Podcast

Thalea String Quartet
Community Church of Sebastopol
Saturday, February 17th, 2018 @ 7:30 pm

Redwood Arts presents the Thalea String Quartet in the Community Church of
Sebastopol on Saturday,

Thalea String Quartet
Paul Mahder Gallery
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017 @ 7:00 pm

Thalea String Quartet opens the 5th season of the Brave New Music concert series in Healdsburg, CA.

On November 20th, 1969, American Indian activists traveledto Alcatraz to begin an occupation of the prison island. It lasted 19

The 45th Gravenstein Apple Fair
Ragle Ranch Regional Park
August 11th & 12th, 2018 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Join us for a weekend of old-fashioned fun under the

The Adams Family: America’s First Dynasty
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
Berger Center, Oakmont
Monday, April 9th – Monday, May 14th, 2018

The Adamses are America’s longest and most influential dynasty,

The credits for the Spreckels Theater Company production of The Addams Family, running now through October 28, notes that the musical is “based on characters created by Charles Addams.” It is

Mouthful welcomes Victoria Wise, returning for a second visit, this time to discuss her wonderful book The Armenian Table.

Armenian cuisine is flavorful and robust, with lamb, yogurt, pomegranate,
artichokes, lemon

The Barber of Seville
Cinnabar Theater
June 7^th – 23^rd, 2019

Rossini’s laugh-out-loud romantic comedy has beenentertaining audiences for more than 200 years with its outrageous stage anticsand vocal acrobatics. Donald

Before attempting to explain what Conor McPherson’s The Birds is, running now at Sebastopol’s Main Stage West, best make it clear what it isn’t. It is not a stage adaptation of

The Birds
Main Stage West
April 7th – 23rd, 2017

The Birds is boldly adapted by Conor McPherson in a gripping, unsettling, and moving look at human relationships in the face

The Bob O’Klock Variety Hour
Raven Theater Healdsburg
Friday, May 12th & Saturday, May 13th, 2017 @ 8:00pm

90(ish) entertaining minutes! 14 faaabulous acts! 1 heckava good time!

Join us as

The Bodega Seafood, Art & Wine Festival
Watts Ranch
August 25th & 26th, 2018 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

The Bodega Seafood, Art & Wine Festival is a wonderful, wild

Hosted by Lauren Spates, episode 2 looks at the impact of more-fierce fire and flood on our immune system, our lungs and our brain. We talk to scientists, doctors and other experts who say it’s misleading to think that you’re safe from the effects of wildfire smoke if you live far away, because smoke knows no boundaries. It’s also misleading to think that once the smoke is gone, you’re safe, because invisible toxic particles are left behind. We ask what exactly happens when we — and our children — inhale wildfire smoke and carbon dioxide, and what can we do to protect ourselves?

The Book Club Play
6^th Street Playhouse
August 23 – September 15, 2019

An endearing comedy about five very different

Perhaps the most mislabeledentertainment genre is what we refer to as “reality TV”. The belief that anything can be real in thepresence of cameras is misleading at best and downright deceitful

For many families, senior board and care homes are a popularalternative to expensive skilled nursing facilities.

A recent investigation by the Center for InvestigativeReporting found that wage theft is

The Children’s Hour
6th Street Playhouse
April 21st – May 7th, 2017

The Children’s Hour is one of the great successes of the American dramatic canon. After a malicious youngster starts

The Christian Foley-Beining Group
Occidental Center for the Arts
Friday, August 4th, 2017 @ 8:00 pm

OCA presents Friday Night Live! The Christian Foley-Beining Group. Foley-Beining, a native of Germany who

The City of Santa Rosa unveiled a new emergency planningtoolkit during Tuesday’s city council meeting. The star of

The Clean House
Raven Theater Healdsburg
January 27th – February 12th, 2017

Lane and Charles hire a housekeeper named Matilde, an aspiring comedian from Brazil who’s more interested in coming up

Like an Elizabethan game of whack-a-mole, as soon as North Bay theatre companies knock out one outdoor summer Shakespeare production, another one seems to pop up.

Marin Shakespeare brought us Pericles

The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)
6th Street Playhouse
May 18th – June 3rd, 2018

A mighty mash-up of ALL Shakespeare’s works in 97 minutes!

Have you read every single

In what has become an annual tradition, Word By Word host Gil Mansergh is pleased to welcome the book buyers for Copperfield’s Bookstores, Sheryl Cotleur and Michelle Bellah with their challenging task of choosing which books to talk about for gifting—in under an hour.

Read the complete book list.

Since this show aired during pledge week at KRCB-FM, it is a good time to thank you for your tangible financial support. For although Word By Word is archived and made available around the world as podcasts on NPR, Gil Mansergh’s hour-long Conversations With Writers shows are produced locally, in KRCB-FM’s Rohnert Park Studios.  Over the years, your generosity has permitted us to chat about books and writing with Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award winners, McArthur Grant recipients, and local writers whose primary jobs are as electrical engineers, physicists, police dispatchers, farmers, teachers, artists, photographers, and students. We’ve met people who write novels, histories, mysteries, biographies, poems, screenplays, documentary scripts, stage plays, newspaper serials, short stories, and memoirs.

How great is that?

Word by Word Conversations with Writers is hosted by Gil Mansergh and can be heard on the second Sunday of the month at 10:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB App for your favorite mobile device.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Spreckels Performing Arts Center
September 7th – 30th, 2018

Part mystery, part family drama, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the

Spreckels Theatre Company opens their season with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Simon Stephens’ adaptation of Mark Haddon’s 2003 novel about a boy with ‘behavioral difficulties’ took

Redwood Arts Council presents The Delphi Trio
Occidental Center for the Arts
Saturday, January 20th, 2018 @ 7:30 pm

This Piano Trio was just coming on the scene when we invited

The Diary of Anne Frank
Raven Players Healdsburg
April 7th – 23rd, 2017

In this gripping new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, recently discovered writings from Anne Frank’s diary are interwoven

The plight of the vanishing New England WASP is the subject matter of A. R. Gurney’s The Dining Room, running now at Sonoma Arts Live. No, it’s not a science lecture

The Fantasticks
Cinnabar Theater
June 8th – 24th, 2018

There’s always time to remember this romantic fable about a boy, a girl, their two fathers and a love that grows with

Two community theatre workhorses have galloped onto North Bay stages.
Petaluma’s Cinnabar Theater is presenting The Fantasticks, the 1960 musical that ran for a record 42 years Off-Broadway and then

According to IMDB, the budget for 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens was an estimated $245,000,000.00. I don’t think I’m going out on a limb here in saying the budget for

The Flick
Left Edge Theater Company
March 6 – 29, 2020

Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for

The Frisson Ensemble
Community Church of Sebastopol
Saturday, January 19th, 2019 @ 7:30 pm

The Frisson Ensemble is explosive!

From New York City, the chamber ensemble features the best and

The gonifs
Congregation Ner Shalom
Saturday, December 9th, 2017 @ 8:00 pm

Jeanette Lewicki and the gonifs (they insist on not capitalizing their name) kick off the Chanukah season with a

It’s time for that icon of midsummer, the beloved Gravenstein apple, which will be celebrated in Bay Area restaurants throughout August. The first ones are appearing in our farmers markets. Mouthful

The Great God Pan
Cinnabar Theater
October 12th – 28th, 2018

Taylor Korobow, who so delicately and lovingly directed The Quality of Life in 2016, returns to Cinnabar to stage this

Meat is on the menu, with Bruce Aidells and his new book, The Great Meat Cookbook. Bruce explores everything you need to know about cooking today’s meats, which have changed dramatically

The Great Wheel
Occidental Center for the Arts
May 5th, 6th, 11th & 12th, 2018

Occidental Community Choir Spring Concerts presents The Great Wheel.

Creative, quirky and consistently melodious

The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerfulAmerican family as their wealth declines, examining “not just a privilegedAmerican family,

The Handoff…

DAVID: The art of theater and the inevitability of change – they’ve gone together from the beginning of, well, of theater. And I’m not talking about the pocket change

The Heritage Project
6th Street Playhouse
Friday, June 23 – 24, 2017

The Heritage Project is back with two performances this Friday at 7:30 pm and Saturday at 2:00 pm!

The House of Yes
Main Stage West
November 23rd – December 16th, 2018

It’s Thanksgiving, and Marty’s arrival home is greatly anticipated by his mother, Mrs. Pascal, his twin sister, Jackie-O,