BWW Review: DEATHTRAP at San Luis Obispo Repertory
San Luis Obispo Rep's craftily staged production of Deathtrap, a comedy thriller, delivers on the foreshadowing promise of its opening dialogue: 'One set, five characters.
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BWW Review: A WINTER'S TALE at Naked Shakes
Overall, 'A Winter's Tale' has visual richness, but the text is all over the place, and additional elements like modern pop music and choreographed slow-motion stage crosses pile superflua onto an existing wealth of 'eclectic' narrative components.
BWW Review: MEASURE FOR MEASURE at Ensemble Theatre Company
Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, currently on stage at the New Vic Theater, has been noted as a 'problematic' play due to a murky tone that's neither overtly comedic nor tragic.
BWW Review: LOVE at Center Stage Theater
Just today, famed opera singer Plácido Domingo resigned from LA Opera amid accusations that he sexually harassed workers there.
BWW Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Solvang Festival Theatre
PCPA closes its season with one of the sharpest, funniest, cleverest comedies written in the English language--Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
BWW Review: THE ADDAMS FAMILY at PCPA
Before the first line of PCPA's The Addams Family had left the mouth of Gomez Addams (George Walker), my seatmate was already chuckling.
BWW Review: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER at Solvang Festival Theatre
A friend remarked to British actor, Edmund Gwenn, on his deathbed 'This must be very hard,' to which Gwenn replied, 'It is.
BWW Review: INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH at UCSB Department Of Theatre
An upbeat piece, 'Into the Beautiful North' brushes against self-awareness without being preachy by providing likable characters in stylized peril and a timely expression of another side of the "border crisis.
BWW Announcement: STATERA Mentorship Accepting Applications Now
It is a truth universally acknowledged that women dominate theater audiences, yet lack a proportionate power in theater administration, acting roles, production jobs, as designers and as produced playwrights.
BWW Review: THE CRUCIBLE at Lobero Theatre
Opera Santa Barbara presented a musically dramatic rendition of THE CRUCIBLE.
BWW Review: EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED at Ensemble Theatre Company
Ensemble's production features many of the interesting aspects of this search for identity: a grumpy grandpa with a dark secret; an old Ukrainian woman who's mind has been warped by trauma and isolation; an underdog translator with a tenuous mastery of English; and an emotionally clumsy college kid
BWW Review: FUN HOME at Out Of The Box Theatre Company
Out of the Box's FUN HOME is more than a story of one woman leaning into her queer identity while her father crumbles under the weight of hiding his-it's about familial legacy and the unsettling loss of innocence that occurs when you realize your parents are only human.
BWW Review: THE WOLVES at The Severson Theatre
Sheep in wolves' clothing; wolves in sheep's clothing.
BWW Review: THE LARAMIE PROJECT at UCSB Hatlen Theater
An affecting and thoughtful portrayal of a watershed event
BWW Review: EUGENE ONEGIN at the Lobero Theatre
On March 1, 2019, Opera Santa Barbara presented it's first Russian opera, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's EUGENE ONEGIN.
BWW Review: DEATH OF A SALESMAN at Ensemble Theatre Company
Ensemble's production of Death of a Salesman is intimate and Willy's final sacrifice is tragic and inevitable.
BWW Review: SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE at Marian Theatre, Santa Maria
PCPA's current production, Shakespeare in Love, imagines Will Shakespeare's (Yusef Seevers) madcap adventures in London early in his career.
BWW Preview: HEISENBERG at Rubicon Theatre Company
Stephen Simon's recent play, Heisenberg, opens this week at the Rubicon Theatre.
BWW Review: MOUTHPIECE at UCSB: Arts And Lectures At Campbell Hall
'There's little a hot bath can't fix.
BWW Review: HUMBUG, A DOLL HOUSE, AND THE NINA VARIATIONS at Center Stage Theater
Springing straight from its production of The Glass Menagerie, Lit Moon Theatre now brings three additional productions to Center Stage: First, Dickens' classic, A Christmas Carol, is retold as Humbug.
BWW Review: THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE at Ensemble Theatre Company
Ensemble Theatre Company's production of The Legend of Georgia McBride, directed by Jenny Sullivan, avoids the landmines.
BWW Review: VANITY FAIR at the Performing Arts Theater, UCSB
Santa Barbara theater-goers have had the opportunity to see two plays by Kate Hamill produced this fall.
BWW Review: AMELIE at Center Stage Theater
Out of the Box Theatre Company presents Amelie now playing at Center Stage, a musical based on the French film of the same name.
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The Lehman Trilogy Rubicon Theatre Company (3/24-4/11) |
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Ubu's Other Shoe Staged Reading: Incognito San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (3/19-3/20) |
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Number the Stars San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (1/15-1/24) |
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SIX (Boleyn Tour) Christopher Cohan Center (5/18-5/19) |
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Ubu's Other Shoe Staged Reading: Nickel & Dimed San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (4/23-4/24) |
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Ragtime Rubicon Theatre Company (10/21-11/08) |
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Three Tall Women San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (5/07-5/23) |
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LAUNCH PAD 2026 Summer Reading Series Ensemble Theatre Company at The New Vic (8/27-8/27) |
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Ubu's Other Shoe Staged Reading: The Vertical Hour San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (9/18-9/19) |
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A Year With Frog And Toad Clark Center For The Performing Arts (11/19-11/21) |