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…
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…
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…
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…
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 ……
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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!…
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…
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…
Frederick Knott's "Dial M for Murder" has become a popular, iconic and much-imitated thriller ever since the play first premiered on BBC television in 1952. Sacramento Theatre Company G…