Anna Jensen

Anna Jensen Anna Jensen has a Ph.D. in Theater Studies from UC Santa Barbara. She has translated and adapted plays by Henrik Ibsen, including Hedda Gabler and When We Dead Awaken. She has served as production dramaturg for many productions, some of her favorites include Macbeth (dir. Jonathan Fox), Good People (dir. Jenny Sullivan) and The Baltimore Waltz (dir. Tom Whitaker).





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Feature: ALICE BY HEART at Out Of The Box Theatre at Center Stage
Feature: ALICE BY HEART at Out Of The Box Theatre at Center Stage
November 11, 2023

A warm and tender tale of resilience and the power of imagination.

Review: THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT At Rubicon Theatre Company
Review: THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT At Rubicon Theatre Company
October 13, 2023

What did our critic think of THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT at Rubicon Theatre Company?

Review: THE THANKSGIVING PLAY at ETC
Review: THE THANKSGIVING PLAY at ETC
October 13, 2023

What did our critic think of THE THANKSGIVING PLAY at ETC?

Review: NUNSENSE At SLO Repertory Theatre
Review: NUNSENSE At SLO Repertory Theatre
September 22, 2023

'Nunsense,' now playing at SLO Rep, delivers an evening of heavenly harmonies and gentle comedy to tempt even novice theater-goers. 

Review: EMMA at Marian Theater
Review: EMMA at Marian Theater
March 11, 2023

What did our critic think of EMMA at Marian Theater? A confectionary morsel of Regency romance!

Previews: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE at Marjorie Luke
Previews: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE at Marjorie Luke
January 25, 2023

The chaperone has hit the bottle pretty hard and is 'napping.' The young lady she's meant to watch over has cold (or are they itchy?) feet about her impending nuptials. What could go wrong? Everything--in the most musical and zany way possible, of course. The screwball Broadway hit, The Drowsy Chaperone opens at the Marjorie Luke's stage this weekend.

Feature: THE REALISTIC JONESES at Rubicon Theatre Company
Feature: THE REALISTIC JONESES at Rubicon Theatre Company
January 23, 2023

In an unnamed mountain town, two neighboring couples share the last name, 'Jones.' As they become better acquainted with one another, they discover further commonalities, both comic and poignant.

Review: CINDERELLA at PCPA's Marian Theater
Review: CINDERELLA at PCPA's Marian Theater
November 17, 2022

What did our critic think of CINDERELLA at PCPA's Marian Theater?

Feature: MISS YOU LIKE HELL at Out Of The Box Theatre At Center Stage
Feature: MISS YOU LIKE HELL at Out Of The Box Theatre At Center Stage
October 25, 2022

Miss You Like Hell plays November 4-13, 2022 (Friday - Sunday) at Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbara, CA.

Review: INTO THE WOODS at PCPA
Review: INTO THE WOODS at PCPA
August 15, 2022

A fun, sweet, and multi-layered presentation of this favorite of Stephen Sondheim's musicals. PCPA ventured 'Into the Woods' on Saturday night to open its run of Stephen Sondheim's musical. There's fun to be found in following well-known fairy tale characters such as Little Red Riding Hood (Ekatrina Bouras), Rapunzel (Elizabeth Martinié), and Cinderella (Gracie Jurczy) lose themselves in the woods. Our familiarity with the stories allows Into the Woods to enlarge, send up, fracture, and interweave their storylines--all in the service of an engaging evening of musical theater.

BWW Feature: TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES at Rubicon Theatre
BWW Feature: TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES at Rubicon Theatre
April 25, 2022

NAACP, Garland and Ovation Award-winning actor Chris Butler plays 36 different roles in Rubicon Theatre Company’s production of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith. The production begins previews on April 27 and opens on April 29, the 30th anniversary, to the day, of the announcement of the verdict in the Rodney King Trial and what was then called the L.A. Riots.

BWW Previews: SOMETHING ROTTEN! at Marjorie Luke
BWW Previews: SOMETHING ROTTEN! at Marjorie Luke
February 3, 2022

A 'joyful' celebration of Shakespearean theater and the Broadway musical!

BWW Review: THE SECRET GARDEN at Marian Theater
BWW Review: THE SECRET GARDEN at Marian Theater
November 17, 2021

The Secret Garden, PCPA's enchanting holiday musical, will delight the whole family with its hopeful, heartfelt story of love, loss, and regeneration.

BWW Review: THE LITTLE MERMAID at Marian Theatre, PCPA
BWW Review: DEATHTRAP at San Luis Obispo Repertory
BWW Review: DEATHTRAP at San Luis Obispo Repertory
November 8, 2019

San Luis Obispo Rep's craftily staged production of Deathtrap, a comedy thriller, delivers on the foreshadowing promise of its opening dialogue: 'One set, five characters. A juicy murder in Act One, unexpected developments in Act Two. Sound construction, good dialogue, laughs in the right places.' Deathtrap's stage action runs like an intricately laid out fox hunt where the audience as the pack of hounds follows continuously forking trails of red herrings. And it's delightful.

BWW Review: LOVE at Center Stage Theater
BWW Review: LOVE at Center Stage Theater
October 3, 2019

Just today, famed opera singer Plácido Domingo resigned from LA Opera amid accusations that he sexually harassed workers there. It seems as though such stories are far more common than they were a few years ago. In October 2017, journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey broke the stories of women sexually assaulted and harassed by the movie producer, Harvey Weinstein. That story was followed by an explosion of women who shared their own experience of workplace harassment. So many women posted under the 'MeToo' hashtag, that the systemic infection of sexual harassment became harder to deny.

BWW Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Solvang Festival Theatre
BWW Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Solvang Festival Theatre
September 5, 2019

PCPA closes its season with one of the sharpest, funniest, cleverest comedies written in the English language--Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Fans of this Victorian confection of drawing-room comedy will not be disappointed. A beautiful set, designed by Jason Bolen, and sumptuous Victorian costuming, designed by Sara Curran Ice, transport us to a fashionable London flat and a smart country mansion.

BWW Review: THE ADDAMS FAMILY at PCPA
BWW Review: THE ADDAMS FAMILY at PCPA
July 25, 2019

Before the first line of PCPA's The Addams Family had left the mouth of Gomez Addams (George Walker), my seatmate was already chuckling. And the laughs kept coming until the players took their bows to a standing audience. The cast's comic timing synchronized perfectly with Erik Stein's fluid staging for a frightfully fun evening.

BWW Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET at Solvang Festival Theatre
BWW Review: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER at Solvang Festival Theatre
BWW Review: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER at Solvang Festival Theatre
June 18, 2019

A friend remarked to British actor, Edmund Gwenn, on his deathbed 'This must be very hard,' to which Gwenn replied, 'It is. But not as hard as farce.' PCPA's production of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder met the challenge of the dangerously delicate timing demanded of a musical farce. Set in England in the Edwardian period, lowly office clerk, Monty Navarro (George Walker), discovers that, through his mother's line, he is connected to the aristocracy as a member of the D'Ysquith family. With eight D'Ysquiths standing between him and an Earldom, he makes his way through his family tree by what Lady Macbeth referred to as 'the nearest way,' discreetly murdering his way to the top.



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