When the Sacramento Ballet laid off its dancers three weeks early and canceled its popular “Beer and Ballet” performances because of an operating budget shortfall earlier this month, it...
Theater
The Big Idea Theatre on Del Paso Boulevard is perhaps the best community theater group in Sacramento. It produces entertaining and challenging classic and contemporary works — and it does more...
In 2003, an idealistic 23-year-old American college student named Rachel Corrie traveled from Olympia, Wash., to the Gaza town of Rafah. Her dream of connecting her hometown with Rafah as sister...
Pamela Trokanski is one of the most intelligent and creative makers of modern dance you’re likely to find. And a sharp sense of humor informs her work, too. Witness her latest program...
“Oblivion,” the play now receiving its West Coast premiere at the B Street Theatre, is not to be confused with “Oblivion,” the Tom Cruise movie — although they both are...
The Sacramento Theatre Company could call itself the Shakespeare Theatre Company if it produces a couple more shows as inspired and inspiring as its “Julius Caesar,” now on stage for...
Even though a friend gave “Urinetown: The Musical” rave reviews, the title made me just as much a skeptic as I’m sure it does for most. But the skepticism quickly gave way to...
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...