My guests on a special Wednesday, September 15 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Laura Downing-Lee, Ginger Beavers, and Trevor Dorner from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Murder for Two. Click below to listen: ***********
Left Edge Theatre officially opens it season with a pair of one-acts running now through September 19 at its Studio Theatre at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa. The local premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s I and You is paired with the world premiere of Beautiful Monsters by Kelly Gray. Left Edge…
What were we thinking? Who were we kidding? Did we really think that the segment of the theatre audience made up of entitled assholes would adhere to a mask mandate? You know to whom I‘m referring. They are the folks who text throughout a performance, or bring food or drink into an auditorium, or engage…
My guests on the Thursday, September 9 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Amanda Vitiello and Kellie Donnelly from the Cinnabar Theater production of Cry It Out. Click below to listen: ***********
Science fiction has long been the purview of film and, to a lesser extent, television. Live theatrical productions of the genre have been few and far between, undoubtedly because of the challenges in staging what we have become accustomed to seeing on screen via the CGI extravaganzas of the past few decades. Local playwright and…
Patty from HR is pissed. After being fired from her dream job as the Human Resources Director at The New Yorker magazine, she’s been reduced to conducting Zoom training sessions for the uninformed. Well, she will be if she can get past her inaugural session/audition. That’s the premise of Patty from HR: A Zoom with…
My guests on the second of two theatre segments on the Thursday, August 26 broadcast of KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Producing Artistic Director Keith Baker and writer/director/performer Michael Phillis from the Main Stage West production of Patty from HR: A Zoom with a View. Click below to listen: ***********
My guests on the first of two theatre segments on the Thursday, August 26 broadcast of KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Marty Pistone and actor Abbey Lee from the upcoming Spreckels Theatre Company production of Galatea. Click below to listen: ***********
Rarely does a play’s title capture the complete essence of a script better than Nora and Delia Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore. The Ephron sisters’ adaptation of the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman is Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse’s season opener and runs live, on stage through August 29.…
My guest on the Thursday, August 12 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was journalist/playwright David Templeton for a discussion on Bay Area theatres’ reaction to the Delta variant and on the much-delayed production of his newest play Galatea. Click below to listen: ***********
North Bay Stage and Screen 