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Review: THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT At Rubicon Theatre Company
by Anna Jensen - October 13, 2023
What did our critic think of THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT at Rubicon Theatre Company?...
Review: THE THANKSGIVING PLAY at ETC
by Anna Jensen - October 13, 2023
What did our critic think of THE THANKSGIVING PLAY at ETC?...
Review: NUNSENSE At SLO Repertory Theatre
by Anna Jensen - September 22, 2023
'Nunsense,' now playing at SLO Rep, delivers an evening of heavenly harmonies and gentle comedy to tempt even novice theater-goers. ...
Review: EMMA at Marian Theater
by Anna Jensen - March 11, 2023
What did our critic think of EMMA at Marian Theater? A confectionary morsel of Regency romance!...
Review: CINDERELLA at PCPA's Marian Theater
by Anna Jensen - November 17, 2022
What did our critic think of CINDERELLA at PCPA's Marian Theater?...
Review: INTO THE WOODS at PCPA
by Anna Jensen - August 15, 2022
A fun, sweet, and multi-layered presentation of this favorite of Stephen Sondheim's musicals. PCPA ventured 'Into the Woods' on Saturday night to open its run of Stephen Sondheim's musical. There's fun to be found in following well-known fairy tale characters such as Little Red Riding Hood (Ekatrina...
BWW Review: AMERICAN SON at Ensemble Theatre At The New Vic
by Maggie Yates - April 13, 2022
There's a lot to like about Ensemble's production of American Son, Christopher Demos-Brown's play about race and privilege in American society. The play feels timely and pertinent, broaching topics that bear weight on the minds of today's human in America: namely those born from the insistent racism...
BWW Review: THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY at Ensemble Theatre Company
by Maggie Yates - December 06, 2021
'The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley' is Jane Austin fanfiction that allows her popular characters life after the end of the novel. By Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, The Wickhams is harmless entertainment that transports the audience back to England of the early 1800s....
BWW Review: THE SECRET GARDEN at Marian Theater
by Anna Jensen - November 17, 2021
The Secret Garden, PCPA's enchanting holiday musical, will delight the whole family with its hopeful, heartfelt story of love, loss, and regeneration....
BWW Review: TOO MUCH LIGHT MAKES THE BABY GO BLIND at UCSB Theater Department
by Maggie Yates - November 08, 2021
UCSB students get a physical workout in Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, a series of 35 2-minute plays performed in random order based on audience suggestion. It's controlled chaos that ultimately pans out into a sequence of really interesting vignettes that cover the gamut of emotions, offer...
Past Shows
Roomful of Teeth
4/26
Grammy Award-winning vocal project Roomful of Teeth is dedicated to mining the expressive potential of the human voice. With a borderless repertoire encompassing singing traditions ...
Pianist Igor Levit has made his mark on the classical music world as “one of the most probing, intelligent and accomplished artists of the new ...
Sol Gabetta, cello
11/16
Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta, a Grammy Award nominee renowned for her charismatic artistry, has blazed an impressive trail since she won her first competition at ...
Ben Bliss, tenor
11/5
American tenor Ben Bliss is regarded as one of the most exciting young singers of the day. An alumnus of the Music Academy of the ...
Violinist Jennifer Koh and pianist Shai Wosner’s ambitious four-part project explores the impact and significance of Beethoven’s music on various composers. New commissions from composers ...
Before the age of 20, pianist Lise de la Salle was recognized as “a talent in a million” (Gramophone). Now at 26, de la Salle ...
Ray Chen, violin
10/21
Wunderkind violinist Ray Chen’s 2013 Hahn Hall performance with pianist Julio Elizalde dazzled audience members and critics alike as he “electrified Santa Barbara music lovers… ...
Fresh from the success of her widely lauded Bach and Beyond, Jennifer Koh undertakes an ambitious new project. This time, with pianist Shai Wosner, she ...
Fresh from the success of her widely lauded Bach and Beyond, Jennifer Koh undertakes an ambitious new project. This time, with pianist Shai Wosner, she ...
Brooklyn Rider
1/22
The adventurous, genre-defying ensemble Brooklyn Rider returns to perform new works, including a new piece co-commissioned by Arts & Lectures and composed by Wilco’s Glenn ...
The Orlando Consort
1/10
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s acclaimed 1928 silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc) is based on the actual record of ...
Danish String Quartet
11/18
With its boundless interpretive and technical talents, matched by an infectious joy for music-making, this group of three Danes and a Norwegian is arguably the ...
wild Up PULP
11/8
Acclaimed classical/contemporary music ensemble wild Up explores the topical and the visceral in a show called PULP. The music includes Claude Debussy’s Prelude to the ...
Charlie Albright, piano
10/15
Recipient of a 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the prestigious 2010 Gilmore Young Artist Award, Charlie Albright is “among the most gifted musicians of ...
Videos
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Black Note Natural Tobacco Eliquids with Real Tobacco Taste (11/11 - 11/11) | |
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Rhapsody in Blue @ 100: Jazz Comes to The Symphony
The Granada Theatre (5/19 - 5/19) | |
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The Thanksgiving Play
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (5/3 - 5/19) | |
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Come From Away
Performing Arts Center (5/2 - 5/2) | |
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9 to 5 - The Musical
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre (6/7 - 6/30) | |
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Rhapsody in Blue @ 100: Jazz Comes to The Symphony
The Granada Theatre (5/18 - 5/18) | |
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Camerata Pacifica Concludes Season with World Premiere by Clarice Assad
Music Academy of the West (5/17 - 5/17) | |
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