SacActors.Com
June 2007
Funny, Dangerous & Provocative
SacActors.Com, which has created some of the longest running shows in Sacramento, produces controversial theater, sometimes with the best of local talent and sometimes drawing from other theatrical communities. Its style of theater can be described as funny, provocative and relevant.
"We have to make people laugh," says producing artistic director Evan Nossoff, paraphrasing playwright George Bernard Shaw, "or the audience would kill us."
SacActors recently |
Kelley Raines, Amber Kloss and Sequita Whitfield opened The Vagina Monologues for SacActors.com. It ran for 218 performans and eventually 19 actresses rotated through the roles. |
completed its Sacramento run of The Vagina Monologues. With 218 performances, it is the longest running independent production of the show in the nation. It reopens in San Francisco this fall with members of the original Sacramento cast. |
Nineteen local actresses rotated roles in the three-women show, including a deputy sheriff, legislative aide, a woman who coordinates weddings for Burning Man Festival, a CPA and a model hired by Mattel to play "Barbie." More details and San Francisco tickets at SacActors.Com.
SacActors is in residence at the Geery Theater in midtown Sacramento, a 49-seater in the basement of the Pease Conservatory of Music.
Coming Attractions
This summer headlines a comedy lineup produced in cooperation with local sketch comedy group I Can't Believe It’s Not Comedy.
June 15: First up will be the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour at the Crest Theater. Yes, it's a live show from the same crew who did the Comedy Central special. More details at axisofevilcomedy.com.
July 20-21: Ten West is the Los Angeles-based comedy duo of Jon Monastero & Stephen Simon, directed by Bryan Coffee. With a unique theatrical style of comedy inspired by clowning, vaudeville, and commedia dell'Arte, the pair have received standing ovations and critical acclaim around the nation and Canada. Ten West is two-man comedy at its most inventive. More details at tenwest.net; Tickets at SacActors.Com.
August 10-11: Coexist Comedy - a Christian, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Jew and an atheist walk into a bar... Local comics Keith Lowell Jensen and Trapan Trivedi put together a pentad of comics to prove coexistence is possible. UN Peace Keepers will be in attendance. More info at coexistcomedy.blogspot.com. Tickets at SacActors.Com.
Also watch for Sunday evening performances of the house improvisation group Dangerous Men/Dangerous Women. They'll ask you the title of your autobiography and then introduce one of the actors as the author being interviewed on National Public Radio. They also do extended improvisations, taking audience queries such as "Do I look fat in these pants" and weaving them into a one-act play that, when that suggestion was offered, offered butt transplants as the solution since no one admired their own.
Recent Shows
The Cody Rivers Show: This Bellingham-based duo combines the Cirque de Soleil with Monty Python.
I Can't Believe It's Not Comedy: Sacramento's own sketch comedy group, fresh off the comedy festival circuit.
The Office Party: A holiday musical with none of those annoying holiday songs.
The Sacramento 2Page Play Festival: Featured more than 250 entries from 23 states and nine countries.
7xLove: Seven short plays, seven actors, seven directors, seventy minutes of fun.
Sexual Perversity in Chicago: Another long-running hit, this play about the war between the sexes, an early David Mamet piece, left audiences, especially couples, talking for hours.
Fun & Professional Workshops
SacActors has an extensive workshop program for adults, teens and experienced kids. The program is designed to give actors the year-round exercise of their talents in a challenging and supportive environment. Led by Evan Nossoff and well-trained professionals, SacActors strives to create the excitement and performance levels reached in top Los Angeles acting workshops. Visit SacActors.Com for more info. |
