"Go back where you came from!" Like a festering sore, the uncomfortably familiar words stand out in a combative scene between the Jets and the Sharks in West Side Story,…
Not too long ago, an uber-talented, ambitious girl-next-door named Sami Staitman was starring in productions of Legally Blonde and The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Calabasas High School. Today, Sami is a sophomore…
The Book of Mormon, the spectacularly popular, proselytizing musical about Mormon missionaries seeking to convert the inhabitants of a primitive Ugandan village, rang Thousand Oaks’ doorbell recently, and the community…
The choreographer for 5-Star Theatricals' upcoming production of West Side Story is Karl Warden who comes with a long line of credits leading from Broadway to Europe and every place in…
With gun violence and immigration continuing to be front page news, West Side Story remains one of our most relevant and thought-provoking musicals. Since its debut on Broadway 60 years ago,…
In British playwright Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange, Christopher is a patient in a London psychiatric hospital who has been admitted under a "Section 2" for what has been diagnosed as a "borderline personality…
Plays that show characters changing through the years are some of the most challenging actors can experience. In the 1976 Off-Broadway play Vanities, author/playwright Jack Heifner focuses on three Texas cheerleaders,…
Today we received a letter from Andrew Landecker, senior film student at Calabasas High School who played the role of Amos Hart in the school's March production of Chicago. Here's what we…
In a world that is consumed by political correctness, Avenue Q, which made its debut at the Conejo Players Theatre May 3 for a brief two-weekend run, shatters Broadway conventions…
Camelot, the original "Game of Thrones," is familiar to theater and film fans through its highly successful stage productions but a new ballet, produced by Pacific Festival Ballet, makes its…