BY CARY GINELL Young Artists Ensemble, the Conejo Valley's premiere performing arts company for young people in the arts, won seven awards and seventeen nominations for their productions of 42nd Street…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Did you ever have one of those dreams where a variety of random celebrities shows up in one place? That seems to be the gist of…
BY CARY GINELL Veronica Dunne and Austin Miller, who will be performing in the two-person musical The Last Five Years for YAE4Ever beginning June 13, are two of a kind. Both are…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL In the introduction to his adaptation of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, Wilbur Braun advised producers, "Speed the action before the curtains and and play the entire play…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights, which won Tony awards for Best Musical, Score, and Choreography in 2008, is completing a two-weekend run at the Thousand Oaks…
BY CARY GINELL At twenty-eight, Blythe Renay is amazingly close to the character she portrays in the Conejo Players' production of "Thoroughly Modern Millie." Attractive, spunky, and eminently talented, Blythe…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL When West Side Story burst upon the Broadway scene in 1957, audiences and critics were stunned by the frank violence of the show. In The New York Times,…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Remember the name Sara Gilbert. The sixteen-year-old Santa Susana High School junior delivered a mature, engaging, and perfectly executed performance as Elle Woods, the misunderstood Malibu…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL On February 9, Cabrillo Music Theatre's production of Forever Plaid will close, but that day marks a very special milestone in popular music history - it will…
BY CARY GINELL Cabrillo Music Theatre's production of Forever Plaid begins this weekend and we had a chance to chat with its director, Larry Raben, prior to the start of rehearsals.…