Arts and Lifestyle‘Disaster!’ At Sacramento Theater Company Gyrates To A 1970s Disco BeatMay 2, 2019 | Jeff HudsonIt packs in roughly 30 one-minute cover versions of throbbing disco hits and bubblegum soft rock anthems. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Arts and Lifestyle'M. Butterfly' Returns To Sacramento Region Theater Stage For First Time In DecadesApril 19, 2019 | Jeff HudsonThe current staging in Nevada City by Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra really hits the bull’s eye. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Insight With Vicki GonzalezSacramento Theatre Company Presents 'When We Were Colored'April 15, 2019 | Cody DrabblePlaywright Ginger Rutland discusses her stage adaptation of her mother’s memoir “When We Were Colored” at the Sacramento Theatre Company. Listen / download audio Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Arts and LifestyleWriter Ginger Rutland Paints A Loving Family Portrait In New Play 'When We Were Colored'March 29, 2019 | Jeff HudsonCapRadio Theatre Critic Jeff Hudson says the play by the veteran Sacramento writer and journalist is a moving picture of her parents, describing their experience as a black family in 1950s Sacramento.
Arts and LifestyleCapital Stage’s Unique, Exuberant ‘Vietgone’ Tells Story Of Vietnamese Refugees Adapting To American LifeMarch 25, 2019 | Jeff HudsonSouth Vietnamese characters flee fast-advancing Vietcong during the Fall of Saigon in the 1970s, then unexpectedly find themselves transplanted into a strange part of America that they’ve never previously heard of: Arkansas. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Arts and LifestyleSacramento Theatre Company's 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' Shows How Much Fun Shakespeare Can BeMarch 14, 2019 | Jeff HudsonCritic Jeff Hudson says the Sacramento Theatre Company's “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is one of the liveliest and funniest renditions of this classic comedy you’re likely to find this year. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Arts and Lifestyle‘Slowgirl’ At Capital Stage Finds Stressed-Out Americans In The Costa Rican JungleFebruary 7, 2019 | Jeff HudsonIt’s a solid piece of theater, and well worth seeing. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Arts and LifestyleNew Play ‘Abolition’ At Sacramento’s Celebration Arts Is An Intense Profile Of Two Pivotal Civil War FiguresJanuary 25, 2019 | Jeff HudsonThis historically informed play is very much worth your attention. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Arts and Lifestyle‘Times Like These’ At California Stage In Sacramento Is At Once Wickedly Funny And Scary As HellNovember 12, 2018 | Jeff HudsonThe unusual show is about a pair of prominent actors in Berlin as the Nazis are seizing power. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Arts and LifestyleCapital Stage’s 'Sweat' Is Unique, OutstandingNovember 9, 2018 | Jeff HudsonPlaywright Lynn Nottage won the Pulitzer Prize last year for her gritty drama about manufacturing workers in a Pennsylvania factory that’s soon to close. Listen /Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
