Though well-acted, lively and colorful, the play based on a Persian Sufi poem can be too esoteric. Ryan Adame, left, Nikki Massoud, center, and Meher Mistry play young birds on a journe…
With dialogue but no action, actors Kurt Johnson and David Pierini paint a vivid portrait of officers in crisis David Pierini, in the foreground, and Kurt Johnson portray police partne…
One-woman show ‘Tied Up in Knotts’ incorporates show business, family stories Karen Knotts appears on dad Don Knotts’ short-lived TV variety show in 1971. The elder Kn…
Tara Sissom’s boisterous performance as a tenuously clean drug addict in “Detroit” at first plays as too big for the B Street Theatre stage. Then you recognize that it&#…
There's been a lot of talk lately about stage musicals being better than their film adaptations.It's true. The stage musical "Rock of Ages," playing through Sunday at Sacramento's Community …
Cindy Williams, 65, spent the 1970s in the thick of Hollywood creativity, acting for directors George Lucas ("American Graffiti") and Francis Ford Coppola ("The Conversation") and starring o…
When Charles Ross was young, he lived on a farm in Canada that lacked radio and television reception. He entertained himself by watching the two movies his family owned. Charles Ross cr…
The hook of "Wicked," the enormously successful Broadway musical, is its insight into Elphaba, the young woman who would become the much-loathed Wicked Witch in "The Wizard of Oz." Alli…