A big part of theater is what is known as "improv," acting sessions that help prepare actors' reaction and thought process skills. Usually these are done behind the scenes, but…
In the era of Germany's Third Reich, there was no symphonic conductor more admired than Wilhelm Furtwängler. A virulent anti-Nazi, Furtwängler denounced the repressive government of Adolf Hitler at every opportunity,…
Today, an interview with Barry Pearl, director of Studio C Performing Arts current production of All Shook Up, the jukebox musical celebrating the music of Elvis Presley. The show is concluding…
There was much to like in 5-Star Theatricals’ reinvention of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical “Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” which concluded its two-weekend run at the Fred Kavli…
This summer we ventured into Los Angeles to see a performance of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living In Paris at the Odyssey Theater (see our July 12 review)…
The temptation to take a film classic and turn it into a Broadway musical is a road fraught with peril. How do you take something perfect and make it better?…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Nick Payne's acclaimed, thought-provoking play Incognito made its debut at the Rubicon Theatre Company last weekend in a performance that is sure to have audiences scratching their…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Have you ever acted on an impulse, knowing you were doing the wrong thing, but went through with it anyway? That's the dilemma housewife Becky Foster…
BY CARY GINELL Now playing at the Elite Theatre Company in Oxnard is At the End of the Day, the initial offering from Elite's Pachyderm Project, a play development program begun…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Last October, Elite Theatre Company's artistic director Tom Eubanks raised the curtain on a new play development and acting program called "The Pachyderm Project," whose mission…