Friday, April 22, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Occasionally we venture beyond the borders of Ventura County to see what is going on in Los Angeles, and on this occasion, we couldn’t resist taking in a performa…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 03:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Ventura County is never short of young talent, and we always like to track young performers as they make their way up the theater ladder. Many begin when they are children and…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 07:27PM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL “The very powerful are always fools,” intones Kit Maxwell, the one character with a conscience in Jason Wells’ 2009 black comedy, Men of Tortuga, a…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:25PM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2016
BY CARY GINELL The Addams Family has hit Ventura County with a vengeance. Recent productions by Actors’ Repertory Company of Simi and the Ojai Art Center are being followed in succe…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 05:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 9, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL With the angst over the immediate future of Cabrillo Music Theatre finally receding into the background, it’s time to focus once again on what is happening on the…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 05:06PM[SHARE]BY CARY GINELL Last night’s opening of Cabrillo Music Theatre’s Children of Eden was every bit as enchanting and magical as anticipated. After the debacle of Theater League…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 7, 2016
BY CARY GINELL The suddenness in the fortunes of Cabrillo Music Theatre over the past two weeks has left many of its fans’ heads spinning. During that time, there has been more drama b…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 03:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL The idea for Nunsense, the whimsical musical about five wacky but lovable nuns from the Little Sisters of Hoboken, came to creator Dan Goggin from an unexpected quar…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:49PM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Stephen Schwartz’s Children of Eden is the second-to-last show to be produced by Cabrillo Music Theatre, and for its hard-working cast, Cabrillo’s announcement …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 2, 2016
BY CARY GINELL In the conclusion of our somewhat disheartening visit with Lewis Wilkenfeld, we talked about the future of Cabrillo Music Theatre, both the hopeful and the realistic prospe…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 10:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2016
BY CARY GINELL We conclude our discussion from a few weeks ago about the production of Conejo Players’Â The Wizard of Oz, featuring David Colville as the Lion and Jared Price as the …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:19PM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2016
SPECIAL PRESS RELEASE FROM CABRILLO MUSIC THEATRE Before his retelling of the Witches of Oz in Wicked, composer Stephen Schwartz took on a contemporary retelling of some of the most popular …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 26, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Cabrillo Music Theatre’s recent announcement of the production company ending its 22-year existence at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza was a devastating bombshell to …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]Despite superb performances from the entire cast, Theater League's Ragtime suffers greatly from this omission, which was apparently a decision of Phoenix Entertainment, the independent theat…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 08:37AM[SHARE]Monday, March 21, 2016
BY CARY GINELL We just received the following news release from Cabrillo Music Theatre: It is with great sorrow that the Board of Directors of Cabrillo Music Theatre announces that it will s…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 03:34PM[SHARE]REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Those who are experienced in theater know that a show’s success varies based on a number of factors, including the quality of the product, good casting, effective…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:10PM[SHARE]Friday, March 11, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL When you look at the track record for I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, 5003 performances during a 12-year run, you begin to wonder what made this little…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL John Ford’s 1962 film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, is one of the all-time greatest westerns. So when I heard that a play version was making its American …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2016
BY CARY GINELL The Wizard of Oz may be one of the most daunting musicals to stage as any – not just because of the technical challenges (making a house fly away in a cyclone, flame-thr…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 04:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Oak Park High School, which has never shied away from tackling ambitious musical productions in the past, is now taking on Mary Poppins, the popular stage version of the cl…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2016
BY CARY GINELL The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was originally a short story penned in 1953 by Dorothy M. Johnson (1905 – 1984), who wrote numerous articles and stories with Western th…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:46PM[SHARE]Friday, February 26, 2016
REVIEW BY KELLY GREEN (special to VC On Stage) Santa Susana High School in Simi Valley was at it again with another superb production. With three separate play production classes (musical, c…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Ventura County has always been a proving ground for young performers, and one of the brightest that we’ve seen in the past few years is Kristen Wisneski, a 17-year-old j…
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