http://theatredate.com/reviews Community Theatre Reviews Thu, 08 May 2008 05:40:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just in time for Father’s Day fun, the Chico Theater Company presents a family show about a family man in their production of “Father Knows Best.” Based on the show that amused both early television viewers and radio listeners alike, this production is entertainingly outdated. The play revolves around one man’s ... http://theatredate.com/reviews/nuclear-family-explodes-in-stage/ In the spring of 1939 one of the most daring Hollywood producers of the day, David O. Selznick, began production of what would one day become one of the greatest Hollywood epics of all time. Everyone he knew told him it would be a turkey. But he was determined to see ... http://theatredate.com/reviews/celluloid-insanity/ Equal parts eerie and elegant, strange and beautiful, the show “Goblin Market,” now playing at the Blue Room captures something both childish and erotic. Based on a poem supposedly written for children by Christina Rossetti, the adaptation by Polly Pen and Peggy Harmon is full of overtly sexual undertones. An ... http://theatredate.com/reviews/an-erotic-adventure-in-fairyland/ Shakespeare’s plays, though well written, are full of deception, trickery, and fornication. In other words, they were made for Hollywood. Back in 1934, Warner Brothers put that thinking to the test. The play “Shakespeare in Hollywood,” now showing at the Chico Cabaret, explores what might have happened on Director Max Rinehart’s ... http://theatredate.com/reviews/shakespeare-and-show-business/ Honey, put the kids in the minivan, we’re going out to the CTC. The Chico Theater Company is putting on a show for the whole family. Disney’s “High School Musical” is a high energy, fast-paced look at high school life, Disney style. The show, directed by CTC owner Marc C. Edson, follows ... http://theatredate.com/reviews/high-school-musical-hits-a-high-note/ The Blue Room is playing host to "Nixon’s Nixon" a powerful political performance that speculates what might have happened August 7, 1974 in the Lincoln sitting room of the White House. That night President Nixon summoned Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to the presidential home; the next day he announced ... http://theatredate.com/reviews/nixon%e2%80%99s-nixon-needs-no-introduction/