KSRO Interview – “Slow Food”
My guests on the Thursday, June 3 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Argo Thompson and Denise Elia-Yen from the Left Edge Theatre production of Slow Food. Click below to listen: **********
Review: “Slow Food” in Santa Rosa
It’s been fifteen months since local audiences could set foot inside a theatre. Pandemic-necessitated closures and restrictions have limited performing arts organizations to streaming their shows to remain active and connected to their patrons. Try as they might, though, that “style” of production is simply not a replacement for live, in-person theatre. With the availability…
KSRO Interview – “Fade”
My guest on the Thursday, May 27 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was director Beulah Vega from the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center’s streaming production of Fade. Click below to listen: **********
Cloverdale Performing Arts Center seeks Artistic/Managing Director
The Cloverdale Performing Arts Center in northern Sonoma County is searching for a new Artistic/Managing Director. Yavé Guzmán, their previous AD, moved on to other opportunities after being released late last year when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Center’s transition to an all-volunteer organization and declined to return. The position was announced in a post…
KSRO Interview – “In Their Own Voice”
My guest on the Thursday, May 6 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was producer Beulah Vega from the Heroines, Harpies, and Harlots & Cloverdale Performing Arts Center’s streaming festival titled In Their Own Voice – a virtual on-line festival about what happens when you let a woman speak. Click below to…
Review: “Eat the Runt”
A well-crafted theatre review should contain a hint of plot, introductions to the characters, and evaluations of the performances, direction, and stagecraft. This is all to give a potential audience member some idea what they can expect to experience should they spend some of their hard-earned money on a ticket with the caveat that each…
Review: “overcome, a devised play”
What do you get when you bring a group of theatre arts students together to produce a show and all you have to begin with is a title? You get a ‘devised play’ called overcome. It’s the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts Program’s Spring production and it streams on You Tube through May 2.…
KSRO Interview – “overcome, a devised play”
My guests on the Thursday, April 22 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Reed Martin and performers Sky Hernandez and Chris Shayota from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts streaming production of overcome, a devised play. Click below to listen: **********
“Heroines, Harpies, and Harlots” return to the North Bay
Heroines, Harpies and Harlots, a theater project born to let all who identify as female have a voice, returns for a second year with another festival of theatre pieces that delve beneath the surface of what society thinks a woman should be to find who they actually are through individual stories. They are presenting, in…
Marin Theatre Company names new Managing Director
Mill Valley’s Marin Theatre Company has announced that Meredith Suttles has joined the company as Managing Director, effective April 8, 2021. Ms. Suttles has had a long and distinguished career in senior management in performing arts organizations, including TheatreWorks USA, Soho Repertory Theatre, Theatre Communications Group, New York City Opera, and The Public Theater. “I…
North Bay Stage and Screen 