Richard Montoya's new poetic elegy of a play, "The River," flows like an unruly natural watercourse, rushing through rapids and twisting around curves before eventually finding peace. …
When "A Little Princess" opens Saturday night at the Sacramento Theatre Company, an arduous – though typical – journey ends for the world premiere musical. Composer Eric Rockw…
City Theatre at Sacramento City College goes for it in a big way with its new production of the classic musical comedy "Guys and Dolls." With a cast of 32, a seven-piece live orchestra, and …
The sketch comedy and improv troupe from the B Street Theatre has started picking up momentum at its new Assembly digs. Brittni Barger is part of the company of funny people performing …
George Bernard Shaw's first staged play, "Widowers' Houses," premiered Dec. 9, 1892, at the Royalty Theatre in London. Since it was produced by the Independent Theatre Society, a private sub…
Children make up one of the most open and attentive audience groups. They will happily and willingly suspend disbelief for all kinds of entertainment. Voice of the Wood performs "How th…
"Billy Elliot the Musical" has two of the most important elements going for it: creative storytelling and engaging subject matter. A coal miner's son finds himself the lone boy in dance…
Broadway Sacramento has announced its 2013-14 season with a six-show package that includes five regional premieres. Broadway Sacramento will bring "Wicked" back to the Community Center …
Athol Fugard's slowly simmering 1982 drama "Master Harold … and the boys" encapsulates the tragic complexities of apartheid-era South Africa in one dismal rainy afternoon. The fine new …
Photographers Jay Spooner and Allyson Seconds wrap up their joint "Retrospectives" show with a fun-for-all closing night shindig Saturday at midtown's Little Relics Galleria. In one of …
April 4, 1968, Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.. The date and place are famous as the setting of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Beethovan Oden plays Dr. Mar…
Ballet and humor aren't the most common dance partners, yet the Sacramento Ballet has found comic charm in its new program at the Community Center Theater. Oliver-Paul Adams and Kaori H…
Stephanie Gularte's imminent resignation as artistic director at Capital Stage, the professional theater company she co-founded, closes a remarkable and inspiring chapter in the region's art…
David Pierini's new play "Finding Our Voice: Susan B. and the Women's Suffrage Movement" places the historical elements of the story in an accessible personal context. Pierini tells the stor…
New Helvetia Theatre's sparkling production of Adam Gwon's satisfying "Ordinary Days" has so many charms it's hard to know where to begin. Set in contemporary New York, the funny and dramati…
Who knows how many kids and parents have the songs from "Disney's Beauty and the Beast" etched in their brains from repeated listening? That number is surely astronomical, as the 1991 film h…
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has made an art of retooling its leadership. Cynthia Rider has taken over as executive director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Cyn…
Capital Stage founding artistic director Stephanie Gularte announced Friday that she will leave the theater after its 2013-2014 season. Capital Stage board President Cliff McFarland said the…
Capital Stage founding artistic director Stephanie Gularte announced Friday that she will leave the theater after its 2013-2014 season. Capital Stage board president Cliff McFarland said the…
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has made an art of retooling its leadership. "My Fair Lady" is presented in a fairly minimal but still solid fashion by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. …
As young Lysander doggedly pursues an uneven romance in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," he sagely observes, "The course of true love never did run smooth." Sacramento Theatre Company's pro…
Playwright Michael Elyanow's tumultuous world-premiere comedy-drama "Robyn Is Happy" at B Street Theatre veers across wide swaths of dramatic territory. Terri Brindisi "Robyn Is Happy"…
Sacramento theater reboots this weekend with four new shows opening, including two Shakespearean comedies and two world premieres. Big Idea theatre stages "As You Like It " with a Sacra…
Ben Moroski still can't say why he used to cut himself. Even though the Davis native has written and performed a one-person play based on his self-mutilation, he can't reduce his reasons to …
Shpritz Anthony, a beloved member of the Sacramento theater community, passed away unexpectedly Jan. 5 at his Sacramento home at the age of 47. The cause of death has not been determined. …