REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Those who are experienced in theater know that a show’s success varies based on a number of factors, including the quality of the product, good casting, effective…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL When you look at the track record for I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, 5003 performances during a 12-year run, you begin to wonder what made this little…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL John Ford’s 1962 film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, is one of the all-time greatest westerns. So when I heard that a play version was making its American …
BY CARY GINELL The Wizard of Oz may be one of the most daunting musicals to stage as any – not just because of the technical challenges (making a house fly away in a cyclone, flame-thr…
BY CARY GINELL Oak Park High School, which has never shied away from tackling ambitious musical productions in the past, is now taking on Mary Poppins, the popular stage version of the cl…
BY CARY GINELL The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was originally a short story penned in 1953 by Dorothy M. Johnson (1905 – 1984), who wrote numerous articles and stories with Western th…
REVIEW BY KELLY GREEN (special to VC On Stage) Santa Susana High School in Simi Valley was at it again with another superb production. With three separate play production classes (musical, c…
BY CARY GINELL Ventura County has always been a proving ground for young performers, and one of the brightest that we’ve seen in the past few years is Kristen Wisneski, a 17-year-old j…