Lit Moon Theatre and Tampereen Teatteri Present
Nils Holgersson and the Wild Geese
June 4 and 5
Story by Selma Lagerlof
Adapted for the stage and written by Naomi Iizuka
Lit Moon Theatre celebrates its 18th birthday with peview performances of its new show, Nils Holgersson and the Wild Geese. Charmed by an elf, the ne’er-do-well Nils flies toward Lapland on the back of a goose…
The Saturday, June 5, performance will be followed by a birthday party at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State Street.
Come celebrate Lit Moon’s 18th season of making theatre in Santa Barbara, …

Los Angeles Electric 8, the world’s only electric guitar chamber octet, returns to Fishbon to premiere a brand new program entitled Interlocking Textures. This debut performance will take listeners on a journey from east to west, showcasing the connections between Indonesian gamelan and American minimalism. Featuring music by ethnomusicologist Mantle Hood, minimalist composer Wayne Siegel and more, the evening’s fare will run from the traditional to the inspired – all ringing from a chorus of eight electric guitars.
Electric 8
Saturday, January 23, 2010, 8pm
The Pesacadrome, 101 S Quarantina, Santa Barbara
$10 at …

The Speaking of Stories 2010 season will start in January with Christina Allison, Jay Thomas, and others reading stories by Garrison Keillor, David Sedaris and other funny people in “Nothing but Laughs.”
Nothing But Laughs
Sunday, January 10, 2010, 2:00pm
Monday January 11, 2010, 7:30pm
Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara
$25 general, $10 students
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From the streets of Brazil – a country where beats are celebrated and dance is a generation’s second language – Artistic Director Bruno Beltrão and the powerhouse Grupo de Rua bring the lightning-fast head-spins and stands, hand-jumps, turns and tumbles honed in the back streets of Rio de Janeiro to Campbell Hall for a totally new and fresh look at street dance. The brilliant all male company will perform Beltrão’s newest work, H3 that dispenses with heavy beats and macho posturing to create a minimalist, almost meditative interpretation of hip-hop …

La Petite Chouette presents: Gitana
Thursday, December 17, 2009, 7:00-9:00pm
Santa Barbara High School Theatre
700 E Anapamu St, Santa Barbara
$10