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…

KSRO Interview – “Stand and Deliver”

My guests on the September 22 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon & Harry Duke on KSRO were Elizabeth Dale and Miriam Valencia from the SRJC Theatre Arts production of Stand and Deliver. Miriam’s dad Carlos joined in the conversation to tell of his experience meeting Jaime Escalante. Click below to listen:…

Review: “The Wedding Singer” in Santa Rosa

To some in the theatre world, the sourcing of an Adam Sandler movie as the basis for a musical was the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. Needless to say, American musical theatre did not come to an end with the arrival of The Wedding Singer on Broadway. The show managed to snag five Tony nominations,…

KSRO Interview – “The Wedding Singer”

My guests on the April 21 “Theatre Thursday” segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Laura Downing-Lee, Max Bohlke-Slater, Ileene Christianson-Torres, and Reed Martin from the Santa Rosa Junior College production of The Wedding Singer. Click below to listen: ********** Click the graphic below for more info:

Review: “overcome, a devised play”

What do you get when you bring a group of theatre arts students together to produce a show and all you have to begin with is a title? You get a ‘devised play’ called overcome. It’s the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts Program’s Spring production and it streams on You Tube through May 2.…