“Magnum Opus XXII,” Sacramento Fine Arts Center’s annual open show, runs Aug. 9 through Sept. 3 at the center, 5330 B Gibbons Drive in Carmichael. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturday. “Magnum Opus XXII” is an art show of the regions finest artists showing their finest original [...]
Imagination Theater will host its fourth annual fundraiser, “An Affair to Remember,” from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 19, at the Smith Flat House in Placerville. The theater is excited about this new location as it is suited for this year’s theme, “A Summer Wedding Reception.” Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the [...]
El Dorado Saloon celebrated its first anniversary with plenty of bull riding and another restaurant to boot. Adjacent to the saloon, Sauce’d Pizza and Cocktail House opened its doors in June, offering a unique, yet complementary, experience to saloon patrons. General Manager Curtis Cole said the new addition gives folks more options. “People can stay [...]
Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” sets sail at Music Circus through July 31. With mistaken identities, long-lost loves, and a bevy of tap dancers aboard a luxury cruise liner, “Anything Goes” is a guaranteed good time. The 1934 classic has significant staying power, as evidenced by the 2010 Broadway revival starring Sutton Foster and Joel Gray [...]
FOLSOM — In John Bishop’s hilarious “Musical Comedy Murders of 1940” a creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious “Stage Door Slasher”) assemble for a backer’s audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy “angel.” The house is replete with [...]
What happens when you take children from completely different backgrounds, cultures, ages and talents and throw them together as a performance team? What you get is a breathtaking show on the Promenade Stage. Twenty-five performers from the Folsom, Orangevale and El Dorado Hills captivated onlookers on Sunday at the California State Fair. The show was [...]
Whodunit? That’s what musical-loving police Lt. Frank Cioffi must find out in El Dorado Musical Theatre’s latest production. “Curtains” combines murder with musical theater and leads the lieutenant on quite possibly the strangest investigation he’s ever encountered. Not only must he find out who killed “Robbin’ Hood of the Old West’s” untalented leading lady, Jessica Cranshaw, [...]
