If you haven't been out to the Camarillo Skyway Playhouse lately, here are two great reasons to go: Mariah Tobin and Dakota Heer. The pair are starring in CSP's new…
FROM THE ARCHIVES: "THE HALF OF IT DEARIE, BLUES" - Fred Astaire with George Gershwin (April 20, 1926) In December 1924, one of the most important events in Broadway musical…
The life and writings of Emily Dickinson, one of America's most treasured poets, comes vividly to life in a one-night-only reprise of the acclaimed Ojai Art Center production of The Belle…
VCOS: This isn't the first time you've done West Side Story. Tell me about what you did in past performances. PATRICK: I was in the Broadway revival and played Indio and understudied…
"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…