Emily Trask

The latest wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 20th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

William Shakespeare is dead. Bad Hamlet knock-offs and children’s acting troupes litter the stages of Elizabethan London. And the King’s Men are running out of time. Rooted in real events, The Book of Will is the witty and wonderful battle of how the Bard’s legacy came to be.

PCPA Season 59 brings romantic misadventures, toe tapping live music, and uplifting stories all under the stars this summer! Learn more about the season lineup here!

What did our critic think of EMMA at Marian Theater? A confectionary morsel of Regency romance!

PCPA presents, Emma, adapted for the stage by Joseph Hanreddy, from the novel by Jane Austen. Romantic misadventures, misplaced confidence, and matchmaking in the town of Highbury.

The winners have been announced for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards, honoring the best in regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022.

Audiences will get one more week to experience Quintessence Theatre Group's well reviewed and audience favorite production of Mary Poppins with an extension until January 8. 

The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The first live standings have been announced for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Quintessence Theatre Group, Philadelphia's professional classic repertory theatre, continues Season XIII: Celebrating the Extraordinary with P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins.

Stories of transformation highlight the newsletter this week - with two different stories below - one looking at the evolution of Broadway, the other how Regional Theatres are transforming. Both are asking questions in light of racial justice protests that have occured over the past few years, alongside a powerful moment for the labor movement.

PCPA - Pacific Conservatory Theatre has announced the promotion of Emily Trask, Resident Artist/Literary Director to the role of Associate Artistic Director effective August 1, 2022.

A fun, sweet, and multi-layered presentation of this favorite of Stephen Sondheim's musicals. PCPA ventured 'Into the Woods' on Saturday night to open its run of Stephen Sondheim's musical. There's fun to be found in following well-known fairy tale characters such as Little Red Riding Hood (Ekatrina Bouras), Rapunzel (Elizabeth Martinié), and Cinderella (Gracie Jurczy) lose themselves in the woods. Our familiarity with the stories allows Into the Woods to enlarge, send up, fracture, and interweave their storylines--all in the service of an engaging evening of musical theater.

PCPA’s production of Into the Woods comes to the Festival Theater Solvang on August 11th through September 4th, 2022. 

PCPA's production of Into the Woods comes to the Marian Theatre April 28th through May 15th. 

PCPA's production of As You Like It comes to the Marian stage February 17th through  March 6th. 

Winners have been announced for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards. The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.