For half a century, "Cabaret," the 1966 musical about the bawdy, tawdry nightlife of pre-Nazi-era Germany has served as a warning against complacency in a country creeping towards totalitarianism. 5-Star…
In the theater world, there is nothing as difficult to pull off as farce. By definition, a farce is a "comic dramatic piece that uses highly improbably situations, stereotyped characters,…
The centuries-old tradition of pantomime came to Thousand Oaks December 13 with 5-Star Theatricals' staging of Peter Pan and Tinker Bell: A Pirate's Christmas, which stars John O'Hurley, best known as…
Last year, actor and voiceover artist Bill Ackerman traced the history of filming locations in the Conejo Valley with an entertaining tableau of scenes from films like “Spartacus” and television…
Little Shop of Horrors, the musical version of the 1960 cult film classic, has been as indestructible as Audrey II, its ravenous man-eating, soul music-loving plant. The 1986 remake, starring…
Richard Israel has been a member of the Los Angeles theatre community for over 20 years and is the recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Milton Katselas Award…
The national tour of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird comes to Thousand Oaks beginning Tuesday, June 25-30 at the Bank of American Performing Arts Center. Aaron Sorkin's new adaptation, directed…
Kimberly Demmary is a talented playwright and actress who has had a number of plays make their debuts on Ventura County stages. Her latest is SHE, an anthology of four stories that…
Million Dollar Quartet, the show inspired by a legendary Sun Records jam session in 1956, was an unlikely hit when it made its Broadway debut in 2010. Although it was…
There was a time when the presidency was viewed as a venerated and exalted office with the President of the United States seen as the nation's father figure, whose intellect,…