Wednesday, May 7, 2014
B Street comedy craftily mashes up plays and themes of the great Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov.
Stephanie McVay and Greg Alexander star in the B Street Theatre’s staging of &#…
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As much as a specific sense of place takes hold in David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Good People,” the play’s greatness lies in how it could happen anywhere.
Rebecca …
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Michael Laun, executive producing director of Sacramento Theatre Company, is calling the 2014-15 slate of productions “A Season of Legends, Epics and Icons.”
Jerry Lee and Ja…
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The farce “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” runs like a well-maintained machine. That’s what farces do, and the new production of the 1962 Tony Award-winn…
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STC stages the musical farce ‘Forum’ in a ‘70s setting.
“Scapino!” features, clockwise from lower left, Scarlett Becky Vang, Anthony Person, Julian O…
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B Street Theatre actor Dave Pierini has put together a late-night talk show-formatted evening, which “airs” live this week at the theater’s Mainstage.
Dave Pierini…
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The six-play schedule opens in September with Nina Raines’ highly acclaimed “Tribes.”
Jonathan Williams, producing artistic director of Capital Stage, selected the…
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B Street’s Michael Stevenson stars in ‘Wittenberg’ in Berkeley.
Big Idea Theatre’s “Inventing Van Gogh” stars, from left, Brian Watson, Ed Gyles, Br…
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On the way to the average, uninspired, hit movie-based Broadway musical, a witty, irreverent and completely fun entertainment emerged in ‘Sister Act.’
“Sister Act&…
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California Musical Theatre’s Richard Lewis isn’t taking any chances with the production pipeline that brings professional musical theater touring shows to town.
Josef Bro…
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If you go to Sacramento Theatre Company’s “Visiting Mr. Green” and feel like you’ve seen it before, you’re probably remembering other recent plays there.
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California Stage, under the leadership of producing artistic director Ray Tatar, has consistently embraced new works. “Vanishing Point” is set in post-Katrina Louisiana and dea…
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The Bee's Marcus Crowder suggests performances worth seeing.
John Sanders, right, is villainous in “Peter and the Starcatcher.”
Linked From The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMWednesday, March 19, 2014
As a childhood aficionado of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, I have always had great affection for the famously eccentric character and good mystery stories as well.
J…
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There’s nothing quite like an emergency to stimulate the senses and test one’s poise.
Teddy Spencer is Leo and Dee Maaske is Vera in Capital Stage’s “4000 …
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Dee Maaske has the skills to comfortably slip into the intricately layered Vera Joseph in “4000 Miles.”
Teddy Spencer and Dee Maaske rehearse for “4000 Miles,” …
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The Bee's Marcus Crowder suggests performances worth seeing.
“Second-Best Bed” is being staged through March 30 at the Woodland Opera House. It stars, from left, Dan Satt…
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Clever comedy is a pleasing fit for the intimacy of B Street Theatre.
Kurt Johnson and Melinda Parrett star in the B Street Theatre comedy “Wrong For Each Other.”
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Shakespeare in general and “Romeo and Juliet” in particular has stood up to numerous “interpretations” as inspired or ill-conceived as they may be. The young “star c…
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Shakespeare in general and “Romeo and Juliet” in particular has stood up to numerous “interpretations” as inspired or ill-conceived as they may be. The young …
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The Bee’s Marcus Crowder suggests a look at Steinbeck productions.
From left, Coleman Daniels (Hazel), Michael Sicilia (Doc) and Michael Coleman (Mack) appear in John Steinbeck&…
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Actor Andrew Perez envisions a fresh physicality in Shakespeare’s leading man.
Andrew Perez, right, playing Romeo in the Sacramento Theatre Company’s “Romeo and Juli…
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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival knows a good thing when it produces it. Two years ago the festival had a critical and audience hit with its extremely funny production of the Marx Brothers&#x…
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Chita Rivera can say she’s been “a lucky gal,” but that luck thing only goes so far. Her extraordinary record of achievement in musical theater speaks for itself. She wa…
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Sacramento’s Music Circus created a unique theater experience that has endured.
The Music Circus tent debuted in 1951. “Show Boat” was the first production.
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The Bee’s Marcus Crowder suggests performances worth seeing.
“The Conductor: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad” at the B Street Theatre Family Series sta…
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There’s some sort of kismet in B Street Theatre taking its “Around the World in 80 Days” on its first international tour.
The 2004 B Street staging of “Around the…
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“Flashdance The Musical” is one of those stories you know.
“Flashdance The Musical,” based on the 1983 movie, runs through Sunday at the Sacramento Communit…
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Muriel Johnson, Sandy Smoley and the late Jean Runyon are influential Sacramento women who have an unlikely and little-known connection. Each participated as a volunteer actress in the Sacr…
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The Bee's Marcus Crowder suggests performances worth seeing.
David Blue Garrison, front, and Corey D. Winfield star in the second part of Tony Kushner’s landmark “Angels …
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