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 o…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 10:31AMSunday, 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. W…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 05:22PMFriday, 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 wrot…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 08:11PMMonday, 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 ot…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:42PMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:04PMMonday, 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 01:26PMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 04:40PMFriday, 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 in…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 05:27PMWednesday, 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 Shakesp…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 03:36PMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:50PMMonday, December 6, 2021
When producers of country music decided to try and appeal to pop audiences sixty years ago, the main recipient of this shift to a more accessible sound was Patsy Cline, a rough-and-tumble, t…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:10PMSaturday, December 4, 2021
It’s one of the most common themes found in Broadway musicals: a culturally stagnating town is rejuvenated when an outsider arrives on the scene, affecting everyone in the process. You’v…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:57PMWednesday, November 17, 2021
After watching Conejo Players’ production of “Baby,” which plays through November 21 at the company’s newly reopened theatre in Thousand Oaks, a better title for the musical might ha…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:25PMMonday, November 1, 2021
If you’ve ever worked in an office, you might be familiar with experiencing the panic of running late for an important meeting for which you are designated to play a key role. That is the …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:23PMWednesday, October 20, 2021
To show you how little importance the plot for the jukebox musical Mamma Mia! is, the printed program lists no scenes from the show, only an alphabetical checklist of the 22 songs inserted i…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:36PMSunday, October 17, 2021
In 5-Star Theatricals’ current production o Mamma Mia! the role of Sam Carmichael is played by veteran soap opera star Eric Martsolf. Although he’s known to his fans mainly for the roles…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 07:19PMSunday, October 3, 2021
On October 15, 5-Star Theatricals becomes the next theatre company to emerge from its COVID-induced hibernation with its production of the feel-good musical, Mamma Mia! Playing the central r…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:15PMThursday, August 5, 2021
Of all elements of society hit by the pandemic, the one that got hit the hardest was the performing arts. Many theatre companies were forced to close their doors while those that managed to …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 09:48AMSunday, August 1, 2021
Welcome back, regional theatre! For the past 16 months, we’ve been sporadically seeing a variety of virtual and drive-in plays, musicals, and revues, but it’s great to get back to live, …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 03:26PMTuesday, December 29, 2020
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 the past year. Because of th…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:34PMFriday, March 6, 2020
In The Revolutionists, Lauren Gunderson’s 2017 black comedy about four (in)famous women of the French Revolution, comedy meets tragedy in a fictionalized what-if? premise that brings to mi…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 08:13PMSunday, March 1, 2020
It’s hard to believe, but 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, one of the prime community theaters in Ventura County. In 1995, the center’s first prod…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 04:03PMSaturday, February 29, 2020
An interview with David Krassner, director of Agoura High School’s current production of Rent. Krassner uses his experience as an actor on Broadway and in national tours to guide young act…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:59PMThursday, February 27, 2020
Can a play about cancer be uplifting? That’s the question posed by Margaret Edson in her Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Wit, currently showing at the Elite Theatre Company in Oxnard. The pla…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:04PMSaturday, February 22, 2020
Occasionally, Broadway audiences miss the target. Such is the case with It Shoulda Been You, a musical that somehow lasted less than five months before slinking off into tours and community …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:51PMThursday, February 20, 2020
On Wednesday, February 26, Agoura High School’s drama department, under the direction of David Krassner, will be staging the high school production of Rent, Jonathan Larson’s groundbreak…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:06PMFriday, February 14, 2020
The appeal of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, which arrived in Thousand Oaks on February 13 for a four-day run, can be summed up by the comments of an elderly couple leaving the Fred Kav…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:03PMWednesday, February 12, 2020
Beautiful, the musical that chronicles the life of singer/songwriter Carole King, comes to the Conejo Valley for the first time in American Theatre Guild’s national tour. Many performers h…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 08:51PMThursday, January 30, 2020
The sudden death of Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant on Sunday cast a pall over not just Southern California basketball fans, but people around the world who admired Bryant for his devoti…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:31PMMonday, January 20, 2020
Steven Dietz’s play, Bloomsday, which made its debut at the Elite Theatre Company in Oxnard January 17, is a Twilight Zone-like story that mixes past and present, using James Joyce’s nov…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 03:28PMSaturday, January 18, 2020
In Finding Neverland, reality is blurred by imagination as J. M. Barrie, the creator of the characters and the original play version of Peter Pan, struggles with writer’s block as he tries…
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