Fine Arts

December 3, 2014

“King Lear” Sports All-Star Cast from “Game of Thrones” and “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”

By Alex Wehrung

Reviewing Shakespeare is admittedly a little difficult, as it’s difficult to criticize or analyze the story without causing traumatic memories of interpreting extremely difficult texts in high school to resurface. So i...

November 20, 2014

Slip ‘n Slides, Rubber Ducks and Near-Nakedness: Pilobolus Dance Theater Captivates the Granada

By Sammy Gerraty

As dismayed as I was by the absurd amount of stairs my lazy self had to climb to get to my seat, sitting in the highest section of the Granada Theatre to watch Pilobolus Dance Theatre on Monday, Nov. 17, was well worth t...

November 19, 2014

Alafia Dance Ensemble Brought Rhythms to Share at the MCC

By Sammy Gerraty

The first thing I noticed upon entering the MCC Theatre on Friday night, Nov. 14, was the set of percussionist instruments arrayed onstage. The drums themselves were to be expected, for the performers of the night were t...

November 16, 2014

Cirque de Freq Proves Itself as an Antidote from I.V. Halloween

By Adam De Gree

On Halloween night, thousands of students fled Isla Vista to get their kicks in places where noise ordinances, Orwellian police density and the sort of people that stay in Isla Vista for Halloween are a distant memory. O...

November 16, 2014

UCSB Alum Talks About Upcoming Show with Pilobolus Dance Theater

By Sammy Gerraty

Dartmouth College students founded Pilobolus Dance Theatre in 1971. Artistic directors Michael Tracy and Robby Barnett were both part of the original PDT group, along with Jonathen Wolken, who passed away in 2010 and gav...

November 13, 2014

John Cleese Coming to the Granada

By Alex Wehrung

He is the John Lennon of comedy, and it isn’t just because they both have John for a first name. One of Britain’s most treasured filmmakers, the Black Knight sans limbs is coming to Santa Barbara as part of UCSB Arts...

November 11, 2014

Arlington Theatre Shocked by Batsheva Dance Company’s “Sadeh21”

By Sammy Gerraty

There was no warning that the show had started. I was sitting in the audience waiting to see the Batsheva Dance Company perform at the Arlington theatre on Tuesday, Nov. 4, admiring the vast sense of space the architects...

November 2, 2014

Keep the Party Going: Halloween Dance Moves

By Sammy Gerraty

Ah, Halloween. The one day a year when cosplayers are the top dogs of the night. What else, apart from a comic-con worthy costume, could you possibly need for Halloween to be the best that it can be? Dance moves. No amou...

October 31, 2014

L.A. Museum Guide

By Janel Mendoza

Two weeks into school and you’re already swamped with readings, bored of lectures and disinterested in anything that involves effort. This lack of motivation is obviously not the best way to start the school year. Fort...

October 31, 2014

Diane Rodriguez, How Saying No to No Paved Her Way to Success

By Brianna Guzman

Being told no is no fun. It’s something that everyone can agree on. It makes you sad. It makes you wonder why, and it can defeat you if you let it. At this year’s “Kick-Off” for the Theater and Dance Department, ...

October 27, 2014

A Mid-Autumn Midsummer

By Sammy Gerraty

The course of true love never did run smooth, but the course of Naked Shakes’ fall production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” certainly did. Naked Shakes, in the words of Director Irwin Appel, is “about the acto...

October 22, 2014

Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus: The Rise and Fall of Mozart and Salieri

By Phi Do, Arasch Blurfrushan

From the melody of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” to his “Requiem Mass in D Minor,” the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is forever imprinted in our culture. Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play “Amadeus” has come to...

October 18, 2014

50 Years in the Making: Architect Barton Myers’s Retrospective

By Bin Nguyen

Between now and Dec. 12, UCSB’s Art, Design, and Architecture Museum (AD&A) is hosting an exhibition titled “Barton Myers: Works of Architecture and Urbanism” — a retrospective based on Myers’ 50 years of d...

October 18, 2014

From Childhood, to College, to Cartooning: An Evening with Matt Groening and Lynda Barry

By Jason Chun

When Matt Groening and Lynda Barry stepped onto the stage of the Arlington Theatre on Friday, Oct. 10, it was in a style only two cartoonists could pull off: wearing knit hats shaped like “Futurama” characters Nibble...