I’ve been going to the movies a lot recently and have been dismayed at the empty houses I’ve encountered. I’ve seen a variety of movies at a variety of times on a variety of days and have never been sitting with more than three other patrons. If you’re inclined to go out to the movies…
My “Theatre Thursday” guests on the November 18 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Michael Ross and Maeave Smith from the upcoming Sonoma Arts Live productions of Plaid Tidings & Winter Wonderettes. Click below to listen: ***********
My “Theatre Thursday” guest on a special Tuesday, November 16 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO was Brian Herndon from the upcoming 6th Street Playhouse production of Scrooge in Love! Click below to listen: ***********
My “Theatre Thursday” guests on the November 11 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Allie Nordby and Dale Leonhart from the upcoming Spreckels Theatre Company production of The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley. Click below to listen: ***********
Sarah Ruhl’s How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, running at Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre through Nov. 21, is a tough play to synopsize. The show opens in the living room of the suburban New Jersey home of Jane and Michael (Angela Squire and Anthony Martinez). They are gathered around their coffee table with…
My “Theatre Thursday” guests on the November 4 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were Sandra Ish, Abbey Lee and Jewel Ramos from the Left Edge Theatre production of How to Transcend a Happy Marriage. Click below to listen: ***********
Directors will often change the setting or time period of an older, well-known play in the hopes of making it more accessible to contemporary audiences. Modernized Shakespeare plays are usually the best examples of this practice. Similarly, the Novato Theater Company has taken Oscar Wilde’s community-theatre staple The Importance of Being Earnest and plopped it…
My guest on a special Friday, October 29 theatre segment on The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO was actor Jean-Michel Richaud from the 6th Street Playhouse production of Vincent. Click below to listen: ***********
What do a 20th century Midwest American housewife turned author and a 19th century one-eared Dutch Post-Impressionist painter have in common? Well, they’re the subjects of two solo shows running now on North Bay stages. Napa’s Lucky Penny Productions is presenting Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End for a short run while Santa Rosa’s 6th Street…
My theatre guests on the Thursday, October 14 broadcast of The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO were actors Jess Headington and Trevor Hoffman from the Cinnabar Theater production of Dancing Lessons. Click below to listen: ***********
