The 16th Annual Independent Theater Awards
The region’s theater elite turned out in force at The Independent‘s Annual Theater Awards, held at Center Stage Theater, on Monday, May 19.
Charles Donelan
Recent Stories
Beauty and the Beast
This high school production of the enormously popular Disney musical was as high-tech and ambitious as any play produced in Santa Barbara this year.
I Madonnari’s Second Life Began in Santa Barbara
It wouldn’t be Memorial Day, and Santa Barbara wouldn’t be the American Riviera, without I Madonnari, a three-day festival that brings approximately 400 artists to the plaza in front of the mission to create more than 200 artworks out of pastel chalk, preparation, and hard work.
Lit Moon Theatre At Home and Abroad
For John Blondell and Victoria Finlayson, the husband-and-wife team who have run Lit Moon Theatre for the past 16 years, just about every day is “take your children to work day.”
Michael Buble
This was the first of two well-attended nights at the Bowl for Michael Buble, a Canadian singer of pop standards who has taken an early lead in the race to become the next generation’s Frank Sinatra.
Omnium Gatherum
This stimulating play recasts the familiar dinner party premise as a kind of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for the aftermath of September 11th.
Mary Heebner’s Hamlet
The alchemy of poetry and painting has always been close to the core of Mary Heebner’s art.
5 Reasons to See Beauty and the Beast at SBHS
Most of us recall our first experience with Disney’s masterpiece Beauty and the Beast.
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Literally years in the making, the return of CAMA’s Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts to the newly renovated Granada stage was easily the most anticipated event of the 2008 concert season thus far, and it more than lived up to some very high expectations.
KT Tunstall
The Marjorie Luke Theatre made a great venue for this intimate and tuneful evening with singer/songwriter KT Tunstall.
