Tony Award-winning Broadway composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown and Broadway singer Amy Ryder will perform Friday, Oct. 5, at a benefit concert for Santa Rosa’s Roustabout Theater. Roustabout, which offers training for young local actors, is the resident theater company at Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, [...]
The Wells Fargo Center for the Arts will open its 31st season with a concert Aug. 15 by ZZ Top and close it May 8, 2013, with a performance of “The Pirates of Penzance” by New York’s Gilbert & Sullivan Players. The season includes 45 new shows in [...]
The name may or may not be familiar to you yet, but New York comedian Mike Birbiglia is a red hot property. At 33, he’s got three Comedy Central cable TV specials to his credit, three comedy albums, three movie roles (“Going the Distance,” “Cedar Rapids” and “Your [...]
Wells Fargo Center for the Arts has been named among the top 100 theaters in the world, and among the top 15 for theaters with 2,000 seats or less. Santa Rosa’s non-profit community arts center received a world-wide ranking of 89 by Pollstar, a trade magazine covering the [...]
Former TV talk show host Larry King's appearance at Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, scheduled for Jan. 8, has been canceled. A spokesman for the center said the event's cancellation was "due to an unexpected scheduling conflict." Patrons with tickets to the performance will receive a full refund, the [...]
Fans of traditional Irish step dancing won't want to miss the first "Riverdance" performances at 4 and 8 p.m. Wednesday at Wells Fargo Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa. Because they also will be the last. After 17 years, the stage celebration of Celtic culture is on [...]
Construction of the new Sutter Medical Center next to Wells Fargo Center for the Arts north of Santa Rosa is prompting the relocation of a monumental sculpture at the center’s entrance. Sonoma Mountain sculptor Robert Ellison’s 1981 welded steel sculpture, “Arch Tworain,” which stands 28 feet tall, will [...]
Question: What do these people all have in common? Musicians Herbie Hancock and Dave Koz, comedians Ron White, Lisa Lampanelli and Dana Carvey, talk show legend Larry King, the Moscow Ballet, the Vienna Boys Choir and the New Shanghai Circus. Answer: They’re all playing Santa Rosa’s Wells Fargo Center for [...]
If you crave that rinky-tinky, root-tooty sound of 1920s pop music -- with a Teutonic flavor, just for fun -- Wells Fargo Center for the Arts has the show for you. Bandleader Max Raabe and his 12-piece Palast Orchester recreate the music and decadent style of 1920s and [...]
On a winter night, there's nothing like a tango performance to generate a little heat. The Rodney Strong Vineyards Dance Series presents "Fire and Passion of Tango," a live performance by the Tango Buenos Aires troupe at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 11, at the Wells Fargo Center for [...]
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.