The Lobero Blog

By Brett Hodges It was the holiday season in Santa Barbara in 1883, and the town was in the throes of roller-skating mania. The Lobero Opera House was skating-central, with...

1952 was the year America fell in love with José Greco and classical flamenco dance. That was the year Greco - almost single-handedly - revived the art of flamenco and...

Browsing the calendar of events at American theaters and opera houses in the late 1800’s can be an uncomfortable experience for the modern sensibility. It was a time when stage...

On a wintery evening in February 1938, American singer Marian Anderson enthralled a Lobero audience with her extraordinary contralto voice. Known for her warm and modest personality, few audience members...

On Saturday, October 17, 1896, the Lobero Opera House’s 1300 seats were filled - and hundreds were turned away at the door - when women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony...

Jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and the Lobero Theatre had a relationship that spanned 34 years and helped establish the Lobero as one of the premier live jazz venues in the...

By Lobero Theatre Director of Development, Brandon Mowery Over the past few COVID influenced months, the Lobero has worked hard to keep the theater relevant, and one avenue we’ve managed...

On the evening of October 4, 1977, a petite woman with a Swiss-German accent held a standing-room-only Lobero audience spellbound as she spoke about what she called the greatest mystery...

On September 15, 1988, Burl Ives, a 79-year-old, white-bearded icon of music and film took to the Lobero stage in a one-man show about another American legend, poet, and essayist...

On Saturday evening, September 8, 1962, jazz singer Sarah Vaughan stepped onto the Lobero stage. Almost exactly 20 years earlier, her career had begun on a dare when she had...