242 stories by "Marcus Crowder"
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…
There are the theatrical gifts we’ve come to expect this time of year – productions of “A Christmas Carol,” “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “…
“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,…
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…
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…
Richard Falcon’s Teatro Nagual brings another drama by playwright Rubén Amavizca-Murúa (“Frida Kahlo” and “Women of Juarez”) to Sacramento with t…
Dr. 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…
World premiere production is a long, dull slog regardless of playwright’s intentions.
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
This weekend Big Idea Theatre opens playwright Lee Blessing’s moody cautionary tale of power, morality, crimes and punishments, “Lonesome Hollow.”
Lee Marie Kelly …
B Street Theatre presents Aaron Posner’s adaptation of Chaim Potok’s 1972 novel.
Max Rosenak, left, is the title character, with Joe Polis and Julie Voshell as his parent…
Stockton Civic Theatre’s production of “Sweeney Todd” walked away the big winner Sunday night at the 2013 Adult Elly Awards presentation held for the first time at Red Lion I…
Sacramento Bee theater critic Marcus Crowder looks at area productions
Kate Levering, who starred in “42nd Street,” returns for Best of Broadway.
Tony winners. A musical biography. Inventive takes on the Bard and Brecht. Sacramento and Northern California have plans to stage more than their fair share of interesting and entertaining p…
Playwright Bruce Norris’ razor-sharp “Clybourne Park” has so much happening that the comedy-drama runs the risk of being misunderstood.
Atim Udoffia, left, Beethov…
Capital Stage likes to wrap its theatrical seasons around a theme, and this year the six subscription offerings are called “The Homefront.” While that could imply a conservativ…
There’s a lightness of spirit that lifts “The Drowsy Chaperone” and makes the charming musical a continual joy. The piece of theater about the wonder of theater and the …
Sacramento’s Knockoffs celebrate 20 years in show business at Old Ironsides.
Dan Reynoso of the Knockoffs catches some air. Chord on its way.
All that Fosse. And yes it can be said here, “All that Jazz” has finally come to the Music Circus. The deconstructed but still fully entertaining 1996 revival of the Bob Fosse,…
