Camille Gavin
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CAMILLE GAVIN: A farce to be reckoned with
Even though Cal State Bakersfield's "Hotel Paradiso" is set in Paris, you won't hear any of the actors speaking with a French accent.
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CAMILLE GAVIN: Open for discussion: 'h#sht#g'
Visual artists are known for their creativity, so the unusual title of the students' senior thesis show at CSUB should come as no surprise.
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Puppets for grown-ups on stage at The Empty Space
"Avenue Q," said director Jason Monroe, is hilarious, relevant and fast-paced, zipping along at just over two hours, including intermission.
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CAMILLE GAVIN: Silent film, but it won't be quiet
Organist Bob Salisbury has a personal connection to the composer of the music he'll play to accompany Thursday evening's showing of the silent movie "Wings" at First Presbyterian Church.
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CAMILLE GAVIN: A good time will be had by y'all
Oildale is once again the setting for a musical comedy at the Gaslight Melodrama. Last time around it was a rollicking wedding story, so popular that the theater reprised the production on two other occasions.
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Retirement just a beginning for plein air painter
A lot of people I know look at retirement not as an end but a beginning. And plein air painter Betty Woollomes is a significant example.
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Young actors tackle challenging material
You have to admire Vickie Stricklind and her NOR Junior Theatre actors for taking on a comedy and a tragedy that are worlds apart. Think 1920s Hollywood and ancient Greece -- how distant can you get?
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REVIEW: Keep ears wide open for 'Evita'
Overall, Stars production of "Evita" has a lot going for it. In my view, its greatest strengths are stand-out performances by Zachary Gonzalez as Che, and Erika Kern in the title role.
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CAMILLE GAVIN: Don't keep your distance from 'Evita'
I find it both encouraging and refreshing when certain members of the local theater community exhibit a spirit of cooperation, something I've been advocating for as long as I've been writing about the arts.
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CAMILLE GAVIN: Teen piper has highland mojo
When 14-year-old Linda Snoddy was invited to join the UC Riverside Bagpipe Band, she "was pretty excited."
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CAMILLE GAVIN: Artist's creation is a real hoot
In a true tale of how the right kind of trash can become a treasure, Betty Younger has turned several abandoned pieces of metal into a 5-by-5-foot sculpture of a great horned owl.
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Rhyme and reason to celebrate poetry
As its name implies, National Poetry Month is meant to be observed across the country. But here in Bakersfield, it's strictly local.
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CAMILLE GAVIN: Meet 'Millie' at the Harvey
A winsome love story, daring 1920s flappers, mistaken identities and even hints of white slavery make up the goofy plot of "Thoroughly Modern Millie." Those are some of the elements -- plus plenty of tap dancing -- audiences can expect from the Bakersfield Music Theatre production that opens this weekend at Harvey Auditorium.
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CAMILLE GAVIN: Bringing black history 'to life'
The history of black people in this country is one of advancement, but there is no denying that progress has been punctuated with plenty of peaks and valleys along the way in the form of downright cruelty, unjust laws and harsh prejudice.
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CAMILLE GAVIN: Play a rainbow of possibilities
Powerful and color-blind. Those are the words that continue to flash across my brain as I reflect on a preview of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf" that I saw last Friday.
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Nature via the photographer's eye
Felix Adamo's photographic prints of flowers are truly inventive. With a sure hand and a keen eye, he shows their beauty and complexity in ways I've never seen before.
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CAMILLE GAVIN: Artist celebrates triumph over tragedy
"Phoenix Arising," the title of Norma Neil's solo show of watercolors opening Friday at the Art Center, has a special meaning for the artist.
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CAMILLE GAVIN: Stars takes shot at Tony winner
It seems to me that in the last 12 months Brian Sivesind has set some sort of a record in the ever-changing world of local theater.
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Art therapy: 'Healing from inside out'
On some days when she was very young, Bakersfield native Lia Mendez's panic attacks kept her from attending school. Despite having supportive parents who took her to counselors and other therapists, she often was too scared to leave the safety of her home.
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CAMILLE GAVIN: 'Boy Gets Girl' is no love story
The title of the play by Rebecca Gilman opening Friday at The Empty Space, is deceiving. It's called "Boy Gets Girl" and on the surface it sounds like a cutesy romantic story about a couple who fall in love and live happily ever after.
