KSRO Interview – Healdsburg’s Raven Players
My guest on a special Friday, October 1 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Steven David Martin, Artistic Director for Healdsburg’s Raven Players. Click below to listen: ***********
KSRO Interview – Anne Clark of 6th Street Playhouse
My guest on a special Wednesday, September 22 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was 6th Street Playhouse’s Managing Director and Education Director Anne Clark. Click below to listen: ***********
KSRO Interview – Ky Boyd of Rialto Cinemas
My guest on the Wednesday, September 22 segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon was Ky Boyd, proprietor of the Rialto Cinemas to discuss their COVID vaccination policy and the current state of film exhibition. Click below to listen: ***********
KSRO Interview – “Sunset Boulevard”
My guests on the Thursday, September 23 theatre segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Carl Jordan and actor Maeve Smith from the Sonoma Arts Live production of Sunset Boulevard. Click below to listen: ***********
Review: “Murder for Two” in Santa Rosa
One way theatre companies have responded to the pandemic and its related restrictions is to produce smaller shows. Solo performances, two-handers, small-cast dramas and comedies and stripped-down musicals have been the season openers on most local stages. Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse opens their GK Hardt Theatre with Murder for Two, a title that neatly…
Review: “Disney’s The Little Mermaid” in Napa
What’s a community theatre to do when it wants to put on a large-scale family musical in the age of COVID? Well, if you’re Napa’s Lucky Penny Productions, you hire Scottie Woodard to direct the show and follow his lead in assembling a really creative design team and cast. Their production of Disney’s The Little…
Reviews: “Cry It Out” in Petaluma and “Ripcord” in Ross
The circle of life takes center stage in the North Bay with two plays featuring females dealing with challenges ranging from child rearing to senior living. Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater invites you to Cry It Out while the Ross Valley Players would love for you to come and pull a Ripcord. Proof of COVID vaccination and…
KSRO Interview – “Murder for Two”
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: ***********
Review: “I and You” & “Beautiful Monsters” in Santa Rosa
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…
Entitled Assholes Will Be the Death of Theatre
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…
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