My guests on the Thursday, February 13 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Aja Gianola-Norris, Ezra Hernandez, Chris DeSouza and ASL interpreter Paula DiMuro from the Music to My Ears production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Click below to listen: **********
Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, running now at Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse through February 23, may not be his best play (that’s Death of a Salesman) or even close to his most produced work (probably The Crucible). What it is is a punch-to-the-gut look at of one man’s destructive obsession and the…
My guest on the Thursday, February 6 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was David Yen from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of Urinetown, the Musical. Click below to listen: **********
The travails of women at the opposite ends of life are the focus of two very entertaining productions running now at opposite ends of the county. Healdsburg’s Raven Players presents Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves through Feb. 9 while Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater is presenting David Lindsay-Abaire’s Ripcord through Feb. 16. The cavernous Raven Performing Arts Center…
My guests on the Thursday, January 29 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Elly Lichenstein. Kate Brickley, and Laura Jorgensen from the Cinnabar Theater production of Ripcord. Click below to listen: **********
WRITTEN BY CLARK MILLER Professional clown and actor James Pelican will make his debut as a director on Friday, Jan. 31, with Cinnabar Theater’s production of “Ripcord.” The dark comedy is by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, best known for the screenplay of the 2010 film adaptation of his Pulitzer-winning play “Rabbit Hole,” starring Nicole Kidman. A…
The specter of World War I rears its ugly head once again on a North Bay stage with the Sonoma Arts Live presentation of Enchanted April. Matthew Barber’s adaptation of Elizabeth von Arnim’s 1922 novel runs through February 9. Lotty Wilton (Katie Kelley) dreams of escaping a grey and dreary post-war England and a loveless…
Transcendence Theatre Company has announced that Stephan Stubbins, co-Executive Director and Chief Marketing Officer of the Company, will step down from those roles in February. Transcendence is best known for its “Broadway Under the Stars” performances in Jack London State Historic Park, as well as its education, outreach, and service projects throughout Sonoma County and…
My guest on the Thursday, January 22 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Larry Williams, director of the Sonoma Arts Live production of Enchanted April. Click below to listen: **********
Plays and films set during World War I are few and far between, at least compared to those that use the Second World War or Vietnam as a framing device. It’s been a little over a century since the Armistice, and while there have been a few books and films on the subject – like…
