The life and writings of Emily Dickinson, one of America’s most treasured poets, comes vividly to life in a one-night-only reprise of the acclaimed Ojai Art Center production of The…
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VCOS: This isn’t the first time you’ve done West Side Story. Tell me about what you did in past performances. PATRICK: I was in the Broadway revival and played Indio and…
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“Go back where you came from!” Like a festering sore, the uncomfortably familiar words stand out in a combative scene between the Jets and the Sharks in West Side…
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Not too long ago, an uber-talented, ambitious girl-next-door named Sami Staitman was starring in productions of Legally Blonde and The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Calabasas High School. Today, Sami is a…
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The Book of Mormon, the spectacularly popular, proselytizing musical about Mormon missionaries seeking to convert the inhabitants of a primitive Ugandan village, rang Thousand Oaks’ doorbell recently, and the…
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The choreographer for 5-Star Theatricals’ upcoming production of West Side Story is Karl Warden who comes with a long line of credits leading from Broadway to Europe and every place…
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Director Larry Raben Discusses The Timeliness And Timelessness Of “West Side Story”
07/17/2019
With gun violence and immigration continuing to be front page news, West Side Story remains one of our most relevant and thought-provoking musicals. Since its debut on Broadway 60 years…
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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 “borderline…
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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 focuses on three Texas…
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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…