It used to be that when a theater company announced its next season of shows, they did so in a mailer. Sent through the actual, you know, mail. But that was long ago. Eventually, thanks to technological innovations, such announcements went on to be made via the internet, through website updates, email campaigns, and then,…
Numerous North Bay Theatre companies have reached out to their subscribers and potential theatre-goers to address their concerns about attending productions in the wake of the Coronavirus. Theater companies, many of whom operate with very thin margins, are assuring their audiences that they are taking all the recommended steps to ensure the health and safety…
The Hunchback of Notre Dame finally makes its North Bay debut with a production offered up by a local music education center. Cotati’s Music to My Ears is presenting the musical at the new Rancho Cotate High School Theatre Arts Auditorium in Rohnert Park through March 8. A blend of Victor Hugo’s gothic novel and…
My guest on the Thursday, February 27 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was producer/director Beulah Vega from the Heroines, Harpies, and Harlots – A Woman Speaks program, part of the Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival being held at 6th Street Playhouse. Click below to listen: **********
There’s irony to be found in the fact that a guy with the surname “Coffin” wrote one of the liveliest theatrical productions I’ve attended in a while. Five Course Love by playwright/composer Greg Coffin is the show and it runs through March 1 at the Lucky Penny Community Arts Center in Napa. The show consists…
My guest on the Thursday, February 20 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was director Michael Ross from the Sonoma Arts Live production of Daddy Long Legs. Click below to listen: **********
If your taste in musicals runs to the light, bouncy, and life-affirming, you might want to take a pass on the Spreckels Theatre Company’s latest production. If, however, your taste runs more to the dark and twisted, then you won’t find Urinetown, the Musical too draining. It runs through March 1. Set in a dystopian…
My guests on the Thursday, February 13 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Aja Gianola-Norris, Ezra Hernandez, Chris DeSouza and ASL interpreter Paula DiMuro from the Music to My Ears production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Click below to listen: **********
Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, running now at Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse through February 23, may not be his best play (that’s Death of a Salesman) or even close to his most produced work (probably The Crucible). What it is is a punch-to-the-gut look at of one man’s destructive obsession and the…
My guest on the Thursday, February 6 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was David Yen from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Urinetown, the Musical. Click below to listen: **********
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