My guests on a special January 18 “Theatre Wednesday” segment on the The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were playwright Gabriel Fraire and cast member Sky Hernandez from the Raven Players/Cloverdale Performing Arts Center co-production of Cesar Died Today. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
North Bay theatre in the New Year kicks off with Cinnabar Theater’s production of the two-hander Daddy Long Legs. Former Cinnabar Artistic Director Elly Lichenstein returns to direct John Caird and Paul Gordon’s musical adaptation of the popular novel by Jean Webster that was first published in 1912. The production runs in Petaluma through Jan.…
My guests on the January 5 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Brittany Law Hasbany and Brett Strader from the Cinnabar Theater production of Daddy Long Legs. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Between health-related closures, dwindling audiences, casting challenges, and a couple of big changes in company leadership, there was almost as much drama off-stage as on in the North Bay theatre community in the past year. There was an assumption by some that pandemic-weary audiences (and theatre companies) would seek relief in comedies and small-scale musicals…
My guests on the December 29 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke were Cinnabar Theater’s Executive Director Diane Dragone and singer/musician Deb Del Mastro for a conversation about their Swingin’ New Year’s Eve Party and what’s coming up in the New Year for Cinnabar Theater. Click below to listen:…
Live theatre continued its steady march to some semblance of normalcy in 2022, but health related-closures continue to take their toll on the North Bay theatre community. After a promising start to the year evidenced by an increase in the number and scale of productions presented by local companies, the end of the year brought…
North Bay audiences seeking a little lightweight, somewhat-holiday-themed entertainment would do well to head out to Sebastopol and check out Ham for the Holidays. Written by Santa Rosa High School dropout-turned-game-show-contestant-turned-college-professor Shad Willingham, it runs at Main Stage West through Dec. 30. It’s Christmas Eve, 1939, and the tiny hamlet of Hamlin, GA is buried…
North Bay theatre companies continue to take illness-related hits with announced cancellations at three different companies. Sebastopol’s Main Stage West lost this weekend’s performances of Ham for the Holidays to an undisclosed illness. The company hopes to reopen the show on Thursday, December 22 and close with a final performance on Friday, December 30. Rohnert…
My guest on the December 15 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke was Keith Baker, Producing Artistic Director of Sebastopol’s Main Stage West for a conversation about their production of Ham for the Holidays and running a theatre company in the age of COVID. Click below to listen: **********…
My guests on the December 8 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were director Sheri Lee Miller and cast member Michael Murdock from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Man with a Load of Mischief. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
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