For one night only, Artistic Differences Theatre Company is bringing back the critically acclaimed musical, Bare in concert, this Thursday to Downtown Sacramento. The show will take place at Harlow’s restaurant at 2907 J St. at 7 p.m. Bare tells the story of two homosexual high school students learning to cope with their environment at a Catholic boarding school and the personal struggles that ensue.   Introduced to Sacramento last summer, Bare originally debuted at the Hudson Theater in Los Angeles in October of 2000. It has since spread to other locations and theatre departments, eventually making its way to Sacramento through Artistic Differences in 2008. Daniells, Executive Produce

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

Peace, love, war, sex and hair -- Sacramento will have a one-night opportunity to revel in hippie counterculture at Harlow's Thursday night. "HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" will rock the nightclub in the form of a concert. Local theater company Artistic Differences will perform musical numbers from "HAIR" as part of the company's Summer of Rock series, which kicked-off with "Tommy" at the Crest on Memorial Day. Many of the original cast members from the company's five-week run of the show in 2007 will return to sing the numbers, accompanied by a seven-piece band.   "HAIR" the musical brings to light a group of young flower children who band together as a "tribe" in the East