Just Be Theatre Company has announced that Sacramento's Artisan Theatre will host a trio of encore performances for the Anthony D'Juan play "3," conceived and performed by Danielle Moné Truitt, June 29-July 1, 2012. The one-woman show, which had its Sacramento premiere June 7-10, is the first in a proposed trilogy ("Nappy Hair and Other Black Girl Blues") that examines "the lives of three women connected by friendship and history, while delving into the social and cultural issues rooted in misconceptions of race and beauty." Tickets, priced at $20, are available at the door (1901 Del Paso Blvd., Sacramento), or online at www.brownpapertickets.com. Read more about the play's genesis by c

photographs by Barry Wisdom / For some, memories are jogged by a Top 40 ballad. Others find aromas initiate the trek down memory lane. For triple-threat Danielle Moné Truitt, it's not scents, songs or even Hipstamatic prints that prompt feelings of nostalgia. As wiggy as it seems, Truitt says the touchstones that trigger her internal "Way-Back Machine" are hairdos. "When I think about all of the major things that have happened in my life, what I remember is how I was wearing my hair," said the former Sacramentan now based in Southern California. "Ask me about my junior prom and I can tell you exactly what style it was in." It's a bit of a tangled connection between how a friend's disc

New Helvetia Theatre is dedicated to performing American musical theater shows. Their selection tends to be contemporary, as the most recent productions were “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” “tick, tick, Boom!,” “It’s Only Life” and “[title of show].” The current production, “They’re Playing Our Song,” reaches much further back, to December 1978. The book is by one of American theater’s most established playwrights, Neil Simon. The composer is Marvin Hamlisch and the lyricist is Carole Bayer Sager. The book is based very loosely on their personal relationship at the time. Both Hamlisch and Sager are also very established popular songwriters. The show was a success on Broadway and continues