Travel back through time with Broadway Sacramento's Rain, a Beatles tribute show that began as an offshoot of the Broadway production of Beatlemania. Rain ran on Broadway for 300 shows and 8 preview performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City and has also been a hugely successful national tour for years. Together longer than the Beatles, Rain has mastered every song, gesture and nuance of the legendary foursome, delivering a totally live, note-for-note performance. This multi-media show begins by taking us away to a time when four young men stepped on stage at the Ed Sullivan show and changed music as we knew it. Rain chronicles the journey America took with the Beatles,

Fans of 1960s classic rock will have the chance to "revisit" some fond musical memories this month, as Creedence Clearwater Revisited, a re-formed Creedence Clearwater Revival sans vocalist John Fogerty, takes the stage May 21 at the Thunder Valley Casino Resort Amphitheater in Lincoln. The Sacramento Press had the chance to speak with original Revival member and current drummer of Revisited Doug Clifford about the band's formation and what it's like to be playing the songs he loves 43 years after their release. Revisited formed in 1995, 23 years after the Fogerty incarnation of the band broke up. Clifford and original Revival bassist Stu Cook were jamming in Clifford's home studio with

The spirit of the '60s was alive Thursday night as the Artistic Differences theater company staged a dizzying performance of the musical Hair to a sold-out crowd. Second in a series of three summer concerts entitled "Summer of Rock," Hair incorporated the entire Harlow's audience. A six-piece rock band backed a cast of 17 singers who danced through a standing-room-only crowd of more than 250 people. The "tribal rock concert" opened with a live Jimi Hendrix-like performance of the "Star Spangled Banner" reminiscent of the Woodstock version. It flowed seamlessly into "Aquarius," a hit song in 1969. Hair's plot revolves around Claude (multiple actors), an East Village New Yorker who receiv