Green Valley Theatre Presents The Black Rider by Chris Narloch
W
ho else in Sacramento but Green Valley Theatre Company would be gutsy enough to bring The Black Rider to town? Don’t miss the area premiere of this dark musical collaboration between the late, great literary bad boy William S. Burroughs (book) and the genius musician Tom Waits (music and lyrics).
The musical was inspired by a classic German fairy-tale about a deal with the devil in which a file clerk falls in love with a huntsman’s daughter and must prove his ability to hunt before her father will give the couple his blessing. Things do not go well after that. Some of the finest community theater productions I have seen in Sacramento during the last decade have been courtesy of Green Valley Theatre, and I have no doubt that The Black Rider will be another winner. The Black Rider runs through August 25th at Westminster Presbyterian Church Hall at 1300 N Street in Sacramento. Parking is available in the church lot at 13th and O Streets. For more information, visit greenvalleytheatre.com.
The Black Rider. Photo by Christopher Cook
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August 9, 2018 - August 23, 2018 • No. 606
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