Steve Jaxon interviews Oscar-nominated documentarian Sam Green (The Weather Underground) about his new “immersive documentary” 32 Sounds, which will have two screenings at Rialto Cinemas Sebastopol on Monday, October 30th. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the October 26 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were director/actor Troy Thomas Evans and actor Bohn Connor from the Raven Players production of Evil Dead: The Musical running now at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more…
If the lack of a splatter zone is what’s kept you from returning to live theater, do the Raven Players have a show for you. Evil Dead: The Musical is running at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through October 29. Based on the Sam Raimi classic cult horror film trilogy, playwright George Reinblatt…
Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse continues to provide trips down memory lane for this reviewer. Their recent production of Fiddler on the Roof made me harken back to my days in high school theatre, while their current production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow plunged me further back into my youth. The West Coast premiere…
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the October 20 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Director David Yen and actor Justin Thompson from the Left Edge Theatre production of Ideation running now at The California Theatre in Santa Rosa. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
In the ten or so years I’ve been doing theater journalism, I’ve probably seen close to one thousand shows, with about one-third of them being productions of Mamma Mia! (The Addams Family Musical is rapidly approaching that number.) Lately, the repetitive nature of theater programming has been getting to me. I have found it difficult…
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the October 13 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were Development Director Thom Butler and Theatre Programmer Aldo Billingslea from Healdsburg’s ‘The 222’. Thom filled us in on what ‘The 222’ is all about while Aldo discussed their production of My Name is Asher Lev. Click below…
North Bay audiences finally got a chance to say “hello” to Dolly Gallagher Levi after the curtain rose on the bureaucratically-delayed Spreckels Theatre Company production of Hello, Dolly! Veteran director Elly Lichenstein makes her Spreckels debut with the Jerry Herman classic now running at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park through Oct 15. …
My guests on the “Theatre Thursday” segment on the October 6 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were director Marty Pistone and actor Skylar Evans from the 6th Street Playhouse production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Click below to listen: ********** Click HERE for more information on the show.
I have loved the idea of film festivals ever since I moved to Northern California in autumn of 1981 and ‒ while applying for a job in downtown Mill Valley ‒ saw a stack of programs for the upcoming Mill Valley Film Festival. What is now a world-renowned, 10-day-long cinematic showcase was then celebrating its…
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