting of the 2018…
