Read the full article by Marcus Crowder at Sacramento News & Review
As I approached The Sofia, home of B Street Theatre in Sacramento on a February morning, swarms of fourth and fifth grade kids from Greer Elementary School and California Montessori Project buzzed around the entrance. The children’s energy spiked by anticipation created its own force field. When the doors opened they loudly spilled into the empty lobby suddenly filling the space. They are here for a morning matinee of the B Street Theatre Family Series.
The young theatergoers about to see “Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad” written and directed by Jerry Montoya, B Street’s longtime executive producer, were creating a full circle moment. Forty years ago, Tim and Buck Busfield founded Fantasy Theatre (later Theatre for Children, Inc.), a traveling troupe of professional theater makers driving around to area schools putting on original 45 minute plays.