BWW Review: JULIUS CEASAR at Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival
What happens when a family loses a loved one? Said family bans together, consoles each other, and stand as a united front to continue the celebration of the memory of the lost family member.
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BWW Review: PETER PAN at Cabrillo Music Theatre
An interview with Carly Bracco, who performed as Jane and Tootles in the national tour of 'Peter Pan' who is now playing the title role.
BWW Review: SYLVIA at Rubicon Theatre Company
What would it be like if dogs could speak? That's one question that is answered in A.
BWW Review: ABSINTHE L.A. Brings Sin City to Los Angeles, and It's an Instant Hit
It used to be true that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
BWW Review: THE DEVIL'S MUSIC: THE LIFE AND BLUES OF BESSIE SMITH at Rubicon Theatre Company
It's been 80 years since Bessie Smith, the celebrated Empress of the Blues, died a lonely death, after an auto accident on a desolate Mississippi road.
BWW Review: GULF VIEW DRIVE at Rubicon Theatre Company
In See Rock City, the second installment of Arlene Hutton's trilogy about a post-World War II family, aspiring novelist Raleigh Brummett had left for New York to pursue his career, leaving his school teacher wife May behind in the rural town of Corbin, Kentucky.
BWW Review: DIRTY DANCING: THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE at Theater League
The success of the awkwardly titled Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage depends primarily on whether or not you were a fan of the motion picture it was closely modeled after.
BWW Review: CALENDAR GIRLS at Santa Paula Theater Center
???????Calendar Girls, a 2009 play based on a hit 2003 film, is Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi's true-to-life comedy about six middle-aged women from a village in Yorkshire, England who raise money by posing nude for a calendar, in the process becoming a worldwide sensation.
BWW Review: PIPPIN at Newbury Park High School Performing Arts
A Clean, Crisp, and Entertaining "Pippin" Plays at Newbury Park High School!
BWW Review: RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET at Rubicon Theatre Company
Before Mamma Mia!, before The Marvelous Wonderettes, and before Jersey Boys, there was Return to the Forbidden Planet, an Off-Broadway space farce that was one of the first musicals to incorporate pop hits into its score.
BWW Review: Cirque du Soleil Creates a Wondrous World in TORUK - THE FIRST FLIGHT
Don LaFontaine was one of the most prolific voice actors in the movie industry for more years than I can even remember, until his death in 2008.
BWW Review: ALL MY SONS at Elite Theatre Company
The title of All My Sons, Arthur Miller's riveting play of guilt, heartbreak, and tragedy, refers to 21 young World War II combat pilots, who were needlessly killed when cracked cylinder heads were unknowingly installed in their airplanes.
BWW Review: HOLLYWOOD REVISITED at Oxnard Civic Auditorium
You've seen them.
BWW Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Pico Playhouse
Last Sunday, we ventured into Los Angeles to see two Ventura County theater alumni in a production of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's Next to Normal, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical that is being staged at the Pico Playhouse.
BWW Review: Bling, Beats, and Bollywood in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Bring An End to the 20th Anniversary Celebration With a Bawdy Burst at Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival
Bling, beats, and Bollywood in 'A Midsummer Nights Dream' bring an end to the 20th Anniversary Celebration with a bawdy burst at Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival.
BWW Review: A HENRY V for the Masses at Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival
For its 20th Anniversary Season, Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival starts out with a bang with this production of war, loss, love, social classes, and uniquely filled with humor.
BWW Review: Imagination Reigns in Kingsmen Shakespeare Company's HENRY V
Kingsmen Shakespeare Company's production of HENRY V takes its cue from one of Shakespeare's most well-known speeches, 'O for a Muse of fire ,' the prologue to this play.
BWW Review: CLARENCE DARROW at Rubicon Theatre Company
It's funny how many shows we've seen recently that bring to mind concepts evident in the current election season.
BWW Review: Disney Premieres Gorgeous FROZEN - LIVE AT THE HYPERION
Frozen fans will be ecstatic with the way Disney has re-imagined its much-loved blockbuster film for the stage, now that the doors to FROZEN - LIVE AT THE HYPERION are open on the Hollywood backlot of Disney California Adventure.
BWW Review: Newbury Park High School's ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND – A Darker Version
As the audience walks into the lobby of the performing arts center, we are greeted with glittery visions of teacups and saucers, large animated flowers, and welcoming oversized characters beckoning us with which to take a photo-op.
BWW Review: AMADEUS at Conejo Players Theatre
The grand rivalry between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his erstwhile mentor Antonio Salieri is mainly apocryphal, generated for dramatic effect by playwright Peter Shaffer in his 1979 play, 'Amadeus,' but the idea was, nevertheless, a brilliant one.
BWW Review: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE Presented By California Lutheran University Creative Arts Division Comes In With Flying Colors
For those of you who have never seen a production of this ode-to-classic-Broadway-musicals-with-a-modern-twist, run to the nearest production to see this campy, clever, and double entendre-filled romp.
BWW Review: MEN OF TORTUGA at Elite Theatre Company
'The very powerful are always fools,' intones Kit Maxwell, the one character with a conscience in Jason Wells' 2009 black comedy, Men of Tortuga, a taut and ironic thriller about corporate terrorists conspiring to plan a dastardly assassination.
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Beetlejuice JR Conejo Players Theatre (9/25-10/04) |
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The Wizard Of Oz BANK OF AMERICA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER – FRED KAVLI THEATRE (7/10-7/19) |
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GFour Productions presents Menopause the Musical® Fred Kavli Theatre- B of A Performing Arts Center,Thousand Oaks (9/30-9/30) |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame Conejo Players Theatre (11/06-11/29) |
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5 Star Theatricals presents The Wizard of Oz Fred Kavli Theatre- B of A Performing Arts Center,Thousand Oaks (7/10-7/19) |
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5 Star Theatricals presents Les Miserables Fred Kavli Theatre- B of A Performing Arts Center,Thousand Oaks (10/09-10/18) |
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Mötley Crüe at Shoreline Amphitheatre Shoreline Amphitheatre (9/24-9/24) |
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C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters Bank of America Performing Arts Center (8/08-8/08) |
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Fellowship for Performing Arts presents The Screwtape Letters Fred Kavli Theatre- B of A Performing Arts Center,Thousand Oaks (8/08-8/08) |
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Steel Magnolias Conejo Players Theatre (8/07-8/29) |