REVIEW BY CARY GINELL When you look at the track record for I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, 5003 performances during a 12-year run, you begin to wonder what made…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL John Ford's 1962 film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, is one of the all-time greatest westerns. So when I heard that a play version was making…
BY CARY GINELL The Wizard of Oz may be one of the most daunting musicals to stage as any - not just because of the technical challenges (making a house…
BY CARY GINELL Oak Park High School, which has never shied away from tackling ambitious musical productions in the past, is now taking on Mary Poppins, the popular stage version of…
BY CARY GINELL The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was originally a short story penned in 1953 by Dorothy M. Johnson (1905 - 1984), who wrote numerous articles and stories…
REVIEW BY KELLY GREEN (special to VC On Stage) Santa Susana High School in Simi Valley was at it again with another superb production. With three separate play production classes…
BY CARY GINELL Ventura County has always been a proving ground for young performers, and one of the brightest that we've seen in the past few years is Kristen Wisneski,…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL The Rubicon Theatre Company's Broadway Musical Concert Series, now in its second season, presented the rarely seen Rodgers and Hart classic Babes in Arms last weekend, a…
BY CARY GINELL One of the most anticipated shows that is coming to Thousand Oaks for the first time is the Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys. The dramatic story of the rise…
BY CARY GINELL The cast of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum includes not just noble Romans, but nubile ones as well. I'm speaking of the comely…