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Monday, August 11, 2014

Theater review: B Street’s ‘Conference of the Birds’ flies just out of reach by Carla Meyer

Though well-acted, lively and colorful, the play based on a Persian Sufi poem can be too esoteric. Ryan Adame, left, Nikki Massoud, center, and Meher Mistry play young birds on a journe…

SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 07:00PM
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Theater review: It’s ‘Rain’ and fire in B Street’s tight, two-man cop drama by Carla Meyer

With dialogue but no action, actors Kurt Johnson and David Pierini paint a vivid portrait of officers in crisis David Pierini, in the foreground, and Kurt Johnson portray police partne…

SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 05:00PM
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Don Knotts' daughter pays tribute to him on stage by Carla Meyer

One-woman show ‘Tied Up in Knotts’ incorporates show business, family stories Karen Knotts appears on dad Don Knotts’ short-lived TV variety show in 1971. The elder Kn…

SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 04:00PM
Monday, October 7, 2013

Theater review: B Street Theatre presents darkly funny ‘Detroit’ by Carla Meyer

Tara Sissom’s boisterous performance as a tenuously clean drug addict in “Detroit” at first plays as too big for the B Street Theatre stage. Then you recognize that it&#…

SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 05:31PM
Friday, January 25, 2013

Theater review: 'Rock of Ages' surpasses the movie version by Carla Meyer

There's been a lot of talk lately about stage musicals being better than their film adaptations.It's true. The stage musical "Rock of Ages," playing through Sunday at Sacramento's Community …

SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM
Friday, January 11, 2013

Cindy Williams stars in 'Nunset Boulevard' at Three Stages by Carla Meyer

Cindy Williams, 65, spent the 1970s in the thick of Hollywood creativity, acting for directors George Lucas ("American Graffiti") and Francis Ford Coppola ("The Conversation") and starring o…

SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:15AM
Friday, November 30, 2012

One-man 'Star Wars'-based show came together long time ago by Carla Meyer

When Charles Ross was young, he lived on a farm in Canada that lacked radio and television reception. He entertained himself by watching the two movies his family owned. Charles Ross cr…

SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Theater review: She's not the 'Wicked' one but she steals show by Carla Meyer

The hook of "Wicked," the enormously successful Broadway musical, is its insight into Elphaba, the young woman who would become the much-loathed Wicked Witch in "The Wizard of Oz." Alli…

SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM
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