It’s been almost eight years since 13-year-old Andy Lopez was gunned down on a neighborhood sidewalk in Santa Rosa, CA by Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Erick Gelhaus. Gelhaus, a 24-year veteran of the Sheriff’s office at the time (as well as a firearms instructor and Iraq war veteran,) apparently mistook the Airsoft gun Lopez was…
Sonoma County-based documentarian Ron Rogers made two recent appeararances on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon to discuss his film 3 Seconds in October: The Shooting of Andy Lopez. He appeared on the July 13, 2021 show before the film’s broadcast on two Bay Area Public Television stations and then on the July 19, 2021…
Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre, which just a few weeks ago became the first Bay Area company to welcome back audiences inside to live, in-theatre performances, has announced their 2021/2022 season. Their five-show season opens on September 4 and concludes on June 12, 2022. All five shows will be Sonoma County premieres with two productions…
Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse has announced their 2021/2022 season. Their season of ten shows kicks off on August 12, 2021 and runs through June 26, 2022. Five shows will play in the GK Hardt Theatre and five will play in their “black box” on the Monroe Stage. No directors or casts for the productions…
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: **********
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…
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.…
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: **********
My guests on the Thursday, March 4 theatre segment* on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Leslie McCauley, performer Claire Grodrian, and designer Kris Hakim from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts streaming production of She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realm. * The audio file for this segment is incomplete. The file will…
My guests on the Thursday, January 21 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Nathan Cummings and Mike Pavone from Cinnabar Theater’s The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. Click below to listen: **********
