Everything I saw this weekend was as good as anything I’ve seen in the twenty years I’ve been going to the Sacramento Music Festival. Known originally as the Old Sacramento Dixeland Jazz...
Author - Robin Aurelius
Robin Aurelius is a retired librarian, member of CSUS Friends of the Library, politicfal activist, church organist, accordion player, folk singer, storyteller, member of Sons Retirement Branch 33, theater goer, member of Nextdoor Sacramento, and writer for the Sacramento Press
“Dogfight: The Musical” made passage from Broadway to many prestigious local theaters in the US, Canada, and Australia. The production, with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and a book...
“Race”, presented at Celebration Arts theater and directed by James Wheatley, is very serious with melodramatic overtones. It explores in great detail the tracings of our American...
“Marat/Sade”, produced by Ray Tatar of California Stage and directed by Kent Johnson, is a must see. You must be prepared for some gruesome language and extremely violent political points...
Three years ago, a group of dedicated storytellers launched a monthly series called Straight Talk storytellers. This classic telling is paper free, original work with no reading from the page...
S.I. Hayakawa talk by author Gerald Haslam of the CSU Sonoma, English Department Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 at 3 p.m. CSU Sacramento Library Gallery Lecture Topic: Gerald and Janice Haslam...
Spring Awakening is really a very old expressionist/absurdist play by Frank Wedekind produced by Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1906. It may be...
I value anything handmade, and my bicycle is handmade. At least part of it is. I turned the handlebars around, and made a seatpost of solid aluminum bar stock that lets me ride my mountain bike...
reviewed by Robin Aurelius This shoebox theater is truly impressive for mounting a show as large and boisterous as Cabaret. The results were way beyond my expectations. From where I sat in the...
Child’s Christmas in Wales is a new work, at least on the West Coast. It was commissioned in 2003 for a mixed choir, soloists, and chamber symphony in New Jersey. Matthew Harris...
Every Sunday this year the Shadechasers have been singing folk songs for the pleasure of their friends and neighbors in East Sacramento. We meet at the Clunie Clubhouse, next to the McKinley...