The Lobero Blog

On the night of September 7, 1903, the Lobero Opera House curtain rose and a Santa Barbara audience was introduced to Zamloch the Great, immodestly promoted as “The Wonder Worker...

On this day in 1943, 27-year-old violin prodigy Yehudi Menuhin stepped onto the Lobero stage with his 1733 “Prince Khevenhüller” Stradivarius and mesmerized the audience with his flamboyant virtuosity. His Lobero...

On August 21, 1941, a young Irish actress named Geraldine Fitzgerald took to the Lobero stage to star in the world premiere of an English murder mystery called Lottie Dundass....

On August 13, 1926, Will Morrissey’s Music Hall Revue came to town for the Lobero Theatre’s first (and likely only) “midnight matinee.” The Revue was an enormous production involving a...

On August 8, 1982, the American rockabilly-punk band The Blasters came to Lobero and brought down the house. Literally. Though it’s hard to distinguish legend from truth, stories were told...

On August 4, 1924, the new Lobero Theatre was finally opened with the off-Broadway premiere of an audacious play about a dream called Beggar on Horseback. It was an appropriate...

The annual Santa Barbara Fiesta play which debuted at the Lobero Theatre on August 1, 1939 was especially rich in pageantry and drama. 20 singing señoritas filled the entrance loggia...

On Wednesday evening, July 30, 1941 Hollywood paparazzi and autograph seekers swarmed the entrance to the Lobero Theatre. A live radio broadcast corralled celebrities for sound bite interviews in the...

On July 28, 1970, American classical pianist Jerome Lowenthal first appeared under the spotlight on the Lobero stage. 50 years and exactly 100 glorious Lobero concerts later (yes, we counted),...

On July 27, 1964, the actress Ethel Waters mesmerized an opening-night Lobero audience by reprising her Broadway award-winning performance in the Carson McCullers play The Member of the Wedding. Waters...