After twenty-two seasons (and counting) of TV’s South Park and fifteen years of Broadway’s Avenue Q, audiences may be somewhat desensitized to youngsters dropping F-bombs or puppets vigorously engaged in coitus. Prepare to be re-sensitized. Robert Askins’s Hand to God, running at Santa Rosa’s Left Edge Theatre through November 11, adds blasphemy to the…
North Bay theatre companies did well at the 2018 Theatre Bay Area Awards. This year’s TBA Awards ceremony was held Monday evening at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. The TBA Awards are designed to honor excellence in professionally oriented theatre through a peer-based, Bay Area-wide adjudication process of artists and productions from companies who are…
My guests on the Thursday, November 1 theater segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were director Ron Nash and actors Bohn Connor and Heather Gibeson from the Raven Players production of Outside Mullingar. Click below to hear that interview: **********
In the past month, North Bay stages have been occupied by vampires, ghosts, a Thing, and Transylvanian transvestites. The Novato Community Playhouse now finds itself overrun with the most ghastly, heinous, and horrifying creatures ever to set foot on a theatrical stage. I am referring, of course, to white upper middle-class parents, the featured monsters…
If you’re wary of attending the latest splatter fest at your local multiplex and seeking a kinder, gentler Halloween season entertainment, Napa’s Lucky Penny Productions brings you Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit, running through November 4. It’s an old-fashioned ghost story laden with Coward’s acerbic wit and charm. Author Charles Condomine (Tim Kniffin) is researching the…
My guests on the Thursday, October 25 theater segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Alexis Macnab, Rhett Curry, Sierra Slusiewicz, and Natasha Potts from the Sonoma State University Theatre Arts production of Mr. Burns – A Post Electric Play. Click below to hear that interview: **********
My guests on a special Friday, October 19 theater segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Aaron Wilton, Richard Pallaziol and Elly Lichenstein from Cinnabar Theater’s The Great God Pan. Click below to hear that interview: **********
My guests on the Thursday, October 18 theater segment on KSRO’s The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Dean Linnard and Carl Kraines from the Left Edge Theatre production of Hand to God. Click below to hear that interview: **********
San Francisco North Bay theater artists gathered Monday night at the Juncture Taproom and Lounge in Santa Rosa for the Third Annual Marquee Theater Journalists Association Awards. Seventeen awards were given to local theatre artists and productions whose nominations were culled from the sixty-six Sonoma County productions attended by members from September 1, 2017 through…
At a time when the language of diplomacy has been reduced to a 140-character tweet transmitted at 3 am, it’s good to be reminded of the men and women for whom the quest for peace demanded actual thought and personal interaction. J. T. Rogers’ Oslo, now running in its West Coast premiere at the Marin…
