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…
Motown: The Musical, which played at the Fred Kavli Theater a couple of weeks ago, is Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr.’s answer to Dreamgirls, which depicted a villainous Gordy-like character…
When Five Women Wearing the Same Dress makes its debut February 2 at the Camarillo Skyway Playhouse, last weekend's women's marches will still be fresh in the minds of members of…
This Saturday, the Saxer Family, Conejo Valley's own theater royalty, will reunite for their second revue of songs from musical theater. The first program took place six years ago and…
It's time once again for the annual "Vee-Cee" Awards, in which we honor some of the most memorable performances on Ventura County stages over the course of the past year.…