The California Theatre, the North Bay’s newest entertainment venue, hosts Left Edge Theatre’s season-opening production of Fun Home. The musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s 2006 graphic memoir of the same name took home five Tonys, including Best Musical, for its 2015 Broadway run. The show is scheduled to run through September 18. Bechdel’s original work,…
My guests on the September 1 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Aja Gianola-Norris and Serena Elize from the upcoming Sonoma Arts Live production of Ain’t Misbehavin’. Contrary to what I say at the opening of the interview, the show opens on September 9. Click below…
My guests on the August 25 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Left Edge Theatre’s Argo Thompson and Emily Jansen-Adan from their season-opening production of Fun Home, which will also be the inaugural production at The California, downtown Santa Rosa’s newest entertainment venue. Click below to listen: ********** Click…
Jane Austen’s Bennet sisters have enjoyed something of a theatrical renaissance in the last few years courtesy of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s Christmas in Pemberley triptych. For those unfamiliar with those works, they took the characters and plot line from Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and continued the story by moving the focus off of…
Fall is usually marked by the local theatre community with a series of ambitious announcements heralding the shows each company plans to produce for their new season. COVID continues to be a factor as companies optimistically make plans while struggling to fill casts and schedule rehearsals. Some companies have reacted to the continued uncertainty surrounding…
Documentary filmmaker Lori Miller joined Steve Jaxon, Harry Duke, and Ky Boyd on the Rialto Cinemas Big Friday Movie Segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO for a discussion about her film Living Wine, now showing at the Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol. The film follows the journeys of natural winemakers in Northern California…
A fun interview on today’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO with Blake McIver and Emerson Collins about their show I Dreamed a Dreamgirl, running this weekend at Sonoma Arts Live. Click below to listen: Click the graphic below for more information:
For many people, when they drive past a homeless encampment or encounter a hungry person asking for spare cash, they quickly choose from a very short list of actions: looking the other way, offering help, writing letters to public officials or making a mental note to “do something” in the future. When Petaluma writer Nathaniel…
Local filmmaker C.M. Conway and star Cassie returned to The Drive to tell us about the reception her film received at the recent Summerfield Cinemas public premiere and about its upcoming screening at the Occidental Center for the Arts. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
Documentary filmmaker Katherine Parsons joined Steve Jaxon, Harry Duke, and Ky Boyd on the Rialto Cinemas Big Friday Movie Segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO for a discussion about her film The Fire Cats: Save Something Small, having its West Coast premiere on Sunday, August 14 at the Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol.…
North Bay Stage and Screen 