5-Star’s Back-To-Basics “Wizard of Oz” Retains Its Magic
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…
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…
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…
“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, and High…
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. Many of these…
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…
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 production of the 1970…
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…
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…
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 in the…
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…