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: ***********
For theatre lovers who prefer their Shakespeare ‘al fresco’ – or for those who are still hesitant about venturing inside – two North Bay companies are presenting free outdoor productions of Bard-centric plays. They are adhering to all city, county, and state COVID protocols and the casts and crews have been fully vaccinated. Mill Valley’s…
Rarely does a play’s title capture the complete essence of a script better than Nora and Delia Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore. The Ephron sisters’ adaptation of the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman is Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse’s season opener and runs live, on stage through August 29.…
With the lifting of most restrictions on in-door gatherings, the curtain continues to slowly rise on live, in-person theatre in the North Bay. Many companies have made their season announcements and plan to re-open their houses to audiences with productions that will be opening from mid-August to early September. The Cloverdale Performing Arts Center gets…
My guests on the Thursday, July 15 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Athena Gundlach and Matt Farrell from the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center production of The God of Hell. Click below to listen: **********
So I’ve spent the last week trying to emulate all the cool kids by binge-watching a bunch of series I’ve been reading about but haven’t had the chance to stream. Here’s my short take on them all: Special – Netflix Give credit to creator/writer/star Ryan O’Connell for developing this series which is an autobiographically-based take…
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