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“A Walk In the Woods” Opens TONIGHT at PTP!
A WALK IN THE WOODS opens TONIGHT! ……………………………… Joel Eddington-Morrison returns to the Prospect stage, on summer break from his studies at Cal State LA, to play John Honeyman, the American idealist who has recently taken over an arms negotiation assignment. His counterpart, Soviet realist Irina Botvinnik, is played by the delightful Jill Taylor, most […]

PerformingView – Happy Summer
PerformingView By Kaye Osborn Happy Summer Readers! May your days be filled with adventure, exploration and wonders. If you are looking to enhance your artistic and dramatic flairs consider attending a summer camp in theater, dance, singing, music or art. Camps are offered at Gallo, Hammonds House in Oakdale and local theater and dance companies. […]

Featured Friday: Shannon Carmack-Mize Seamstress to the Stars
Featured Friday: Shannon Carmack-Mize Each Friday we are going to feature a member of our community, Business Owners, Musicians, Artists, Teachers, Community Leaders and those that inspire us. This week we have Shannon Carmack-Mize and if you have been to a local theatrical performance at Gallo or Downey in the last few years you have […]

PerformingView – March on Stage
Performing View By Kaye Osborn It has finally come to ride into the sunset for me with Lakewood Youth Theater. It has been an adventure filled with drama, laughter, dance, music, friendship, collaboration, creativity and of course, memories that will last a lifetime. The performers embraced Shakespeare, melodrama, Westerns, the 50’s, the 70’s, the 80’s, […]

InterView – Dr. Jim Johnson
InterView By Chris Murphy Jim Johnson – Gallo Center Repertory Company Modesto is so fortunate to have local stars that are champions of stage and theatre performance. Not only that, we are fortunate the drama and performing arts are strong in our local schools and notably at Modesto Junior College. One of these local stars […]

PerformingView – December Classics
PerformingView By Kaye Osborn & Chris Murphy The last month of the year has finally arrived. We become busy with holiday shopping, festivities, cooking and decorating. It is a good time to relax and de-stress by going to the theater. It’s time to create new family traditions. I coordinate the annual Dickens Faire at the […]

MJC Theatre stages Agatha Christie¹s ³Spider¹s Web²
MJC Theatre stages Agatha Christie’s “Spider’s Web” The Modesto Junior College Theater Department presents the Agatha Christie mystery “Spider’s Web” on November 29 and 30, and December 1, 6, 7 and 8 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. in the Little Theatre of the Performing Arts Center on East Campus, 435 College […]

World Premiere of Her Body and the Fall
Center Stage Conservatory presents the world premiere of Her Body and The Fall written by Summer Krafft and Directed by David Barbaree Her Body and the Fall, a brand new work tells the story of inherited trauma from a man born in the occupation in World War II and how that impacts his young daughter […]

MJC Theater stages Four Seasons
MJC Theater stages “Four Seasons” – four one act plays by Professor Michael Lynch The Modesto Junior College Theater Department presents “Four Seasons” – four original one act plays written and directed by Professor Michael Lynch on May 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 19 at 7 p.m. in the Cabaret West Theatre of the […]

StageView: Hairspray the Musical
StageView: Hairspray By Tasha Williams Surely you do not want to miss this year’s Hairspray musical production put on by The Modesto Junior College Theatre Department! It will run from March 16, 2018 to March 25, 2018 and with the actors being directed by Professor Lynette Borrelli-Glidewell, music being directed by Professor Cathryn Tortell, and […]

Lurid Thriller BUG at Center Stage
Center Stage Conservatory presents a wonderfully lurid thriller ‘BUG’ written by the Tracy Letts. Production Dates: March 2-18 BUG By Tracy Letts Directed by: Jennifer Golden A lonely cocktail waitress, Agnes, lives in a seedy motel room, hiding from her violent ex-husband Jerry. One night, her lesbian biker friend R.C. introduces her to Peter, a Gulf War […]

Church & State debuts in Modesto on MJC stage
Church & State debuts in Modesto on MJC stage Pictured (L- R) are Jim Johnson as Senator Charles Whitmore, Trey Augustus as Tom, Charlene West as Sara Whitmore and Kimberly Ogden as Alex Klein. (Modesto, CA) — Modesto Junior College’s Arts, Humanities and Communications Division is staging Church & State on January 25-27 and February 2-3 at 7 p.m. and February 4 at 2 […]

StageView The LightBox Theatre’s Pinocchio
LightBox Theatre Announces Dates for ‘Pinocchio’ Spring production sets for Carnegie Arts Center Stage in March TURLOCK — The LightBox Theatre Company, a theatre for young audiences, continues its 2017-18 season this spring with the production of ‘Pinocchio’ this March. Based on the classic tale of The Adventures of Pinocchio, ‘Pinocchio’ is a new, fast-paced, story-within-a-story featuring […]

StageView – A Lie of the Mind
StageView By: Tracy Sprague Photos by: Austin Morris Center Stage Conservatory presents its 2018 Season opener ‘A Lie of the Mind’ written by the Sam Shepard January 5-21 Center Stage Conservatory has become a local landmark for all things Sam Shepard, starting with their explosive production of ‘True West’ in 2014 and followed up the […]

Love in Dead Silence
Love in Dead Silence Special Guest Writer Shannon Carmack Mize Center Stage Conservatory is what community theatre is all about. It is located in the basement theater of the City Center downtown on J street. You’ve probably passed the building hundreds of times without ever even thinking about what was going on inside. You can […]