The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Santa Barbara.
Henri Murger, the author of the original French book, described Bohemia as bordered on the North by hope, work, and gaiety, on the South by necessity and courage, and on the West and East by slander and the hospital.
Hamill's Pride and Prejudice creates the bridge that connects the nuanced tropes of Austen's 19th-century feminism to the conversations about gender equality happening currently.
Hamlet's father, the King of Denmark is murdered by his brother, Claudius (Jarred Web), who then marries Hamlet's mother, Queen Gertrude (Olivia Rose Nathan), and takes the throne.
Cleverly plotted, delightfully comic, and incessantly thought-provoking, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, produced by PCPA, is showing now until September 9th in Solvang.
A musical comedy set to the ebullient music of Swedish pop group, Abba, Mamma Mia! takes audiences on a toe-tapping journey to a wedding on a small island near Greece.
On stage at Solvang's Festival Theater, PCPA presents the comic play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
PCPA's production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame - A New Musical, now on stage in Solvang's Festival Theater, delights audiences with its overtly theatrical storytelling style.
The year-end New Works Lab at UCSB, which challenges students to write, direct, design, and perform short plays, gives students a chance to experiment with form, style, and collaboration.
Christie's presentation is a colorful, and at times poignant, journey through personal memoir; his gruff-but-likeable stage presence and interesting story make for a thought-provoking evening in the theater.
On April 21, 2018, Opera Santa Barbara presented Douglas Moore's GALLANTRY and Leonard Bernstein's TROUBLE IN TAHITI at the Center Stage theater in downtown Santa Barbara.
A Delightful Southern Treat.
A rare treat this weekend only, Opera Santa Barbara presents an evening of one-act comic operas in the intimacy of Center Stage Theater.
Entrancing but, as the kids in theory class say, 'problematic'
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.
Alan Ayckbourne's 'Communicating Doors,' produced by the SBCC Theatre Group, follows Poopay (Felicia Hall), a blue-collar London dominatrix who shows up at a luxury hotel to service wealthy business mogul, Reece (Matt Smith), but instead gets pressured into witnessing his deathbed confession of embe
It's 1692, 1953, or 2018, or any year, as you see it.
Sharon Lawrence stars in The City of Conversation
Ensemble's Pemberley boasts an attractive set, beautiful costumes, and a talented cast who maintain a smooth, frothy sugarplum taste throughout.
Though Shakespeare and Miller wrote their plays several centuries apart, the combo is fitting both plays articulate the struggles of frustrated protagonists trying to understand their function in a shifting social scape and their priorities within dysfunctional familial relationships.
Murder and mystery staged by San Marcos High School under the direction of Riley Berris
Sophisticated and engrossing, 'Resistible Rise' is about more than a glory-hungry henchman for whom the price of power is never too high it's about the price tag of power (in this case: justice) and how quickly a desperate population will turn a blind eye to corruption and put their faith in a chari
'One Man, Two Guvnors' is based on Carlo Goldoni's 'Servant of Two masters,' a 1746 commedia dell'arte piece featuring the Truffaldino harlequin as a prospecting errand boy who works for two different men, constantly confusing what tasks he's supposed to be performing for which boss.
'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's film--and now, Ensemble Theater Company's adaptation by Jonathan Fox--examines the slings and arrows of long-term pairing through the relationships of two middle-aged couples in crisis.
Ana s: A Dance Opera is a multimedia collaberation featuring the life story of writer, intellectual, and provocateur, Ana s Nin.
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A Year With Frog And Toad Clark Center For The Performing Arts (11/19-11/21) |
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Nightmare Show Returns The California Theatre of Santa Rosa (7/11-7/11) |
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Circus Vargas Presents 'Masquerade!' at Earl Warren Showgrounds Madonna Inn (6/26-7/20) |
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SIX (Boleyn Tour) Christopher Cohan Center (5/18-5/19) |
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The Father: A Tragic Farce The Father: A Tragic Farce (8/28-9/13) |
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The Lehman Trilogy Rubicon Theatre Company (3/24-4/11) |
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Ojai Playwrights Conference New Works Festival Ojai Playwrights Conference (7/30-8/02) |
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Freestone Peaches at Santa Rosa, CA The California Theatre of Santa Rosa (7/10-7/10) |
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Ragtime Rubicon Theatre Company (10/21-11/08) |
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Alice in Wonderland by International Ballet Stars in Santa Barbara, CA! The Granada Theatre (4/22-4/22) |
