Anne Washburn’s “Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play” would be a challenging venture for any theater company, even one as identified for producing bold new works as Sacramento’s own Capital Stage. The three-act play presents a vision of life in a community bereft of electricity in a country (or maybe a world?) that has been struck […]

“Testament of Youth” is the 600-page memoir by the British novelist Vera Brittain of her experiences before, during, and after World War One. It was effectively conveyed as a theatrical film this year. The movie captures most of the writer’s attitudes and reactions to those ten years of her life, and it received high praise […]

Another season of Music Circus productions in the round (this one the organization’s sixty-fifth) is now complete, and while the memories are still relatively fresh, here’s our review of the season as a whole and of each of the productions individually. The parenthetical number following each show is our ranking of that particular production against […]

Seeing the Music Circus revival of the rock musical “Hair” last week (see E. Haig’s review, also posted at 51c.fcf.myftpupload.com today) got me thinking about all the counter-culture issues that are depicted in the show. In the almost fifty years since Gerome Ragni and James Rado attempted to capture the idealism and revolutionary spirit of […]