FROM THE ARCHIVES: “THE HALF OF IT DEARIE, BLUES” – Fred Astaire with George Gershwin (April 20, 1926) In December 1924, one of the most important events in Broadway…
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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…