Friday, June 22, 2012
It'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…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 15, 2012
William Shakespeare's "The Tempest," written in 1611, has often been called the playwright's farewell to theater with banished magician Prospero standing in for the retiring artist.
Eri…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2012
The Los Angeles-based actress Danielle Moné Truitt still has deep roots in Sacramento, where she grew up. When she had an idea for a show about women dealing with issues of identity and…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]The good vibes radiating from Ashley Dawn Mortensen seem unnaturally bright. But the young, up-and-coming actress has such a grounded presence and open-eyed understanding of her business tha…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2012
As much as we know theater alchemy exists where disparate elements come together to create an experience greater than the sum of its parts, the same happens in comedy.
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 27, 2012
Summer theater traditionally kicks off with Shakespeare outdoors, and Cal Shakes in Orinda handles that nicely next weekend with the elegiac late masterwork "The Tempest." Of course, you can…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 25, 2012
B Street Theatre stalwart and associate producer Jerry Montoya along with his 11-year-old son, Malachi, have taken something of a "Wicked" route with their new adaptation of "Hansel and Gret…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 24, 2012
The young playwright A. Rey Pamatmat unevenly merges two different themes in his new drama "Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them," now at the B Street Theatre in its B3 series.
A budding…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Paula Vogel's knotty, time-shifting memory play "How I Learned to Drive" takes a meandering road to a gloomy lesson learned for its main character, Li'l Bit.
Capital Stage
Melanie Marsh…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 18, 2012
From some of the earliest days of professional theater, acting troupes have traveled from city to city and town to town with their productions.
Teresa Avia Lim plays the title character…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Local legend Kathy Barwick has been a reliable, sought-after player on the local music scene for the past 20 years. A nationally known flatpicking guitarist, Barwick also is a virtuoso on do…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 15, 2012
As Capital Stage artistic director Stephanie Gularte sat comfortably on a stool on a bare stage in her company's new theater on J Street, colorful slides flickered by on the screen near her…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 11, 2012
Lisa Lacy carries a great deal of ambition for her Images Theatre Company, both in the present and the near future.
Rob Anthony Gray, center, as Christian, rehearses with castmates rece…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Carlo Gozzi's dark 18th century commedia dell'arte fairy tale "The King Stag" takes us to the Kingdom of Serendippo and a court full of amorous intrigue. The king is auditioning women to be …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The Sacramento Theater Company has announced its new season of productions for 2012-13, which will see it stage seven shows in its two theaters, including one world premiere musical on the M…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Playwright Kate Fodor's sharp-witted, laugh-out-loud new comedy "Rx" poses a familiar vexing paradox for its main characters.
Peter Story as Phil and Stephanie Altholz as Meena are a f…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's popular chamber musical "Little Shop of Horrors" has always thrived on cheeky simplicity. The story of a Faustian bond between an otherworldly plant that feed…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 22, 2012
Last year at this time, the Sacramento Theatre Company was in the process of cutting loose its then-artistic director Matt K. Miller and replacing him with an executive director, Steve Bark…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 20, 2012
Considering the fact that most people think playwright Jane Martin is actually former Actors Theatre of Louisville artistic director Jon Jory, it's fascinating that Martin's expertise lies i…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2012
The solidly entertaining "Million Dollar Quartet" is less about the ground-breaking rock 'n' roll stars of the title and more about the man who discovered them.
Martin Kaye plays ……
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 15, 2012
California Musical Theatre announced today the lineup for the 2012-13 Broadway Sacramento series, the 24th year the company has presented touring Broadway musicals.
Former gymnast Cathy…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Elvis Presley strolled into the Memphis studios of Sun Records with his friend Marilyn Evans on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 1956, and when they left a few hours later, history had been made.
Look …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2012
The heartbreaking beauty of Stephen Sondheim's moving "Merrily We Roll Along" inevitably comes in its final moments.
Matthew Schneider, left, Jouni Kirjola and Tyler Robinson share a …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 6, 2012
Don't tell Connor Mickiewicz that he can't go home again. The determined New Helvetia artistic director continues to shoulder his spunky musical theater company up the hill of recognition an…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 1, 2012
Director Manuel Pickett has vivid memories of the first time he saw Luis Valdez's original production of "Zoot Suit" at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Martin J. Rodriguez, left, D…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Buck Busfield's new play for young people, "Young Tom Edison," paints a convincingly complex picture of the iconic inventor's early trials.
Dan Harlan, left, plays the adult Thomas Edi…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Playwright Sam Shepard's incendiary "True West" has the air of easy familiarity about it. The play has become one of the prolific writer's most popular titles, and several high-profile produ…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2012
Jonathan Rhys Williams and his Capital Stage colleagues thought moving to the company's tidy new home on J Street would "flip a switch" for the emerging professional theater company.
Ca…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 15, 2012
Should you want to see a musical theater phenomenon, look no further than Broadway Sacramento's current presentation of "Mamma Mia!"
The cast of the North American tour of "Mamma Mia!…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 11, 2012
The big news out of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this spring is the retirement of executive director Paul Nicholson at the end of 2012.
Romeo (Daniel JoséMolina), left, and Tyba…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 02:47PM[SHARE]Friday, March 9, 2012
As Morris Panych's new play "In Absentia" opens, a woman named Colette stands in a living room talking with her husband, Tom, who stands behind her.
Elisabeth Nunziato as Colette and D…
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