The two final productions of the Sacramento Theatre Company’s 73rd season perfectly represent the year’s theme: Fate, Fantasy and Forgiveness. The first play – “Mothers and Sons,” which closes...
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Mental illness is a tough and touchy subject. Like shoes, it comes in many styles, from “simple” depression to full-blown schizophrenia. Anyone who doesn’t have the disorder—or know...
Wednesday might be a conundrum for some. It is both Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day, not exactly complementary events. Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, the 46 days ending in Easter. It is a...
Two local theater companies — B Street Theatre and Celebration Arts — have new homes beginning in 2018. Meanwhile, another theater company — Runaway Stage Productions — has...
As the days race toward Christmas and then the new year, the time to see several fine holiday shows is running out. It can be said without prejudice that Capital Stage has reason for pride in its...
It is perhaps the best Christmas story ever written, the best tale of regret and redemption ever told, and the best account of crotchety old man’s transformation ever recorded. It is Charles...
The only tool a playwright has is his or her words, yet “You can’t be too in love with them,” says local playwright Sean Patrick Nill, whose play ‘Kings of America’ has...
Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” is a drama about a marriage on the rocks — one that has been a wreck for decades. But the play is more than that. It is a...
UPDATE: One potential new home for Celebration Arts was the soon-to-be-former B Street Theatre site at 2711 B Street. The two-theater site is up for sale now that B Street Theatre is moving to its...
Shakespeare said it: The play’s the thing. And this weekend, there are plenty of “things” to be enjoyed on local stages. This is the final weekend for many of these shows, so act...
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