My guests on the May 4 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on KSRO were Larry Williams, Nico Alva, and Molly Belle Hart from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Tuck Everlasting. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Lovers of musical theatre in general and the works of Stephen Sondheim in particular would do well to head out to Sonoma and catch Sonoma Arts Live’s Side by Side by Sondheim. The musical revue runs on the Rotary Stage in Andrews Hall through May 7. Like most musical revues, there’s not much of a…
My guest on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the April 20 broadcast of The Drive on KSRO was Andrew Smith, director of the Sonoma Arts Live production of Side by Side by Sondheim. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
When it comes to jukebox musicals, Always… Patsy Cline may be North Bay theatergoers’ favorite. That’s evidenced by the number of productions put on in the area in recent years. Sonoma Arts Live reprised their 2018 production late last year, and now Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse has mounted a Jared Sakren-directed production that runs…
My guests on the April 13 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Laura Downing-Lee, Michael Coury Murdock, Austin Aquino-Harrison, and Gwenevieve Nelson from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of The Addams Family Musical. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for…
Documentary film producer/director Lisa Cortés joined me on The Drive for an interview about her latest film Little Richard: I Am Everything. It’s screening across the country for one night only (including at the Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol) on Tuesday, April 11th. The film tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’…
My guests on the March 30 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on KSRO were Shannon Rider and Liz Jahren from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Always… Patsy Cline. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
Fans of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice have had a plethora of adaptations of the 19th century novel from which to choose, from the trio of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon theatrical extensions of the story to the recent gay-themed film Fire Island, which transported reasonable facsimiles of Austen’s characters from Hertfordshire, England to the…
Some Stephen Sondheim musicals are more recognizable and identifiable than others. Sweeney Todd? Murderous barber. Into the Woods? Fractured fairy tales. Assassins? Assassins. A Little Night Music? Ummm… clowns? Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, now running at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through Feb. 26, received a dozen Tony nominations in 1973…
My guests on the February 9 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Dani Beem and Larry Williams from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of A Little Night Music. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
North Bay Stage and Screen 