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Review: Sacramento Says Hello! And Welcome Back To THE BOOK OF MORMON
Our favorite doorbell-ringing devotional devotees are back in Sacramento with a new and improved version of the Tony Award-winning hit, The Book of Mormon. It’s been four years since they brought the good word of the creators of South Park (Trey Parker and Matt Stone) and Avenue Q (Robert Lopez)...
Review: Come Aboard for MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS at Sacramento Theatre Company
It’s the dawn of a titillating new season at Sacramento Theatre Company (STC) and this one may be the best yet! The 2022-2023 Season of Curiosity, Intrigue, and Suspense kicked off with previews of the adaptation of Agatha Christie’s famous whodunit, Murder on the Orient Express. Published i...
Review: LOVE AND BASEBALL is a Grand Slam at B Street Theatre
Two of my guilty pleasures-romantic comedies and baseball-are married in a hilarious one-act play showing now at the B Street Theatre. Love and Baseball is the latest success by B Street Theatre playwright Jerry Montoya. This clever take on gender stereotypes has also recently been made into a m...
Review: COME FROM AWAY Comes To Broadway On Tour at the SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center
Once in a while, an event occurs that is so viscerally powerful that you will always remember exactly what you were doing when it happened. Most people over 70 will remember what they were doing when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. People my age remember the Challenger disaster vividly (I was ...
Review: Come Join the CHARADE at The B Street Theatre
A beautiful woman, international espionage, a mysterious stranger, and so many twists that you’ll be dizzy-that’s what’s happening at the B Street Theatre this week. Based on the 1963 film starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, Charade has been adapted for the stage by Dave Pierini, who is ...
Review: Say 'Hell Yes!' to THE COLOR PURPLE at Broadway At Music Circus
For me, the end of summer in Sacramento is signaled by the same event every year-the last show of the Broadway at Music Circus season. This summer’s end is particularly bittersweet, as it marks the finale of a return to the round after two years of being in the dark. Fittingly, this show is th...
Review: IN THE HEIGHTS Dazzles at Woodland Opera House
My first foray to the historical Woodland Opera House occurred this weekend to take a trip back to Washington Heights, the neighborhood that Lin-Manuel Miranda memorialized in In the Heights, his successful precursor to Hamilton. It was written as an homage to the community that shaped him and the...
Review: Come and Enter THE SECRET GARDEN at Broadway At Music Circus
Broadway at Music Circus is taking us back to England again, not to a shoe factory or the Globe Theatre, but to a gloomy moor in Yorkshire. Based upon the 1911 Frances Hodgson Burnett novel of the same name, The Secret Garden premiered on Broadway in 1991 and earned three Tony Awards, including Be...
Review: CIRQUE DU SOLEIL Brings the Magic of ALEGRIA to Sutter Health Park
Cirque du Soleil is back in Sacramento, this time under the big top at Sutter Health Park. It brings to us its reimagined classic, Alegria, which features updated costumes, characters, and music. Boasting a multi-cultural cast from over 20 countries, Alegria takes the best the world has to offer...
Review: Nostradamus Predicts a Hit With SOMETHING ROTTEN! at Broadway At Music Circus
Broadway at Music Circus welcomes you to the Renaissance with its newest resounding success, Something Rotten! This is the first time the Tony Award-nominated musical is being performed at Music Circus and the round lends a special intimacy to the production that, I’ll admit, made it better than...
Review: It's Another Op'nin, Another Show With KISS ME, KATE at Broadway At Music Circus
Another classic from the 1940s is gracing the stage at Broadway at Music Circus. This time, it’s Kiss Me, Kate, the musical-within-a-musical that cemented Cole Porter’s return to Broadway as a successful lyricist and composer. It ended up being Porter’s longest-running Broadway show and wo...
Review: CAROUSEL Has June Bustin' Out All Over at Broadway At Music Circus
The world has changed a lot since 1945, when Carousel opened on Broadway. The Tony Awards hadn’t been established yet. Interracial marriage was not yet legal. Its score speaks of a bygone era when people comported themselves with a certain modesty and societal rules were very different. On...
BWW Review: Transcendence Theatre's 'Let's Dance' Celebrates Diversity Through Dance
California Wine Country's award-winning Transcendence Theatre Company returned once again to the incomparable Jack London State Historic Park to celebrate its 11th season. And what better way to celebrate than through dance. Directed by acclaimed international director and choreographer Luis Salgado...
BWW Review: KINKY BOOTS Kicks Off Summer at Broadway At Music Circus
After being dark for two years, Broadway at Music Circus opened its 2022 season with Kinky Boots, the glittery hit from Broadway legend Harvey Fierstein and 80s icon Cyndi Lauper. After opening on Broadway in 2013, it surprised everyone by surpassing its competition and securing a season-high 13 T...
BWW Review: TOOTSIE Closes the Season at Broadway Sacramento
Broadway Sacramento is closing out their 2022 Broadway on Tour season with the first national tour of Tootsie. Based on the 1982 film of the same name, Tootsie features music and lyrics by David Yazbek (The Band’s Visit, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) and a Tony Award-winning book by Robert Horn. Ro...
BWW Review: WICKED is Decidedly 'Popular' at Broadway Sacramento
It’s been almost 19 years since Wicked debuted on Broadway, but you would never know it by the reception Sacramento gave the national tour this week. Read our critic's review of the show 'Wicked has lost none of its salability and the energy was palpable in the room in anticipation of the show...
BWW Review: August Wilson's FENCES Enchants at Sacramento Theatre Company
Fence (fens) n. 1. A structure that functions as a boundary or barrier, usually constructed of posts, boards, wire, or rails. Or, as in August Wilson’s Fences, it can also be an allegory to keep the things out that you fear the most while locking all that is precious within its confines. Is it...
BWW Review: ANASTASIA Holds the Key to our Hearts at Broadway Sacramento
Broadway Sacramento has hit it out of the park again with Anastasia-The New Broadway Musical. The 2022 Broadway on Tour season opened on Tuesday, satiating those who were eager for more after December’s hit run of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. ...
BWW Review: Enter a World of Pure Imagination with CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY at Broadway Sacramento
That crazy, crafty confectioner is at it again. This time in the new musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, playing through January 2 at the newly revamped Safe Credit Union Performing Arts Center. That’s right, Willy Wonka is back with his national tour that was put on pause, and he’s r...
BWW Review: AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN Lifts Us Up at Broadway Sacramento
Broadway Sacramento continues its phenomenal comeback season in the newly renovated SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center with An Officer and a Gentleman. Based on the Academy Award-winning 1982 film starring Richard Gere, the musical boasts an impressive 1980’s arrangement including the hit �...
BWW Review: GLORIA: A LIFE Kicks Off a New Season at Sacramento Theatre Company
After what Executive Director Michael Laun calls “the longest theatrical intermission ever on record,” Sacramento Theatre Company is back with its 77th season, which is aptly entitled WHO, WHAT & WHERE. Really, do any of us know who, what, or where we are anymore? I do know where you should ...
BWW Review: HAMILTON Brings Theatre Back to Broadway Sacramento
After a year and a half hiatus, Broadway Sacramento is back in a big way! Their 2021 season opened on Wednesday in the newly renovated SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center with the most revered piece of theatre in recent memory-Hamilton. Patrons were treated to a beautifully redesigned venue t...
BWW Review: Transcendence Theatre's 'Broadway Under the Stars' Celebrates 10 Years with a 'Road-Trip!'
There’s something truly extraordinary that happens when you step onto the grounds of Jack London State Historic Park. It’s not just any park. You are whisked away into a magical land of beauty, passion, exuberance -- and immersed in spellbinding talent that is known as the Transcendence Thea...
BWW Review: GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Streaming from the Ooley Theatre
When I started writing for BroadwayWorld, never did I think that I would be an audience of one. Then 2020 happened and here I am, the lone spectator, reviewing a one-act play-the first live performance I've seen in over a year. Maybe fittingly, it is a play about death. More specifically, it's...
BWW Review: The First National Tour of A BRONX TALE Comes to Broadway Sacramento
Growing up unscathed in the Bronx in the 1960s was not easy. Young men had to deal with racial tensions as well as violent crime. Academy Award-nominated actor Chazz Palminteri somehow made it out successfully and, in 1989, wrote a one-man play chronicling his experiences. It did so well that Robert...
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Don't Touch That Dial! The Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park (6/19-7/19) |
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WORKING FOR CRUMBS By Kate Danley B Street Theatre (6/17-7/12) |
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Espejos: Clean Capital Stage (5/06-6/07) |
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C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters Harris Center (7/25-7/26) |
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Guns N’ Roses Rose Bowl Stadium (9/05-9/05) |
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SGMC Presents: Rhinestone Cowboy The Sofia, Home of B Street Theatre (6/19-6/21) VIDEOS |
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GRACE & THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT By Jane Kelley, Clifford Lee Johnson, and Greg Alexander B Street Theatre (9/26-10/18) |
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C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters Performing Arts Center San Luis Obispo (8/02-8/02) |
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