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Peter Jaffe, North State Symphony Conductor Finalist: ‘Symphonic music – it’s my life. Literally, I hear music in my dreams …’

Join me in welcoming Maestro Peter Jaffe, the last in the series of conductors vying for the North State Symphony music director position following the departure of Kyle Pickett, former North State Symphony conductor. First, some background: Jaffe has served as… Continue Reading

Shasta College Youth Symphony Concert: Feet and Bodies Moving Together

  Conducted by Dr. Richard Allen Fiske, the Spring concert of the Shasta Youth Symphony will be held at 3:15 P.M. on Sunday, April 26, 2015 in the Shasta College Theatre. The concert will feature dancers from the Redding City… Continue Reading

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Review: Riverfront Playhouse’s ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ – A Fruitful Production

This was our first visit to the Riverfront Playhouse, and we were rewarded with a compelling rendition of Steinbeck’s novel about itinerant farmers fleeing Oklahoma’s Dust Bowl in the 1930s.

Director Samantha Fork intentionally set out to make Steinbeck’s classic relevant to today’s world, a task aided by the author’s Continue Reading

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Shasta College to Stage Ken Kesey’s Iconic ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’

A lot of people watched “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” the winner of five Oscars that starred Jack Nicholson as the protagonist Randall McMurphy, a mental hospital patient who battled the authoritarian Nurse Ratched. There was one notable exception… Continue Reading

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Shasta High School Annual Madrigal Dinner

Be transported into Renaissance times through the seasonal magic of the 35th annual Shasta High School Madrigal Dinner, held on Wednesday-Saturday evenings, December 3-6 and 10-13th at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Pilgrim Congregational Church. Experience the ethereal sounds of this… Continue Reading

Al Simmons to Perform in Redding on November 5

Al Simmons, a “tour-de-force of ingenious, charming silliness” (Globe and Mail), will bring his highly inventive and wacky one-man show at the Cascade Theatre on Wednesday, November 5,  2014 at 7:30 p.m. Single tickets for this event are $40 (adults) and $20 (students), available through… Continue Reading