Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre, a resident theatre company of the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts since its opening in 2015, has announced a relocation scheduled for September of this year. Left Edge and its associated Young Actors Studio will become resident theatre companies at The California, a new 199-seat cabaret-style theater scheduled to…
My guests on the May 26, 2022 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Paige Picard and Abbey Lee from the upcoming Left Edge Theatre production of Clare Barron’s Dance Nation. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information :
My guest on the May 19 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO was Bethany Regan, who plays Rosali in the 6th Street Playhouse production of Real Women Have Curves, now running through June 5. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
William Shakespeare, who wrote a couple of plays, never had one actually published in his lifetime. They existed, often in pieces, in hand-scrawled scripts and in the memories of the actors who performed them. If not for Shakespeare’s friends and colleagues’ efforts to preserve his work for posterity, high school drama students would have a…
My guests on the May 12 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Steven David Martin and Katie Watts-Whitaker from the Raven Players for a discussion of their participation in the Worldwide Readings for Ukraine Project and their upcoming production of The Book of Will. Click below to listen: **********…
After a two-year pandemic-induced delay, Matilda the Musical finally hits the expansive Codding Stage at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park. The musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s tale of a gifted little girl navigating a treacherous world runs through May 22. Matilda Wormwood (played by Gigi Bruce Low, alternating with Anja Kao Nielsen)…
My guests on the May 5 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Sheri Lee Miller, Madison Scarbrough, Gigi Bruce Low, and Anja Kao Nielsen from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Matilda, the Musical. Click below to listen: ********* Click the graphic below for more info:
The Borscht Belt comes to wine country with the Sonoma Arts Live presentation of Saturday Night at Grossinger’s. The musical with book and lyrics by Stephen Cole and music by Claibe Richardson runs in Sonoma through May 8. It’s co-directed by Larry Williams and SAL Artistic Director Jaime Weiser Love. The Borscht Belt is an…
To some in the theatre world, the sourcing of an Adam Sandler movie as the basis for a musical was the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. Needless to say, American musical theatre did not come to an end with the arrival of The Wedding Singer on Broadway. The show managed to snag five Tony nominations,…
Steve Lasiter, Jennifer Barnaba, and Levi Lloyd stopped by The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO again to promote the last weekend of performances of Hank Williams: Lost Highway as well as a musical benefit for 6th Street Playhouse. They played some tunes, too! Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more…
North Bay Stage and Screen 