It’s a virtual Merman-palooza in the North Bay as two theatre companies present ‘musical fables’ with Ethel Merman connections. Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse has Gypsy running through Oct. 20 while Sonoma Arts Live has Merman’s Apprentice, an original musical with a fictional Merman character, running through Oct. 13. Merman’s Apprentice is a throw-back to…
My guests on the Thursday, September 26 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Jaime Love, Stephen Cole, and David Evans from the Sonoma Arts Live world premiere production of Merman’s Apprentice. Click below to listen: **********
Theatre Bay Area has announced the nominees for their 6th Annual TBA Awards and North Bay artists and companies have snagged 52 nominations. The awards will be presented on Monday, November 4th 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…
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: **********
Siblings and significant others do battle in two comedies running now on North Bay stages. Healdsburg’s Raven Players take you to rural Pennsylvania where Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike gather at the family homestead. Vanya (Steven David Martin) and Sonia (Diane Bailey) have held down the family fort and taken care of their…
My guests on the Thursday, April 25 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Jaime Love and Melissa Claire from the Sonoma Arts Live production of Born Yesterday. Click below to listen: **********
The Sonoma theatre community gathered in Andrews Hall at the Sonoma Community Center for Sonoma Arts Live’s 2019 – 2020 season announcement. Attendees were treated to sweets, champagne and musical performances by Sarah Wintermeyer and Daniela Innocenti Beem as SAL Executive Artistic Director Jaime Love announced their “Season to Remember” of six productions. They are:…
Serial killing would seem to be rather ghoulish subject matter for a comedic play, yet Arsenic and Old Lace has been a reliable audience-pleaser for over seventy-five years. Sonoma Arts Live has a production running through February 10. Joseph Kesselring’s tale of the Brewster sisters and their penchant for helping lonely old men meet their…
My guests on the Thursday, January 17 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Michael Ross and Karen Pinomaki from the Sonoma Arts Live production of Arsenic and Old Lace. Click below to listen: **********
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