Meredith Suttles on changing theater: 'Artists of color have come together in new ways'
Suttles began working for the Marin Theatre Company in April, collaborating with its longtime artistic director Jasson Minadakis.
Suttles began working for the Marin Theatre Company in April, collaborating with its longtime artistic director Jasson Minadakis.
The theater’s Family Series play offers a clever look at the history of aviation. John Lamb, left, and Jason Kuykendall portray brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright in the B Street…
B Street Theater has announced a casting change with its production of John Patrick Shanley’s “Outside Mullingar.” B Street acting company member Dana Brooke and di…
Buck Busfield likes the Irish sensibility of playwright John Patrick Shanley. B Street acting company member Dana Brooke and director Buck Busfield, shown in 2011, are reteaming for …
In the sobering new production, Steinbecks bitter story of the struggle for human dignity still feels current and relevant. Cast members dance in a scene from STC’s season-…
The play remains as epic as Steinbeck’s classic novel. Michael Stevenson directs a scene with Laura Kaya, who plays Ma, and Kirk Blackinton, who plays Tom Joad, during rehearsal …
The Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance honored Mitch Agruss and producer director Ray Tatar for lifetime achievement at the 32nd annual Elly Awards, held Sunday night in Edgewater Bal…
The Bee has learned that Sacramento based actor, playwright, and comedian Jack Gallagher suffered a concussion in a bicycle accident on Labor Day. Comedian Jack Gallagher
Capital Stage has announced the resignation of managing director Erin Lucas effective immediately.
Nina Raine’s acerbic comedy-drama “Tribes” presents a family that talks an awful lot but often ends up communicating very little. Still, the elusive nature of communicat…
St. Mary’s High School and Sutter Street Theatre led with six recognitions each.
No longer an upstart theater company, the provocative professional theater understands what it is and what it does. Jonathan Williams follows the script on his laptop during a rehearsal…
The popular Canadian playwright Norm Foster plots a course to the Sacramento theater’s sweet spot. “The Ladies Foursome” at B Street Theatre includes, from left, Am…
Its rather remarkable that La Cage aux Folles, a musical about the unconventional relationship at its core, feels as dully conventional as can be. The love story of two men…
Audiences can nearly suspend their disbelief with this production of Lerner and Lowe’s musical hit. Robert J. Townsend plays Tommy Albright and Jennifer Hope Wills is Fiona MacLa…
Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance announces names of community theater nominees for 32 Elly Awards. The cast of the Nedra Pezold Roberts’ “Vanishing Point” …
Strong leads give Music Circus patrons a with a well-sung, complicated romance. Beth Malone plays Ensign Nellie Forbush and John Cudia is Emile de Becque in “South Pacific”…
The Music Circus production about an inscrutable nanny will appeal to children and adults as well. From left are Robert Creighton (Bert), Noa Solorio (Jane Banks), Ben Ainley-Zoll (Mich…
California Musical Theatre artistic director Glenn Casale would probably be a great mathematician or an excellent puzzle maker. He enjoys creating problems to solve and dislikes doing the sa…
Theater festivals rev up across the region. Sacramento Shakespeare Festival’s “Much Ado About Nothing” stars, from left, Tim Brown, Brittany King and James Roberts.…
Elyzabeth Gregory Wilders new play Provenance has a number of curious and mysterious things happening in it. Though all the questions are answered too sweetly and neatly in…
Audiences will find B Street’s Sherlock Holmes hysterical. John Lamb, left, plays Sir Henry and Greg Alexander, right, is Watson in the B Street Theatre production of “The…
The production is a deeply satisfying rendition of the groundbreaking musical. The Music Circus production of A Chorus Line continues through Sunday at the Wells Fargo Pavil…
The production is a deeply satisfying rendition of the ground-breaking musical. The Music Circus production of A Chorus Line continues through Sunday at the Wells Fargo Pavi…
An extraordinary performance by Shannon Mahoney will stand out at the new Capital Stage production. Stephanie Gularte in the Capital Stage production of “Maple and Vine.” …
For Kate Levering the road to Broadway and Hollywood started in Sacramento. Jenifer Foote, who grew up in Fair Oaks, rehearses for “A Chorus Line,” opening Tuesday at Musi…
At its outset Jeff Talbott’s 2011 “The Submission” sounds like it falls somewhere between David Mamet’s “Race” and any number of Neil LaBute plays y…
The earnest young community theater-makers at Free Fall Stage are presenting the human trafficking drama. “She Has a Name” features, from left, Bonnie Antignani, Supatcha…
A warm and fuzzy modern comedy fits the comfortably on the B Street main stage. Jamie Jones, left, Jason Kuykendall and Tara Sissom appear in the B Street Theatre production of “…
‘Alexander’ tells a timeless story for all ages in B Street’s Family Series. From left, Emily Killian, Armando Rivera and Denver Skye Vaughan appear in B Street…
SacImpulse stages a surreal, time-traveling faux “historical biography” based on Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando.’ “Orlando” cast members, fr…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
STC stages the musical farce ‘Forum’ in a ‘70s setting. “Scapino!” features, clockwise from lower left, Scarlett Becky Vang, Anthony Person, Julian O…
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…
The six-play schedule opens in September with Nina Raines’ highly acclaimed “Tribes.” Jonathan Williams, producing artistic director of Capital Stage, selected the…
B Streets Michael Stevenson stars in Wittenberg in Berkeley. Big Idea Theatre’s “Inventing Van Gogh” stars, from left, Brian Watson, Ed Gyles, Br…
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&…
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…
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. …
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…
The Bee's Marcus Crowder suggests performances worth seeing. John Sanders, right, is villainous in “Peter and the Starcatcher.”
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…
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 …
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,” …
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…
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.”
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…