Review: “A Raisin in the Sun”

A lot of “firsts” were achieved when Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun debuted on Broadway in 1959. It was the first time Broadway produced a play written by a Black woman and the first Broadway show helmed by a Black director. The show was a critical and commercial success and spawned a film…

KSRO Interview – “Gloria”

Our guests on the first of two Theatre Thursday segments on the March 2 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Leslie McCauley, Trevor Braskamp, and Nate Musser from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of Gloria. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for…

KSRO Interview – James Newman on SRT

My guest on the second of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the January 26 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO was James Newman, the Artistic Director for the last 16 years of the Santa Rosa Junior College’s nationally-known Summer Repertory Theatre program, to discuss the recent announcement of the…

KSRO Interview – “Little Shop of Horrors”

My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the January 26 broadcast of the The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Gillian Eichenberger and Noah Sternhill from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Little Shop of Horrors. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more…

KSRO Interview – “Scrooge in Love”

My guests on the second of two ‘Theatre Thursday” segments on the December 1 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Jeff Coté and Erin Solorio from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Scrooge in Love. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:

Review: “The River Bride” in Santa Rosa

Folks who like their fairy-tale endings in the “and they lived happily ever after” vein may find themselves challenged by Marisela Treviño Orta’s The River Bride. Part Brazilian folklore and part Brothers Grimm at their grimmest, it’s the tale of two sisters and the men in their lives. Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse has a…