Tag: Raven Theater

Formerly residents of Sebastopol, Pamela and Kirk Demorest moved to Nevada County last year to take care of family matters, but that hasn’t lessened their commitment to presenting the best Healdsburg Short Film Festival they can. It starts Friday, Sept. 27...

Former Windsor resident Francine Schwartz has long remembered the stories her mother and grandmother told her about living in occupied France during World War II and of the German soldiers billeted in their home. At last, the result is a play, 'The Germans Upstairs"...

This weekend’s opening marks the culmination of 10 years of research, inspiration and introspection for playwright Francine Schwartz, now 75, along with a lifetime of memories. That decade began in 2014 while she went through family possessions in the family home, cleaning things out because her mother had moved into assisted living...

When Junior Brown rolls into Healdsburg on Saturday for his show at the Raven, it will be the first time the performer plays the Raven Theater. That’s a surprise: Like any good ol’ truck driving cowboy, you think he’s been everywhere...

The traditional home of the Raven Players is, and always has been, the Raven Theater. This week, however, the Players are trying on not just a new play, but a new stage: Their upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim’s Company will take place at the Windsor High School Theater Building, starting June 28...

When the John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band—J2B2—takes the stage at the Raven Performing Arts Theater at 7:30pm on Sunday night, it won’t be a tribute band or a nostalgia act but the real thing, American music played to the hilt by four of the best musicians around.

You can’t get any more familiar than The Wizard of Oz. Who hasn’t seen the classic 1939 film a couple of dozen times? See it again at the Raven, this weekend and next.

There’s something downright weird about L. Frank Baum stories. There are scarecrows and robots that come to life, flying monkeys, and both terrifying and comforting witches, to say nothing of interdimensional travel and a small dog named Toto.

Imagine if Healdsburg had a performing arts center located right downtown, which offered a stage for performers, an audience for musicians and theater, a school for youth and a troupe for all ages. That would be pretty cool, right?

Chimichangas and Zoloft, now playing at the Raven Performing Arts Theater in Healdsburg through Feb. 11, begins the day after Sonia Martinez (Norma Stevens) turns 40.