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ArtStart Open House
New Location
Sunday, December 8, 2019

Come help ArtStart celebrate the opening of

Jura Margulis in Concert
Petaluma Historical Library & Museum
Friday, May 24^th, 2019 @ 7:30 pm

Sky Hill Cultural Alliance & Petaluma Museum Association are pleased to present Jura Margulis –

Local tenants' rights organizers say that current county protections against evictions are no longer enough. Sonoma County law allows for evictions to proceed if they are not related to pandemic related financial hardship. But advocates say some landlords are finding loopholes.  KRCB’s Adia White spoke with Beatrice Camacho, an organizer with the North Bay Organizing Project, to learn more. 

 

 

 

On the North Bay Report, Sonoma County Supervisor David Rabbitt, answers your questions about the North Bay’s affordable housing crisis.

Late last month, KRCB TV presented Connect the Bay, a half-hour,

Late last month KRCB TV presented a live half-hour special; ‘Connect the Bay’. We talked about the affordable housing crisis. Some of you sent us questions that we didn’t get a

It’s a striking coincidence.

You don’t have to be the writer of stage thrillers to see it.

Maybe it’s the work of some devious theatrical conspiracy.

How

Truly effective plays are often built on big ideas. And ideas don’t get much bigger than the Birth of America – or E = mc 2, which happen to be the

“I wear the chains I forged in life!”

This ghostly report from the doomed spirit of Jacob Marley is amongst the most famous supernatural utterances in English literature. It’s also a

“Oh, what fools these mortal’s be!”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.”

There are a lot of great

Good cop. Bad cop.

It’s a formula so mainstream that it was the basis of a character in the ‘The LEGO Movie,’ where Liam Neeson voiced the dual-personalities of a tiny

Prince Hamlet is a moody death-metal addict with a messed-up ghost on his case.

The jealous monarch from The Winter’s Tale has become a tyrannical ruler in imperial China.

And the

It is just over a year since the night of Sunday, October 9th 2017, when nearly 111,000 acres and nearly 6,000 homes in the Napa/Sonoma wine country were incinerated by unstoppable

Hooray for Captain Spalding.

And hooray for the weird, wonderful, creatively imitative assemblage of actors who are currently bringing the Marx Brothers ‘Animal Crackers’ to retro-ridiculous life at the 6th Street

Anne Boleyn lost her head.

Everyone knows that.

Little else is known about the infamously short-lived second wife of King Henry VIII. Largely because her husband all but erased her memory

The good, the bad and the ugly.

It’s not just the name of an old Clint Eastwood movie.

It’s also a fitting way to think about this year’s

In author-playwright Mary Spletter’s world premiere, Arches, Balance and Light, the East Bay playwright takes on a difficult, if not impossible, task—telling the personal behind-the-scenes life story of the legendary Julia

Some stage musicals are lighter than air, soothing as water, sounding good and feeling delightful as long as they last, then evaporating on the wind, fading fast into the folds of

The writings of San Francisco playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb have always been a balance of the weird, the wondrous, the sensitive, and the cynical. Nachtrieb likes to test artistic and cultural

The thing about death is, it’s not negotiable.

Sooner or later, we all have to face it.

Till then, it’s hanging out there, somewhere, waiting for us.

After a one-year hiatus forced upon them by the renovationof Santa Rosa Junior College’s Burbank Auditorium, the Summer Repertory Theatreprogram returns with a full schedule of three musicals and two plays

“Carousel,” the second musical created by the legendary Rogers & Hammerstein, is noted today for two major things. One – it’s the show from which we gained the songs “June

One need not have ever seen Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun to appreciate the setup – or laugh at the jokes – in Bruce Norris’s brilliant

“Collecting Evolution,” Book Launch & Talk
Hosted by Matthew James
Museums of Sonoma County
Thursday, March 30th, 2017 @ 5:30pm

Join author Matthew James for a public reading and launch of

The issue of high ticket-prices is rarely discussed openly within the North Bay theater community, nor do many seem eager to talk about the arguable effect of prices on the widely

It’s a new year, and as the North Bay theater community prepares to launch its first shows of 2015, Cinnabar Theater, in Petaluma, has already unveiled its newest show, and

Valentine’s Day is less than a month away, and love is already in the air at some local theaters. Well, love and sex, and betrayal … and sex, and also mathematics

Powered by some pretty spectacular voices, Sonoma Arts Live’s clever, minimalized production of Webber-and-Rice’s iconic musical “Evita” scores major points for musicality, invention and sheer guts, emphasizing the politically ominous rags-to-riches

There’s no denying it. Music is a powerful force. Music can express the deepest of human emotions. And there are, obviously, many different styles and forms of music. One could

Short plays aren’t easy.

Like a haiku, you have to say a lot with a little.
Because of that, it’s easy for a short play to come off less like

The late August Wilson wrote ten plays as part of his celebrated Century Cycle, completing one play for each decade of the twentieth century, all but one of them set in

Oh, the glory of the human voice.
And the power of the human mind to hear one’s own voice, and somehow experience it as beautiful when to other’s it’s . .

As theatergoers, we occasionally attend plays we never previously liked, and end up changing our minds by the end. Maybe the acting and directing somehow assist the script in transcending its

I’m not sure what it is, but there’s just something appealing—if that’s the word—about watching a puppet – especially a cute puppet – talking dirty … dropping F-bombs, describing sex acts,

Well, the recent Supreme Court ruling affirming marriage equality to all couldn’t be better timed, ‘cause the big celebration’s already started up in Ashland, Oregon, and this dance party’s got

In Victorian England, the unhappy wife of a repressed doctor yearns to feel alive – and finally takes matters into her own hands. In an imaginary steam-punk version of Victorian

“Hope. Do we ever give up on hope? Even in the face of hard evidence?”

That the question at the heart of Si Kahn’s succinctly-titled new musical memory play Hope, running

Twelve years ago, journalist and playwright Doug Wright unveiled a new one-actor play with a curious name: “I Am My Own Wife.” As a member of the Tectonic Theater, which

Mouthful reaches back into its archives for a rebroadcast of “In a Cajun Kitchen,” a culinary exploration of a region that needs our attention, as it attempts to recover from catastrophic

Magic isn’t easy.

And sometimes, it takes a village to make something truly magical—and that even goes for fairy tale villages perched on the edge of a mysterious forest. With leads

I love puppets.

It’s a secret that only a certain number of people know about me, but in my late teens, I was a professional puppeteer. It’s true. I

Last year, Spreckels Theater Company staged an unconventional revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s ‘Carousel,’ a play many have heard of but few have ever actually seen. Eschewing complex sets, shoreline scenery—and,

Describing a new Cirque du Soleil show is a little like describing a dream while still half asleep. Talking about ‘Luzia,’ appropriately subtitled “A Waking Dream of Mexico,” is roughly that

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”

One of Shakespeare’s scariest lines comes from what is easily his scariest play, ‘Macbeth,’ a show so frightening most theater

“Sometimes,” exhorts actress Sharon E. Scott, stirringly embodying the rich voice and sassy-sweet attitude of the great Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson. “Sometimes, God turns your life upside down—so you can help

Theater is all about transformation, and transformation is never easy. But transforming one of the best-loved movies of all time into a stage musical? That’s a huge challenge, because the

Documentary filmmaker Bill Chayes wanted to make a filmabout autism from a perspective that is typically ignored in

It all began on a road-trip to Ashland, Oregon.

The acclaimed playwright Lauren Gunderson was taking a theater-going excursion with Margot Melcon, then the Director of New Play Development for Marin

Well, it’s spring, and the annual Oregon Shakespeare Festival has kicked off its 2017 season with four new shows – out of an eventual total of eleven —the majority of them

“Movies as Teaching Tools” is the focus on November’s Word By Word: Conversations With Writers on North Bay Public Media, KRCB-FM. Today’s guest is SRJC media studies instructor and interdisciplinary scholar

Romney Steele’s new book “My Nepenthe: Bohemian Tales of Food, Family
and Big Sur” offers a compelling view of a unique time and place, Big
Sur in the second half of