REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Getting the public to accept a new Christmas play or musical is a difficult task, given that the holiday itself is based on long-standing traditions that…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Theater League's national tour of Beauty and the Beast is in town this week, playing six performances at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza through Sunday, and it's…
BY CARY GINELL In the second installment of our interview with Sam Harris, Sam talks about why he selects particular material, and about his aborted attempt to do a Broadway…
BY CARY GINELL When I looked at Sam Harris's career credits, it's hard to believe that this man ever sits still, much less sleeps. After he won on the old Star…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL When the musical adaptation of E. L. Doctorow's novel, Ragtime, hit Broadway in January 1998, an almost manic anticipation of the show's opening was dampened by critics such…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Not since Victor Borge's one-man show, Comedy in Music has piano playing brought so much humor to Broadway. Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt's mixture of comedy and…
BY CARY GINELL David Mamet's play November closes this weekend, just prior to the end of the mid-term election season, and it is just about as laughable (see our review in…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Let me state at the outset that I am not a fan of tampering with classics. There has been a penchant of late to succumb to…
BY CARY GINELL The play Twelve Angry Men is being presented this weekend by the Oak Park High School Drama Department in a production directed by Allan Hunt. Hunt, however,…
BY CARY GINELL Dark Heart of Poe continues its run this weekend as it moves from the Elite Theatre Company, where it was performed in the round, to the Simi…