Ira Glass, Monica Bill Barnes, Anna Bass at Flynn Center for the Performing Arts

This American Life host Ira Glass joins dancers Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass in a show that combines two art forms that, as Glass puts it, “have no business being together: dance and radio.” One is all words and no visuals; the other is all visuals and no words. The result, Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host, is a funny, lively, and very talky evening of dance and storytelling. Glass delivers his trademark narratives while Barnes and Bass (whom the Washington Post calls “the Tina Fey of dance”) evoke characters through their silent art form. The Santa Barbara Independent says the show is “a perfect—and perfectly unexpected—union.”