Tag archives: Rick Mokler

Also on Local Stages This Week
By Steven Libowitz   |   April 25, 2023

Ensemble Theatre Company’s area premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s 2016 drama The Children winds up its three-week run at the New Vic on April 23. ETC favorite helmer Jenny Sullivan directs the trio of well-traveled actors Michael Butler, Linda Purl, and Nancy Travis – all of whom are familiar to recent ETC audiences – in the […]

A Marriage Made for Santa Barbara
By Steven Libowitz   |   April 18, 2023

Rick Mokler is updating Our Town for our times and, well, our town too.  With George and Emily Get Married, the (now officially retired) longtime theater teacher at area high schools, who also later chaired the SBCC Theater Department, has taken the young lovers from Thornton Wilder’s 85-year-old chestnut, updated their professions to a recent […]