Its theater is definitely of the no-frills variety, a black box constructed in the space of two public storage units in an industrial park in Ventura, but there is no…
Next week, former Cabrillo Music Theater artistic director Lewis Wilkenfeld returns to Thousand Oaks to direct Matilda, the story about a precocious English girl who uses books and literacy to wreak…
Ragtime, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's musicalized version of E. L. Doctorow's novel about a quickly changing America at the turn of the 20th century, has received a new concept,…
Musical Theatre Guild's latest staged reading, Minnie's Boys, was performed at Glendale's Alex Theatre on Sunday, February 10, and although it was great to finally get to see this rarely seen…
As Simon Stephens' 2015 play Heisenberg opens, a 75-year-old Irish butcher named Alex Priest is sitting in a London Underground station, listening to music on his iPhone. Without warning, Georgie Burns, a…
Next week, Agoura High School senior Griffen Hamilton will be directing the school's production of Mamma Mia!, his first full-length musical. Griffen has been featured in Raymond Saar's Youth Musical Theater productions…
Two faces familiar to Ventura County audiences will be performing dream roles when they debut in Ragtime, which plays from February 10 to March 3 at the Pasadena Playhouse. Both Shannon Warne…
In McCoy Rigby Entertainment's production of 1776, director Glenn Casale cast a mix of veteran stage performers with younger newcomers. The result blends beautifully in the musical comedy that combines comedic…
With all the fuss and fame that Hamilton has caused in bringing America's founding fathers to the stage, one easily forgets its predecessor, 1776, a delightful show that only gets better with age.…
A brand-new musical made its world premiere on the black box stage of the Hillcrest Theatre for the Arts to kick off 2019. “Scott Robbins & the Traveling Show” had…