Theater and Art

Victoria Dalkey: Sacramento-area galleries present new works by two women

By Victoria Dalkey - Published: Friday, May 24 2013 - 12:00 am

The life-size figure of a woman holding an oil-slicked shorebird in her arms greets you at the entrance to "Edge of Extinction," a powerful show of mostly ceramic sculptures by Lisa Reinertson at the Pence Gallery in Davis.

Victoria Dalkey: Sacramento-area galleries present new works by two women

By Victoria Dalkey - Published: Friday, May 24 2013 - 12:00 am

Theater Review: Cap Stage gives 'Hedda Gabler' a cool, classic remake

By Marcus Crowder - Published: Thursday, May 23 2013 - 12:00 am

Stephanie Gularte's Hedda Gabler floats onto the shadowed stage with an otherworldly presence. Alone in a darkened living room, she snatches off sheets covering furniture, gasping quietly, and it seems she might asphyxiate at any moment. While her Hedda will not physically suffocate, the intensely desperate character might as well. In the next 24 hours, her world will close in around her, becoming an increasingly airless void.

Dissolute lives crumble in New Helvetia's 'Gingerbread Lady'

By Marcus Crowder - Updated: Tuesday, May 21 2013 - 8:04 am

Actress Jamie Jones' Evy Meara galvanizes any room she's in. A 46-year-old alcoholic cabaret singer, Evy is a has-been who never was.

Rancho Cordova third-grader leaps into playwriting with B Street Theatre

By Richard Chang - Updated: Sunday, May 19 2013 - 11:31 am

Angela Tomasello had a wide smile on her face Friday morning. The third-grader, along with 300 other students from Williamson Elementary School in Rancho Cordova, huddled inside the cafeteria for one reason - to watch a play that Angela had written.