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In many ways, thoughts about the role of women in society in 18th century France resemble debates that arose in this country with the Women's Movement of the 1960s and … Click to Conti…
The Sacramento Ballet announces the 2018-19 season "Roots and Wings" under new Artistic Director Amy Seiwert on May 23, 2018 at Sacramento City Hall. … Click to Continue »
The City Council approved an $11 million renovation of Sacramento Memorial Auditorium so it can host Broadway plays, ballet performances and other events while the Community Center Theater u…
Sacramento's historic Memorial Auditorium is about to get another run in the spotlight. The City Council on Tuesday approved an $11 million renovation of the theater so it can host … C…
Playwright Luigi Pirandello's celebrated and controversial "Six Characters in Search of an Author," written and first performed in 1921, was a drama within a drama and chock full of existent…
The Sacramento Ballet introduced new artistic director Amy Seiwert to the public at a windy event outside city hall Wednesday afternoon. Seiwert, who was a Sacramento Ballet dancer for eight…
Workers demolish temporary murals surrounding the former Sacramento Bee parking garage on Q and 21st streets in May 2018 as they prepare the site for a new apartment complex called the Press…
Public schools in California have "largely starved the arts" for the past 40 years, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said Wednesday. Now he's got a plan to change that situation. Steinberg…
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and local educators announced an initiative on Wednesday, May 18, 2018 to raise money for arts, music and theater in public schools in the region. … …
Sacramento courtroom artist Vicki Behringer sketches Joseph James DeAngelo's appearance in court on Monday, May 14. DeAngelo, the suspected East Area Rapist, faces 12 murder counts. He is dr…
For decades, a muscular sculpture of three leaping, gape-mouthed trout has perched at the entrance to Lake Tahoe's west shore in Tahoe City, offering homage to the alpine basin's wildlife &#…
The Capital Stage Company's newest drama, "Marjorie Prime," just might be its darkest, most powerful production of the season, and that's really saying something. Capital Stage " which launc…
Before he said his prayers, Raul Mejia would write the word 'love' in the condensation on his shower window. He had grown depressed over the state of his country when … Click to Contin…
Since the 1960's "ceramics" and "Bay Area" are forever linked in the history of modern ceramic sculpture. In a time of political, social, and cultural restlessness, consciousness raising, an…
When it comes to opera, Giacomo Puccini is one of the genre's most successful composers. And when it comes to Puccini, Tosca ranks as one of his most popular. On … Click to Continue &r…
Ray Tatar knows his Shakespeare. At least, he thought he did. Producing artistic director at California Stage Theater, Tatar has read many works by William Shakespeare, or as he notes ……
Long before people like Norman Vincent Peale, Tony Robbins and Deepak Chopra were preaching the power of positive thinking, there was Don Quixote. The chivalrous "mad knight" first appeared …
Welcome to Baker Street West, where all things Sherlock Holmes seem possible. Over lunch, Mrs. Hudson and Irene Adler (a.k.a. "the woman") concocted this idea to give their old friend ……
I'll be very surprised if Jack Ogden's superb show of new paintings and sculptures at b. sakata garo doesn't wind up at the top of my list of favorite shows … Click to Continue »
For a 37-year-old guy from South Carolina, comedian JP Sears seems to have some parts of Sacramento figured out pretty well. Sears released a video skewering Sacramento this week ahead ̷…
The late developer-turned-gallery owner Michael Himovitz was honored Friday as the city dedicated a small park within McKinley Village in his name. Himovitz, who died in 1994, is credited wi…
Can the toughest thing you have ever done also be your dream come true? Sacramento actor Ben Ismail thinks so as he takes on the role of a lifetime as … Click to Continue »
"Once Upon a Time," Jack Ogden's large-scale painting of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (father of JFK) and his large family in 1938, with images from Diego Velasquez's famous painting of … Cli…
Original curating, while not endangered, is becoming increasingly rare. It is becoming common practice for museums to program curatorial set pieces: canned exhibitions that are pre-packaged …
Thanks to the work of artists " local and national " Stephon Clark will live on through art. Within hours of learning about the police shooting death of Clark, Maryland … Click to Cont…
