The playwright Moliere is enjoying a mini-revival in Sonoma County this spring. Not bad for a guy who's been dead for more than 300 years. Sonoma State University will stage his satire about about a wealthy, healthy man who thinks he's dying, "Imaginary Invalid," Friday, March 19, through March 27 [...]
New England singer-songwriter Melissa Ferrick, writing and recording since the early '90s, plays at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 6, at the Pub on the Sonoma State University campus, 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park. With 14 albums to her credit -- and the brand-new "Enough About Me" released [...]
After two hugely successful fall festivals, Santa Rosa's lengthily named Great West End & Railroad Square Handcar Regatta & Exposition of Mechanical & Artistic Wonders is getting its own art exhibition. "Sideshow: Art of the Handcar Regatta" opens with a reception from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 4, and [...]
The two-man touring comedy show, "The Black/Jew Dialogues," scheduled for tonight (Thursday, Feb. 18) on the Sonoma State University campus, has been canceled. Due to a snow storm in Iowa, causing flight cancellations, performers Ron Jones and Larry Jay Tisch will not be able to get to Rohnert Park for [...]
Have you heard this one? These two guys walk onto a college campus ... Well, if you want to get this joke, you'll have to go see the two-man comedy show, "The Black/Jew Dialogues" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, in Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall, on the Sonoma State University [...]
Feeling lonely? Need some company? Sonoma State University will stage the Tony Award-winning musical comedy, "Company," by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, seven times this month. The first performance is at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, in the Evert B. Person Theatre on campus in Rohnert Park. The show closes [...]
One of Sonoma County's most enduring hidden cultural assets is Eleanor Nichols' Sonoma Film Institute, headquartered on the Sonoma State University campus. Running continuously since 1973, SFI screens some 50 films from all over world between September and May each year. And SFI is a bargain for film [...]
Everybody talks about today's youth, but who listens to them? Well, you can. As part of Sonoma State University’s tribute to Black History Month, Associated Students Productions will present the Youth Speaks Poetry Slam at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 11, in the Student Union Pub on the Rohnert Park campus. [...]
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.