FOOTLOOSE at Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center

Martίn Hernández – Stage Raw. In this stellar production, co-directors Barry Pearl and Michelle Elkin, with Elkin doing double duty as choreographer, have assembled a gifted cast that is as committed to the incongruous storyline as it is to an earnest portrayal of teen angst, inter-generational conflict, young love, and the redemptive power of music … Read more

13 at Simi Valley Performing Arts Center

Steven Leigh Morris – Stage Raw This 2008 musical (with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, book by Dan Eilish and Robert Horn) is aimed at 13-year-olds and performed almost entirely by teens. (Netflix has just released a movie adaptation). The tropes within its theme of pre-adolescent angst — including its stock boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl, … Read more