Anna Jensen
Anna Jensen has a Ph.D. in Theater Studies from UC Santa Barbara. She has translated and adapted plays by Henrik Ibsen, including Hedda Gabler and When We Dead Awaken. She has served as production dramaturg for many productions, some of her favorites include Macbeth (dir. Jonathan Fox), Good People (dir. Jenny Sullivan) and The Baltimore Waltz (dir. Tom Whitaker).
BWW Review: AMERICAN IDIOT at Center Stage Theater
BWW Review: THE INVISIBLE HAND at New Victoria Theater
BWW Review: TROUBLE IN TAHITI AND GALLANTRY at Center Stage Theater
BWW Review: CRIMES OF THE HEART at SBCC Jurkowitz Theatre
BWW Review: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE at San Marcos High School
BWW Review: THE CRUCIBLE at Marian Theatre, Santa Maria
BWW Review: THE CITY OF CONVERSATION at Ensemble Theatre Company
BWW Review: KING LEAR at UCSB: Performing Arts Theater
BWW Review: CRIMES OF THE HEART at SBCC Jurkowitz TheatreApril 20, 2018
A Delightful Southern Treat. SBCC's production of CRIMES OF THE HEART by Beth Henley, Directed by R. Michael Gros. April 11-28, 2018, Jurkowitz Theatre, SBCC West Campus, 900 block of Cliff Dr. 805-965-5935 or www.theatregroupsbcc.com for tickets and information.
BWW Review: TROUBLE IN TAHITI AND GALLANTRY at Center Stage TheaterApril 18, 2018
A rare treat this weekend only, Opera Santa Barbara presents an evening of one-act comic operas in the intimacy of Center Stage Theater. Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti will be performed along with Douglas Moore's broadly comic work, Gallantry. Both showcase the talents of Opera Santa Barbara's Chrisman Studio Artists (Chelsea Melamed, Byron Mayes, Elle Valera, and Jonathan Walker-VanKuren) in featured roles. Opera Santa Barbara's Artistic Director, Kostis Protopapas, praises these singers for their 'charisma and charm combined with impeccable comedic timing.'
BWW Review: THE INVISIBLE HAND at New Victoria TheaterApril 16, 2018
Entrancing but, as the kids in theory class say, 'problematic'
BWW Review: AMERICAN IDIOT at Center Stage TheaterApril 11, 2018
The punk rock musical American Idiot, now on stage at Center Stage, gives Green Day fans an opportunity to immerse themselves into the titular album through dance, imagery, and, of course, music. American Idiot does not tell a story so much as it performs the gesture of punk rock: a clench-fisted rebellion against the banality of American society and culture.
BWW Review: THE CRUCIBLE at Marian Theatre, Santa MariaFebruary 21, 2018
It's 1692, 1953, or 2018, or any year, as you see it...
BWW Review: THE CITY OF CONVERSATION at Ensemble Theatre CompanyFebruary 13, 2018
Sharon Lawrence stars in The City of Conversation
BWW Previews: EARTH DUET AND OTHER STORIES at Center Stage TheaterFebruary 1, 2018
DramaDogs presents 'Earth Duet and Other Stories,' a compelling drama of the earth in a musically-informed, physically-centered theatrical presentation.
BWW Review: KING LEAR at UCSB: Performing Arts TheaterNovember 24, 2017
Critic A.C. Bradley claimed that of all of Shakespeare's tragedies, King Lear was too sublime for the stage. For Bradley, King Lear's depiction of madness, stormy landscapes, filial deception, and treachery went to extremities best conjured by a reader who can imaginatively fill in the breadth of Shakespeare's vast tragic landscape. The turn-of-the-century stage practice that Bradley would have experienced, however, aspired to visual verisimilitude. In trying to depict everything for the audience's eyes, these theaters could only betray the expansive world of Lear.
BWW Review: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE at San Marcos High SchoolNovember 18, 2017
Murder and mystery staged by San Marcos High School under the direction of Riley Berris
