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August 13, 2025
Challenge Accepted
Bravo to a director who trusts the intelligence of his audience and offers us ‘Pericles,’ the rarely performed work of a Renaissance genius, writes theater critic Christina Waters.
August 6, 2025
Mortal Fools
A Midsummer Night’s Dream once again fills the Grove with a frisky quartet of absorbing plotlines and repertory actors...
August 6, 2025
Midsummer Nights
The July 13 performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s ultimate legacy, the B Minor Mass, was this year’s highlight of the Carmel Bach Festival.
July 30, 2025
Cabrillo Festival Brings It
Time again for the mighty Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music to fill the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and its surrounding landscape with unexpected, unpredictable and unrepeatable sights and sounds.
July 30, 2025
Ode to Joy
A blazing-hot composer of radical multi-genre music, Missy Mazzoli brings her Violin Concerto (Procession) to this season’s Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
July 30, 2025
Close Shave!
The Cabrillo Stage production of Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street delivers a wealth of cutting-edge moments.
July 23, 2025
Enchanting ‘Woods’
Santa Cruz Shakespeare has taken Stephen Sondheim’s great gift to musical theater literally ‘Into the Woods’ with a production that is brisk, clever and loaded with the texture of human fears and dreams.
July 9, 2025
Expansion Mode
Charles Pasternak talks about Santa Cruz Shakespeare's first musical offering, Pericles, adding a fourth play, and expanding the season.