KSRO Interview: “Daddy Long Legs”
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: **********
Review: “Urinetown, the Musical” in Rohnert Park
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…
KSRO Interview – “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
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: **********
Review: “A View from the Bridge” in Santa Rosa
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…
KSRO Interview – “Urinetown, the Musical”
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: **********
Review: “Ghosts of Bogota” in San Rafael
A vacant downtown San Rafael storefront is being haunted by the Ghosts of Bogotá. They are characters in playwright Diana Burbano’s darkly comic autobiographical look at a group of siblings dealing with some disturbing family history. It’s AlterTheater Ensemble’s latest “pop-up theatre” and runs through Feb. 23. Siblings Lola (Livia Gomes Demarchi), Sandy (Carla Pauli),…
Reviews: “The Wolves” in Healdsburg, “Ripcord” in Petaluma
The travails of women at the opposite ends of life are the focus of two very entertaining productions running now at opposite ends of the county. Healdsburg’s Raven Players presents Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves through Feb. 9 while Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater is presenting David Lindsay-Abaire’s Ripcord through Feb. 16. The cavernous Raven Performing Arts Center…
Review: “Our Town” in Novato
There is no more quintessential piece of American theatre than Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. Written in 1938 and set decades earlier, Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the inhabitants of small-town America has become a staple of school drama programs and community theatres. The Novato Theater Company has a production running through February 16. The play’s…
KSRO Interview – “Ripcord”
My guests on the Thursday, January 29 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Elly Lichenstein. Kate Brickley, and Laura Jorgensen from the Cinnabar Theater production of Ripcord. Click below to listen: **********
Rafael screens ‘Her’; local ‘Millennials Talk Cinema’ critics to appear on panel
Argus-Courier’s film-loving “Millennials” on stage for live screening: Three of the four local film reviewers responsible for the Argus- Courier’s weekly “Millennials Talk Cinema” columns will take to the stage on Feb. 13, at 7 p.m., for a (no doubt) lively post-film conversation following a screening of the science-fiction film “Her,” starring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy…
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