Pet-a-Llama Comedy Festival to Launch This August in Petaluma

Petaluma already has its own film festival, beer festival, art and garden festival, spoken word festival (keep reading), and even its own festival dedicated to a popular 70s movie about the 1960s. Now, thanks to Dominic Del Bene and his Petaluma-based record label and production company Blonde Medicine, our little town will be getting a…

Interview: Craig Miller on leaving 6th Street Playhouse

After seven years in Santa Rosa—making him the longest-serving artistic director in the company’s 13-year history—Miller has accepted a job at the University of Idaho, where he’ll become an assistant professor of acting and directing, beginning this fall. Miller will officially depart 6th Street on July 13. “Because of my in-the-trenches, real-world work as a…

Review: “Stairway to Paradise” in Glen Ellen

  Transcendence Theatre Company opens its seventh season of “Broadway Under the Stars” in Jack London State Park with Stairway to Paradise, the first of four staged concert events scheduled this year. The company takes performers with Broadway, touring company, film and television experience and creates an original themed musical revue around them. This year’s…

Spreckels Announces Details of 2018 – 2019 Season

The Spreckels Theatre Company of Rohnert Park has officially announced their schedule of shows for the 2018 – 2019 season. A total of six productions are planned for the year with three planned for the Bette Condiotti Experimental Theatre and three planned for the 550-seat Nellie W. Codding Theatre. In run order, the season consists…

KSRO Interview – “Illyria” Cast Members

Guests on my Thursday, June 14 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon included director Craig Miller and cast members Carmen Mitchell and Tracy Hinman from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Illyria. Click below to hear that interview. *** For more information, go to 6thstreetplayhouse.com  

Sonoma Arts Live Announces 2018 – 2019 Season

Sonoma Arts Live has announced their 2018 – 2019 season under the heading “A Toast to the Classics”.  Their six-show season will consist of three musicals, two comedies, and a one-woman show. Here’s what’s will be playing on the Rotary Stage of Andrews Hall in the Sonoma Community Center in the coming year: Hello, Dolly!…