Titus Andronicus opens this Thursday at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia. It is adapted and directed by Chris Mangels and Brittney Martorana. Recently, we chatted with Brittney Martorana. She is a COS Theatre Arts Department alumna who has worked on many shows at COS. This is her directorial debut.
This Halloween season the Visalia Players are doing something a bit different, they have put together their own haunt! We took a moment to chat with the director of this experience, Michael Pistoresi, to learn more.
The Visalia Players at the Ice House Theater are presenting the world premiere of The Norma Conquests, by Los Angeles playwright Rom Watson. As the Assistant Director for the production, I am thrilled that we have the opportunity to share this wildly entertaining comedy with the community. Running September 15-October 1, 2023, this play is a parody sequel to Billy Wilder’s 1950 noir classic, Sunset Boulevard, following the continuing adventures of silent movie diva, Norma Desmond.
As we wrap up Pride month, this week we have an interview with Nick Vargas, who is the Director of Development and Strategy at The Source LGBT+ Center in Visalia. Nick is also one of the Co-Founders of The Source which opened in 2016.
KRL had the wonderful pleasure of interviewing local drag queen, Priscilla McNamara, for Pride month this year! She is a delight and I hope to get to meet her in person soon!
Feeling a little bloodthirsty? Looking for a night of musical theater? Have I got a show for you! It’s at the Ice House Theater in Visalia, where the Visalia Players are presenting a chiller if ever there was one—Sweeney Todd.
This Thursday, April 27, a new show opens at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia. Their Performing Arts department will be presenting a play called ARGONAUTIKA: The Voyage of Jason and the Argonauts. This one will be unique as it will be co-directed with some of the students at COS, together with Chris Mangels who is a Professor of Theatre and Cinema Arts as well as the Resident Scenic Designer, Fight Choreographer, and one of the two Resident Directors. We took a moment to chat with Chris and some of the students involved.
March 24, 2021. My family and I were enjoying dinner after a show. I was working two jobs at the time, plus making my first feature film. After years of planning, I had shot most of it with the best cast anyone could have asked for, and magic had been made. I had brought my laptop and hard drive with me, hoping I could get some more editing done in the three-and-a-half-hour drive both to and from the show, but we were all in the moment and enjoying each other's company, so no editing had been done thus far on the trip.
While his full-time job may be passing along the basics of his artistic and practical craft to students of all ages at Reedley College, David Hicks relishes in taking the bits and pieces of organic inspiration found in the Central Valley and creating both monolithic pieces and conglomerations of smaller parts with his medium of choice, inorganic clay.
This week The Squirrels will be invading the campus of the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, the play that is. Recently we chatted with one of the show’s directors, Chris Mangels, to learn more.
