Santa Rosa’s Roustabout Theater is best known as one of the leading theatrical training and performance programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a focus on youth ages 11 to 20, their Apprentice Program and Summer Theater Camp productions lean toward lighter fare, like this summer’s scheduled production of The SpongeBob Musical. Roustabout also…
My guests on the March 3 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Clark Lewis and Kate Brickley from the Roustabout Theater Company’s Professional Ensemble production of Apologia. Click below to listen: **********
My guest on the Wednesday, February 16 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO was Joey Abrego, one of the stars of the 6th Street Playhouse production of The Legend of Georgia McBride. Click below to listen: **********
My guests on the February 10, 2022 Theatre Thursday segment of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Nathan Cummings and Julie Yeager from the Cinnabar Theater production of Amy and the Orphans. Click below to listen: **********
There may be no more venerable fictional character than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. From his first appearance in 1887’s A Study in Scarlet through a series of Hollywood adaptations and innumerable British television series, the deerstalker cap-clad detective and his associate Dr. Watson have entertained audiences for well over a century. The character…
2021 was supposed to be the year that live theatre came roaring back, and it did… for a while. By the end of the year, that roar had been replaced by a hacking cough symptomatic of exposure to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Theatres once again began to cancel or postpone performances as casts…
As TV regularly demonstrates, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol can be adapted into just about any scenario. For theatre, just take the plot points and characters, plop them into a modern-day situation and locale, add some songs and – voila! – instant Christmas show! It’s a little more complicated than that, but that’s basically what…
Folks looking for some live holiday entertainment can check out a couple of seasonal sequels now on stage in the North Bay. The Marin Theatre Company is hosting the premiere of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s sequel to their sequel of their sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley…
My “Theatre Thursday” guests on the November 18 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Michael Ross and Maeave Smith from the upcoming Sonoma Arts Live productions of Plaid Tidings & Winter Wonderettes. Click below to listen: ***********
My “Theatre Thursday” guest on a special Tuesday, November 16 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO was Brian Herndon from the upcoming 6th Street Playhouse production of Scrooge in Love! Click below to listen: ***********
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