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 [...]
Jazz pianist Noam Lemish, born in Israel and educated at Sonoma State University, now lives in Toronto, but he’s coming back to see us this month. The Sonoma Valley Jazz Society will present the Noam Lemish Trio, including bassist Jim Kerwin and drummer George Marsh, from 7 to [...]
The Wells Fargo Center for the Arts has announced three additional shows to be presented in the newly renovated Ruth Finley Person Theater during the center's 2013-14 season. The new shows include the Beach Boys on Sept. 7, Natalie Cole on Nov. 24 and Engelbert Humperdinck on Feb. [...]
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 [...]
You hardly ever hear good old songs like “The Sheik of Araby,” “Blues in the Bottle” or “The Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me” anymore. And when’s the last time you heard a kazoo solo? But with the Jim Kweskin Jug Band out on its 50th reunion [...]
Healdsburg Jazz presents Oliver Lake, poet, painter and and musician, in two performances, and 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts. Lake will play flute and saxophone solos and recite his poetry. His artwork is part of the current exhibit at [...]
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 [...]
Santa Rosa's Wells Fargo Center for the Arts broke its previous record last Friday, May 31, with the highest first-day ticket sales for its just-announced 2013-2014 season. More than 2,400 tickets were purchased, for nearly $150,000, a 60-percent increase over last year’s first day of season ticket sales. [...]
Tickets go on sale at 8 a.m. Saturday, June 1, for the 27th annual B.R. Cohn Fall Music Festival at the B.R. Cohn Winery Amphitheatre in Glen Ellen. The two-day festival will star Bad Company with Paul Rodgers, the Doobie Brothers, Pablo Cruise, Lara Johnston and Pat Simmons Jr. on [...]
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.