Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Muriel Johnson, Sandy Smoley and the late Jean Runyon are influential Sacramento women who have an unlikely and little-known connection. Each participated as a volunteer actress in the Sacr…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFriday, January 31, 2014
The Bee's Marcus Crowder suggests performances worth seeing.
David Blue Garrison, front, and Corey D. Winfield star in the second part of Tony Kushner’s landmark “Angels …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMTuesday, January 28, 2014
With a writer as the central subject, and absolute standards in art and love as a central theme, Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing” may be the celebrated playwright’s most i…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:12AMMonday, January 27, 2014
With a writer as the central subject, and absolute standards in art and love as a central theme, Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing” may be the celebrated playwright’…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 07:00PMThursday, January 23, 2014
Shaw production explores power and influence.
Myra Melford
George Bernard Shaw’s “Major Barbara,” being staged at San Francisco’s American Conservato…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 07:00PMFriday, January 17, 2014
The tribute to the Chicano poet, artist and activist will include UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta.
Lisa Lacy in “Livin’ Out Loud,” at the DDSO Parkway Theatre.
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SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMWednesday, January 15, 2014
STC’s ‘Closer Than Ever’ has its charms but also it’s misses.
STC’s production of “Closer Than Ever” features, from left, Kristen Heit…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 04:00PMTuesday, January 14, 2014
A hectoring comedy examines the differences between the haves and have-nots.
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMSunday, January 12, 2014
California Musical Theatre is still listening to its Music Circus audience. Similar to the last two seasons, the new schedule of productions is heavily influenced by patron choices.
Th…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFriday, January 10, 2014
Molly Smith Metzler’s ‘Elemeno Pea’ is a cautionary tale for any time or place.
“Elemeno Pea” at B Street Theatre features, from left, Stephanie Alth…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMSunday, January 5, 2014
With the holidays behind us, the winter theater season pushes on.
Jillian Mueller is Alex Owens and Matthew Hydz is Nick Hurley in the national touring production of “Flashdance…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMFriday, December 27, 2013
Several shows deserve recognition for 2013.
Stephanie Gularte played the title role in Capital Stage’s production of “Hedda Gabler.”
“Ordinary Days&…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMSunday, December 22, 2013
A national touring production brings “Buddy — The Buddy Holly Musical,” to Sacramento’s Community Center Theater.
Todd Meredith takes flight in “Budd…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
David Sedaris’ acerbic observations in “The SantaLand Diaries” may not be everyone’s idea of Christmas spirit, but that’s actually the point. “Keep …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 05:00PMThursday, December 5, 2013
Composer and pianist John Bucchino may want to make Sacramento his second home after this weekend.
Aaron Wilton does a solo turn as Crumpet the discontented Macy’s elf in humori…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 07:00PMTuesday, December 3, 2013
When we first meet George Bailey in the painfully sentimental “It’s a Wonderful Life – The Musical” he’s a bit chagrined and a little bemused.
Sacrame…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThursday, November 28, 2013
There are the theatrical gifts we’ve come to expect this time of year – productions of “A Christmas Carol,” “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 01:00PMSunday, November 24, 2013
“Not In the Stars” continues the B Street tradition of a new holiday play written each year by Busfield.
Buck Busfield’s “Not In the Stars” features,…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMWednesday, November 20, 2013
The B Street Family Series creates a lean, funny, heartfelt fable that both children and adults can enjoy.
Emily Killian and Michael Stevenson play the title characters in the B Street…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00PMFriday, November 15, 2013
In March, Capital Stage announced that its co-founding artistic director, Stephanie Gularte, would be stepping down at the end of the 2013-14 season and the company would begin a national se…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThursday, November 14, 2013
Richard Falcon’s Teatro Nagual brings another drama by playwright Rubén Amavizca-Murúa (“Frida Kahlo” and “Women of Juarez”) to Sacramento with t…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 09:00PMDr. Roberto Pomo’s new play, “Che Guevara and the Dispossessed,” has been a long time in the making. In some ways, the production, which had its world premiere this week…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 01:00PMMonday, November 11, 2013
World premiere production is a long, dull slog regardless of playwright’s intentions.
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 05:07PMWednesday, November 6, 2013
There is a moment in “Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical” when all would not necessarily be forgiven as much as it would be forgotten.
Wade McCollum, Scott Willis …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 04:05PMMonday, November 4, 2013
John Sanders worked hard at being an actor long before he ever got paid to walk onstage.
John Sanders, at center in the touring Broadway production of “Peter and the Starcatcher…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 04:40PMMonday, October 28, 2013
Look deep into the haunted pools of Scott Coopwood’s painted eyes as he plays the glorious warrior Macbeth and you find a man who has embraced his darkest essence. He has relentlessly…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 06:42PMMonday, October 14, 2013
Emma chooses men badly. Or poorly. Or unwisely. Put another way, she’s a good woman whom bad men happen to. They’re not even bad men, really, just fatally flawed when it comes …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 04:38PMMonday, October 7, 2013
Despite her early 19th century origins, Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet has always seemed a most modern heroine. The popular and accessible character becomes even more so in Brittni Ba…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 05:18PMFriday, October 4, 2013
Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” both mocks and celebrates the great Anton Chekhov plays it pulls its characters from.
Sharon Lockwood, l…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 02:46PMThursday, October 3, 2013
Production adapts works of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton.
The cast of “My Own Stranger” includes Lisa Thew, left, and Kellie Yvonne Raines, rehearsing at the Oo…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMThursday, September 26, 2013
This weekend Big Idea Theatre opens playwright Lee Blessing’s moody cautionary tale of power, morality, crimes and punishments, “Lonesome Hollow.”
Lee Marie Kelly …
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AM 
