RODGERS & HART BECOMES RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN In July 1940, Theatre Guild’s Lawrence Langner invited his Connecticut neighbor Richard Rodgers to see a revival of Green Grow the Lilacs at…
LYNN RIGGS AND GREEN GROW THE LILACS Oklahoma! would not have existed without Green Grow the Lilacs, a lively tale of life on the American prairie, set in 1900 when Oklahoma…
Today we present the first in a three-part series on the 75th anniversary of Oklahoma!, probably the most important musical in Broadway history, which made its debut at the St. James…
Since it made its debut more than 40 years ago, A Chorus Line has not only become one of the most successful and legendary musicals of all time, but it also…
When famed playwright/actor Sam Shepard died last July at the age of 73, it gave us pause to examine the body of his work, a catalog that helped define the…
Amid the constant barrage of Shreks, Legally Blondes, and Beauty and the Beasts that keep making the rounds in Ventura County theater, we were really looking forward to seeing Kinky Boots, a show…
When you watch Alan Waserman in California Shakespeare Theater's current production of Othello, you'd think that he's been performing works of the Bard all of his life. Not so, says Waserman,…
(GLENDALE) It was old home week at the Alex Theatre in Glendale Sunday night when veterans of the now-defunct Cabrillo Music Theatre reunited for Musical Theatre Guild's single performance production…
At 25, most actors and actresses are striking out on their own, many, if they were lucky, having graduated from prestigious theater arts schools, while others are constantly networking and…
At the beginning of Jonathan Tolins' riotous one-man comic fantasy Buyer and Cellar, Brian McDonald, who plays struggling actor Alex More, produces a line from the hit song "The Way We Were": Memories…