Society 805

NOV

13

Review: Taking Sides

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

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Rubicon Theatre in Ventura’s downtown cultural district is doing Sir Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides through 12 November 2017. Harwood did The Pianist and has repeatedly shown interest in World War II-related moral dilemmas. Taking Sides fits right in. It’s basically a military tribunal “trial” by the American occupation command in Berlin of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the great German conductor who stayed in Nazi Germany throughout the Nazi era and World War II.

Patrick Vest as Major Arnold, Tara Donovan as Emmi Straube and Peter Van Norden as German composer Wilhelm Furtwängler in Taking Sides by Academy Award-Winner Sir Ronald Harwood and directed by Ovation Award-winner Stephanie Coltrin.
Photo Credit: Josh and Veronica Slavin

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OCT

16

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Preview: Flying H Does Blackbird

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

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Flying H Does Blackbird

Ventura is getting a special treat: Two of the 805’s best acting talents, Jessi May Stevenson and Taylor Kasch, are teaming up to do David Harrower’s Blackbird, one of the most remarkable plays written in decades.

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SEP

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Review: Incognito

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

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Incognito

Rubicon theatre presents a fabulous West Coast premiere of Nick Payne’s Incognito. Runnng 90 minutes without intermission, the play was originally commissioned and performed by Nabokov and Live Theatre, in Newcastle, UK in 2014 and opened in the US 3 May, 2016 at the Manhattan Theatre Club.

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SEP

06

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Review: Becky’s New Car

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

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Becky’s New Car

The Santa Paula Theatre Company is currently offering a delightful production of Steven Dietz’s Becky’s New Car, an easy-going farce written for a tight ensemble.

The play is set in summer “in a town very much like Seattle …” and is about a fairly normal middle-class woman, Becky, in a conventional ho-hum marriage. Becky works in an auto dealership while her husband, Joe, runs a roofing business. One day a somewhat disconnected, eccentric billionaire, Walter Flood, enters her office and through a misunderstanding offers Becky the possibility of a somewhat parallel existence.

(l)Scott Blanchard, Cynthia Killion, and Ronald Rezac in Steven Dietz' hilarious comedy BECKY'S NEW CAR playing through October 1 at the Santa Paula Theater Center.

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SEP

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Review: Steel Magnolias at the Elite

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

KimPrendergast Truvy andsittingPeggy Steketee Clairee

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Steel Magnolias at the Elite

The play, Steel Magnolias has been a favorite of both professional and community theatre audiences for almost three decades, enjoying somewhat of a rebirth across the country since its revival with a Broadway debut in 2005.

Kim Prendergast as Truvy and Peggy Steketee as Clairee, Elite Theater Co Oxnard, CA

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AUG

02

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THE 2017-2018 SEASON IS HERE!!

By Society 805 Staff Writer

The 2017-2018 season is here and it's bolder than ever!

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JUL

01

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Review: McPherson’s Birds

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Theatre

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Santa Paula Theatre Center is featuring Conor McPherson’s The Birds through July 30th. For those Flying H Theatre fans out there, this is going to look like an old reunion, as most of the principles were also involved with the sadly defunct Flying H Group, now getting together for another round with this fabulous production of McPherson’s play.

The attacks contine as Diane (Kathleen Bosworth ) and Tierney (Allan Noel) struggle to survive in Conor McPherson's apocalyptic thriller THE BIRDS live on stage from June 23 - July 30 at the Santa Paula Theater Center, Santa Paula, CA.

Photo Credit: Brian Stethem Photography

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JUN

09

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Review: When We Were Young and Unafraid

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

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The play When We Were Young and Unafraid is sort of a local legend. Originally a smaller project workshopped in Ojai, it was eventually produced off-Broadway in 2014. Its author, Sarah Treem has gone on to do television, including writing for Game of Throne, I believe. The play itself is a well-structured, tightly written play set in 1972 about women's issues, featuring four strong women's parts and a token male role. Though set in the 70s it is more relevant today than ever.

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JUN

05

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Review: Milo's Other Mozart Performance of a Lifetime Comes to Rubicon

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Theatre

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Beyond Mozart
Milo's Other Mozart Performance of a Lifetime Comes to Rubicon

It is to Karyl Lynn Burns and the Rubicon Theatre's great credit that they have brought Sylvia Milo's truly remarkable performance, The Other Mozart, to Ventura and the Rubicon stage for a limited engagement. This is a very special night of theatre, not to be missed by anyone even remotely interested in seeing a great performance. There is nothing quite like it available anywhere else. Rubicon brings in not only Milo but her entire original production that ran so successfully in New York and London and now tours internationally.

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Review: Beached

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Theatre

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Two Lights at Elite's South Stage

Elite Theatre Company has brought the world premier of Brett Busang’s Two Lights to its South Stage theatre, which is their annex for showing new work, and more experimental productions. Set in the 1950s it is a tight little drama loosely based on the life of Edward Hopper, the great American painter, and his wife, who was also a painter and modeled for her husband.

Jake Mailey (left) as Al and Clayton McLannock as Ed- Photos Credit: Joe Orrego

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