Sunday, July 12, 2026
If you’re a fan of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, you no doubt are aware of the screening at the Sphere in Las Vegas in which the film has been turned into a 360-degree multi-sensory spec…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 09:24PM[SHARE]Friday, June 12, 2026
In a world that is consumed with political correctness and accusations of “wokeness,” Avenue Q, which made its debut at the Conejo Players Theatre June 5, is a musical that shattered Bro…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 10, 2026
“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” pop culture’s musical seminary about the Biblical tale of Joseph and his brothers, has always been a popular show for community theater,…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 09:14PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 31, 2026
In recent years, musicals based on hit motion pictures retrofitted with scores have become increasingly popular, as Broadway producers struggle to get audiences interested in live theatre. M…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2026
Every actor who has ever strode upon a stage has had nightmares of on-stage mishaps: forgotten lines, props that don’t operate properly or are not there at all, and other horror stories. Y…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 05:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Musical Theatre Guild, the Los Angeles-based company that produces staged readings of long-forgotten, rarely seen musicals, has done it again with a stellar and highly entertaining productio…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 25, 2025
It’s been a while since we checked in with Andrew Metzger, one of our favorite performers, so we were delighted to hear that Andrew was coming to the Hillcrest Center for the Arts to appea…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:37AM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2025
On Tuesday, December 4, 1956, a chance meeting in a recording studio in Memphis resulted in a landmark event in rock ’n’ roll history. The incident was instigated by Sun Records owner/pr…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 12, 2025
5-Star Theatricals’ production of Hairspray, which opened October 10 at the Scherr Forum Theatre in Thousand Oaks, is the bubbly, effervescent morality tale about civil rights in Baltimore…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 03:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 9, 2025
In 2013, we saw a performance of West Side Story at Calabasas High School and took note of the young actor Landen Starkman, who was playing the part of A-Rab. Three months later, we saw hi…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 26, 2023
As the earliest Broadway musical ever to feature children playing major roles, Oliver! usually bristles with youthful excitement. But despite being marketed as a family-oriented musical, Oli…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 24, 2023
The Distinguished Speaker Series kicked off its 28th season with a rare appearance by actress, producer, author, and children's health advocate Goldie Hawn. Over the years we have seen an ex…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:49PM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2023
Staged readings are an emotional time for a writer of a play or musical. It marks the first time a creation moves from the two dimensions of the written word to the three dimensions of a liv…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 07:23PM[SHARE]Monday, July 17, 2023
In Douglas Carter Beane's 2013 revamping of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical version of the "Cinderella" fairy tale, apparently, the magical transformation of a ragamuffin house ser…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 08:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 29, 2023
An unprovoked assault on a Black motorist. An unwanted infant buried alive in a garden. Vengeful vigilantes burning down firehouses. A vapid starlet seeks tabloid publicity through the sensa…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 8, 2023
The classic 1964 musical Fiddler On the Roof arrives in Thousand Oaks on Thursday, March 9 and prior to opening we had a chat with Mary Beth Webber, who plays the part of Yente in the show. …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:43AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2023
On Sunday, March 5, the Conejo Players Theatre will be presenting a staged reading of The Nameless Star, a 1942 play written by Romanian playwright Mihail Sebastian about a chance encounter …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:34PM[SHARE]Monday, January 30, 2023
The title of Lucas Hnath's 2013 play is unwieldy. In fact, if it weren't in italics, we weren't sure whether it was a play title or a press release description. A Public Reading of an Unprod…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:34PM[SHARE]Monday, December 12, 2022
Long before Mamma Mia! and Jersey Boys put the pop into pop musicals, a tuneful score by songsmiths Burt Bacharach and Hal David was inserted into a stage adaptation of Billy Wilder and I.A.…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 15, 2022
Halloween is once again upon us and with that, you can expect another visit from the creepy, kooky, and ooky Addams clan, in the 2010 Broadway musical The Addams Family. 5-Star Theatricals u…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 3, 2022
When we first saw Jonalyn Saxer, it was 2010. Jonalyn was an eighteen-year-old senior, playing Maria von Trapp in Oak Park High School's performance of The Sound of Music. In my review in th…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Summer is here and what better way to spend the week of the Fourth with a production of The Music Man, Meredith Willson's tribute to small-town America in the early twentieth century. An out…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 10:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 3, 2022
If you were a five-year-old girl going to see her first musical, Agoura High School's recent semester-ending production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella would be the one to see. With …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 05:22PM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2022
America was a different place in 1949 when Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific made its debut. World War II was still fresh in the minds of audiences but Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 08:11PM[SHARE]Monday, March 21, 2022
American Theatre Guild's current national tour of South Pacific brings Rodgers and Hammerstein's most successful musical to Thousand Oaks, a show whose score boasts more hits than any other …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 15, 2022
In the 2013 Tony Awards, the big winner was "Kinky Boots," a musical version of a 2005 film whose plot told of a failing shoe factory in Northampton, England that was rejuvenated when it beg…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:04PM[SHARE]Monday, February 28, 2022
The life and writings of Emily Dickinson, one of America's most treasured poets, comes vividly to life in the Elite Theatre Company's production of The Belle of Amherst by William Luce…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:26PM[SHARE]Monday, February 21, 2022
On February 24, American Theatre Guild's production of Jersey Boys makes a single appearance in Thousand Oaks at the Fred Kavli Theater. COVID forced the canceling of the show twice, first i…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 04:40PM[SHARE]Friday, February 18, 2022
Gerard Alessandrini (Creator, Writer & Director) is a Special Tony Award winner for Excellence in the Theatre. He created, wrote, and directed all 25 editions of Forbidden Broadway…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 05:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 9, 2022
It's always nice when we see a show that has never been performed in Ventura County so we were looking forward to seeing 5-Star Theatricals' Something Rotten!, the 2015 sendup of Shakespeare…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 03:36PM[SHARE]Monday, February 7, 2022
With the worst of the pandemic hopefully in the rear view mirror, Young Artists Ensemble is back in action with another stellar introduction to children's theatre. Joseph Robinette's The Jun…
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