My guests on the Thursday, March 12 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Clark Lewis, Sheila Licherie, and Giovi Andreassi from the Roustabout Theater production of Mary Page Marlowe. Click below to listen: **********
The renovation and remodeling of Santa Rosa Junior College’s 80-year old Burbank Auditorium is now complete. The venerable 600-seat theatre has been reconfigured into two performance venues; a 400-seat proscenium arch space and a 200-seat 3/4 thrust studio theatre. The JC’s Theatre Arts Department, which has had to take their shows “on the road” for…
My guests on the Thursday, March 5 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Leslie McCauley, Daniel Dow, Allyson Bray, and Samantha Bohlke-Slater from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of The Cripple of Inishmaan. Click below to listen: **********
It used to be that when a theater company announced its next season of shows, they did so in a mailer. Sent through the actual, you know, mail. But that was long ago. Eventually, thanks to technological innovations, such announcements went on to be made via the internet, through website updates, email campaigns, and then,…
Numerous North Bay Theatre companies have reached out to their subscribers and potential theatre-goers to address their concerns about attending productions in the wake of the Coronavirus. Theater companies, many of whom operate with very thin margins, are assuring their audiences that they are taking all the recommended steps to ensure the health and safety…
The Hunchback of Notre Dame finally makes its North Bay debut with a production offered up by a local music education center. Cotati’s Music to My Ears is presenting the musical at the new Rancho Cotate High School Theatre Arts Auditorium in Rohnert Park through March 8. A blend of Victor Hugo’s gothic novel and…
My guest on the Thursday, February 27 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was producer/director Beulah Vega from the Heroines, Harpies, and Harlots – A Woman Speaks program, part of the Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival being held at 6th Street Playhouse. Click below to listen: **********
My guest on the Thursday, February 20 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was director Michael Ross from the Sonoma Arts Live production of Daddy Long Legs. Click below to listen: **********
If your taste in musicals runs to the light, bouncy, and life-affirming, you might want to take a pass on the Spreckels Theatre Company’s latest production. If, however, your taste runs more to the dark and twisted, then you won’t find Urinetown, the Musical too draining. It runs through March 1. Set in a dystopian…
Sonoma County’s contribution to the inaugural Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival is a two-weekend mini-festival being presented by 6th Street Playhouse under the umbrella title Heroines, Harpies, and Harlots – A Woman Speaks. With performances from February 28 through March 8, this celebration of women’s place in history has been written, produced, and directed by…
