Sacramento’s historic – and sometimes horrific – past comes to life in "River City Anthology," a series of monologues based on more than 50 original works presented in a collaboration...
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Published 200 years ago this month, Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice" may not be everyone’s cup of genteel English tea. But it remains a staple of academic curriculums and is...
Some 20 minutes into her Sept. 5 concert at the Sunrise Marketplace Outdoor Pavilion, one-time teen phenom Amy Grant explained why she ended a self-imposed hiatus and is back with a fresh...
On the surface, Donald Margulies’ “Time Stands Still” is about a photojournalist and her foreign correspondent boyfriend whose seemingly parallel career paths covering war-torn hotspots and human...
Youth was served Sunday evening when the Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance announced its 2013 Elly Award nominations during an informal reception at West Sacramento’s Black Box Theatre...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales of super sleuth Sherlock Holmes have inspired hundreds of authors to pen parodies, craft contemporary updates, and script sincere homages that have been...
The Sacramento Shakespeare Festival, produced by the Sacramento City College Theatre Arts Department, bounced back from last season’s theft of essential lighting and sound equipment to mount a...
Making Shakespeare more accessible to contemporary audiences is a continual challenge for buffs of the Bard, be they educators or directors of ever-imaginative stage and screen productions. In the...
Can it really be three decades since DJs across the country first dropped the needle on "Sports," the Huey Lewis & The News album that went to No. 1 and spawned four Top 10 hits in the...
Lake Wobegon’s favorite son paid a visit to Sacramento July 11 when storyteller/musician/author Garrison Keillor brought his Radio Romance Tour to the Community Center Theater for an easy-going...
Most everyone who’s attended a high-school English class is familiar with “The Glass Menagerie,” playwright Tennessee Williams’ iconic “memory” play about Amanda Wingfield, an obsessively doting...
Photographs by Barry Wisdom / Supergroup Fleetwood Mac closed out the U.S. portion of its Live 2013 tour at Sacramento’s Sleep Train Arena Saturday (July 6) evening, delivering everything a fan...
Photographs by Barry Wisdom / Those who grew up in the 1950s and ’60s were frequently shown educational films and filmstrips that offered moral instruction on a variety of such...
Photographs by Barry Wisdom Scott Barry – playwright, screenwriter, actor, filmmaker, UC Davis engineering grad, and one-time San Francisco 49ers draft pick – was looking for just the right...
The Beatles reportedly came up with their name as an homage to Buddy Holly’s Crickets. Paul Stanley has said KISS chose its name because it "just sounded dangerous and sexy at the same...
For Matt Castle, a New York-based jack of all musical trades whose work can currently be heard in Sacramento Theatre Company’s lauded world-premiere production of “A Little Princess” (extended...
With all of the social media outlets available to theater professionals – arguably one of the Sacramento area’s most "vocal" populations now posting, tweeting, webbing and pinning –...
On June 24, boxing fans around the world will commemorate the 118th anniversary of William “Jack” Dempsey’s birth. This evening – May 2 – Sacramento’s Geery Theatre gets the party started for the...
Today’s headlines: King Arthur and Sir Robin of Locksley pull out all the stops (as well as their sword and bow) to vanquish the evil Mordred; a boy’s neighbors find a bit more spring to their steps...
In putting together a season roster, artistic directors must weigh factors both creative and financial – from the cost of royalties, to the size of the stage, to scenic-design requirements. And...
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