The Transcendence Theatre Company will present two-time Tony Award-winning acress and singer Sutton Foster in concert Thursday, Aug. 1, at Jack London Historic State Park in Glen Ellen. Foster, best-known on Broadway for her Tony Award-winning performances in “Anything Goes” and “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” also originated leading roles [...]
Santa Rosa Junior College's Summer Repertory Theatre has added three more performances of its sold-out production of “The Fox on The Fairway,” written by Ken Ludwig, author of “Lend Me a Tenor.” Extra performances of the play, a romantic farce set at a golf and country club, will be presented [...]
Laura Rohrman grew up in Sonoma County, devoted to her grandmother, so when Rohrman moved to New York in 2000 to become an actress and playwright, it was natural she’d write about her grandma. What makes the story unusual is that Rohrman’s grandmother was Dale Messick, America’s first [...]
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, July 12, for the special two-week San Francisco engagement of the first North American tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's new stage adaptation of “The Wizard of Oz.” The show will run Oct. 16-27, at the SHN (Shorenstein-Hays-Nederlander) Orpheum Theatre, 1192 [...]
This summer, the Imaginists theater collective in Santa Rosa will present not just one, but two bilingual, bicycle-powered traveling shows. The fifth annual ‘Art is Medicine Show,’ featuring the poetry of Federico García Lorca and performed in both English and Spanish, will play seven dates around Sonoma County [...]
The main auditorium at Santa Rosa’s Wells Fargo Center for the Arts is just a shell of its former self at the moment, but it’ll look a lot better by mid-August. The center’s 1,600-seat Ruth Finley Person Theater closed in May for a $2.8 million renovation, and will [...]
Madeline Rouverol, 18, a senior at Santa Rosa High School, won a $10,000 scholarship Monday from the Steve Silver Foundation and "Beach Blanket Babylon" in San Francisco. She was one of nine Bay Area contestants, competing in three separate categories, who performed for judges Monday night at Club [...]
King Berenger is dying and so is the universe. His palace, and the solar system are falling apart. In the 1962 play “Exit the King,” written by Eugene Ionesco, one of the leading playwrights of the Theater of the Absurd movement, literal reality becomes a matter of personal perception. In [...]
One of the finalists for a $10,000 acting scholarship in the annual contest sponsored by “Beach Blanket Babylon” in San Francisco is Madeline Rouverol of Santa Rosa High School. The nine high school seniors chosen as finalists in three categories will perform live Monday, June 3, at Club [...]
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.