Review: “Ride the Cyclone: The Musical” in Santa Rosa

by Cari Lynn Pace Ride the Cyclone: The Musical is a dazzling theatrical event directed by Sarah Wintermeyer. The Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts program impresses with this professional quality show. Enter the lobby and be surrounded with clowns, sequined dancers, tarot readers, costumed dancers, and hanging streamers. Take a cushy seat in the…

Review: “The Rocky Horror Show” in Santa Rosa

Several hundred costume-clad theatre goers filled the Santa Rosa Junior College’s Burbank Auditorium on Halloween night for the opening of their production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. This was quite a change from my initial Rocky Horror experience in 1978 when my brother and three of our friends were joined by just one…

Interview – “The Rocky Horror Show” at SRJC

My guests on the 10/24/24 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive on 95.5 were Alex Delzell and Austin Aquino-Harrison from the upcoming Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. The show opens on the SRJC Burbank Auditorium Main Stage in Santa Rosa on Halloween night and runs through…

Review: “All in the Timing” in Santa Rosa

As a graduate of a University Theatre Arts program, I well remember how important it was to have an audience fill the seats at our performances. Having an audience, a real audience (not just one composed of friends and family and students looking for some easy extra credit for their English class) made all the…

Interview – “All in the Timing” at SRJC

My guests on the first of two “Theatre Thursday” segments on the 10/03/24 broadcast of The Drive on 95.5 were director Leslie McCauley and actors Maverick Cheney and Orion Pudoff from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of All in the Timing: An Evening of Comedy by David Ives. The show runs in…

Review: “Orlando” in Santa Rosa

Gender fluidity flows like the Russian River after a torrential rain in the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts Department production of Orlando. Laura Downing-Lee directs the Sarah Ruhl-penned adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel. The show runs in the Frank Chong Studio Theatre in the Burbank Auditorium on the SRJC Santa Rosa campus through…

KSRO Interview – “The Addams Family Musical”

My guests on the April 13 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Laura Downing-Lee, Michael Coury Murdock, Austin Aquino-Harrison, and Gwenevieve Nelson from the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts production of The Addams Family Musical. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for…