After their success with A Chorus Line, the Transcendence Theatre Company returns to form with Those Dancin’ Feet, an original musical revue running now in the winery ruins in Jack London State Historic Park in Glen Ellen. Transcendence has built its reputation on a series of productions featuring top Broadway and national touring company talent.…
My guests on the Thursday, August 15 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Jessica Headington and actor Eyan Dean from the 6th Street Playhouse production of The Book Club Play. Click below to listen: **********
Summer used to be the season for Shakespeare ‘al fresco’ but with the shuttering of the Shakespeare in the Cannery Program last year it seems be in shorter supply these days. Still, interested patrons can find a couple of shows at opposite ends of the North Bay to satiate their seasonal appetite for the Bard.…
In comedy, timing is everything and two North Bay theatre companies have timed productions of the same comedy to run concurrently. The Cloverdale Performing Arts Center and SRJC’s Summer Repertory Theatre program are presenting Patrick Barlow’s adaptation of The 39 Steps. Based on the 1915 adventure novel by John Buchan and the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock…
My guest on the Thursday, July 18 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was David Templeton to discuss the upcoming 10th Anniversary performance of his solo piece Wretch Like Me. Click below to listen: **********
Sonoma Arts Live concludes their “toast to the classics” with a production of My Fair Lady, running now through July 28. Lerner and Loewe’s musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion was a smash hit when it premiered on Broadway in 1956 but modern sensibilities have taken a toll on the tale of a Cockney…
My guests on the Thursday, July 11 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Jaime Love and Larry Williams from the Sonoma Arts Live production of My Fair Lady. Click below to listen: **********
After a one-year hiatus forced upon them by the renovation of Santa Rosa Junior College’s Burbank Auditorium, the Summer Repertory Theatre program returns with a full schedule of three musicals and two plays running in “rep”. The plays will continue to be performed in Newman Auditorium while the musicals are being done in the SRT…
After filmmaker Mel Brooks took Broadway by storm with his musical adaptation of The Producers, he hoped lightning would strike twice with the same approach to Young Frankenstein. It didn’t. Young Frankenstein ran for about 2,000 performances less than its predecessor and while The Producers rang up a total of fifteen Tony nominations (winning a…
My guest on the Thursday, June 27 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Summer Repertory Theatre Artistic Director James Newman to discuss the return of SRT! Click below to listen: **********
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