America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Audiences flock to movies where they can forget their troubles enjoying a couple of hours of singing and dancing paying a mere dime for a ticket. The musical “42nd Street” is based on the 1933 movie of the same name. The basic plot is that Broadway producer Julian Marsh is producing a big new Broadway show called “Pretty Lady.” He is worried that his big star, Dorothy Brock, doesn’t have it anymore, but he has to cast her since her sugar daddy is putting up the money. Competition for the chorus is very tight, especially since it’s the Great Depression and jobs are scarce. Newly arrived from Allentown, PA, (pronounced P. A.) Peggy Sawye

Your Sactown Rundown reporter still harbors delusions about jamming out of the Dave Matthews Band show on Friday at Sleep Train and making it back to "The Grid" and to Old Ironsides in time to catch the Stone Foxes. Impossible? Hmmm...it might take skipping an encore. I've heard "Ants Marching" plenty of times. For those of you who are, unlike me, still living in reality, here's a few more shows on deck for the weekend. Carolyn Wonderland – A redheaded blues singer and guitar-slinger with a little twang in her voice? It’s a safe bet that Lonestar State-bred Carolyn Wonderland has been smacked by the Bonnie Raitt comparisons before, but there truly aren’t that many. She’s as firmly entre

Love Child is the theatrical version of juggling. The cast consists of B Street regulars David Pierini and Gregory Alexander. Between the two of them they play eleven characters of both sexes and varying ages. Changing between characters sometimes at lightning speed. The play is a television show within a play within a play. It is based loosely on the ancient Greek myth of Ion. Love Child is written by prolific theater, film and television actors Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton. It had two successful Off Broadway engagements. This B Street Theatre production is the first regional premier of Love Child. Former child actor Joel Fishman is struggling to have a successful opening night of