The natural world throws off sparks of genius all the time. No matter how many times birds fly by in formation or the sun sets or the moon rises, there’s still a thrill of surprise in the recognition of old patterns made new.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
The alchemy of poetry and painting has always been close to the core of Mary Heebner’s art.
Most of us recall our first experience with Disney’s masterpiece Beauty and the Beast.
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.
