VCOS: When you stepped into this role, you obviously had your own vision on the direction you wanted 5-Star to go. But talk a little bit about what changes you…
Today we visit with Patrick Cassidy, the new artistic director for 5-Star Theatricals, the pre-eminent musical theater company in Ventura County. Our interview with Cassidy is the third we've conducted…
What do you do when your very full life is stopped cold with a stroke? Create a one-woman show, of course! In what is undoubtedly the most remarkable performance of…
Mame, the 1966 musicalized version of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's play Auntie Mame, is one of those shows that was decades behind its time. Its devil-may-care, broadly drawn characters, even…
I Dig Rock And Roll Music, a retrospective honoring the rise of folk-rock during the 1960s and '70s, is promoted as a sequel to the highly regarded Lonesome Traveler, which celebrated the…
In 1906, the Spanish-born philosopher George Santayana wrote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Ninety-eight years ago, in the middle of a contentious Republican National Convention,…
Recently we profiled a changing of the guard of Conejo Players Theater, one of three local production companies that has taken on new management and possible new directions. Today we…
After seeing Moorpark College's imaginative production of Clue: The Musical last week, we decided to return to go behind the scenes to see how they designed and crafted the remarkable makeup…
In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming.…
This summer, new leadership takes over for three local theater companies in Ventura County. During the coming months we will be talking with spokespersons for each of the three to…