242 stories by "Marcus Crowder"
For Kate Levering the road to Broadway and Hollywood started in Sacramento.
Jenifer Foote, who grew up in Fair Oaks, rehearses for “A Chorus Line,” opening Tuesday at Musi…
At its outset Jeff Talbott’s 2011 “The Submission” sounds like it falls somewhere between David Mamet’s “Race” and any number of Neil LaBute plays y…
The earnest young community theater-makers at Free Fall Stage are presenting the human trafficking drama.
“She Has a Name” features, from left, Bonnie Antignani, Supatcha…
A warm and fuzzy modern comedy fits the comfortably on the B Street main stage.
Jamie Jones, left, Jason Kuykendall and Tara Sissom appear in the B Street Theatre production of “…
‘Alexander’ tells a timeless story for all ages in B Street’s Family Series.
From left, Emily Killian, Armando Rivera and Denver Skye Vaughan appear in B Street&#x…
SacImpulse stages a surreal, time-traveling faux “historical biography” based on Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando.’
“Orlando” cast members, fr…
B Street comedy craftily mashes up plays and themes of the great Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov.
Stephanie McVay and Greg Alexander star in the B Street Theatre’s staging of &#…
As much as a specific sense of place takes hold in David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Good People,” the play’s greatness lies in how it could happen anywhere.
Rebecca …
Michael Laun, executive producing director of Sacramento Theatre Company, is calling the 2014-15 slate of productions “A Season of Legends, Epics and Icons.”
Jerry Lee and Ja…
The farce “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” runs like a well-maintained machine. That’s what farces do, and the new production of the 1962 Tony Award-winn…
STC stages the musical farce ‘Forum’ in a ‘70s setting.
“Scapino!” features, clockwise from lower left, Scarlett Becky Vang, Anthony Person, Julian O…
B Street Theatre actor Dave Pierini has put together a late-night talk show-formatted evening, which “airs” live this week at the theater’s Mainstage.
Dave Pierini…
The six-play schedule opens in September with Nina Raines’ highly acclaimed “Tribes.”
Jonathan Williams, producing artistic director of Capital Stage, selected the…
B Street’s Michael Stevenson stars in ‘Wittenberg’ in Berkeley.
Big Idea Theatre’s “Inventing Van Gogh” stars, from left, Brian Watson, Ed Gyles, Br…
On the way to the average, uninspired, hit movie-based Broadway musical, a witty, irreverent and completely fun entertainment emerged in ‘Sister Act.’
“Sister Act&…
California Musical Theatre’s Richard Lewis isn’t taking any chances with the production pipeline that brings professional musical theater touring shows to town.
Josef Bro…
If you go to Sacramento Theatre Company’s “Visiting Mr. Green” and feel like you’ve seen it before, you’re probably remembering other recent plays there.
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California Stage, under the leadership of producing artistic director Ray Tatar, has consistently embraced new works. “Vanishing Point” is set in post-Katrina Louisiana and dea…
The Bee's Marcus Crowder suggests performances worth seeing.
John Sanders, right, is villainous in “Peter and the Starcatcher.”
As a childhood aficionado of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, I have always had great affection for the famously eccentric character and good mystery stories as well.
J…
There’s nothing quite like an emergency to stimulate the senses and test one’s poise.
Teddy Spencer is Leo and Dee Maaske is Vera in Capital Stage’s “4000 …
Dee Maaske has the skills to comfortably slip into the intricately layered Vera Joseph in “4000 Miles.”
Teddy Spencer and Dee Maaske rehearse for “4000 Miles,” …
The Bee's Marcus Crowder suggests performances worth seeing.
“Second-Best Bed” is being staged through March 30 at the Woodland Opera House. It stars, from left, Dan Satt…
Clever comedy is a pleasing fit for the intimacy of B Street Theatre.
Kurt Johnson and Melinda Parrett star in the B Street Theatre comedy “Wrong For Each Other.”
Shakespeare in general and “Romeo and Juliet” in particular has stood up to numerous “interpretations” as inspired or ill-conceived as they may be. The young “star c…
