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Metropolitan Opera soprano Jennifer Black stars as Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata. The production marks the return of opera to Sacramento after an absence of almost four years. Kevin Doherty talks to Black about what audiences can expect.

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Sacramento Theatre Company Presents The Saga Of The Donner Party ... As A Musical

April 27, 2017 | Jeff Hudson

The Sacramento Theatre Company is premiering a new show based on California history – a musical about the Donner Party’s famously ill-fated journey in 1846. The show is an impressive production about a long trip that culminated in tragedy.

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Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Stories On Stage Brings Local Author Robert Dorjath’s Short Story To Life With Actor Ethan Ireland

April 27, 2017 | Cody Drabble

Local author Robert Dorjath brings his short story "A Parable of Fausto Bruzzesi" to Stories on Stage, based on a Chicago fire at a Catholic school that killed almost a hundred people. Actor Ethan Ireland performs Dorjath's reading.

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'Wherever There's A Fight:' California's Track Record On Civil Rights

April 25, 2017

The Golden State has a long history as a pioneer in the civil rights movement. Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi reflect on that past in their book “Wherever There’s a Fight.” They join Insight ahead of their talk at the California State Library.

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'Event Boundaries' Explores Relationships With Self And Others

April 24, 2017

Author/poet April Ossman talks about her work and new book "Event Boundaries" before speaking at the Sacramento Poetry Center Monday night.

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'Treatment,' A Show Written And Performed By B Street Theatre Members

April 21, 2017 | Cody Drabble

For the first time ever, the B Street Theatre Mainstage will feature a work written and performed by women from the company. We hear from them on Insight.

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Arts and Lifestyle

Asian-American Theater Company In Nevada City Stages Ancient Chinese Fable

April 20, 2017 | Jeff Hudson

Asian American theater productions are not common in the Sacramento area. But a plucky group known as Community Asian Theater of the Sierra is staging “The White Snake,” an elaborate show based on an ancient Chinese fable.

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'The Donner Party' Musical Retells American History

April 20, 2017

Erick Rockwell and Margaret Rose of the Sacramento Theatre Company talk about the newest production titled "The Donner Party, a new American Musical, based off one of the country's greater triumphs and tragedies.

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'Swimmer Among the Stars' Author Kanishk Tharoor Visits Sacramento

April 20, 2017

"Swimmer Among the Stars" is novelist Kanishk Tharoor's latest work. He joins Insight ahead of his reading at Time Tested Books.

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Single Payer Healthcare: Plausible Or A Pipe Dream?

April 18, 2017 | Chris Remington

There’s a renewed push to establish a single-payer healthcare system in California and across the United States. The filmmakers behind the new documentary “Now is the Time” join former Sacramento County Public Health Officer Glennah Trochet.

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