BWW Blog: Hey, Yo, Westerberg! Meet The HEATHERS!
by Maggie Yates - November 11, 2015
Dear Westerberg: A final word of farewell from the seniors of Westerberg High School, class of 1990.
by Maggie Yates - November 11, 2015
Dear Westerberg: A final word of farewell from the seniors of Westerberg High School, class of 1990.
BWW Review: PETE MULLER's Charity Tour Brings Big Bucks for Local Projects
by Maggie Yates - November 10, 2015
Not many musicians would be willing to turn over the entirety of their proceeds from their new album to charities, but then Pete Muller isn't your ordinary musician.
by Maggie Yates - November 10, 2015
Not many musicians would be willing to turn over the entirety of their proceeds from their new album to charities, but then Pete Muller isn't your ordinary musician.
S.B. Chamber Orchestra Continues 2015-16 Season
with Works by Mendelssohn and Dvorák
by BWW News Desk - November 10, 2015
Making its second appearance of the 2015-16 season, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra will perform Felix Mendelssohn's radiant "Swiss" Symphony for Strings No. 9 and Antonin Dvo?ak's sumptuous Serenade for Strings at the historic Lobero Theatre on December 8.
by BWW News Desk - November 10, 2015
Making its second appearance of the 2015-16 season, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra will perform Felix Mendelssohn's radiant "Swiss" Symphony for Strings No. 9 and Antonin Dvo?ak's sumptuous Serenade for Strings at the historic Lobero Theatre on December 8.
BWW Preview: IF ALL THE SKY WERE PAPER Celebrates Veterans Day at the Lobero
by Maggie Yates - November 09, 2015
Andrew Carroll, author of 'If All the Sky Were Paper,' lost everything in a fire - most importantly, letters he'd saved from his ancestors, a family history in a series of first-person accounts. Relief came from an unlikely source: A distant cousin sent Carroll a bundle of letters that he was planning to throw away if Carroll didn't want them. Carroll accepted the gift and was inspired by the contents - letters from wartime and letters sent from combat half a world away.
by Maggie Yates - November 09, 2015
Andrew Carroll, author of 'If All the Sky Were Paper,' lost everything in a fire - most importantly, letters he'd saved from his ancestors, a family history in a series of first-person accounts. Relief came from an unlikely source: A distant cousin sent Carroll a bundle of letters that he was planning to throw away if Carroll didn't want them. Carroll accepted the gift and was inspired by the contents - letters from wartime and letters sent from combat half a world away.
Free SB Youth Symphony Concert Set for November 22
by BWW News Desk - November 06, 2015
?The Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, whose accomplished members hail from throughout the region, will present a free concert at the Lobero Theatre on November 22. Featuring movements from Debussy's Petite Suite, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in D Minor, Reinecke's Flute Concerto, and Schumann's Symphony No. 3, the performance will begin at 4 pm. The Lobero Theatre is located at 33 East Canon Perdido Street in Santa Barbara.
by BWW News Desk - November 06, 2015
?The Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, whose accomplished members hail from throughout the region, will present a free concert at the Lobero Theatre on November 22. Featuring movements from Debussy's Petite Suite, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in D Minor, Reinecke's Flute Concerto, and Schumann's Symphony No. 3, the performance will begin at 4 pm. The Lobero Theatre is located at 33 East Canon Perdido Street in Santa Barbara.
Voting Opens for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards
by BWW Special Coverage - November 06, 2015
Voting has now opened for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Regional Awards!
by BWW Special Coverage - November 06, 2015
Voting has now opened for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Regional Awards!
The Department of Theater/Dance at UCSB to Present VENUS, 11/6-14
by BWW News Desk - November 06, 2015
The Department of Theater/Dance at UC Santa Barbara and director Tom Whitaker present a fresh take on one of Suzan-Lori Parks' most famous plays. A groundbreaking and provocative work by America's premiere African-American female playwright, VENUS runs November 6 - 14, 2015 in UC Santa Barbara's Performing Arts Theater.
by BWW News Desk - November 06, 2015
The Department of Theater/Dance at UC Santa Barbara and director Tom Whitaker present a fresh take on one of Suzan-Lori Parks' most famous plays. A groundbreaking and provocative work by America's premiere African-American female playwright, VENUS runs November 6 - 14, 2015 in UC Santa Barbara's Performing Arts Theater.
BWW Review: GOOD DAY, Great Play
by Maggie Yates - October 30, 2015
Good Day is a well-crafted production that delivers precise characterization of confused, chaotic people.
by Maggie Yates - October 30, 2015
Good Day is a well-crafted production that delivers precise characterization of confused, chaotic people.
Photo Flash: First Look at Rubicon Theatre Company's MY FAIR LADY
by BWW News Desk - October 26, 2015
The director and designers behind Rubicon Theatre Company's acclaimed environmental productions ofFiddler on the Roof and Man of La Mancha have reunited on the two-piano chamber version of the legendary Lerner and Loewe's classic My Fair Lady. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, the musical tells the story of Professor Henry Higgins, an arrogant and attractive phonetician who makes a wager that he can transform a 'deliciously low' Cockney flower-seller (Eliza Doolittle) into an elegant lady by teaching her to speak more beautifully. The magnificent score includes 'I Could Have Danced All Night,' 'On the Street Where You Live,' 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly,' and 'I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face.' For Rubicon's production, Director James O'Neil returns to the source material to explore the Shavian themes of class struggle, social reform and women's rights.
by BWW News Desk - October 26, 2015
The director and designers behind Rubicon Theatre Company's acclaimed environmental productions ofFiddler on the Roof and Man of La Mancha have reunited on the two-piano chamber version of the legendary Lerner and Loewe's classic My Fair Lady. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, the musical tells the story of Professor Henry Higgins, an arrogant and attractive phonetician who makes a wager that he can transform a 'deliciously low' Cockney flower-seller (Eliza Doolittle) into an elegant lady by teaching her to speak more beautifully. The magnificent score includes 'I Could Have Danced All Night,' 'On the Street Where You Live,' 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly,' and 'I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face.' For Rubicon's production, Director James O'Neil returns to the source material to explore the Shavian themes of class struggle, social reform and women's rights.
BWW Preview: ZOMBIE ROCK 'n' Roll
by Maggie Yates - October 26, 2015
This Halloween in Santa Barbara features temperatures in the 80s and zombies singing the classics of the 80s at open mic night.
by Maggie Yates - October 26, 2015
This Halloween in Santa Barbara features temperatures in the 80s and zombies singing the classics of the 80s at open mic night.
SBCC Theatre Arts Department Presents GOOD KIDS
by BWW News Desk - October 24, 2015
SBCC Theatre Arts Department will present GOOD KIDS, a new play by Naomi Iizuka as its Student Showcase production, November 12-21, 2015 in the Jurkowitz Theatre.
by BWW News Desk - October 24, 2015
SBCC Theatre Arts Department will present GOOD KIDS, a new play by Naomi Iizuka as its Student Showcase production, November 12-21, 2015 in the Jurkowitz Theatre.
Last Call! One Week Left to Nominate for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards
by BWW Special Coverage - October 23, 2015
Last call! ??This is your last chance to nominate for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 2014 and September 2015. Nominations are reader-submitted and will be open through October 31.
by BWW Special Coverage - October 23, 2015
Last call! ??This is your last chance to nominate for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 2014 and September 2015. Nominations are reader-submitted and will be open through October 31.
BWW Review: SBCC's HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES Puts the 'Mist' in Mystery
by Maggie Yates - October 22, 2015
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville. Though he seems to have died of natural causes, the locals believe he was the victim of the Baskerville curse, in which members of the family are hunted down by the dreaded hellhound who wanders the moors.
by Maggie Yates - October 22, 2015
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville. Though he seems to have died of natural causes, the locals believe he was the victim of the Baskerville curse, in which members of the family are hunted down by the dreaded hellhound who wanders the moors.
The Department of Theater/Dance at UCSB to Present VENUS, 11/6-14
by BWW News Desk - October 21, 2015
The Department of Theater/Dance at UC Santa Barbara and director Tom Whitaker present a fresh take on one of Suzan-Lori Parks' most famous plays. A groundbreaking and provocative work by America's premiere African-American female playwright, VENUS runs November 6 - 14, 2015 in UC Santa Barbara's Performing Arts Theater.
by BWW News Desk - October 21, 2015
The Department of Theater/Dance at UC Santa Barbara and director Tom Whitaker present a fresh take on one of Suzan-Lori Parks' most famous plays. A groundbreaking and provocative work by America's premiere African-American female playwright, VENUS runs November 6 - 14, 2015 in UC Santa Barbara's Performing Arts Theater.
BWW Review: SWEENEY TODD Slays Ensemble Audiences
by Maggie Yates - October 17, 2015
Ensemble's 'Sweeney Todd' is a highly enjoyable production that captured the dark romance and comedy of this tale of love and vengeance.
by Maggie Yates - October 17, 2015
Ensemble's 'Sweeney Todd' is a highly enjoyable production that captured the dark romance and comedy of this tale of love and vengeance.
Rubicon Theatre Company's MY FAIR LADY Begins This Month
by BWW News Desk - October 16, 2015
The director and designers behind Rubicon Theatre Company's acclaimed environmental productions ofFiddler on the Roof and Man of La Mancha have reunited on the two-piano chamber version of the legendary Lerner and Loewe's classic My Fair Lady. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, the musical tells the story of Professor Henry Higgins, an arrogant and attractive phonetician who makes a wager that he can transform a 'deliciously low' Cockney flower-seller (Eliza Doolittle) into an elegant lady by teaching her to speak more beautifully. The magnificent score includes 'I Could Have Danced All Night,' 'On the Street Where You Live,' 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly,' and 'I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face.' For Rubicon's production, Director James O'Neil returns to the source material to explore the Shavian themes of class struggle, social reform and women's rights.
by BWW News Desk - October 16, 2015
The director and designers behind Rubicon Theatre Company's acclaimed environmental productions ofFiddler on the Roof and Man of La Mancha have reunited on the two-piano chamber version of the legendary Lerner and Loewe's classic My Fair Lady. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, the musical tells the story of Professor Henry Higgins, an arrogant and attractive phonetician who makes a wager that he can transform a 'deliciously low' Cockney flower-seller (Eliza Doolittle) into an elegant lady by teaching her to speak more beautifully. The magnificent score includes 'I Could Have Danced All Night,' 'On the Street Where You Live,' 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly,' and 'I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face.' For Rubicon's production, Director James O'Neil returns to the source material to explore the Shavian themes of class struggle, social reform and women's rights.
BWW Preview: Westmont Has a GOOD DAY and Goes MAD & A GOAT with Alumni Talent
by Maggie Yates - October 16, 2015
Westmont's many-tiered theatre program offers student shows as well as professional shows produced by Lit Moon theatre company. This month, Westmont produces two plays that feature the writing and acting of Westmont Theatre Program's Alumni.
by Maggie Yates - October 16, 2015
Westmont's many-tiered theatre program offers student shows as well as professional shows produced by Lit Moon theatre company. This month, Westmont produces two plays that feature the writing and acting of Westmont Theatre Program's Alumni.
SBCC Theatre Arts Department to Present GOOD KIDS
by BWW News Desk - October 16, 2015
Something happened to Chloe after that party last Saturday night. The problem is, she can't remember anything. And everybody at high school is talking about what happened. Was she raped? Did she ask for it? How could those boys do that to her? Or did they? Set in a high school in the American mid-west, in a world of Facebook, Twitter, smart phones and YouTube, Good Kids explores the very public aftermath of a sex crime and its cover-up. Who's telling the truth? Whose version of the story do you believe; and what does that say about you? Loosely based on the Steubenville High School rape case, Good Kids is provocative, haunting and stunningly current.
by BWW News Desk - October 16, 2015
Something happened to Chloe after that party last Saturday night. The problem is, she can't remember anything. And everybody at high school is talking about what happened. Was she raped? Did she ask for it? How could those boys do that to her? Or did they? Set in a high school in the American mid-west, in a world of Facebook, Twitter, smart phones and YouTube, Good Kids explores the very public aftermath of a sex crime and its cover-up. Who's telling the truth? Whose version of the story do you believe; and what does that say about you? Loosely based on the Steubenville High School rape case, Good Kids is provocative, haunting and stunningly current.
Photo Flash: The Theatre Group at SBCC's THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES Begins Tonight
by BWW News Desk - October 14, 2015
The Theatre Group at SBCC's next production of the 70th Anniversary season will be THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, a new adaptation by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, Directed by R. Michael Gros, tonight, October 14-31, 2015 in the Garvin Theatre. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast in costume!
by BWW News Desk - October 14, 2015
The Theatre Group at SBCC's next production of the 70th Anniversary season will be THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, a new adaptation by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, Directed by R. Michael Gros, tonight, October 14-31, 2015 in the Garvin Theatre. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast in costume!
BWW Preview: What's Your Damage? HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL Brings Back the 80s
by Maggie Yates - October 12, 2015
Dark, feisty, and satisfyingly bawdy, 'Heathers: The Musical' offers witty dialogue and clever lyrics that highlight the humor in both the invented melodrama and the disquieting realities of the American teen experience.
by Maggie Yates - October 12, 2015
Dark, feisty, and satisfyingly bawdy, 'Heathers: The Musical' offers witty dialogue and clever lyrics that highlight the humor in both the invented melodrama and the disquieting realities of the American teen experience.
BWW Preview: Pete Muller Changes the World with TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE
by Maggie Yates - October 09, 2015
Pete Muller, whose album-release tour kicks off October 22nd in Chicago, concludes at SoHo here in Santa Barbara. Muller's philanthropy tour, dubbed the “Two Truths and a Lie” Tour, benefits selected organizations and charities in each concert location.
by Maggie Yates - October 09, 2015
Pete Muller, whose album-release tour kicks off October 22nd in Chicago, concludes at SoHo here in Santa Barbara. Muller's philanthropy tour, dubbed the “Two Truths and a Lie” Tour, benefits selected organizations and charities in each concert location.
Nominations Open for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Santa Barbara Awards
by BWW Special Coverage - October 08, 2015
Nominations have now opened for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 2014 and September 2015. Nominations are reader-submitted and will be open through October 31.
by BWW Special Coverage - October 08, 2015
Nominations have now opened for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 2014 and September 2015. Nominations are reader-submitted and will be open through October 31.
BWW Review: WHAT RHYMES WITH AMERICA—The Crossroad Between Hopelessness and Possibilities
by Maggie Yates - October 01, 2015
Simple, profound realism layers comedy neatly into quirky, messy dissatisfaction in Melissa James Gibson's play about characters with varying degrees of social ineptitude dealing with the confusion of life's transitions.
by Maggie Yates - October 01, 2015
Simple, profound realism layers comedy neatly into quirky, messy dissatisfaction in Melissa James Gibson's play about characters with varying degrees of social ineptitude dealing with the confusion of life's transitions.
BWW Preview: Fleet Street Penny Novels—Ensemble Does SWEENEY TODD
by Maggie Yates - September 30, 2015
'Sweeney Todd,' directed by Jonathan Fox, will be Ensemble's 2015-2016 season opener: an appropriate horror-story musical for the Halloween Season.
by Maggie Yates - September 30, 2015
'Sweeney Todd,' directed by Jonathan Fox, will be Ensemble's 2015-2016 season opener: an appropriate horror-story musical for the Halloween Season.
Kelrik Productions Presents WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
by BWW News Desk - September 26, 2015
From the Producers of Pinkalicious, Sweeney Todd, Violet, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Disney's Tarzan, Kelrik Productions returns to the Monroe Forum Theatre with a sticky-sweet confection of 'Pure Imagination' in Roald Dahl's timeless story, Willy Wonka! Based on Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), the play, Willy Wonka, brings the story to the stage in this musical adaptation.
by BWW News Desk - September 26, 2015
From the Producers of Pinkalicious, Sweeney Todd, Violet, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Disney's Tarzan, Kelrik Productions returns to the Monroe Forum Theatre with a sticky-sweet confection of 'Pure Imagination' in Roald Dahl's timeless story, Willy Wonka! Based on Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), the play, Willy Wonka, brings the story to the stage in this musical adaptation.
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Clue
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (1/9 - 1/18) | |
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (3/27 - 4/12) | |
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HADESTOWN
The Granada Theatre (4/28 - 4/29) | |
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Every Brilliant Thing
Ensemble Theatre Company (6/3 - 6/21) | |
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Hadestown (Non-Equity)
Granada Theatre (4/28 - 4/29) | |
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Petty Rocks and Kid Galaga
The California Theatre of Santa Rosa (1/22 - 1/22) | |
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Hadestown (Non-Equity)
Rabobank Arena, Theater & Convention Center (4/2 - 4/2) | |
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