Sacramento Theatre Newsroom

The cast of Broadway at Music Circus's production of 42nd Street has been announced.

Legislators have agreed to restore 75 percent of the recent arts funding cuts announced by Gov. Newsom, but advocates are continuing to push for full funding to support the arts community.

Join House of Fates as they present Anima. Featuring a talented cast of local performers, an original story developed by Jessica Brugnon, 'Anima' features a poignant story, dynamic outdoor staging and immersive visuals. The production invites viewers to confront the realities of addiction and contemplate on the resilience of spirit that drives us to overcome adversity.

Folsom’s Harris Center for the Arts is thrilled to announce its 2024-2025 Broadway Series. Six shows, including four mega-hit Tony Award winners, the hysterical sequel to a smash-hit, and one of Hollywood’s most beloved romantic stories of all time make up the season. Learn more here!

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, by John Bishop and directed by Connie Mockenhaupt, will bring its who-done-it to Sutter Steet Theatre!

The Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance honors the founders of CATS theatre with Lifetime Achievement Awards, celebrating their significant contributions to the local theatre community.

An award-winning screenwriter, choreographer and novelist, former internationally touring ballerina, and current adjunct faculty for William Jessup University, Anne Merino shares her work as the headliner of the May 26 Collaboration LAB.

Parents seeking a fun and educational camp for their artistically inclined child have an opportunity this summer in Mill Valley. Marin Theatre will host four programs for 2nd grade to 12th grade students this June and July.

Death becomes her…I think. Or maybe it becomes him. Someone might be dead. Or not. Florian Zeller’s The Height of the Storm leaves many unanswered questions at the Black Point Theatre, ones that I’m not sure I will ever understand. I suppose that’s the point, as Zeller said, “…For me the theatre is, above all, the place for questions, not answers. For doubt more than certainty or conviction.”  

Just in time for Mother’s Day, Capital Stage has revealed a play that is perfect for celebrating mothers. It also happens to be my favorite of their offerings to date. Cry it Out, by Molly Smith Metzler, tackles an important conversation that often gets overlooked, and does it with insight, grace, and a whole lot of humor.

 Jenna Pastuszek and Joshua Zecher-Ross will make their Carlsbad debuts bringing ME, MYSELF & BARBRA: The Music that Made Barbara Barbra, to New Village Arts May 16-17, 2024.

The Capital Stage Board of Directors have approved a new visionary Strategic Plan, that was developed with one of the country’s leading arts consultants, Michael Kaiser, Chairman of the DeVos Institute of Arts Managementand President Emeritus of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

Catch Resurrection Theatre's production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at California Stage in Sacramento in May and June. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Catch the SACRAMENTO BALLET's season finale, INNOVATIONS, featuring the legendary first collaboration of Balanchine/Stravinsky, APOLLO. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The non-profit theatre arts organization, SARTA, is now accepting applications for Youth Education Scholarships (YES) program for the summer and fall sessions. 

September 11, 2001, is a date that is seared into the consciousness of everyone old enough to remember the events of that day. While the tragedy was overwhelming, the courage and solidarity that emerged was overflowing. Come From Away shows some of the best of humanity and leaves us with hope that human kindness will always prevail. The public agrees, as its 2017 Broadway premiere garnered seven Tony Award nominations.

When we hear The Odd Couple, most people imagine the 1970s television series starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney. What some might not know was that it originated as a Neil Simon play on Broadway in 1965. After the success of the film and television versions, Simon adapted the play in 1985 to feature two female roommates, Florence Ungar and Olive Madison. Women’s Theatre Collective brings this play, The Odd Couple – Female Version, to the Ooley Theatre through May 5th.

Sacramento’s vibrant arts community is thriving and full of entertainment options to choose from. While we are lucky to have so many professional selections, it becomes easy to overlook the community theatres that put out quality productions and that need our support. One local organization, SARTA, strives to bring attention and funding to these theatres in a variety of ways.

Sierra Stages will present Hurricane Diane for one night only on Wednesday, May 15 at the Nevada Theatre in downtown Nevada City, CA.

The internationally acclaimed The Empire Strips Back: A Burlesque Parody is opening in Sacramento, California on May 8 at The Colonial Theatre. Tickets are available at the button below.

I had a unique opportunity last weekend to experience a completely student-run production of a show that has intrigued me since I first heard of it. Alice by Heart is a musical with music by Duncan Sheik and lyrics and book by Steven Sater (with Jessie Nelson), the duo responsible for Spring Awakening. Neely Hebert, who was interviewed by BroadwayWorld about this production earlier this month, produced and directed Alice by Heart as a labor of love for her contemporaries and the local theatre community before she leaves for college this summer.

The B Street Theatre has been riding a wave of hit after hit, continuing with Aurora Real de Asua’s surfing comedy, Wipeout. Set in one of my favorite locales, Santa Cruz, Wipeout explores the friendship between three unique women. Rolling surfboards, a hunky instructor, and the bluntness that comes with age make this an engaging, relatable, and completely hilarious take on how our relationships –with ourselves and others – change in each season of life.

TOPDOG/UNDERDOG will be presented by Celebration Arts. This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, directed by Melinda Wilson Ramey, runs from June 7-30, 2024, in Sacramento's premier Black theater.

In its four years of programming, Placer Rep’s Collaboration LAB has not shared an interactive visual arts activity designed to allow all present to take part – until now – at this Sunday’s April 28 Collaboration LAB at Cool River Pizza & Taphouse. 

Join Theater Resources Unlimited's Meet the Coaches 2024, a virtual workshop for actors preparing for the TRU Audition.