It was not your grandmother’s symphony Saturday night during Scott Seaton’s debut as the North State Symphony’s new music director/conductor at Redding’s Cascade Theatre. Saturday’s aptly named concert – “Now Presenting” – kicked off the NSS’s new season with the newly selected Seaton. Your… Continue Reading
Bo’s a topnotch rodeo cowboy and a good-lookin’, self-assured Montana rancher with the world on a string; Cherie, a gal who’s been around, spends her nights singing to roadhouse yokels while dreaming of performing under the bright lights. Not exactly… Continue Reading
This fall Shasta College is producing the Broadway hit and Tony Award winner for Best Play, The Miracle Worker. Immortalized on stage and screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her… Continue Reading
Upfront disclosure: Mei-lang and I had never heard of the Go-Go’s until we settled into seats G19 and G21 of Ashland’s outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theater. We opened our Playbills to learn that the new musical “Head Over Heels,” which is… Continue Reading
Riverfront Playhouse has a new offering beginning September 12.
Celebrating its fifth season in 2015, the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival continues its dedication to its younger audiences with a special family friendly program centered around musical arrangements of Rudyard Kipling’s “Just So Stories” Also featuring classical music by… Continue Reading
…That’s the new genre that Pulitzer-winning playwright Qiara Alegría Hudes has perfected in “The Happiest Song Plays Last,” the final installment of her trilogy about her Iraq vet cousin Elliot and his ongoing internet-enabled ties with his Puerto Rican family… Continue Reading
From the time you first meet them, cavorting together on a royal-sized bed, the thing you notice about Derrick Lee Weeden’s Marc Antony and Miriam Laube’s Cleopatra is their physical disparity. He’s enormous — by turns the hulking “triple pillar… Continue Reading
Wednesday, August 12 Sami Jo at the Savory Spoon in Redding, beginning at 6 p.m. All ages. (530) 222-7200. Jimi Earl at the Post Office Saloon in Redding at 6:30 p.m. 21 and over. (530) 246-2190. Maxwell’s Eatery in Redding has an open mic starting at 7 p.m.… Continue Reading
Frankie Moreno is the sort of entertainer you either immediately fall in love with or instantly envy. Singer, songwriter, showman extraordinaire, Moreno is the current King of Las Vegas, possessing that rare blend of talent and charisma that separates the superstars from… Continue Reading
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