Sunday, May 19, 2013
Luke and Adam are in a long-term relationship and have a lot in common except for one thing: Luke believes in God and Adam is an atheist.
Rob August, left, plays Luke and Jon Jackson pl…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 01:11PMTwo powerful plays from celebrated dramatists opened in Sacramento this week – Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" at Capital Stage and Neil Simon's "The Gingerbread Lady" at the New Helvet…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 01:11PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Idris Goodwin's savvy new play "How We Got On," premiering on the West Coast at the B Street Theatre, is full of affecting surprises. Though the story is set in 1988 suburban Midwest America…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Stephanie Gularte, founding artistic director of Capital Stage, has announced the theater troupe's 2013-14 season, a mix of contemporary and classic works from playwrights including Bruce No…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 04:52PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
In the Sacramento Theatre Company's ambitious world premiere musical "A Little Princess," young Sara Crewe has been raised like royalty but must comport herself like a soldier.
Alyssa M…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMSunday, April 28, 2013
Richard Montoya's new poetic elegy of a play, "The River," flows like an unruly natural watercourse, rushing through rapids and twisting around curves before eventually finding peace.
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SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFriday, April 26, 2013
When "A Little Princess" opens Saturday night at the Sacramento Theatre Company, an arduous – though typical – journey ends for the world premiere musical.
Composer Eric Rockw…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMCity Theatre at Sacramento City College goes for it in a big way with its new production of the classic musical comedy "Guys and Dolls." With a cast of 32, a seven-piece live orchestra, and …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFriday, April 19, 2013
The sketch comedy and improv troupe from the B Street Theatre has started picking up momentum at its new Assembly digs.
Brittni Barger is part of the company of funny people performing …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFriday, April 12, 2013
George Bernard Shaw's first staged play, "Widowers' Houses," premiered Dec. 9, 1892, at the Royalty Theatre in London. Since it was produced by the Independent Theatre Society, a private sub…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMChildren make up one of the most open and attentive audience groups. They will happily and willingly suspend disbelief for all kinds of entertainment.
Voice of the Wood performs "How th…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
"Billy Elliot the Musical" has two of the most important elements going for it: creative storytelling and engaging subject matter.
A coal miner's son finds himself the lone boy in dance…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 05:50PMSunday, April 7, 2013
Broadway Sacramento has announced its 2013-14 season with a six-show package that includes five regional premieres.
Broadway Sacramento will bring "Wicked" back to the Community Center …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMMonday, April 1, 2013
Athol Fugard's slowly simmering 1982 drama "Master Harold … and the boys" encapsulates the tragic complexities of apartheid-era South Africa in one dismal rainy afternoon. The fine new …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 06:00PMFriday, March 29, 2013
Photographers Jay Spooner and Allyson Seconds wrap up their joint "Retrospectives" show with a fun-for-all closing night shindig Saturday at midtown's Little Relics Galleria.
In one of …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMTuesday, March 26, 2013
April 4, 1968, Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.. The date and place are famous as the setting of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
Beethovan Oden plays Dr. Mar…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFriday, March 22, 2013
Ballet and humor aren't the most common dance partners, yet the Sacramento Ballet has found comic charm in its new program at the Community Center Theater.
Oliver-Paul Adams and Kaori H…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 06:38PMSunday, March 17, 2013
Stephanie Gularte's imminent resignation as artistic director at Capital Stage, the professional theater company she co-founded, closes a remarkable and inspiring chapter in the region's art…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFriday, March 15, 2013
David Pierini's new play "Finding Our Voice: Susan B. and the Women's Suffrage Movement" places the historical elements of the story in an accessible personal context. Pierini tells the stor…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
New Helvetia Theatre's sparkling production of Adam Gwon's satisfying "Ordinary Days" has so many charms it's hard to know where to begin. Set in contemporary New York, the funny and dramati…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 09:00PMTuesday, March 12, 2013
Who knows how many kids and parents have the songs from "Disney's Beauty and the Beast" etched in their brains from repeated listening? That number is surely astronomical, as the 1991 film h…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMSaturday, March 9, 2013
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has made an art of retooling its leadership.
Cynthia Rider has taken over as executive director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland.
Cyn…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 10:04PMCapital Stage founding artistic director Stephanie Gularte announced Friday that she will leave the theater after its 2013-2014 season. Capital Stage board President Cliff McFarland said the…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFriday, March 8, 2013
Capital Stage founding artistic director Stephanie Gularte announced Friday that she will leave the theater after its 2013-2014 season. Capital Stage board president Cliff McFarland said the…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 07:02PMThe Oregon Shakespeare Festival has made an art of retooling its leadership.
"My Fair Lady" is presented in a fairly minimal but still solid fashion by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 06:24PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
As young Lysander doggedly pursues an uneven romance in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," he sagely observes, "The course of true love never did run smooth."
Sacramento Theatre Company's pro…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 04:34PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Playwright Michael Elyanow's tumultuous world-premiere comedy-drama "Robyn Is Happy" at B Street Theatre veers across wide swaths of dramatic territory.
Terri Brindisi
"Robyn Is Happy"…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFriday, March 1, 2013
Sacramento theater reboots this weekend with four new shows opening, including two Shakespearean comedies and two world premieres.
Big Idea theatre stages "As You Like It " with a Sacra…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMSunday, February 24, 2013
Ben Moroski still can't say why he used to cut himself. Even though the Davis native has written and performed a one-person play based on his self-mutilation, he can't reduce his reasons to …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMSunday, February 3, 2013
Shpritz Anthony, a beloved member of the Sacramento theater community, passed away unexpectedly Jan. 5 at his Sacramento home at the age of 47. The cause of death has not been determined.
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SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 11:36AMFriday, February 1, 2013
If you're wondering what today's kids are up to, take a trip out to Three Stages at Folsom Lake College this weekend. You'll see some terrific theater by young people, and more than that, yo…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM 
