My guests on the April 21 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Laura Downing-Lee, Max Bohlke-Slater, Ileene Christianson-Torres, and Reed Martin from the Santa Rosa Junior College production of The Wedding Singer. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
Playwriting is often a form of artistic exorcism. Many a play have been written to bring a form of closure to unresolved conflicts, strained relationships, or traumatic experiences and to release the hold that personal demons have on their authors. For playwright Edward Albee (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), that demon happened to be his…
Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre has announced their 2022/2023 season and a change in company leadership and staffing. Argo Thompson, the company’s founding Artistic Director, is turning over the artistic reins to the team of David L. Yen and Sandra Ish. “Left Edge has a plan for growing the company”, said Thompson. “I have decided…
My guests on the April 14, 2022 Theatre Thursday segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Lauren Heney and Elly Lichenstein from the Main Stage West production of One Flea Spare. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:
“Good fences make good neighbors” is an aphorism whose origins are debated but whose truth is generally accepted. Where the fence actually runs, though, can be a test of neighborly relations as it is in the Left Edge Theatre production of Karen Zacarias’ Native Gardens. The Jenny Hollingworth-directed comedy runs in Santa Rosa through April…
Our special guest on the Thursday, April 7 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO was local music legend Levi Lloyd for a discussion of his experiences as an actor in the 6th Street Playhouse production of Hank Williams: Lost Highway. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
My guests on the April 7 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Michael Fontaine and Laura Jorgensen from the Cinnabar Theater production of Three Tall Women. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more information:
Jukebox musicals tend to be happy, peppy shows where the hits of an artist or a genre are strung together with a minimal story to create a fan-pleasing production. But what do you do with a story that ends with its star dead in the back seat of a Cadillac? Well, if you’re Randal Myler…
I recently had the opportunity to attend my first Sonoma International Film Festival. The festival, which celebrated its 25th year, ran for five days March 23 through March 27. More than 120 films were screened with more than 80 of them premiering at the festival. Films were screened at seven different venues, all within a…
The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle has announced the nominees for their 45th Excellence in Theatre Awards. North Bay Companies and artists have received a total of 75 nominations spread out over 19 categories. Productions that opened in the first quarter of 2020 and the last half of 2021 were eligible for consideration.…
North Bay Stage and Screen 