My guests on a special Wednesday, September 15 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Laura Downing-Lee, Ginger Beavers, and Trevor Dorner from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Murder for Two. Click below to listen: ***********
Left Edge Theatre officially opens it season with a pair of one-acts running now through September 19 at its Studio Theatre at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa. The local premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s I and You is paired with the world premiere of Beautiful Monsters by Kelly Gray. Left Edge…
Rarely does a play’s title capture the complete essence of a script better than Nora and Delia Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore. The Ephron sisters’ adaptation of the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman is Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse’s season opener and runs live, on stage through August 29.…
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…
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…
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