For about twenty-five years, City Theatre at Sacramento City College has been producing a Mainstage Season in the Art Court Theatre on campus, and the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival in William Land Park. Formerly known as SCAT (Sacramento City Actors Theatre), City Theatre changed its name a few years ago to better reflect the wide range of theatrical experiences that a diverse city such as Sacramento deserves. City Theatre now offers over twenty productions a year.

Two Gentlemen of Verona (2006), Joe Larrea as Launce and Beanie as Crab.

The Women (2006), Cheantell Munn, Martha Omiyo Kight and Katherina Pappa Miller.

The Sacramento Shakespeare Festival just finished its 21st Season with Romeo and Juliet and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. New this year were a brand new website, online ticketing, a welcome village, new Festival merchandise, a touring version of Shakespeare Lite, and a High School Internship Program.

The Mainstage Season will open with the Eighth Annual 29 1/2-Hour Playwriting Festival on Sunday, September 10. This is a project of the Playwriting and Screenwriting Program, and it features nine ten-minute plays that will be written in seven hours on Saturday afternoon,

September 9, rehearsed all day Sunday, and performed on Sunday evening. Actors, directors, playwrights, and audience are able to see brand new plays come to life in a little over a day.

The rest of the Mainstage Season ranges from Alan Ayckbourn's hilarious Comic Potential to holiday fare for the whole family in Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness, historical romance in Brian Friel's Translations, and cutting edge exploration of the human condition in Jose Rivera's Marisol.

Other programs strive to expand and broaden the experience of theatre and film in many ways. The Childrens Theatre Program includes the touring Pennywhistle Players, on-campus Storytime Theatre, and Storytime Theatre at Fairytale Town.

I Remember Mama (2005),
Kelsi Grondin and Perl.

The new Ethnic Theatre Workshop creates original pieces that reflect the diversity of cultures at Sacramento City College and in Sacramento, develops these pieces in class, and tours them to the community. The Studio Show allows more flexible productions such as a Local Playwrights Festival, and, this year, a Faculty Production of The Merry Wives of Windsor. And the new City Films works out of the Film Production classes, develops and shoots two films a year, and has already won several local awards. All information is available at (916) 558-2228, or the new websites: citytheatre.net and sacramentoshakespeare.net.