BY CARY GINELL Last month, Southern California audiences got a special treat when the Musical Theatre Guild presented a rare stage reading of the 1954 Broadway musical The Golden Apple. The…
BY CARY GINELL After last Sunday's matinee performance of Jack Lemmon Returns, we met his son Chris Lemmon in the green room at the Rubicon Theatre Company to talk about the…
BY CARY GINELL Beginning Thursday and continuing for four performances this weekend, Ventura College will be presenting Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring a familiar name…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Fifty-six years ago, Buddy Holly, who was, with Elvis serving in the army, the reigning King of Rockabilly, died in a plane crash along with two…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Ever since Hal Holbrook first portrayed Mark Twain in 1954, the one-man play-as-tribute has become a staple of the Broadway stage. Subjects have been wide-ranging, from…
BY CARY GINELL It wasn't too long ago when Ariel Downs was a kid, singing in middle and high school musical programs. Now fully grown, the petite, perky 25-year-old is…
PRESS RELEASE Panic! Productions continues its third season with the musical “13 ,” April 10 through 19 at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts in Thousand Oaks. The high-energy show,…
BY CARY GINELL This weekend we visited with Lindero Canyon Middle School drama teacher Raymond Saar, who is directing the school's production of Bye, Bye Birdie. The show will be staged at the…
BY CARY GINELL Today we conclude our interview with original Annie producer Irwin Meyer from a few weeks ago. VCOS: What did you think of the recent motion picture version of Annie?…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL In Evan Smith's program bio for The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised], it reads, "Evan Patrick Smith has never performed any Shakespeare, and he's still not…