It is December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow cast-members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one… Continue Reading
Beginning on Thursday, January 26, and running through Saturday, February 4, Shasta College’s Opera Workshop will present Johann Strauss’s comic opera, Die Fledermaus, or, in the Workshop’s English language adaptation, The Revenge of the Bat. Performances begin at 7:00 pm… Continue Reading
The Willamette University Chamber Choir and Willamette Singers, under the direction of Wallace Long, will perform Friday, Jan. 13 at 7:00 pm at First United Methodist Church, 1825 East St., Redding, CA 96001. The Willamette Chamber Choir is a… Continue Reading
Auditions for Shasta College’s Spring play, “The Foreigner,” a hilarious and heartwarming comedy, will be January 17th and 18th in room 522 in the Shasta College Theatre. Actors should prepare a one-minute comedic monologue. “The Foreigner” is scheduled to run… Continue Reading
“Anything Goes” opens November 11th and runs November 12th, 18th and 19th at the David Marr Auditorium. “Anything Goes” is a brilliant example of classic musical theater with epic tap dancing, a madcap book and a wonderfully unexpected and romantic happy ending. The unforgettable Cole Porter score includes “De-Lovely,”… Continue Reading
Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is one of those rare classics that manages to be both timeless and timely, and that combination made it stand out when Shasta College Theater instructor Greg Thorson was considering scripts for the school’s… Continue Reading
Ever notice the Shakespearean acclimatization effect? How the Mind’s Ear can so quickly “go native” in Elizabethan/Jacobean English? At the opening curtain of a Shakespeare revival, typically, you feel the actors might as well be speaking Telugu. Fifteen minutes later,… Continue Reading
Two years ago, a group of actors with a penchant for local history took to the Riverfront Playhouse stage to bring alive the nefarious side of Shasta County’s legacy of gold, bandits, highwayman, horse thieves and murderers. The performance was… Continue Reading
The closest approximation of a homegrown, made in U.S.A. uhr-myth has to be The Wizard of Oz. The L. Frank Baum children’s classic – the saga of a Kansas pre-teen, tornado-tossed into a surreal dream world where she befriends talking… Continue Reading
Redding: Saturday, October 22nd, 2016 at 7:30 pm First United Methodist Church 1825 East Street, Redding Chico: Sunday, October 23rd, 2016 at 2:00 pm Zingg Recital Hall, New Arts and Humanities Building Chico State University Campus 400 W. First Street,… Continue Reading
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