It’s been more than two decades since 21-year-old college student Matthew Shephard was kidnapped, beaten, tortured, tied to a fence and left to die in a remote area near Laramie, Wyoming. The savageness and “How could it happen here?” nature of the crime grabbed the world’s attention and Shephard’s funeral and subsequent trials of the…
With PG&E suspending power service through much of the North Bay, the Kincade Fire raging through northern Sonoma County, and multiple communities under a mandatory evacuation order, most North Bay theatre companies have cancelled their weekend performances in the interest of their patrons’ and artists’ safety. Here is the current status of all North Bay…
Planning to see a live theatre performance this weekend? Not so fast. Multiple theatre companies are reporting that they have been notified by PG&E that their venues may be in the area designated for a massive Public Safety Power Shutoff scheduled for early Saturday evening. Also, nearby mandatory evacuation orders are leading companies to make…
Healdsburg’s Raven Players have announced the cancellation of the Thursday, October 24 evening performance of The Laramie Project. Artistic Director Steven David Martin released the following statement: “Due to the unpredictability of the Kincade fire, the poor air quality in Healdsburg, and with an abundance of caution, we are cancelling this evening’s performance of The…
The term “MacGuffin” was popularized by film director Alfred Hitchcock to describe objects or events that took place in his films that were necessary to begin the plot and motivate the characters but were essentially irrelevant. It may be harsh to refer to a baby as a MacGuffin, but the title character in Luna Gale,…
My guest on the Thursday, October 17 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Sheri Lee Miller, Artistic Director of the Spreckels Theatre Company, to discuss their current production of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder. Click below to listen: **********
Intense drama. Complex characters. Challenging themes. You won’t find any of these in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, running through Oct. 27 at Rohnert Park’s Spreckels Performing Arts Center. What you will find is a very entertaining, macabre musical that is a perfect theatrical compliment to the Halloween season. Upon his mother’s passing,…
My guests on the Thursday, October 10 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor from the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s production of Hamlet’s Big Night (a prequel) at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center. Click below to listen: **********
San Francisco North Bay theater artists gathered Monday night at 3 Disciples Brewing in downtown Santa Rosa for the Fourth Annual Marquee Theater Journalists Association Awards. Eighteen awards were given to local theatre artists and productions whose nominations were culled from the sixty-eight Sonoma County productions attended by members from September 1, 2018 through August…
With the power back on in most of the North Bay, two theatre companies who had to cancel performances have announced that they’re back on, too. The Santa Rosa Junior College production of The Good Doctor will re-open with their scheduled Saturday and two Sunday performances at the Newman Auditorium location. Click HERE for more information…
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