BY CARY GINELL Ventura County has its share of young, talented performers, but the anchors for many of these splendid productions are the veteran actors who have settled here after…
BY CARY GINELL There's been a changing of the guard at Oak Park High School, as Don Enoch begins his first season as the school's drama director. Enoch doesn't come…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Sami Staitman is pretty much your typical 15-year-old teenaged girl. On Sunday afternoon, we journeyed into the Valley to see the Ventura County resident play the part of Molly,…
BY CARY GINELL Lori Lee Gordon is one of those rare individuals whose talents can lead her in multiple directions, and she'd likely be a success in any of them.…
BY CARY GINELL On October 2, Camarillo Skyway Playhouse debuts its production of Nine. Based on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film, 8 1/2, the musical version, which features a score by Maury…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Attention: students slogging through boring classes of quantum mechanics - have I got a show for you. Go see Copenhagen, the Tony-Award winning play now being staged at…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Samuel Joel Mostel was nicknamed "Zero" because the publicity agent who came up with the name told him it was because "you came from nothing." After years of struggling…
BY CARY GINELL When Annie Get Your Gun makes its debut at the High Street Arts Center September 11, the little lady totin' the rifle will be a familiar face to…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL As the topic of guns in society becomes more and more prominent during the upcoming election season, Stephen Sondheim's controversial 1990 Off-Broadway and off-beat musical Assassins has…
BY CARY GINELL Beginning this Saturday, the Elite Theatre Company's South Stage will be presenting Zero Hour, a one-man play about legendary actor Zero Mostel. The project is near and dear to…