This November, Boxtales Theatre Company, a troupe with a physical, sensory performance style featuring impressive acrobatics, live music, and the transformational symbolism of masks, celebrates 20 years of theatre.
When even the director uses the phrase 'old-fashioned' to describe the play, I wonder why a company would choose to produce a show with such a lack of vitality.
Bare: A Rock Opera is a musical dynamo of young characters grappling with questions that may not have answers.
Peter Shaffer's Amadeus is a dramatized account of the rivalry between Antonio Salieri, court composer of Vienna, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musical prodigy and social embarrassment.
'Boeing, Boeing' is an example of the fun that can be had when the aim is entertainment rather than artistic revolution.
A play about music, the frustrations of a life in creativity, and the desire for social and artistic validation, Amadeus is a vibrant tale of two composers aspiring to achieve recognition for their work-and aspiring to create work of enduring significance.
DramaDogs's production of Dance Me to the End of Love delivers earnest, emotional realism in concentrated bursts.
'Dance Me To The End Of Love' is an intimate production that gently but decisively exposes layers of attraction, exhilaration, dejection, and desperation.
After 44 years, Circle Bar B dinner theatre will perform it's very last show, 'Boeing, Boeing,' at the ranch.
Lit Moon's production is an elegant rendition of The Cherry Orchard, a play that Blondell likened to climbing a directorial mountain.
Some people have the obsession to seek spotlight, the urgency to perform renditions of circumstances representative of the human experience.
Opera Santa Barbara presents The Telephone, a comedic opera in one act for a quick taste of Gian Carlo Menotti's lighter, more humorous work.
Lehman, through her work with Proximity, explores the themes of what it means to exist in the world; what it means to be alive.
To those who enjoy wisteria and sunshine, Enchanted April at the Circle Bar B ranch is a welcome reprieve from cynicism; a bucolic, unpretentious theatrical experience.
Recognizable, real-world constructs are present in Orlando, but the ties to reality are ambiguous and abandoned without hesitation.
In some aspects of American culture, weddings are considered amongst the most stressful episodes a person can endure.
Bravo to Ensemble Theatre, director Glen Jordan, and the talented cast of Matthew Lombardo's Looped for creating a truly fantastic experience in theatre.
The SBCC Theatre Group at Santa Barbara City College kicks off its season this summer with a bit of light entertainment in the form of Joseph Kesselring's humorous classic, Arsenic and Old Lace.
Bare tackles the politics of love when romance is taboo.
