Thursday, August 18, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL After experiencing Philip King’s comic farce See How the Run, which opens tonight at the Ojai Art Center, one can easily figure out where the title came from: b…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 08:00PMMonday, August 15, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Occasionally we venture out of the sanctity of Ventura County to see how some of our locally raised theatricians are faring in their acting careers. Today we visit with Harris…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:33AMFriday, August 12, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL It never ceases to amaze me what young talent can do given a near-impossible task and a short amount of time. Director Brian McDonald has worked a minor miracle, assemb…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 07:39PMThursday, August 11, 2016
BY CARY GINELL VC On Stage would like to welcome a new sponsor for the months of August and September. Joshua Finkel’s Creative Combustion Acting Studio helps its clients build and po…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:00PMTuesday, August 9, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Today we meet Katherine Bottoms, a young actress who we hope you will be able to see on stage some day before fame and fortune takes her away from us. Katherine was born in P…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:26PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Last week we spoke with Fearless Shakespeare director Joseph Fuqua, dramaturg Jonathan Drahos, and Musical Theatre Intensive director Brian McDonald about their production of …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 07:29PMWednesday, July 27, 2016
BY CARY GINELL The Rubicon Theatre Company’s Education and Outreach program enables youngsters as early as five years old to become acclimated to the theatrical experience through a va…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:36PMTuesday, July 12, 2016
BY CARY GINELL One important and valuable aspect of Cabrillo Music Theatre’s long tenure in Ventura County is its devotion to casting talented young local performers in as many of its…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:06PMSunday, July 10, 2016
BY CARY GINELL He’s hard to miss on stage. A husky, ever-smiling youngster with bright red hair and a big voice. Nicholas Glaab recently graduated from Newbury Park High School and wil…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 09:38AMTuesday, July 5, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Larry Raben is an accomplished actor and director who has added his prodigious abilities to a multitude of productions around the world. In addition to acting in a command pe…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 04:43PMWednesday, June 29, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL The proverb “it takes a village” is the theme for Michael Perlmutter’s Open Meeting Closed, a tense and often funny play that is being staged at the …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:29PMThursday, June 23, 2016
BY CARY GINELL One of the great things about Ventura County theater is that there is a never-ending progression of young talent that keeps coming up through the ranks. Two of the more impres…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:01PMFriday, June 17, 2016
BY CARY GINELL This weekend, the husband-and-wife duo of Kirby and Beverly Ward will be performing Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, in three concerts at the Rubicon Theatre Company. Although nothin…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:28AMThursday, June 16, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Agatha Christie’s masterpiece, The Mousetrap, made its debut in London’s West End in 1952, and, incredibly, some 64 years later, it’s still running, …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:45PMWednesday, June 8, 2016
BY CARY GINELL This is the time of year when high school seniors are getting ready to head off to college, and for those who are looking toward a career in the theater, it’s an excitin…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:18PMFriday, June 3, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL It’s funny how many shows we’ve seen recently that bring to mind concepts evident in the current election season. In In the Heights, it was the plight of …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 04:29PMMonday, May 9, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL If you ever wondered what the kids on Glee did during their summer vacation, the answer might be Disney’s Camp Rock, The Musical. With space unavailable at the …
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 07:07PMFriday, May 6, 2016
BY CARY GINELL In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical about community and family in a Dominican-American neighborhood in New York City, has a multi-layered meaning for its talent…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:05AMFriday, April 29, 2016
BY CARY GINELL We continue with our visit with Kevin Repich, Malissa Marlow, and Leah Dalrymple, three of the stars of California Lutheran University’s production of The Drowsy Chaper…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 10:58AMTuesday, April 26, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Playing a character is hard enough for many actors and actresses who are starting out in musical theater, but The Drowsy Chaperone throws its performers a curve because of t…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:42PMFriday, April 22, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Occasionally we venture beyond the borders of Ventura County to see what is going on in Los Angeles, and on this occasion, we couldn’t resist taking in a performa…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 03:39PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Ventura County is never short of young talent, and we always like to track young performers as they make their way up the theater ladder. Many begin when they are children and…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 07:27PMMonday, April 18, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL “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 t…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:25PMFriday, April 15, 2016
BY CARY GINELL The Addams Family has hit Ventura County with a vengeance. Recent productions by Actors’ Repertory Company of Simi and the Ojai Art Center are being followed in success…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 05:38PMSaturday, April 9, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL With the angst over the immediate future of Cabrillo Music Theatre finally receding into the background, it’s time to focus once again on what is happening on the…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 05:06PMBY CARY GINELL Last night’s opening of Cabrillo Music Theatre’s Children of Eden was every bit as enchanting and magical as anticipated. After the debacle of Theater League̵…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:23PMThursday, April 7, 2016
BY CARY GINELL The suddenness in the fortunes of Cabrillo Music Theatre over the past two weeks has left many of its fans’ heads spinning. During that time, there has been more drama b…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 03:19PMWednesday, April 6, 2016
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL The idea for Nunsense, the whimsical musical about five wacky but lovable nuns from the Little Sisters of Hoboken, came to creator Dan Goggin from an unexpected quarte…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 06:49PMMonday, April 4, 2016
BY CARY GINELL Stephen Schwartz’s Children of Eden is the second-to-last show to be produced by Cabrillo Music Theatre, and for its hard-working cast, Cabrillo’s announcement of…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:34PMSaturday, April 2, 2016
BY CARY GINELL In the conclusion of our somewhat disheartening visit with Lewis Wilkenfeld, we talked about the future of Cabrillo Music Theatre, both the hopeful and the realistic prospect…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 10:37AMWednesday, March 30, 2016
BY CARY GINELL We conclude our discussion from a few weeks ago about the production of Conejo Players’ The Wizard of Oz, featuring David Colville as the Lion and Jared Price as the Ti…
SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:19PM 
