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Given Wicked: For Good recently opening to box-office-busting business – even as star and likely role-repeating Oscar nominee (and EGOT hopeful) Cynthia Erivo receiving SBIFF’s 18th annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film at the Bacara on December 4 – was there ever a better time to revisit the original The Wizard of Oz? […]
The Alcazar Ensemble is staging a second weekend September 6-8 of the Hanne Pedersen Playwright Competition. That competition features four one-act plays from tri-county authors in honor of its late namesake, one of the co-founders of the Carpinteria Community Theatre. Sophie Goldstein’s This House is Legacy traces a neighborhood that no longer exists but has […]
It wasn’t the COVID pandemic that caused Trinity Backstage Coffeehouse to come to a close after a Christmastime holiday show in 2019. The underground listening-room series that spent nearly 20 years bringing some of the finest, if often unheralded, acoustic singer-songwriters to Santa Barbara had already scaled back from monthly shows to quarterly concerts for […]
