Posts Tagged ‘Ventura County Theater Review’
HAIRSPRAY
Sunday, October 12th, 2025
5-Star Theatricals concludes its 2025 season with an irresistibly entertaining revival of the 2002 Broadway smash Hairspray, directed by none other than the show’s original Tracy Turnblad, Best Lead Actress Tony winner Marissa Jaret Winokur herself.
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RENT
Sunday, August 31st, 2025
A talented bunch of Gen Zers make it crystal clear why Jonathan Larson’s Gen X musical Rent is still going strong at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center nearly thirty years after its Broadway debut.
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FROZEN
Tuesday, July 15th, 2025Five fabulous lead performances elevate 5-Star Theatrical’s big-cast production of Disney’s Frozen, though probably not enough to be worth shelling out big bucks for a ticket given its rather lackluster production design and hundreds of chatty, fidgety preschool audience members not old enough to sit still for two hours.
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BONNIE & CLYDE
Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
America’s most infamous bank-robbing duo are back in business and the Rubicon Theatre has got them in the Ventura treasure’s must-see revival of the Tony-nominated Bonnie & Clyde The Musical.
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CABARET
Saturday, March 15th, 2025
Even constrained by the limitations of a rented set, master director Michael Matthews and an absolutely superb cast deliver a 5-Star Theatricals Cabaret resplendent with Matthews’ unique brand of brilliance.
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ANNIE
Saturday, July 6th, 2024That little orphan named Annie is back, reminding audiences at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center that the sun will indeed come out tomorrow in Actors’ Repertory Theatre Of Simi’s entertaining community theater revival of the Broadway musical smash.
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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE – ON AIR!
Monday, December 4th, 2023A ragtag bunch of inadvertent thespians find themselves forced to step in for a dozen snowstorm-stranded 1940s Hollywood A-listers in It’s A Wonderful Life – ON AIR!, a clever concept given an entertaining if overlong (and at times overplayed) execution at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center.
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THE PROM
Monday, September 4th, 2023
There aren’t enough superlatives in the book to describe Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center’s stand-up-and-cheer regional premiere of The Prom, my absolute favorite Broadway musical of the past five years.
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