The plays of William Shakespeare can be daunting at best, and for some, completely inaccessible. Thank goodness Bob and Ro Productions decided to produce “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” directed by Rosemarie Gerould and performed at the Studio Theatre. The play, written by the founding members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company in 1987, combines all canonical (and some apocryphal) plays by the Bard into two hours, with the last hour devoted to just “Hamlet.” The play itself is quite funny, yielding numerous outside and inside joke about Shakespeare. The play makes mention of every single play at least once, splitting them into three categories: tragedy, comedy an

The Six Women actresses proclaim, "You have to laugh and scream and blow off steam so you don't expire," and that is exactly what the audience did at Friday's showing of the revival of Sacramento's cult classic Six Women with Brain Death (or Expiring Minds Want to Know). As the show begins, six frazzled, women parade across the stage in a grocery check-out line, reading the outrageous headlines of The Expirerer, a spoof of today's tabloid magazines. The women quickly transition from their comedic sketch into a full-energy musical number introducing the audience to the "World of Expiring Minds." The first act consists of a series of life and pop culture scenarios from the viewpoint of ove

This Friday, Sacramento will welcome back its longest running musical in Sacramento theater history, Six Women with Brain Death (or Expiring Minds Want to Know), as a special tribute to former Studio Theatre director, producer and actor Jackie Schultz. Schultz opened the Studio Theatre in 1994 with a mission to promote theater from the female perspective. She opened Six Women in 1996 and it immediately sold out three months in advance. The show continued to run until 2006, when Schultz's battle with Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) along with opportunities to explore other ventures required her to end the show. Six Women is a fast-paced, musical satire of life and