Collaboration Cubed

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The Santa Barbara Symphony and State Street Ballet kick off their 2017-18 seasons by collaborating on Mozart’s Requiem Mass, marking their 4th time performing together. The strange history of this important and beautiful work makes a good jumping off point for this story about collaborations. It was commissioned in 1791…

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Uncoupling and Coupling

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Ensemble Theatre Company artistic director Jonathan Fox has come up with a bold stage adaptation of Woody Allen’s 1992 film “Husbands and Wives” which is (surprise) littered with neurotic New Yorkers. There’s a lot of philandering and dithering over mid-life crisis induced craziness, though Allen’s alter ego author and professor…

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The Glory of Stories

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Santa Barbara’s Award-Winning Boxtales Theatre Company brings folktales and myths from around the world to young audiences here, throughout the western U.S. and in Mexico. Using beautifully crafted masks and a wide variety of interesting ethnic musical instruments, the actors are dressed in simple white clothing adorned with minimal costuming…

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No Borders!

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So many things separate us. Cultural, political, gender, economic and physical differences are a few of the ones that lead people to make borders. They can be lines on a map or physical barriers (as some have created and too many want) which attempt to keep differences apart. On the…

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