REVIEW BY NATALIA VIVINO On Friday, January 9, I had the pleasure of attending Agoura High School’s first-ever production of Bubble Boy, an original musical created by Cinco Paul and…
BY CARY GINELL As we close 2014, many theater critics not unexpectedly take stock of performances seen during the past twelve months. I am no different, and although many critics…
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…
REVIEW BY NATALIA VIVINO You’d be lying if you said you’ve never been curious about what happens backstage during a live show, and English playwright Michael Frayne had the chance…
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…