Anna Trumbo

February 23, 2006

Feist | Let It Die

By Anna Trumbo

After an illustrious career of collaborating and performing with numerous other artists - Peaches, Apostle of Hustle, Kings of Convenience and Broken Social Scene, to name a few - Canadian singer/songwriter Leslie Feist ...

February 16, 2006

Coming To America

By Anna Trumbo

In a collaboration of creative input and dynamic artistry, Brown Baby, by Carlos Morton, will world premiere this Friday at 8 p.m. in the UCSB Performing Arts Theatre. The play deals primarily with the ethically ambiguou...

February 1, 2006

Jesus is Magic | What would Sarah do?

By Anna Trumbo

Sarah Silverman leans forward on her vanity, arms locked straight and shoulders up around her ears, demurely pouting at her reflection. Hinging at the hips, she lowers herself onto the dresser surface, tilts her head and...

January 19, 2006

Mrs. Henderson Presents | Doin’ the Blitzkrieg Bop

By Anna Trumbo

Mrs. Henderson, an upper-class woman living in London in the 1930s, is well into her 70s when she loses her husband and consequentially finds herself at loose ends. At the suggestion of one of her friends, she decides to...

January 19, 2006

Syriana | Reality Check

By Anna Trumbo

In the corporate world of oil and politics, the real power lies behind and beneath the government. In the impoverished Middle East, where young men and women are lured from their seemingly inescapable circumstances into ...

November 10, 2005

Hiroshim, Mon Amor

By Anna Trumbo

Hiroshima, filled with sun, is waking up on August 6, 1945. Teenage boys are playing a game of baseball, women are shopping at a fish market, crowded trolley cars are carrying parents to their jobs, while their children ...

November 10, 2005

Trey Anastasio | Shine | Columbia

By Anna Trumbo

Last week, the former frontman of America's biggest cult band released his fifth solo album, Shine. This album gives Anastasio a creditable niche in the pop genre - a result that many critics discourage; the new material...