KSRO Interview – "In Their Own Voice"
My guest on the Thursday, May 6 theatre segment on KSRO's The Drive with Steve Jaxon was producer Beulah Vega from the Heroines, Harpies, and Harlots & Cloverdale Performing Arts Center's streaming festival titled In Their Own Voice – a virtual on-line festival about what happens when you let a woman speak. Click below to…
May 10, 2021 in Audio, Theatre Features.
"Heroines, Harpies, and Harlots" return to the North Bay
Heroines, Harpies and Harlots, a theater project born to let all who identify as female have a voice, returns for a second year with another festival of theatre pieces that delve beneath the surface of what society thinks a woman should be to find who they actually are through individual stories. They are presenting, in…
April 13, 2021 in News, Theatre Features.
KSRO Interview – "The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey"
My guests on the Thursday, January 21 theatre segment on KSRO's The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Nathan Cummings and Mike Pavone from Cinnabar Theater's The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. Click below to listen: **********
January 22, 2021 in Audio, Theatre Features.
Review: "Hindsight 2021 Short Play Festival"
I love short play festivals. You get a bunch of different stories and a bunch of different storytellers and, should there be a lemon in the bunch, welllll… it's over in a few minutes and you move on to the next one. Left Edge Theatre is presenting their Hindsight 2021 Short Play Festival, featuring twelve…
January 10, 2021 in Theatre Reviews.
KSRO Interview – "Hindsight 2021"
My phone-in guests on the Thursday, January 7 theatre segment on KSRO's The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Paige Picard and Abbey Lee from Left Edge Theatre's Hindsight 2021 Short Play Festival. Click below to listen: **********
January 7, 2021 in Audio, Theatre Features.
KSRO Interview – CPAC Festival of Injustice
My guests on the Thursday, September 3 theatre segment on KSRO's The Drive with Steve Jaxon were Yavé Guzmán and Sandy Ziviani from the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center's upcoming New Works Festival of Injustice. Click below to listen: **********
September 7, 2020 in Audio, Theatre Features.
No "Fun" at Left Edge, but there's a Festival
Left Edge Theatre has announced the cancellation of their 2020/21 season production of Fun Home. The show, originally scheduled to open in January 2021, is now planned for their 2021/22 season and will be replaced with a New Works Festival. "We came to the conclusion that we could not do Fun Home justice over Zoom…
August 25, 2020 in News, Theatre Features.
North Bay theatre company announces pandemic-themed play festival
With the return of live theatrical performances no where in sight, many companies have resorted to Zoom technology to live stream shows while others have found themselves turning their theatres into video production facilities. Napa's Lucky Penny Productions is the latest to invest in a multi-camera system and has announced a new theatre festival to…
OSF's 'Bring Down the House,' parts 1 and 2
Bring Down the House By Rosa Joshi and Kate Wisniewski Adapted from William Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland is drawing close to wrapping up its ten-year-long commitment to staging all of Shakespeare's plays within a single decade. That's 36 shows in ten seasons, with crowd-pleasers like "A Midsummer…
March 8, 2020 in Theatre Reviews.
Heroines, Harpies and Harlots take over North Bay stage
Sonoma County's contribution to the inaugural Bay Area Women's Theatre Festival is a two-weekend mini-festival being presented by 6th Street Playhouse under the umbrella title Heroines, Harpies, and Harlots – A Woman Speaks. With performances from February 28 through March 8, this celebration of women's place in history has been written, produced, and directed by…
February 20, 2020 in News, Theatre Features.