<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/2026-08-21/westmont-news/audience-thrust-capulets.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>02/08/2024</pubDate><title>Audience Thrust Into ‘The Capulets’</title><excerpt>Westmont’s John Blondell, a longtime professor of theater arts, puts his own contemporary, site-specific spin on Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” as part of a mini-festival about the famous tragedy Thursday, Feb. 29, at 7 p.m.; Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2 at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.; and Sunday, March 3, at 7 p.m. in and around the Community Arts Workshop (CAW), 631 Garden Street, in downtown Santa Barbara. Purchase tickets to “The Capulet Black-and-White Ball,” which cost $20 for general admission and $12 for students and seniors, at westmont.edu/boxoffice. Black-and-white attire is required; comfortable shoes are recommended.</excerpt><author>Scott Craig</author><image>
            
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