The 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…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThe good news and not-so-good news about "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" is that it's a charming little musical idea. The four performers are easily likable, showing off terrific co…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMPlaywright Laura Schellhardt tells a slick and mysterious little story in her play "The K of D: An Urban Legend." Tara Sissom and Jason Kuykendall play multiple roles in the B Street …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThe off-Broadway sensation "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" is exactly the kind of musical the Cosmopolitan Cabaret was designed for – a small-cast romantic comedy with confirme…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMRemember those head-spinning days at the turn of the century when the Enron energy trading scandal made the news? Something on that scale will never happen again, we thought. But to paraphra…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMRemember those head-spinning days at the turn of the century when the Enron energy trading scandal made the news? Something on that scale will never happen again, we thought. But to paraphra…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:49PMThe current lively production of "Mahalia: A Gospel Musical" at the Guild Theater has just four performances left. Based on the life of the woman known as the queen of gospel, Mahalia Jackso…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThe new theater season brims with promise, excitement and innovation. From Capital Stage's "Enron," an exploration of American greed and avarice, to the touring production of "The Book of Mo…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM"Severed Roots," a historical drama by Manuel Jose Pickett and Sam Rios, deals with the first contacts between Mayans and Spanish explorers on the Yucatán Peninsula. Ike Torres as …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMIt's just a little bit ironic that the rousing, crowd-pleasing "Crazy for You" closes the Music Circus season as the summer's big dance show. Charr Crail Noah Racey and Ann Horak danc…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMHaving never seen or heard the painter Mark Rothko, it's impossible to say if actor Brian Dykstra channels the influential artist or not. Dykstra channels something deep, though, in his heav…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThe sublime new production of "Fiddler on the Roof" at the Music Circus gives the summer series its most poignant and affecting moment of the season. Ron Wisniski, left, is Lazar Wolf a…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMTheresa Rebeck's 2011 play "Seminar" has several strong elements going for its West Coast premiere at the B Street Theatre. Beginning as a funny, biting satire of various East Coast literar…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM"War Horse," the the World War I epic from the National Theatre of Great Britain, has galloped into San Francisco's Curran Theatre. Acclaimed as much for its theatrical spectacle and innovat…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThe current booming Music Circus production of "The Music Man" contains all the old-timey, good-timey spunk that made American musicals so celebrated. Meredith Willson's (book, music, and ly…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMShirley Jones and her son Patrick Cassidy, both in Sacramento to star in the upcoming Music Circus production of "The Music Man," have worked together in the past. Patrick Cassidy sings…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFor its final weekend of 2012, the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival can soothe itself with these words from its namesake: "The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief, He robs hims…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMChristopher Shinn's emotionally harrowing "Dying City" works with wondrous efficiency. The 80-minute drama covers not one but two dark nights of the soul, concerning three characters played …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThe New Helvetia Theatre will waste no time breaking in its new home at the Studio Theatre. The young professional theater company stages its first Sacramento New Works Festival starting Th…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMWhile the clarion call is "Let's put on a show!" Barnyard Theatre doesn't harken back to musicals of the '30s (kind of too bad in a way). These precocious kids – who are young adults at…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMNew Helvetia Theatre will waste no time breaking in its new home at The Studio Theatre.
SOURCE: blogs.sacbee.com at 01:51PMThe B Street Theatre's new Summer Improv and Sketch Comedy revue, "B Sketchy," builds nicely on the company's foray into laugh-based entertainment last summer. Dave Pierini, left, Britt…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMDaisuke Tsuji and Eddie Lopez are two young Sacramento-bred actors whose paths have crossed in the first-class theatrical world of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In "Henry V," the Duk…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM"Troilus and Cressida" may be the mother of all Shakespeare's "problem plays," with its unclassifiable mix of farce, romance, tragedy and fierce satire. John Tufts plays King Henry in "…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThe vibrant new Music Circus production of "Disney's The Little Mermaid" boasts a remarkable achievement for the venerable Sacramento venue. Vicki Lewis, left, plays Aunt Ursula, who ha…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:04AMArtistic director Buck Busfield has assembled some key members of his B Street acting ensemble including Dave Pierini, Amy Kelly, Brittni Barger and Stephanie Altholz, into an improv sketc…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM"Anna in the Tropics," the 2003 Pulitzer Prize- winning play by Nilo Cruz, re-creates a fascinating period of American history. An influx of Cuban immigrants brought their cigar-making craft…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThe high point for the new Music Circus production of "Grease" comes three songs into the show, which is a little early considering there still are 17 tunes to go. Brandon Albright as …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFor those who don't pay too much attention, there exists the idea that B Street Theatre does more or less the same thing each time out. Peter Story, left, and Jason Kuykendall star in "…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMAs Music Circus approaches its 62nd season – its 10th in the Wells Fargo Pavilion – the organization has incorporated new ideas along with old ones as it reinvents itself. Bra…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMIt's well known that Capital Stage co-founder Jonathan Rhys Williams is a handy chap to have around the theater – there's little involved with putting on a show that he can't do. D…
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