The Sonoma County Repertory Theater was forced by budget woes to close its Main Street Theater in Sebastopol last February. But the company’s annual Sebastopol Shakespeare Festival lives on. Shakespeare Napa Valley and Sebastopol Shakespeare have joined forces to present two productions this summer. “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [...]
You wouldn’t necessarily expect a worldwide movement to start in Guerneville, but via the Internet, all things are possible. Michael Rothenberg, a poet and web site editor who lives in Guerneville, has been working on an event he calls “100 Thousand Poets for Change.” It’s actually a collection of events [...]
The Fruit Bats, J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. and Sonny and the Sunsets top a multi-band, two-stage lineup this weekend at the Huichica Music Festival. The second annual festival runs 2-11 p.m. Saturday, June 4. at the Gundlach Bundschu Winery, 2000 Denmark St., Sonoma. Other acts include Daytrotter, Richard Swift, [...]
Ky Boyd's Rialto Cinemas lost its lease on its longtime site on Summerfield Road last August, but Boyd's passion for showing good movies lives on in his "Rialto on the Road" events. Boyd and his partner, Michael O'Rand, showed up Monday night at the 6th Street Playhouse to [...]
The Healdsburg Jazz Festival doesn't open until June 3, but you don't have to wait that long for good jazz. The festival will present an early event “An Evening with Paula West” Saturday, May 21, at the Lambert Bridge Winery. The concert's proceeds will help support the 13th [...]
"Worst in Show," an hour-long documentary by two local filmmakers about the annual, wildly popular "World's Ugliest Dog Contest" in Petaluma, will be shown at 1 p.m. Sunday, May 1, at the Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington St., Petaluma. The film, made by Don Lewis of Petaluma [...]
Help raise money for the 117th annual Rose Parade and Festival, and see a classic film made in Santa Rosa, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 28, at the Roxy 14 Stadium theater in downtown Santa Rosa. The “Support Your Local Parade” fund-raiser features a screening of the 1943 [...]
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, [...]
The Healdsburg Jazz Festival and the Healdsburg Center for the Arts will present Khalil Shaheed and Mansa Musa in two benefit concerts for the festival. at 7 and 9 p.m. on Saturday, April 30. Both shows will be at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts, 130 Plaza St., [...]
The arts colony in Santa Rosa's A Street neighborhood will celebrate Japanese culture, while raising money to aid the victims of the earthquake and tsunami Japan, at "Matsuri," a Japanese arts festival running from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 2. Now in its third year, this celebration has grown [...]
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.