KSRO Interview – “Atlas, the Lonely Gibbon”

My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the August 11 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Sheri Lee Miller, director, and Deborah Yarchun, playwright, for a discussion about the Spreckels Theatre Company’s season-opening world premiere production of Atlas, the Lonely Gibbon. Click below to listen: ********** Click…

Review: “The Sound Inside” in Mill Valley

Audiences who don’t mind leaving a theatre a bit unsettled would do well to check out the West Coast premiere of Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside at Mill Valley’s Marin Theatre Company.The Jasson Minadakis-directed show runs through June 19. The lights come up on a solitary female figure. “A middle-aged professor of undergraduate Creative Writing…

KSRO Interview – “Wink”

My guests on the June 1 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were director James Pelican and actor John Browning from the Main Stage West production of Wink. Ckick below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:

KSRO Interview – “Dance Nation”

My guests on the May 26, 2022 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Paige Picard and Abbey Lee from the upcoming Left Edge Theatre production of Clare Barron’s Dance Nation. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information :

Review: “A Doll’s House, Part 2” in Novato

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House premiered in 1879 to great controversy. His look at the limitations and restrictions placed on women in a patriarchal society was considered quite scandalous at the time. Many consider it to be the beginning of modern feminist literature, though Ibsen himself denied that. Suffice it to say that…

Review: “Three Tall Women” in Petaluma

Playwriting is often a form of artistic exorcism. Many a play have been written to bring a form of closure to unresolved conflicts, strained relationships, or traumatic experiences and to release the hold that personal demons have on their authors. For playwright Edward Albee (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), that demon happened to be his…

Review: “Hotter Than Egypt” in Mill Valley

Mill Valley’s Marin Theatre Company has been presenting top-notch productions of often provocative plays for years, so color me a bit surprised by their latest offering. They are currently hosting the world premiere co-production (with Seattle’s ACT) of Yussef El Guindi’s Hotter Than Egypt. Selected by MTC’s new Associate Artistic Director Nakissa Etemad, the John Langs-directed…