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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.

Play readings, musicals, comedies, and dramas are set to delight and stir the senses for PCPA's 2019 - 2020 season - presented in three venues on the California Central Coast.

We'll tell the story of June 22 as Emporium presents The Alexander Project: A Tribute to the Music of Hamilton at the Lobero Theatre.

Sel Kardan, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Colburn School, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Colburn School faculty, are pleased to announce the inaugural class of Salonen Fellows in the Conservatory's new Negaunee Conducting Program.

In Santa Barbara, Ensemble's end of season production is a rom-com about an odd couple that comes together while learning to dance.

The Colburn School brings its 2018-2019 academic year to a close with an exciting array of free or low-cost performances that bring together today's greatest artists with members of the extraordinary Colburn School faculty and students in programs on campus and throughout the community.

MUSE/IQUE continues its signature Uncorked series on Sunday, May 19, 2019, at California Institute of Technology's Millikan Pond, with SWINGING/STARS, a dynamic musical journey that will unfold beneath the stars.

UCSB's Department of Theater and Dance presents the third annual New Works Lab May 9 19 in the Performing Arts Theater.

This high-school-musical season, I got a sneak peek at Santa Barbara High's 'Matilda: The Musical,' with a tour of the innovative set.

Camerata Pacifica concludes its 2018-2019 season, and the first of its two-season "Why Beethoven?" project, with a program built around Beethoven's B-Flat Major String Quartet, Op.

Opera Santa Barbara presented a musically dramatic rendition of THE CRUCIBLE.

Community Arts Music Association (CAMA) of Santa Barbara will celebrate its centennial season with a free community "100th Birthday Bash" at the County Courthouse Sunken Garden from 1 to 4 pm on Sunday, May 19.

Santa Barbara Dance Theater, the professional company in residence at UCSB, presents its annual Lobero Season at 8:00pm on May 8 and 9 with performances that celebrate spring's resurgence and the passionate creative energy that artists bring to life.

The Santa Barbara Symphony concludes their 65th Anniversary season this April on a high note, with everyone's favorite immortal tragedy,  Romeo & Juliet.

Renowned soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, retired internist George Messerlian, and local arts benefactor Marta Babson have been elected to the Board of Directors for Community Arts Music Association (CAMA) of Santa Barbara.

Opera Santa Barbara (OperaSB) will present a free performance of its final 25th Anniversary season offering of The Crucible, 10 am Monday, April 29 at the Lobero Theatre.

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

Twelve accomplished vocalists and instrumentalists will vie for cash prizes as finalists in the 2019 Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation (PASF) competition at Lehmann Hall on Sunday, April 28.

Twelve accomplished vocalists and instrumentalists will vie for cash prizes as finalists in the 2019 Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation (PASF) competition at Lehmann Hall on Sunday, April 28.

ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY (ETC) presents the fourth show of its 40th Anniversary Season, the Southern California premiere of the stunning and wildly popular novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED, adapted by Simon Block and directed by Jonathan Fox.

Opera Santa Barbara closes its 25th Anniversary Season with an OSB premiere of Robert Ward's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, The Crucible, 7:30 p.

Everything is Illuminated, a play based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, goes onstage at the New Vic in a production by Ensemble Theatre Company beginning April 10th.

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.

UC Santa Barbara, Department of Theater and Dance offers a student-centered Spring Dance Concert Fracture, comprised of a diverse range of new choreographic voices by senior BFA dance majors (Colin Sneddon, Madeline Takemori, Sergio Barrientos, Johnny Cox, Jasmine Agredano and Luis Gomez) and a piec

Camerata Pacifica continues its "Why Beethoven?" project with four pieces by Vienna's most beloved residents, traversing the Austrian capital's  musical landscape from 1785 - 1886.