The Bird Cage is old-fashioned audience-participation theater, straight out of the stages of the Wild West. The hero always wins. And the villain always gets his just reward — offstage.

OROVILLE — Birdcage Theatre opened the second production of its new season last week with “Three Bags Full,” an adaptation of a French farce.

“Kismet,” presented by the Birdcage Theatre, continues at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with a 2 p.m. show Sunday at Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise.

The Birdcage Theatre’s female version of “The Odd Couple” runs at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m., through Oct. 4. Tickets cost $10.

OROVILLE — Tara Stokes, director of “The Normal Heart” opening next week at The Birdcage Theatre, said the show’s theme revolves around how sometimes to win a war you have to start one.

OROVILLE — The Birdcage Theatre in Oroville starts off the new year with “An Evening of One Acts.” The third production in its current season, this evening of three one-act plays begins Jan ...

Birdcage Theatre in Oroville celebrates the opening of its 30th year in “show biz” with the amusing romantic comedy, “Sabrina Fair,” playing Sept. 20 through Sept. 29. Written by Samuel A ...

I left the last performance of “The Normal Heart” Sunday at the Birdcage Theater with tears streaming down my face. I was literally afraid to talk to the actors and others in the lobby because ...