Read the full article by Odin Rasco at Sacramento News & Review
Spooky season is coming into full swing and Sacramento’s theater companies are taking note with shows featuring supernatural terrors, real-world killers, epistemological concerns and stress taken to the breaking point. Between stories rooted in real-world concerns and tales taking a turn toward the fantastical, playgoers of all tastes will find something to love on one of Sacramento’s stages this October.
Celebration Arts’ newest show, co-produced with Teatro Nagual, brings Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play to Sacramento. Walter “Pops” Washington is a retired New York City policeman and widower living in a rent-controlled apartment on Riverside Drive. The stress on Pops piles high; his son Junior has just been released from jail on parole, he’s pursuing a discrimination suit against the police department, his landlord wants him out and the church won’t leave him alone. Between old wounds, sketchy houseguests and a final ultimatum, the good old days might just be gone for good.