Review: BEETLEJUICE Appears at Broadway Sacramento
by Courtney Symes - February 19, 2026
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! You’ve done it, Sacramento! You’ve summoned the ghost with the most, and you’re going to love every minute of his antics. We first fell in love with him in Tim Burton’s 1988 film, Beetlejuice, starring Michael Keaton as the titular character. Continuing...
Review: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE at Rise Up Theatre Company
by Courtney Symes - February 13, 2026
When depression, art deco, and satirical mischief align, the delight that is The Drowsy Chaperone is born. Rise Up Theatre Company is staging its own vision of this 2006 hit, replete with inspiration drawn from famous dolls and puppets (think Malibu Barbie). Director Peter DeMarzio puts a creative s...
Review: THE SOUND INSIDE Resonates at Capital Stage
by Courtney Symes - February 10, 2026
Have you ever felt alone in a crowded room? You’re surrounded by people, yet you’re truly by yourself. That’s how Bella Baird, a creative writing teacher at Yale, lives her life. She has hundreds of students, but no friends, no family, no one she can count on. Michael Stevenson directs a compe...
Review: MOULIN ROUGE at Broadway Sacramento
by Courtney Symes - February 05, 2026
As Harold Zidler says, “Welcome, you gorgeous collection of bohemians and aristocrats, boulevardiers and mademoiselles, welcome to the Moulin Rouge!” What a welcome it is. The ten-time Tony Award winner makes its Sacramento debut at Broadway Sacramento in an explosive and sexy celebration of �...
Review: You'll Love Keeping MISERY Company at B St. Theatre
by Courtney Symes - February 03, 2026
The B St. Theatre is kicking off its 40th anniversary season with an ambitious piece, and if you’ve never seen a show there, you should make this current production your first. You’ll become their number one fan, just like Annie Wilkes in this adaptation of Stephen King’s 1987 novel, Misery. W...
Review: THE LION KING is the Pride of Broadway Sacramento
by Courtney Symes - January 14, 2026
Broadway Sacramento is starting off the new year with a legend. The Lion King, winner of six Tony Awards, is back in town after seventeen years. The familiar score by Elton John and Tim Rice has been a favorite since the animated version debuted in 1994. Songs like “Hakuna Matata,” “Can You Fe...
Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL Like You've Never Seen It at B St. Theatre
by Courtney Symes - December 21, 2025
“God bless us, every one!” Commit those words to memory, for you might be called upon to perform an impromptu Tiny Tim at Sam Kebede’s fantastic adaptation of A Christmas Carol, which is now playing at the B St. Theatre. Sean Patrick Nill directs this lighthearted look at the classic tale that...
Review: I AND YOU Connects Us All at Capital Stage
by Courtney Symes - December 18, 2025
At a time when many are feeling a fractured sense of community, Capital Stage has brought Lauren Gunderson’s story about human connection to the stage. Under Imani Mitchell’s direction, I AND YOU becomes an anthem for friendship, trust, and embracing vulnerability....
Review: It's a WHITE CHRISTMAS at Broadway At Music Circus
by Courtney Symes - December 09, 2025
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you go…especially Broadway at Music Circus. Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, the Musical is here to warm up the holiday season through December 14th. It’s a piece with a book by David Ives and Paul Blake, and music by the prolific Irving...
Review: MACBETH's Takeover is the Talk of Big Tech at Big Idea Theatre
by Courtney Symes - December 08, 2025
Fans of the Scottish play will be excited to learn that there is a new adaptation at Big Idea Theatre this month. It’s reimagined in the Silicon Valley, with MacBeth as a scheming tech bro who will do anything to rise to the top. Kevin Adamski directs this ambitious take, proving that the Bard is ...
Past Shows
Macbeth
Nov 21 – Dec 13, 2025
Shakespeare's famous Scottish tragedy, fueled by ambition and prophecy, is transported to modern-day Silicon Valley....
Dorothea Puente Tells All!
Oct 10 – Nov 1, 2025
Dorothea Puente was a lifelong con-artist. Her abuse of the welfare system led directly to new federal legislation. She was loved as a pillar of...
Men on Boats
Aug 29 – Sep 20, 2025
Ten explorers. Four Boats. One Grand Canyon. Men on Boats is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew...
The Grown-Ups
Jun 6 – Jun 28, 2025
Following a group of camp counselors trying to mold the leaders of tomorrow when tomorrow is looking bleaker and bleaker, The Grown-Ups explores the traditions...
The River Bride
Apr 25 – May 17, 2025
Three days before a wedding, a handsome and mysterious man is fished from the Amazon River. Set once upon a time in a small Brazilian...
The Book of Will
Mar 8 – Mar 30, 2024
Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s...
After the Blast
Nov 3 – Nov 25, 2023
Generations ago, humans retreated deep underground after an environmental disaster ruined the world above. Nature is now simulated through brain-implanted chips, and fertility is regulated...
A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City
Sep 15 – Oct 7, 2023
A foul-mouthed twenty-something comedian and a middle-aged man embroiled in a nasty divorce are brought together unexpectedly when their cancer-stricken mothers become roommates in the...
Twelfth Night
Mar 3 – Apr 1, 2023
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night set in a beach town with two bar owners in competition for the affections of a pair of shipwrecked twins....
Outrage
Nov 15 – Dec 14, 2013
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” A time-bending roller-coaster ride through history, Outrage deftly moves between Ancient Greece, the Inquisition,...
Lonesome Hollow
Sep 27 – Oct 26, 2013
In the not too distant future, a photographer of artistic nudes is sentenced to an open-ended imprisonment in a state run "penal village" for sexual...
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Aug 2 – Aug 31, 2013
The untimely death of Wee Thomas the cat brings a heartbroken Irish freedom fighter with "anger management issues" home to say farewell. His search for...
A Contemporary American's Guide to a Successful Marriage
Jun 14 – Jul 13, 2013
It’s the late 1950s. It is a time of innocence and overly-helpful public service announcements; where all a young woman needs to be blissfully happy...
Private Eyes
Apr 26 – May 25, 2013
Who can you trust? Matthew’s wife, Lisa, may be having an affair with Adrian, a British theatre director. Or perhaps the affair is part of...
As You Like It
Mar 1 – Mar 30, 2013
All the world’s a stage, including Arden Park, where Rosalind flees in a desperate attempt to save her life after a coup deposes her father....
Arcadia
Jan 13 – Feb 4, 2012
Can we ever truly understand the past? What does the future hold? These two unanswerable questions form the foundation of this beautiful, complex, sexy and...
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