A benefit concert will be held for longtime Sonoma County musician Christopher Marvin, who is battling cancer, from noon to 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, at Sally Tomatoes 1100 Valley House Drive, Rohnert Park. Marvin, son of film actor Lee Marvin, has lived and worked in the county [...]
The 48 Hour Film Project, a global filmmaking competition, comes to Santa Rosa this month. At the kickoff for the two-day event on Aug. 16, registered teams will convene from 6 to 7 p.m. at Depot Park in Santa Rosa’s Railroad Square. Each team will receive a movie genre, a [...]
“Alice in Wonderland,” a ballet based on Lewis Carroll’s classic story and performed by the Royal Ballet of London, will be screened at 1 p.m. Sunday (June 30) and 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (July 2) at the Summerfield Cinemas, 551 Summerfield Road, Santa Rosa. The production, adapted by internationally [...]
Coming up at Sonoma County’s art cinema houses: — “The Magic Flute,” the film version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s classic two-act opera, will screen twice at Summerfield Cinemas in Santa Rosa. The 134-minute film, directed by Kenneth Branagh, will be show at 1 p.m. Sunday (June 9) and [...]
Director Don Gibble will present two screen actors in his production of A.R. Gurney’s play, “Love Letters,” at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. Kevin Dobson and Joan Van Ark of the “Knots Landing” TV series will perform in the show at [...]
Fred MacMurray is remembered as a successful screen actor, from his dark portrayal of a desperate man in the 1944 crime drama “Double Indemnity” to the title role of Disney’s “Absent-Minded Professor” in 1961. Above all, he was the ultimate father figure, whether he was playing the exasperated [...]
The “Save the Rio Campaign,” raising money to convert the Rio Theater movie house in Monte Rio to digital projection, continues Sunday, April 28, with an “Afternoon Social,” followed by the "Ramble at the Rio" concert. The social and barbecue begins at 1 p.m. on the lawn at [...]
The “Go Digital or Go Dark” fund-raising campaign to save the Rio Theater in Monte Rio aims to raise public awareness with a free screening of “Peggy Sue got Married” at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 21. The theater’s campaign started March 9 and has raised about half of [...]
Fans of Reese Witherspoon’s 2001 hit movie “Legally Blonde,” and the subsequent Broadway musical version, know one thing for sure. Heroine Elle Woods, the fashion major and sorority queen who enrolls in Harvard Law School to get her boyfriend back, would never go anywhere without her pet Chihuahua, [...]
What is art? Whether it’s oil on canvas or actors on stage, dancers on their toes or comedians doing stand-up, Press Democrat staff writer Dan Taylor covers the fine and lively arts in Northern California. Meet the people, go behind the scenes and get ahead on what’s coming up.