Labour of Love: Globe comes to Santa Barbara

By STEVE LIBOWITZ — Nov. 13, 2009

UCSB’s Arts & Lectures turned 50 this year, but we keep getting all the presents. Case in point: the Santa Barbara debut of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, considered perhaps the world’s greatest keepers of the Bard’s immortal works. But of course: The ...

Flying Karamazov Brothers come to the Granada

By STEVE LIBOWITZ — Oct. 22, 2009

The juggling and comedy troupe Flying Karamazov Brothers have starred everywhere from the streets of Santa Cruz to the stage of Broadway, on TV and in movies and in concert halls across the country and around the world over a 35-year career.
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Tomlin plays the Lobero

By STEVE LIBOWITZ — Oct. 16, 2009

The great actress-comedian Lily Tomlin seems to only be improving with age, so maybe the five-month gap since her originally scheduled date at the Lobero last May and this weekend’s make-up gigs at the Lobero tonight and tomorrow (due to the Jesusita ...

Bringing it all back ‘Om’: BOXTAILS takes on ‘Ramayana’

Initially formed to create a single storytelling performance piece for the Santa Barbara school system back in 1994, BOXTAILS Theatre Company has been devising original works based on world myths, folktales and literature ever since. But nothing in their 15-year history has approached the size, scope and ambition of the company’s new work, “OM: An Indian Tale of Good and Evil.”