Fans of corporate dramas like Oliver Stone’s Wall Street and Jerry Sterner’s Other People’s Money might do well to check out the last couple of performances of Dry Powder. The California in Santa Rosa is hosting the Left Edge Theatre production of the Sara Burgess drama through March 26. It’s set in the offices of…
My guests on the March 23 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on KSRO were Steven David Martin, Grace Warden, and Heather Berger from the Raven Players production of If I Don’t Make It, I Love You. Click below to listen: ********** Click below for more information:
A lot of “firsts” were achieved when Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun debuted on Broadway in 1959. It was the first time Broadway produced a play written by a Black woman and the first Broadway show helmed by a Black director. The show was a critical and commercial success and spawned a film…
My guest on the second of two Theatre Thursday segments on the March 2 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke was Leontyne Mbele-Mbong, director of the 6th Street Playhouse production of “A Raisin in the Sun”. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Our guests on the first of two Theatre Thursday segments on the March 2 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Leslie McCauley, Trevor Braskamp, and Nate Musser from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of Gloria. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for…
My guest on the first of two February 16 “Theatre Thursday” segments on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO was Taylor Diffenderfer. Taylor is currently appearing on stage in Sebastopol in Open, which turns out to be Main Stage West’s final production . Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic…
Sonoma Arts Live brings a little retro-television to the Rotary Stage in Sonoma with Sidekicked, a one-woman show about actress Vivian Vance. Vance is best known as America’s favorite TV neighbor Ethel Mertz, a character she played for nine seasons alongside Lucille Ball. The Michael Ross-directed show runs in Sonoma through Feb. 19. It’s 1960…
My guests on the second February 2 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Danielle Cain and John Craven from the Left Edge Theatre production of The Children. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Mounting a production of a little-known play in these pandemic and inflationary-influenced times is something of a risk for most theater companies. Audiences have yet to return in full-force to live theatre, so a significant leap of faith is required to produce material that has little to no track record. Healdsburg’s Raven Players and the…
My guests on a special January 18 “Theatre Wednesday” segment on the The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were playwright Gabriel Fraire and cast member Sky Hernandez from the Raven Players/Cloverdale Performing Arts Center co-production of Cesar Died Today. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
North Bay Stage and Screen 