You don’t have to be a duck hunter to enjoy a great duck dinner. Food reporter Elaine Corn discovered a new way to cook duck from a local chef.

The Sacramento Theatre Company and the Cosmopolitan Cabaret are currently staging strikingly similar shows, giddy musical revues with outrageous costumes and over-the-top acting. It's a happy coincidence for fans of musical comedy.

Sacramento’s B Street Theatre has been offering up live theatre for young audiences since 1986. This month, the company’s family series presents a play adapted from “The Snow Queen,” a story by Hans Christian Andersen.

It’s December, and there are plenty of holiday plays onstage in Sacramento theaters. Jeff Hudson picked a trio of shows from the Sacramento Theatre Company, Capital Stage, and the B Street Theatre for this rapid-fire, bottom line review.

Sometimes, a sympathetic audience can help a theatre critic appreciate certain aspects of an otherwise predictable play. That’s what happened to Jeff Hudson recently when he attended the Sacramento Theater Company’s latest show.

It's an all-too-common occurance: veterans returning from war having trouble adjusting to civilian life. California Stage's current 2-man drama addresses the issue head-on with Vietnam as the backdrop.

Writers love to set their stories in working class neighborhoods where people from many ethnic backgrounds mix. Think John Steinbeck and “Cannery Row.” The debut show at the new Capital Stage works in a similar vein.

This year marks the centennial of the birth of Tennessee Williams, whose 1947 play “A Streetcar Named Desire” became an American classic. If you've only seen the 1951 film version with Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, this production might surprise.