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…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 19, 2016
BY CARY GINELL If you have the opportunity to see Cabrillo Music Theatre’s splendid production of Evita this weekend, you will no doubt be drawn to the electrifying performances by …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 04:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2016
BY CARY GINELL It’s the day after opening night at the Camarillo Skyway Playhouse and the house is nearly empty. On stage, a terrific production of the Kander and Ebb musical Curtai…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 03:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2016
BY CARY GINELL For years I have been saying that the best kept secret in Ventura County theater is the Ventura County Gilbert & Sullivan Repertoire Company. Celebrating its 10th season t…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2016
BY CARY GINELL In Cabrillo Music Theatre’s new production of Evita, the role of Che, the narrator figure based on Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, is played by Marc Baron Ginsburg…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:17PM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL You’ve seen them. Gaudy costumes worn by Hollywood and Broadway stars, preserved and on display in museums and galleries. It’s a great way to witness first-…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:56AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 17, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Tonight, friends and colleagues will pay tribute to Lewis Wilkenfeld at a special fundraising banquet and program honoring his 10 years as artistic director of Cabrillo Music …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 03:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2016
BY CARY GINELL His day job is as associate justice of the Second District, Division Six of the California Courts of Appeal, but Steve Perren’s passion for the stage has seen him app…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 31, 2016
BY CARY GINELL One of the most heinous crimes of the 20th century was the one in which 13-year-old Atlanta pencil factory worker Mary Phagan was mysteriously murdered in 1913. The suspect, t…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 23, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Last Sunday, we ventured into Los Angeles to see two Ventura County theater alumni in a production of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Next to Normal, the Tony and …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 09:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL After experiencing Philip King’s comic farce See How the Run, which opens tonight at the Ojai Art Center, one can easily figure out where the title came fro…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Occasionally we venture out of the sanctity of Ventura County to see how some of our locally raised theatricians are faring in their acting careers. Today we visit with Harris…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:33AM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL It never ceases to amaze me what young talent can do given a near-impossible task and a short amount of time. Director Brian McDonald has worked a minor miracle, assemb…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 07:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2016
BY CARY GINELL VC On Stage would like to welcome a new sponsor for the months of August and September. Joshua Finkel’s Creative Combustion Acting Studio helps its clients build and …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Today we meet Katherine Bottoms, a young actress who we hope you will be able to see on stage some day before fame and fortune takes her away from us. Katherine was born in…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Last week we spoke with Fearless Shakespeare director Joseph Fuqua, dramaturg Jonathan Drahos, and Musical Theatre Intensive director Brian McDonald about their production of …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 07:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 27, 2016
BY CARY GINELL The Rubicon Theatre Company’s Education and Outreach program enables youngsters as early as five years old to become acclimated to the theatrical experience through a va…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2016
BY CARY GINELL One important and valuable aspect of Cabrillo Music Theatre’s long tenure in Ventura County is its devotion to casting talented young local performers in as many of i…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 10, 2016
BY CARY GINELL He’s hard to miss on stage. A husky, ever-smiling youngster with bright red hair and a big voice. Nicholas Glaab recently graduated from Newbury Park High School and wil…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 09:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 5, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Larry Raben is an accomplished actor and director who has added his prodigious abilities to a multitude of productions around the world. In addition to acting in a command …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 04:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL The proverb “it takes a village” is the theme for Michael Perlmutter’s Open Meeting Closed, a tense and often funny play that is being staged at th…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2016
BY CARY GINELL One of the great things about Ventura County theater is that there is a never-ending progression of young talent that keeps coming up through the ranks. Two of the more impres…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:01PM[SHARE]Friday, June 17, 2016
BY CARY GINELL This weekend, the husband-and-wife duo of Kirby and Beverly Ward will be performing Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, in three concerts at the Rubicon Theatre Company. Although noth…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Agatha Christie’s masterpiece, The Mousetrap, made its debut in London’s West End in 1952, and, incredibly, some 64 years later, it’s still running…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2016
BY CARY GINELL This is the time of year when high school seniors are getting ready to head off to college, and for those who are looking toward a career in the theater, it’s an excitin…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:18PM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL It’s funny how many shows we’ve seen recently that bring to mind concepts evident in the current election season. In In the Heights, it was the plight…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 04:29PM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL If you ever wondered what the kids on Glee did during their summer vacation, the answer might be Disney’s Camp Rock, The Musical. With space unavailable at …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 07:07PM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2016
BY CARY GINELL In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical about community and family in a Dominican-American neighborhood in New York City, has a multi-layered meaning for its talent…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:05AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2016
BY CARY GINELL We continue with our visit with Kevin Repich, Malissa Marlow, and Leah Dalrymple, three of the stars of California Lutheran University’s production of The Drowsy Chap…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 10:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Playing a character is hard enough for many actors and actresses who are starting out in musical theater, but The Drowsy Chaperone throws its performers a curve because …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:42PM[SHARE]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…
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