BY CARY GINELL For many, the road to a career in theater has twists and turns that one doesn't always anticipate. Twenty-three-year-old Ella Bowen is currently on that road. As…
BY CARY GINELL Any production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! is a special event because of the groundbreaking show it was and continues to be. The original 1943 production set a…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL As a theater critic, it sometimes gets tiresome seeing the same shows over and over again. After all, how many variations on The Sound of Music or Footloose can…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL In their 1962 Cold War satire, "The John Birch Society," the Chad Mitchell Trio sings, "You cannot trust your neighbor or even next of kin /…
BY CARY GINELL When playing Ado Annie, the fickle, man-hungry hayseed in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Melanie Mockobey brings to mind another classic show business clown who got her start in musical…
BY CARY GINELL In 1983, Vanessa Townsell was a 22-year-old telephone operator who had dreams of making it big on Broadway. One day, on a whim, Townsell and a few…
From Panic! Productions: After a sold-out initial run in Thousand Oaks, Panic! Productions is bringing its hit production of Jason Robert Brown’s musical “13” to the El Portal Theatre in…
BY CARY GINELL Today we conclude our preview of some of the members of the Mary Poppins cast with a brief visit with Aussie import Kim Taylor, who will be dancing…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Frost/Nixon is Peter Morgan's award-winning play about the televised 1977 interviews between British talk show host David Frost and deposed president Richard M. Nixon. The interviews were divided…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Jason Robert Brown's 13, a jubilant paean to teenage angst, only had a brief stay on Broadway (105 performances over only two months), but the producers of…