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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? […]

There are a lot of highlights of this year’s Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival, which returns for its first post-pandemic gathering back at The New Vic Theatre November 2 through November 6, including Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life, which screens at 5 pm on November 3. The documentary about the 2018 […]

People have been bewitched and beguiled by the story of Carmen as consistently as the fiery gypsy seduces the brave men she encounters. Bizet’s opera remains wildly popular worldwide, almost 150 years since it premiered in Paris, and countless adaptations in dance have spun the tale through musical movement.  Even Oscar Hammerstein fell under Carmen’s […]