Who knew that an employee break room could be such a fertile setting for compelling theatrical drama? First, David Harrower set his harrowing Blackbird in a nameless one, then Samuel Hunter (The Whale) set his fascinating A Bright New Boise in the break room of an Idaho Hobby Lobby. The College of Marin brings Boise…
My guests on the Thursday, May 16 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were David Lear, Sharia Pierce, and Jared Wright from the Main Stage West production of Lungs. Click below to listen: **********
Serendipity. Fate. Chance. Destiny. Karma. Fortune. Kismet. Call it what ever you like, but playwright Steven Dietz (Becky’s New Car) doesn’t believe in it so much so that his play This Random World, running through May 26 at Left Edge Theatre, is even sub-titled The Myth of Serendipity. The connections that people have, make, or…
My guests on the Thursday, May 2 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Phoebe Moyer and Paige Picard from the Left Edge Theatre production of This Random World. Click below to listen: **********
Siblings and significant others do battle in two comedies running now on North Bay stages. Healdsburg’s Raven Players take you to rural Pennsylvania where Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike gather at the family homestead. Vanya (Steven David Martin) and Sonia (Diane Bailey) have held down the family fort and taken care of their…
My guests on the Thursday, April 25 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Jaime Love and Melissa Claire from the Sonoma Arts Live production of Born Yesterday. Click below to listen: **********
My guests on the Thursday, April 11 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Sandra Ish and Steven David Martin from the Raven Players production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Click below to listen: **********
I’ve been covering the San Francisco International Film Festival for over ten years now, so long that it’s changed its name. Now it’s known as the SFFILM Festival and it’s running now through April 23 at a variety of venues in the Bay Area. My day began with a “check-in” at the Festival Lounge. This…
God takes center stage in two North Bay productions running through April 14. Sebastopol’s Main Stage West transports to you to 1840 and an Appalachian Heathen Valley, while Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater takes you on a passage to India in search of A Perfect Ganesh. Heathen Valley is referred to in the play as “the land…
My guests on the first Thursday, April 4 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Elly Lichenstein and Laura Jorgensen from the Cinnabar Theater production of A Perfect Ganesh. Click below to listen: **********
