My guest on the December 15 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke was Keith Baker, Producing Artistic Director of Sebastopol’s Main Stage West for a conversation about their production of Ham for the Holidays and running a theatre company in the age of COVID. Click below to listen: **********…
Sonoma County theatre is taking a beating at the hands of the continuing COVID pandemic. The Cloverdale Performing Arts Center/Raven Players presentation of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) was cancelled before it opened and the Left Edge Theatre run of Fun Home was cut short. Both had cast members come down with COVID.…
Omicron and a Health Order put North Bay theatre on pause (again) North Bay theatre came back with a vengeance in mid-2021 when restrictions were lifted and theaters could once more welcome audiences inside. Almost every theatre company in the region returned to live production with solo shows, comedies, and the occasional musical. The New…
My guest on the Thursday, August 12 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was journalist/playwright David Templeton for a discussion on Bay Area theatres’ reaction to the Delta variant and on the much-delayed production of his newest play Galatea. Click below to listen: ***********
Here’s the relevant excerpt from the 08/02/21 radio interview on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon with Sonoma County’s Communications Manager Paul Gullixson, Public Health Officer Dr. Sundari Mase, and Deputy Counsel Adam Ratke when I asked about masking exceptions for performing artists with regards to the new Health Orders effective on August 3. Click…
Think theaters will be opening up anytime soon? Not so fast. If you’re an Equity house, you gotta have a few protocols in place before your curtain comes up, and their implementation is going to cost a lot of money. While there aren’t very many Equity houses in the North Bay, several do utilize Equity…
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