The play Othello is about a black officer whose marriage to a white woman ends very tragically due to the ingenious scheming of an "honest" friend of Othello. I love the storyline of Othello. I had seen the movie Othello starring Laurence Fishbourne about 10 years ago and again about 1 month ago. I read the play, also about 1 month ago, and even read another book, "Othello - Shakespeare Made Easy" so that I would be able to better interpret the language in the play. I had even seen a very contemporary version of the play in a movie called "O" starring Mekhi Phifer and Julia Stiles. So it seemed fitting that the only thing left for me to see was a live performance of the play that I love s

 With the summer heat getting suddenly hotter and the evenings getting just right, Sacramento can always count on one thing for summer: The Sacramento Shakespeare Festival. Celebrating it’s 25th year, the festival is at its peak, and continues to entertain locals and draw travelers with its amalgam of brilliant plays, community atmosphere and local talent. “It’s a little bowl in a park that gets filled up,” actor and student Anthony Person, 25, said. “Families come out and they bring their picnics, and they come and they see a good night of theater.” This year’s roster boasts two of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” a tale of fairies, young lovers and

 When people think of Kurt Weill, the German genius behind countless musicals and operettas performed throughout the last century, they usually think of three things: prostitutes, liquor and war-torn Germany. In Sacramento City Theatre’s latest production “From Berlin to Broadway: A Kurt Weill Cabaret”, director Adrienne Sher brings all of these things together through brilliant numbers, accentuating the mystery of the work with an undercurrent storyline that ties it all together, and all on her first musical. With a great minimalist set, designed by SCC’s Shawn Weinsheink, the audience is taken to the docks where the majority of the numbers take place. The show itself is a collection of p