A lot of theater folks – they’re a superstitious bunch – think Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth” is cursed. They won’t say its title in a theater except during a...
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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...
Take two talented actors and a masterful director and pair them with an earnest playwright and you get “Winter’s Waltz,” the current world...
Two local theater companies — B Street Theatre and Celebration Arts — have new homes beginning in 2018. Meanwhile, another theater company —...
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...
The holiday season means one thing above most others for Sacramentans: “The Nutcracker” performed by the Sacramento Ballet. Ron Cunningham’s...
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...
Halloween is fast approaching and two community theater companies offer shows for the season — one serious, the other seriously silly. Chautauqua...
Each dance season members of the Sacramento Ballet choreograph new works for themselves to perform in one grand program. They put the ‘ballet’ in...
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...