Song, Dance and Drama

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Weimar Germany, the Kit Kat Klub, Sally Bowles, the American writer, the Emcee, scantily clad dancers, the Jewish fruit shop owner and the Nazis all take to the stage of UCSB’s Performing Arts Theater tonight in a superb production of “Cabaret,” the oft-revived noir-musical which has garnered 26 awards including…

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Dancing With Themselves

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Visual Artist Marco Pinter’s installation at MOXI: The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation titled “Reflections + Less Ephemeral” was visited by a group dancers from Girls Inc. led by Santa Barbara Dance Institute founder and director Rosalina Macisco. They were greeted by three large screens, two featuring a different…

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Fast Food, Dating and Role Playing

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UCSB’s New Works Lab is a workshop for plays written & produced by students in the Theater & Dance Department. The three plays here are somewhat related. “Soda Jerks” is about the rocky relationship between 2 recently graduated male high school “best friends” who want to start a soda fountain. They…

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Swamp Gas

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Political satirists Capitol Steps made their annual appearance at the Lobero and once again skewered the “Perublicans” and the “Cremodats” and some other newsmakers. To use their Lirty Dies doublespeak , the targets of their musical theater sendups were Tronald Dump, Clillary Hinton, Sernie Banders, Orack Bobama, Pladimir Vutin, Dormy…

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