KSRO Interview: Rich Rubin
My guest on the Thursday, September 20 theater segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Rich Rubin, the new Artistic Director of the Pegasus Theater Company. Click below to hear that interview: **********
North Bay Companies Snag 43 Noms for 2018 TBA Awards
Theatre Bay Area has announced the nominees for their 5th Annual TBA Awards and North Bay companies have snagged 43 nominations. The awards will be presented on Monday, November 5th at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. The TBA Awards are designed to honor excellence in professionally oriented theatre through a peer-based, Bay Area-wide adjudication process…
Marquee Theater Journalists Association Announces Award Nominees for 2018
The Marquee Theater Journalists Association has released the list of nominees for its 3rd Annual MTJA Awards. The Association recognized the exemplary work of Sonoma County theater artists with nominations in seventeen categories that were culled from the sixty-six productions attended by MTJA members. Recipients will be announced at the 2018 MTJA Awards – A Celebration of Sonoma…
Review: “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” in Rohnert Park
Spreckels Theatre Company opens their season with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Simon Stephens’ adaptation of Mark Haddon’s 2003 novel about a boy with ‘behavioral difficulties’ took England and Broadway by storm and earned multiple awards on both continents. Christopher (Elijah Pinkham) is a 15-year-old boy with an unspecified behavioral…
Review: “The Naked Truth” in Santa Rosa
If you’re only going to see one “five British women of varying ages, socio-economic statuses and body types bonding over pole dancing” play in your lifetime, might as well make it Dave Simpson’s The Naked Truth. A big hit in England, director Argo Thompson imports it to the North Bay for its U.S. premiere at…
KSRO Interview: Steven David Martin, Priscilla Locke, Caitlin Strom-Martin, Maureen O’Neill
Guests on the Thursday, September 13 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon included artists from Healdsburg’s Raven Players “Mini-Rep” productions including director Steven David Martin and Priscilla Locke from Church & State and director Caitlin Strom-Martin and Maureen O’Neill from Time Stands Still. Click below to hear that interview: **********
KSRO Interview: Bonnie Jean Shelton and Angela Squire
Guests on the second Thursday, September 6 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon included actors Bonnie Jean Shelton and Angela Squire from the Left Edge Theatre production of The Naked Truth. Click below to hear that interview: **********
KSRO Interview: Elizabeth Craven and Elijah Pinkham
Guests on the first Thursday, September 6 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon included director Elizabeth Craven and actor Elijah Pinkham from the Spreckels Theatre Company production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Click below to hear that interview: **********
Reviews: “Cabaret” in Petaluma and “Savage Wealth” in Sebastopol
Theatregoers with a hankering for a classic or the desire to see something new have two productions running that fit the bill. Cinnabar Theater presents the 50-year-old classic Cabaret. The Kander and Ebb musical, which has gone through significant changes via numerous revivals since its 1966 debut, is the tale of two couples whose lives…
2018 – 2019 North Bay Theatre Season Opens
September marks the opening of the new artistic season for many North Bay theatre companies. Here’s some of what they have in store for local audiences: Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater (cinnabartheater.org) transforms itself into Berlin’s Kit Kat Club and bids you willkommen, bienvenue, and welcome to the classic Kander and Ebb musical Cabaret. Broadway veteran Michael…
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