Skip to main content
My Shows
News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

UC Santa Barbara's Department of Theater/Dance Presents THE FAIRYTALE LIVES OF RUSSIAN GIRLS, 2/14-22

By:

The Department of Theater/Dance at UC Santa Barbara invites you to join us on an adventure through enchanted Russia in the upcoming production of The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, by Meg Miroshnik and directed by Tom Whitaker (winner, Indy Awards in Direction, These Shining Lives). The play runs February 14 - 22, 2014 in the UC Santa Barbara Performing Arts Theater.

The story begins in 2005 when a twenty-year-old girl named Annie returns to her native Russia to brush up on the language and lose her American accent. Underneath a glamorous Post-Soviet Moscow studded with dangerously high heels, designer bags, and luxe fur coats, she discovers an enchanted motherland teeming with evil stepmothers, wicked witches, and ravenous bears. Annie must learn how to become the heroine of a story more mysterious and treacherous than any childhood fairytale: her own.

A finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the play is the winner of the Kendeda Award and through that award, premiered at the Alliance Theater. In a Russian translation (by Maria Kroupnik), it was the winner of the Masterskaya na Begavoi and is a part of the Repertory at the Moscow Playwright and Director Center. The play was produced at Washington Ensemble Theater in September 2012, and will have its professional American premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre in February 2014.

The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls performs February 14 - 22, 2014 in the UCSB Performing Arts Theater. Tickets are available online at www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu and by phone at 805.893.7221.

Love Theater in Santa Barbara? Join The Community!

Whether you've got past experience writing about theater or just starting, the BroadwayWorld Community offers a unique opportunity to become a champion for your local arts community, helping raise awareness of local offerings and adding another local voice to the conversation at a time arts coverage is shrinking in the press across the continent. Join us and become a pivotal part of the movement that celebrates and promotes the arts in the digital age.

Learn More
Don't Miss a Santa Barbara News Story
Sign up for all the news on the Summer season, discounts & more...


BroadwayWorld TV


The Lehman Trilogy in Santa Barbara The Lehman Trilogy
Rubicon Theatre Company (3/24-4/11)
Gutenberg! The Musical! in Santa Barbara Gutenberg! The Musical!
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (10/09-11/08)
Jack Johnson in Santa Barbara Jack Johnson
Santa Barbara Bowl (10/03-10/03)
John & Jen in Santa Barbara John & Jen
Rubicon Theatre Company (2/10-2/28)
The Father: A Tragic Farce in Santa Barbara The Father: A Tragic Farce
The Father: A Tragic Farce (8/28-9/13)
SIX (Boleyn Tour) in Santa Barbara SIX (Boleyn Tour)
Christopher Cohan Center (5/18-5/19)
Murder For Two in Santa Barbara Murder For Two
Rubicon Theatre Company (5/12-5/30)
A Year With Frog And Toad in Santa Barbara A Year With Frog And Toad
Clark Center For The Performing Arts (11/19-11/21)
Ragtime in Santa Barbara Ragtime
Rubicon Theatre Company (10/21-11/08)