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. [...]
Coming up at Sonoma County’s art cinema houses: — “The Magic Flute,” the film version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s classic two-act opera, will screen twice at Summerfield Cinemas in Santa Rosa. The 134-minute film, directed by Kenneth Branagh, will be show at 1 p.m. Sunday (June 9) and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Children's Museum of Sonoma County invites the public to its future home at 1835 W. Steele Lane in Santa Rosa, next to the Charles M. Schulz Museum, for its "Groundbreaking Festival" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 1. Long in the planning and fund-raising stages, the Children's [...]
Director Don Gibble will present two screen actors in his production of A.R. Gurney’s play, “Love Letters,” at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. Kevin Dobson and Joan Van Ark of the “Knots Landing” TV series will perform in the show at [...]
Searching for something you haven’t heard before? You might try this group. They call themselves Birds of Chicago, and they describe themselves as a musical collective. At the core of this collective are JT Nero, of the Chicago rock and soul band, JT and the Clouds, and Allison [...]
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.