Healdsburg’s Raven Players, located in the heart of the Northern California wine country, have announced they are accepting submissions for their inaugural Short Play Festival to run February 28 – March 1, 2020 at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg. The competitive festival is themed “Love Bites” and will feature plays of 10 to…
Summer used to be the season for Shakespeare ‘al fresco’ but with the shuttering of the Shakespeare in the Cannery Program last year it seems be in shorter supply these days. Still, interested patrons can find a couple of shows at opposite ends of the North Bay to satiate their seasonal appetite for the Bard.…
After filmmaker Mel Brooks took Broadway by storm with his musical adaptation of The Producers, he hoped lightning would strike twice with the same approach to Young Frankenstein. It didn’t. Young Frankenstein ran for about 2,000 performances less than its predecessor and while The Producers rang up a total of fifteen Tony nominations (winning a…
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 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: **********
My guests on the second Thursday, April 4 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Samantha Bohlke-Slater, Ellie Paul, Dylan Kupper and Poliento Ico from the Redwood Theatre Company production of The Tempest. Click below to listen: **********
My guest on a special Wednesday, December 12 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Carmen Mitchell from the Redwood Theatre Company production of It’s a Wonderful Life: The Live Radio Play. Click below to listen: **********
For folks looking for some respite from Christmas shopping or from becoming participants in the demolition derby that is mall parking, North Bay theatre companies are providing several seasonal entertainments to help keep you in the holiday spirit. Family-friendly musicals are the usual fare and there are several on tap. While not all would be…
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: **********
San Francisco North Bay theater artists gathered Monday night at the Juncture Taproom and Lounge in Santa Rosa for the Third Annual Marquee Theater Journalists Association Awards. Seventeen awards were given to local theatre artists and productions whose nominations were culled from the sixty-six Sonoma County productions attended by members from September 1, 2017 through…
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