If you’re trying to avoid attending the umpteenth production of The Nutcracker in your lifetime, Marin theatre companies are providing several other entertainment options for this holiday season. Last year, the Marin Theatre Company (marintheatre.org) was one of the participants in the rolling world premiere of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at…
For an area with as large a gay population and as much theatre as Sonoma County, it’s surprising how little gay-themed theatre is produced in the region. Oh sure, the larger companies will produce the more mainstream musicals like Cabaret or La Cage aux Folles every few years, and Halloween usually brings The Rocky Horror…
When after sixteen years David Templeton hung up his theater critic’s hat, his stated purpose was to turn his full attention to other pursuits: artistic, journalistic, theatrical and otherwise. Since then, he continues to write, has a full-time gig as the Community Editor at the Petaluma Argus-Courier, and took a featured role in Left Edge…
My guests on the Thursday, November 8 theatre segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon were actor/director John Rowan and actor Noel Yates from the Pegasus Theater production of The New Century. Click below to hear that interview: **********
After twenty-two seasons (and counting) of TV’s South Park and fifteen years of Broadway’s Avenue Q, audiences may be somewhat desensitized to youngsters dropping F-bombs or puppets vigorously engaged in coitus. Prepare to be re-sensitized. Robert Askins’s Hand to God, running at Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre through November 11, adds blasphemy to the…
My guests on the Thursday, November 1 theater segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Ron Nash and actors Bohn Connor and Heather Gibeson from the Raven Players production of Outside Mullingar. Click below to hear that interview: **********
In the past month, North Bay stages have been occupied by vampires, ghosts, a Thing, and Transylvanian transvestites. The Novato Community Playhouse now finds itself overrun with the most ghastly, heinous, and horrifying creatures ever to set foot on a theatrical stage. I am referring, of course, to white upper middle-class parents, the featured monsters…
If you’re wary of attending the latest splatter fest at your local multiplex and seeking a kinder, gentler Halloween season entertainment, Napa’s Lucky Penny Productions brings you Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit, running through November 4. It’s an old-fashioned ghost story laden with Coward’s acerbic wit and charm. Author Charles Condomine (Tim Kniffin) is researching the…
My guests on the Thursday, October 25 theater segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Alexis Macnab, Rhett Curry, Sierra Slusiewicz, and Natasha Potts from the Sonoma State University Theatre Arts production of Mr. Burns – A Post Electric Play. Click below to hear that interview: **********
My guests on the Thursday, October 18 theater segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Dean Linnard and Carl Kraines from the Left Edge Theatre production of Hand to God. Click below to hear that interview: **********
North Bay Stage and Screen 