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Rabbit Hole at UCSB
UCSB Stages David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole
Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores the impact of losing a child on a couple, their family, and their neighbors. Read story.
Westmont Theater Students Open Pandora’s Box
Beauty Bomb Unites Dancers, Actors at Porter Theatre
Collaboration between Westmont College theater and dance departments gives the story of Pandora a modern twist. Read story.
Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Granada
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Brought 16th-Century Sensibility to the Early Comedy
Bawdy Language: Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre brought a 16th-century sensibility to the early comedy. Read story.
Four Reasons to See The Wedding Singer
The Granada Hosts the Broadway Musical Monday-Wednesday
The musical based on Adam Sandler’s hit movie is the first in a series of touring Broadway shows that will be performed at the Granada this season. Read story.
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Does Love’s Labour’s Lost in Renaissance Style
Arts & Lectures Presents a Touring Shakespeare Company Devoted to Period Performances
Arts & Lectures presents a touring Shakespeare company at the Granada on November 13 and 14 in one of the Bard’s early comedies, replete with classic Elizabethan costumes and authentic period music. Read story.
UCSB Produces Rabbit Hole
2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama Gets Santa Barbara Premiere
David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comic drama about loss and the complex process of coping with it will be the fall production at UCSB’s Drama Department. Read story.
The Lieutenant of Inishmore at Center Stage
McDonagh’s Dark Comedy About the IRA Connects
The new Genesis West play at Center Stage is another irreverent and outrageous hit. Read story.
Genesis West Presents Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Director Maurie Lord Continues on His Fearless Path
The edgiest theater in town comes courtesy of director Maurie Lord. Read story.
Daddy Long Legs at the Rubicon
New John Caird Musical Premieres in VenturaDaddy Long Legs, the new musical by John Caird and Paul Gordon, got its world premiere last week at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre.
Daddy Long Legs, the new musical by John Caird and Paul Gordon, got its world premiere last week at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre. Read story.
The Bald Soprano at Westmont
Eugène Ionesco’s play at Porter Theatre, Friday, October 23
An exciting new production of Eugène Ionesco’s most famous play, The Bald Soprano, continues at Westmont’s Porter Theatre through Halloween weekend. Read story.
Lit Moon Presents Its World Theatre Festival at Center Stage
Annual Weekend of Theater Included Works from the United States and the Czech Republic
The 2009 theater fest included a wide range of physical theater from children’s stories to sophisticated political satires. Read story.
Polaris: Top-Notch Physical Theater
Prague-based Adriatic Presents Brings New Play to Lit Moon Festival
Two amazing actors from Prague, Jan Benes-McGadie and Vojta Svejda, are performing one of the year’s most memorable shows on Friday night at Center Stage Theater. Polaris at the Lit Moon World Theater Festival. Read story.
Czech Clowns and More at Lit Moon World Theater Festival
The 2009 Fest at Center Stage Features Artists from Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and the Czech Republic
John Blondell is back with the finest in current European physical theater for this year’s edition of the Lit Moon World Theater Festival. Read story.
Lily Tomlin at the Lobero
Classic American Comedienne Talks Television and Vegas
The classic American comedienne will be at the Lobero Theatre this weekend to make up two shows that were canceled last May due to the Jesusita Fire. Read story.
New John Caird Musical Daddy Long Legs Premieres at Rubicon
A 1912 Novel About an Orphan and Her Benefactor Becomes a Contemporary Musical
John Caird, the director of such London and Broadway mega-hits as Les Miserables and Nicholas Nickleby has adapted an early 20th-century novel as a 21st-century musical. Read story.
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