"One of the unsung gems of the Santa Barbara performing arts scene. . . . [They are] carefully executed theatrical presentations. Director delaPena not only casts the stories, but also rehearses the actors to achieve the seemingly effortless polished delivery of complex prose."
--Santa Barbara News-Press

"In the beginning there was the word, long before film and TV made images dormant. Harking back to the time when each word and its expression counted vitally in human communication, Speaking of Stories brings to life works by fine writers, delivered by skilled actors."
--Ventura County Star

Speaking of Stories has become, indelibly, part of Santa Barbara’s cultural lexicon; its "Theater of the Mind" is a refreshing and much-needed dose of oral-storytelling in a mostly digital age... I don’t remember being so captiated, even as a child, by stories read aloud. Good dreamtime fare to nourish the internal world.
-- Korina R. Jochim, The Independent

"The best theater [presentation] in town!"
--Jennifer Quinlan, KMGQ 106.3 (Jennifer and the Kat)

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