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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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Review: Steel Magnolias at the Elite

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

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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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#TBM An Interview with Artist Mara De Luca

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

in Artist Interviews

#Throw Back Mondays (originally posted 6/7/13)

Society805 interviews Mara De Luca in conjunction with her exhibition at Luis De Jesus gallery in Culver City.

Mara De Luca, Elegy II (Night Clouds), 2012, acrylic and collage on canvas, 96 x84 in, Luis De Jesus LA

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#TBM Pistol Productions: Firing Away

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

in Artist Interviews

#Throw Back Mondays (originally posted 10/1/12)

Christina Diaz, 805 visionary, publisher, curator, producer, Renaissance woman at large, has been crossing boundaries and bringing diverse art worlds together across the 805. Her production company, Pistol Productions, has put together a string of strong art shows, primarily in Oxnard and Ventura, bringing together artists and audiences from both towns to the benefit of all. Recent shows curated for the Stoneworks Studios, in the Ventura Avenue art zone, have repeatedly drawn large, enthusiastic, and diverse crowds.

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Review: McPherson’s Birds

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

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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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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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Delightful Bob Privitt Show at the Ventura County Museum

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

in Visual Arts

Art Review

Delightful Bob Privitt Show at the Ventura County Museum

Bob Privitt's solo show, Manipulations, brings another round of Privitt's well-known and delightful assemblages to the Ventura County Museum. Privitt has also had a solo show of his work at the Tool Room gallery at the Bell Arts Center when it was run by the museum. The current show presents a tighter, more closely related group of small sculpture/assemblages. Though color is not usually a key element in assemblage art, this show uses color very effectively to up the intensity of the visual impact to good effect.

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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

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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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Jimmie Durham at the Hammer Museum Los Angeles

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

in Visual Arts

Art Review

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At the Center of the World

Jimmie Durham at the Hammer Museum Los Angeles

Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World, a retrospective of Durham's work put together by Hammer's curator Anne Ellegood is a superb exhibition, infused with the most marvelously incisive wit and visual cunning.

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Review: Beached

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

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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