I can still recall the different kind of fire drills we would occasionally have when I was a second- or third-grade student.  Our principal would announce that we were to practice what we were supposed to do if a nuclear bomb was exploded in our neighborhood.  Actually, the “in our neighborhood” part wasn’t part […]

Capital Stage, the city’s cutting-edge theater company, opened its 13th season earlier this month with one of the best productions of a great play I have ever seen (and in my 70 years I’ve seen a lot of great plays).  The play is “An Octoroon,” and it is such a profoundly important play (Obie Award […]

              Where were you when you first learned that Princess Diana had died?  How about when you became aware of the 9/11 attacks?  The anniversaries of both events (Diana’s death occurred on August 31, 1997; the 9/11 attacks took place in 2001) have been the subject of no small amount of commentary of late, much […]

              Folks not familiar with Sacramento’s Music Circus might think from its title that the company specializes in dancing elephants or singing clowns, but for those who make Sacramento and its surrounding communities their home, the Music Circus is a top-notch musical production organization.  The just completed 66th season of five productions started and ended […]