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 03:00AMA "carapace" refers to the protective shell of a turtle or tortoise. When the idea turns up in a play you can bet it's symbolic of a character's, you know, protective shell. Dave Pierin…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMI get the feeling that playwright Jason Wells intended his farce "The North Plan" as a cautionary black comedy about the potentially draconian results of the Homeland Security Act. Along the…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMWhen I saw the off-Broadway production of Rajiv Joseph's "Gruesome Playground Injuries" in 2011, the production was being overshadowed by another Joseph play. The prolific and highly regarde…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMJack Gallagher specializes in both transparency and personal oral history. Comedian Jack Gallagher stars in his self-scripted show "Complete and Unfinished" at the B Street Theatre.
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFor our theater entertainment and edification, Jack Gallagher will again cannibalize his life. Jack Gallagher poses in the office of the B Street Theatre, where he's preparing his lates…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMTrue story: In college, I took a class on the 17th century Dutch Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza and we examined his signature work "Ethics." I tried very hard but understood very little, …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThe duo of Sam Misner and Megan Smith are fine actors and even better Americana singer-songwriters. The pair met, appropriately enough, in a production of the musical "Woody Guthrie's Americ…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMActor Jerry Lee branches out from his more well-scrubbed musical theater roles to an unusual one- person telling of "A Tale of Two Cities." Jerry Lee stars in Everett Quinton's retellin…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMGlenn Casale has an international directing career that seems to have only two gears: overdrive and off. Cathy Rigby, center, as Peter Pan leads the Lost Boys through their frolicsome a…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM"A Pail of Grace," the 17th original holiday play written by Buck Busfield, slyly slips in as a smart comedy with thoughtful underpinnings. But Busfield, who also directs, has spirituality o…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMHoliday theater has a tradition of particular themes played out through beloved stories and characters. The popularity of these productions is a blessing and a curse for theater companies. …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThe British panto tradition, for all its surface anarchy, follows a number of guidelines. Tyson Wheeler plays White Rabbit and Bradley Moates portrays the Dame in "Alice in Wonderland: …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMCalifornia Musical Theatre has turned out the lights and dropped the curtain on the Cosmopolitan Cabaret. The Cosmopolitan Cabaret production of "Forbidden Broadway" features, clockwise…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 10:39AMSuccessful productions of "A Christmas Carol" are never about the play's destination, but about the journey of a certain character that still has the capacity to inspire us. Matt K. Mi…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMJerry R. Montoya's completely charming new adaptation of O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" shows how effective and accessible the 1906 story remains. Brittni Barger plays Della and Sam…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFrom annual revivals of perennial chestnuts to original productions receiving world premieres, the works combine the spirit and celebration of the holiday season. Buck Busfield's "A Pai…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMIt's been 25 years since the Sacramento Theatre Company first presented its original version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." That production was written by Richard Hellesen with mus…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMDella and James each give up a prized possession in order to get the other a gift.
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM'A Pail of Grace," which opened Sunday at the B Street Theatre, is the 17th original holiday play penned by Buck Busfield. In this comedy with smart and thoughtful underpinnings, Busfield wr…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFelix Artiflex goes on and on and on. He talks continuously. He talks endlessly. He talks ad nauseam. He talks as if his life depends on getting the words out, which in a figurative way, …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMDirector Carolyn Howarth believes a certain amount of trepidation can be healthy when taking on a new project. After she first read the script for Craig Wright's "Mistakes Were Made," she th…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMIn Shakespeare's ironic literary comedy "Love's Labour's Lost," the young King Ferdinand of Navarre persuades his friends to swear off women and pursue lives of study, fasting and sleep. …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThere's been a lot of water under the bridge since Charles Ludlam and his companion Everett Quinton first staged "The Mystery of Irma Vep" in 1984. The cross-dressing mash-up of gothic melod…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMJoan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking" recalls the span of time when her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, and their daughter, Quintana Dunne Michael, both died. Janis Stevens s…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThere's something undeniably watchable and winning about "Memphis," the eager-to-please musical now at the Community Center Theater. It's not the slick, superficial story of music and race i…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMWe are in the Golden Age of Sacramento theater – tonight and all this weekend. Jonathan Rhys Williams, left, and Michael Stevenson in the tale of an energy-trading scam in "Enron,…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMIf you've ever seen members of a great basketball team working together, you understand a physical poetry unlike any other. Elisabeth Nunziato, left, David Pierini and Brian Dykstra in…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThe distance between an idea and reality can be enormous. "Vinegar Tom" cast and crew members and the music team gather in and around the empty swimming pool in the Elks Tower, downtow…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThe Sacramento Theatre Company's spirited season-opening production of "The Miracle Worker" ironically benefits from careful restraint. Brittni Barger as Annie Sullivan, left, and Bella…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThe vibrant, multi- talented Melinda Parrett returns tonight to Sacramento for "Next to Normal," the New Helvetia Theatre's first full-length production in its new space. Michael Hun…
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