The first-floor art gallery in the Frank P. Doyle Library at Santa Rosa College will be named this month in honor of Dr. Robert F. Agrella, former superintendent and president of the college. The dedication ceremony will begin at the gallery at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, [...]
The Harlem Globetrotters return Wednesday, Jan. 11, to the Santa Rosa Junior College to show off their skills, as both athletes and clowns, and raise money for the college's athletic programs. The clown princes of the basketball court also appeared at SRJC in early January last year and the year [...]
Petaluma native Bill Vartnaw has been named Sonoma Couty's seventh poet laureate, and will be honored at 3 p.m. Jan. 29 at the county's Santa Rosa Central Library, Third and B Streets. Vartnaw has been writing poetry for more than 35 years. He founded Taurean Horn Press in 1974, and [...]
Santa Rosa Junior College's Summer Repertory Theatre has launched season ticket sales for this summer's five-show 40th anniversary season. The shows are: "Hairspray," "Flea in Her Ear," "The Piano Lesson," "Company" and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels." The shows will be presented in rotation between June 25 and Aug. 13. Season tickets, [...]
Rock 'n' roll is still here to stay, and the Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts Department underscores the point with a new production of "Grease," the Broadway musical set in the '50s, opening Friday, April 23. First-nighters will get an extra treat, said Leslie McCauley, the department's [...]
There are so many local fund-raising events, all for good causes, and so many pleas for publicity. One does try to be fair and objective in evaluating all these requests, and yet, when the worthy cause is a newspaper, one tends to perk right up and pay attention (especially if [...]
Without the title, could you still tell who wrote it? Here's the plot. Two sets of identical twins, separated in infancy by a shipwreck, end up as young adults in the same city without knowing it. Yep, it’s Shakespeare. "Comedy of Errors," co-starring real-life twins Justin and Jerod [...]
Evidently told at some point to mind their own beeswax, some Northern California artists have come up with impressive results, working with wax to master a technique known as encaustic painting. A new exhibit showcasing their efforts, ‘Working with Wax: Contemporary Encaustic Painting in Northern California,’ curated by Thomas Morphis, [...]
Since it’s so cold outside, this seems the perfect time to talk about ... next summer. Summer Repertory Theatre, Santa Rosa Junior College’s beloved festival and training program, has announced its 2010 lineup: * “Forever Plaid” by Stuart Ross. A ‘50s pop song revival that includes “Three Coins in the [...]
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.