The just-completed season of plays at Capital Stage marked something of a transition for the eleven-year old organization.  The seven plays that comprised the season were selected by former Producing Artistic Director Jonathan Williams before he departed for St. Petersburg, Florida, where he joined his wife, Stephanie Gularte (the organization’s first Producing Artistic Director) at […]

              Donald Trump has said so many outrageous things since announcing his candidacy for president last year that MSNBC’s Chris Hayes has been keeping a top-ten list of the most recent outrages.  He often has to update it every week, and in the days following the Democrat’s convention last month, he even had to update […]

              In the sixty-six years of its existence, and certainly in the fourteen years since performances have been indoors and in the round at the Wells Fargo Pavilion, Sacramento’s Music Circus has specialized in productions of musicals that feature great song-and-dance numbers.  Many of these productions have been old chestnuts from the first half of […]

              Now that the presidential campaign is basically off and running, the key difference between the candidates is becoming increasingly apparent.  One is interested in the substantive aspects of being the president and the other is just interested in being the president.  Before I go further with that thought, I want to make clear that […]