SANTA BARBARA THEATER REVIEWS

What to expect from JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Center Stage...

The names of the divas—Garland, Piaf, Cline, Holiday, Callas—sparkle like the dangling lights on Solvang’s Theaterfest stage. But PCPA’s production of “Songs for Nobodies” gives equal voice and light to the stories of its titular “nobodies.” The constellation of all these characters ...

Many years ago, a TV commercial imagined how Reese’s peanut butter cups were invented. A handsome man with peanut butter crashes into a beautiful woman with chocolate:  ...

With a crack of thunder and a flash of lightning, “Holmes and Watson” begins. The new PCPA production on Solvang’s outdoor stage offers twisty delights to hardcore Sherlock fans and regular theater goers alike. ...

What did our critic think of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at PCPA: Marian Theater?...

What did our critic think of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at PCPA: Marian Theater?...

PCPA’s production of “Cabaret” delivers musical and dramatic thrills as two ill-fated couples try to dance around ascending brutality of the rising Nazi party in Berlin. ...

The Play That Goes Wrong is a side-splittingly funny production not to be missed. The laughs begin as you enter the theater and last to the final bows. It’s a play that goes wrong by design, of course, and then goes more wrong in service of our amusement as the Cornley Drama Society puts on the mu...

Little Shop of Horrors director/choreographer Keenan Hooks blends camp sensibilities with emotional honesty in his staging of this musical. The theatricality of the puppeteering in this send-up of B-horror flicks like “The Day of the Triffids” or “It Came from Outer Space” and 1960s pop tune...

What did our critic think of THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT at Rubicon Theatre Company?...

What did our critic think of THE THANKSGIVING PLAY at ETC?...

'Nunsense,' now playing at SLO Rep, delivers an evening of heavenly harmonies and gentle comedy to tempt even novice theater-goers. ...

What did our critic think of EMMA at Marian Theater? A confectionary morsel of Regency romance!...

What did our critic think of CINDERELLA at PCPA's Marian Theater?...