There's something undeniably watchable and winning about "Memphis," the eager-to-please musical now at the Community Center Theater. It's not the slick, superficial story of music and race i…
We are in the Golden Age of Sacramento theater – tonight and all this weekend. Jonathan Rhys Williams, left, and Michael Stevenson in the tale of an energy-trading scam in "Enron,…
If you've ever seen members of a great basketball team working together, you understand a physical poetry unlike any other. Elisabeth Nunziato, left, David Pierini and Brian Dykstra in…
The distance between an idea and reality can be enormous. "Vinegar Tom" cast and crew members and the music team gather in and around the empty swimming pool in the Elks Tower, downtow…
The Sacramento Theatre Company's spirited season-opening production of "The Miracle Worker" ironically benefits from careful restraint. Brittni Barger as Annie Sullivan, left, and Bella…
The vibrant, multi- talented Melinda Parrett returns tonight to Sacramento for "Next to Normal," the New Helvetia Theatre's first full-length production in its new space. Michael Hun…
The good news and not-so-good news about "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" is that it's a charming little musical idea. The four performers are easily likable, showing off terrific co…
Playwright Laura Schellhardt tells a slick and mysterious little story in her play "The K of D: An Urban Legend." Tara Sissom and Jason Kuykendall play multiple roles in the B Street …
The off-Broadway sensation "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" is exactly the kind of musical the Cosmopolitan Cabaret was designed for – a small-cast romantic comedy with confirme…
Remember those head-spinning days at the turn of the century when the Enron energy trading scandal made the news? Something on that scale will never happen again, we thought. But to paraphra…
Remember those head-spinning days at the turn of the century when the Enron energy trading scandal made the news? Something on that scale will never happen again, we thought. But to paraphra…
The current lively production of "Mahalia: A Gospel Musical" at the Guild Theater has just four performances left. Based on the life of the woman known as the queen of gospel, Mahalia Jackso…
The new theater season brims with promise, excitement and innovation. From Capital Stage's "Enron," an exploration of American greed and avarice, to the touring production of "The Book of Mo…
"Severed Roots," a historical drama by Manuel Jose Pickett and Sam Rios, deals with the first contacts between Mayans and Spanish explorers on the Yucatán Peninsula. Ike Torres as …
It's just a little bit ironic that the rousing, crowd-pleasing "Crazy for You" closes the Music Circus season as the summer's big dance show. Charr Crail Noah Racey and Ann Horak danc…
Having never seen or heard the painter Mark Rothko, it's impossible to say if actor Brian Dykstra channels the influential artist or not. Dykstra channels something deep, though, in his heav…
The sublime new production of "Fiddler on the Roof" at the Music Circus gives the summer series its most poignant and affecting moment of the season. Ron Wisniski, left, is Lazar Wolf a…
Theresa Rebeck's 2011 play "Seminar" has several strong elements going for its West Coast premiere at the B Street Theatre. Beginning as a funny, biting satire of various East Coast literar…
"War Horse," the the World War I epic from the National Theatre of Great Britain, has galloped into San Francisco's Curran Theatre. Acclaimed as much for its theatrical spectacle and innovat…
The current booming Music Circus production of "The Music Man" contains all the old-timey, good-timey spunk that made American musicals so celebrated. Meredith Willson's (book, music, and ly…
Shirley Jones and her son Patrick Cassidy, both in Sacramento to star in the upcoming Music Circus production of "The Music Man," have worked together in the past. Patrick Cassidy sings…
For its final weekend of 2012, the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival can soothe itself with these words from its namesake: "The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief, He robs hims…
Christopher Shinn's emotionally harrowing "Dying City" works with wondrous efficiency. The 80-minute drama covers not one but two dark nights of the soul, concerning three characters played …
The New Helvetia Theatre will waste no time breaking in its new home at the Studio Theatre. The young professional theater company stages its first Sacramento New Works Festival starting Th…
While the clarion call is "Let's put on a show!" Barnyard Theatre doesn't harken back to musicals of the '30s (kind of too bad in a way). These precocious kids – who are young adults at…