Science fiction has long been the purview of film and, to a lesser extent, television. Live theatrical productions of the genre have been few and far between, undoubtedly because of the challenges in staging what we have become accustomed to seeing on screen via the CGI extravaganzas of the past few decades. Local playwright and…
My guests on the first of two theatre segments on the Thursday, August 26 broadcast of KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Marty Pistone and actor Abbey Lee from the upcoming Spreckels Theatre Company production of Galatea. Click below to listen: ***********
Theaters throughout the North Bay have finally started to receive disbursements from the Federal Government’s Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program. The program, administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration, was signed into law in December 2020. It offers substantial grants to producing organizations and entertainment venues to replace lost revenue as a result of COVID-19…
My guest on the Thursday, December 3 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Transcendence Theatre Company’s Resident Artist Meggie Cansler Ness to preview this year’s Broadway Holiday at the Drive-in program. Click below to listen: **********
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…
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: **********
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: **********
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s “continuation” of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, made quite a splash at the Marin Theatre Company in 2016 and since then has become a staple of holiday theatre programs. The Spreckels Theatre Company brings it to Rohnert Park with a production running through Dec. 15.…
My guests on the Thursday, November 21 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Laura Downing-Lee, Michael Coury Murdock, and Ariana LaMark from the SRJC/SSU production of The Sound of Music. Click below to listen: **********
