Sacramento is also known for its theater and is home to biggest nonprofit musical theater of California, the California Musical Theatre, formerly called the Sacramento Light Opera Association. This theater has staged several productions of musicals including classics like Oklahoma, The King and I, and Show Boat. It also offers Broadway hits performed by national stars.

The 24th Street Theatre is home to the Light Opera Theatre of Sacramento, which offers light opera works of Gilbert and Sullivan. The Sacramento Theatre Company has its own resident company, which offers classical as well as modern plays. The B Street Theatre, which happens to be Sacramento Professional New Works Theatre Company, produces excellent contemporary theatrical works. The Garbeau Dinner Theatre is housed in a renovated winery. In all, there are more than 80 groups that present live theatrical performances in Sacramento.

The Camellia Symphony season starts in October and goes on till mid-May. It includes 6 different concerts and many other special fundraising concerts. The Sacramento Opera has produced and performed over 40 operas, and the opera season starts in September and goes on till March. The Sacramento Philharmonic features 5 concerts from November to May. The Sacramento Ballet is made up of 22 artists, 4 trainees and 8 apprentices, who perform classical as well as contemporary ballet.

When visiting Sacramento you must not forget that it is home to one of the oldest art museums in the West. The Crocker Art Museum has a permanent collection of European paintings by masters like Bruegel and Rembrandt. It also includes a famous collection of drawings, along with Persian and Indian paintings. From American paintings to decorative arts, to ceramics and photography, the museum has it all. The California State Railroad Museum showcases the history of the railroads in its premises. The museum displays over 21 railroad cars and locomotives, as well as roughly 46 exhibits. The Discovery Museum features science, technology and interactive history exhibits. The Towe Auto Museum features the history of the car and automotive culture, and has over 150 vintage models on display. The State Indian Museum showcases jewelry, clothing, baskets, art and other artifacts of the Native Americans.

The Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, which is also the largest gathering of jazz bands in the world, starts during the Memorial Day weekend and features over 100 bands. The Bridge to Bridge Waterfront Festival is in July and features boating, boat races, wakeboard and coast guard demonstrations. The California State Fair starts in August and goes on till September and is one of the largest fairs in the whole country. The four-day long Gold Rush Days Festival starts over Labor Day weekend, and the Gold Rush era is recreated in Old Sacramento. The California International Marathon is in December, and the starting point is at Folsom and it ends at the Sacramento State Capitol building.

From the Chinese to the Japanese, the Koreans to the Philippines, the Europeans to the African Americans and even the Native Americans, Sacramento has now become a cultural hot spot. The Chinese came to Sacramento in the Gold Rush days of the 1800s, and once the gold ran out, most of them stayed back to work as cooks, laborers, merchants and farmers. In the West End, lies Sacramento small but important Japantown. A strong sense of Japanese heritage survives here and there is an annual Japanese Food and Cultural Bazaar that starts in August.

Sacramento homes for sale offer a great sense of community in gated communities. Here you will be welcomed with open arms and swept right to the heart of the community where you can build a great life for your family. There are a number of fantastic, safe and thriving communities in and around Sacramento, and below is just a selection of them.

Winn Park

This is one urban Midtown neighborhood in Sacramento; homes for sale could be ranch homes, Victorian properties, craftsmen built houses, four-plexes or apartments. There is plenty of choice here. Everyone knows your name in Winn Park, and local store owners will soon be on first name terms with you if you buy one of the homes for sale in this great town. It’s a tolerant and accepting neighborhood where you’ll soon make friends beneath the wide canopy of glorious trees which characterize the area.

Arden Park

This is another leafy suburb of Sacramento; homes for sale are placed on generous lots as land has been given over to homeowners’ yards rather than to sidewalks. The homes are beautiful and there is a relaxed, friendly lifestyle to match.

River City

‘City’ does not seem quite an appropriate term for this collection of quaint half-plexes in the cul-de-sacs of homes for sale here. It is less than a five minute drive to downtown Sacramento so you can have the best of both worlds in River City.

Curtis Park

These historic homes for sale in the Curtis Park neighborhood were among the first to be built in Sacramento, so the close-knit community is steeped in history. Only a five minute ride on a bike from downtown Sacramento, Curtis Park has bungalows, Storybook, Spanish Revival style and Crafts homes along its seasoned tree-lined streets. Whether it’s old or new you want, you can find it in Curtis Park.

Phoenix Field

The area northeast of Sacramento once was the home location of the Phoenix Field Airport. Between the 1940′s and 1980′s, people were able to taxi airplanes right from their doors to the airfield. However most of the current Sacramento homes for sale were only built in the 1990s. Phoenix Field is a great party neighborhood.

Oak Park

Oak Park is Sacramento’s oldest neighborhood and has undergone a great revival in recent years. There are lovely Victorians, great bungalows and Craftsman Sacramento homes available in Oak Park.