Thursday, October 24, 2019
Every so often an actor emerges who is what I call a "five-tool-player," a term borrowed from baseball, describing someone who can run, hit, field, throw, and hit for power. In the theater, …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 23, 2019
In 5-Star Theatricals' current production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man, acrobatics worthy of an Olympics gymnastic meet are turned in nightly by Antonia Vivino, who plays starry-ey…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Last week we spoke with Adam Pascal about his approach to playing Professor Harold Hill in Meredith Willson's classic musical comedy The Music Man. 5-Star Theatrical's production, whic…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Ventura County theater fans were overjoyed when 5-Star Theatricals announced that veteran Broadway star Adam Pascal would be starring as raffish traveling salesman Harold Hill in the company…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2019
In British playwright Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange, Christopher is a patient in a London psychiatric hospital who has been admitted under a "Section 2" for what has been diagnosed as a "b…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Plays that show characters changing through the years are some of the most challenging actors can experience. In the 1976 Off-Broadway play Vanities, author/playwright Jack Heifner focuse…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:36AM[SHARE]Monday, May 20, 2019
Today we received a letter from Andrew Landecker, senior film student at Calabasas High School who played the role of Amos Hart in the school's March production of Chicago. Here's what…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 07:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 19, 2019
In a world that is consumed by political correctness, Avenue Q, which made its debut at the Conejo Players Theatre May 3 for a brief two-weekend run, shatters Broadway conventions with its r…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 09:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Camelot, the original "Game of Thrones," is familiar to theater and film fans through its highly successful stage productions but a new ballet, produced by Pacific Festival Ballet, makes its…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:05PM[SHARE]Friday, April 5, 2019
Its theater is definitely of the no-frills variety, a black box constructed in the space of two public storage units in an industrial park in Ventura, but there is no denying the talent that…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2019
Next week, former Cabrillo Music Theater artistic director Lewis Wilkenfeld returns to Thousand Oaks to direct Matilda, the story about a precocious English girl who uses books and litera…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Ragtime, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's musicalized version of E. L. Doctorow's novel about a quickly changing America at the turn of the 20th century, has received a new concept, which …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 08:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Musical Theatre Guild's latest staged reading, Minnie's Boys, was performed at Glendale's Alex Theatre on Sunday, February 10, and although it was great to finally get to see this rarely …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:59PM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2019
As Simon Stephens' 2015 play Heisenberg opens, a 75-year-old Irish butcher named Alex Priest is sitting in a London Underground station, listening to music on his iPhone. Without warni…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:35PM[SHARE]Friday, February 8, 2019
Next week, Agoura High School senior Griffen Hamilton will be directing the school's production of Mamma Mia!, his first full-length musical. Griffen has been featured in Raymond Saar'…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2019
Two faces familiar to Ventura County audiences will be performing dream roles when they debut in Ragtime, which plays from February 10 to March 3 at the Pasadena Playhouse. Both Shanno…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:36PM[SHARE]Friday, February 1, 2019
In McCoy Rigby Entertainment's production of 1776, director Glenn Casale cast a mix of veteran stage performers with younger newcomers. The result blends beautifully in the musical comedy…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 30, 2019
With all the fuss and fame that Hamilton has caused in bringing America's founding fathers to the stage, one easily forgets its predecessor, 1776, a delightful show that only gets b…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2019
A brand-new musical made its world premiere on the black box stage of the Hillcrest Theatre for the Arts to kick off 2019. "Scott Robbins & the Traveling Show" had been percolating in th…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:42PM[SHARE]Monday, January 14, 2019
"Larger than life" is a description that is overused in show business, but this is not hyperbole when it comes to legendary vaudeville entertainer Sophie Tucker (1884-1966). Famously promote…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 31, 2016
BY CARY GINELL It’s time once again for the annual “Vee-Cee” Awards, in which we honor some of the most memorable performances on Ventura County stages over the course of t…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 03:11PM[SHARE]Friday, December 23, 2016
BY CARY GINELL As each year comes to a close, we like to look back at some of the highlights of the past year in musical theater and plays in Ventura County. 2016 was the fourth year in whic…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 18, 2016
(Agoura Hills, Calif. " December 17, 2016) After 11 years of renting multiple local spaces and partnering with many local theatre groups and local high schools and colleges, the New Year wil…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Siena Avila is like many other 16-year-old high schoolers you know. Cheerful, friendly, enthusiastic, and just a little bit shy. But Siena has one thing that most kids her age…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:32PM[SHARE]Monday, December 12, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Calendar Girls, a 2009 play based on a hit 2003 film, is Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi’s true-to-life comedy about six middle-aged women from a village in Yor…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:08PM[SHARE]Friday, December 2, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Louis Baker has had a varied career in the entertainment world. As an actor, he studied under three prestigious performers: Bill Duke, Haile Gerima, and Debbie Allen. He has w…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 30, 2016
BY CARY GINELL The idea of a woman playing the lead in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is not a new one. The first female Hamlet, Elizabeth Powell, performed the role at London’s Drury L…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:33AM[SHARE]Monday, November 28, 2016
BY CARY GINELL The musical Ragtime, which plays through this Sunday, December 4, at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, is an important work that weaves actual historical personages …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 04:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Everyone knows that the director is the person responsible for the look and content of a musical or play, but once the cast has been selected, sets and props are delivered, an…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 03:26PM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Before Mamma Mia!, before The Marvelous Wonderettes, and before Jersey Boys, there was Return to the Forbidden Planet, an Off-Broadway space farce that w…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL The title of All My Sons, Arthur Miller’s riveting play of guilt, heartbreak, and tragedy, refers to 21 young World War II combat pilots, who were needlessl…
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