Veteran actress Kandis Chappell, whose theatrical credits pepper the country from Broadway to Los Angeles, leapt at the chance to portray Eleanor Roosevelt in the one-woman play by Mark St. Germain titled simply Eleanor. The former First Lady was frequently named one of the most admired women in America both during her 12-plus years in […]
Carole Eglash-Kosoff might be older than your grandmother, but a cursory peek at the title of her new one-woman show, I’ve Seen This Sh*t Before, makes it clear this is not your typical grandmother’s type of theater. Eglash-Kosoff swears constantly throughout the 92-minute show – yes, timed to match her age – but that’s just […]
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Springtime means flowers, sunshine, and thoughts of romance, but (at least in the area high school’s theater departments) it’s also the season for massive musical undertakings, bringing Broadway shows into the on-campus auditoriums. As in all years, the three big public schools have staggered their shows, with each having only a single overlapping weekend, meaning […]
Two cops. Three crooks. Eight doors. Go! So reads the first line of the synopsis for SBCC’s production of Unnecessary Farce, which closes out SBCC Theatre Group’s 2025-26 season at the Jurkowitz on campus, where it plays April 17-May 2. Farce was the first play by Paul Slade Smith, a successful Broadway actor turned playwright […]
Out of the Box was just a young theatre company in residence at Center Stage in April 2011 when Founder-artistic Director Samantha Eve made Stephen Sondheim’s offbeat musical Assassins its third production ever. Now, OOB and Eve are closing out the 15th season with a revival of the show, the first repeat production in Out […]
Mary Bridget Davies was just a teenager when she realized that her singing voice sounded a lot like that of Janis Joplin, the iconic rock singer who quickly shot to fame in the late 1960s before her accidental death from an overdose at 27. “My normal singing voice is pretty darn clean in comparison,” Davies […]
Millions of people were captivated by last month’s Winter Olympics, many especially enraptured by the women’s figure skating competition, as Alysa Liu became the first American woman to win an individual medal (Gold!) since Sasha Cohen in 2006, and brought to the endeavor a smart combination of power, athleticism, and grace; not to mention a […]
Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser, the longtime Montecito couple with 40 years of massive successes in TV sitcoms and more, swear that their brand new jukebox musical Somebody to Love isn’t about their own lives, even though the story begins in the early 1970s, right around the same time the couple first got together as […]
Certain surprises in the film industry award season have shaken things up among the professional prognosticators known as Oscarologists. Leading up to this weekend’s Oscars, the long-predicted winners of a couple of the major categories seem less etched-in-stone than in previous Oscar bouts, such that a welcome air of unpredictability sweetens the weekend’s anticipation. You […]
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Santa Barbara local Dillon Yuhasz is an improviser, puppeteer, singer, and actor who was most recently seen in the title role in SBCC’s spectacular production of Young Frankenstein. But Yuhasz also has his own company called Not Half Bad Theatre that was co-created with Brittany Ragan to showcase his ambitious and high-energy one-man productions bent […]
Madeline Fanton remembers the first chapter book she read as a child: Little Women. Now the visiting professor of theater arts directs Westmont’s production of the novel by Louisa May Alcott, adapted by Kate Hamill, on Feb. 27-28 and March 6-7 at 7:30 pm; Feb. 28 and March 7-8 at 2 pm, all in Porter […]
Eighty years after its publication, George Orwell’s novella Animal Farm resonates in our world, speaking as sharply to the abuses of authoritarianism across the globe today as it did in addressing Stalinist Russia and the dangers of communism in 1945. The actor-director Andy Serkis – famed for his motion capture and voice-over roles for such […]
The smash hit Broadway musical The Book of Mormon has music, lyrics and book by the inspired pairing of South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone with Robert Lopez, who co-created the puppet musical Avenue Q before co-writing the more mainstream songs for Frozen, Frozen II and Coco. Not surprisingly, the show is highly […]
A giant inflatable set of shark jaws serves as the portal to enter the New Vic, where Ensemble Theatre is producing the West Coast premiere of The Shark is Broken, set during the Jaws shoot in the waters of Martha’s Vineyard more than half a century ago. The theater sits directly across the street from […]
