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A Three-Week Vision Quest
Santa Cruz County’s Open Studios returns for its 41st year with more than 350 artists, three October weekends and a new mobile app. Christina Waters explores the studios, preview exhibits and wearable art of I.B. Bayo.
The Last Five Years
Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s The Last Five Years turns a five-year relationship inside out, with Chris Cherin and Charlotte Boyce Munson tracing love, ambition and heartbreak in opposite directions. Reviewed by Christina Waters.
Private Lives and Public Capers
Christina Waters reviews Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s stylish production of Noel Coward’s Private Lives, a glittering collision of romance, wit and marital warfare.
Swing for the Fences
Derrick Lee Weeden delivers a thunderous, unforgettable performance as Troy Maxson in Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s production of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences.
Experiment Failed
Christina Waters takes aim at Sarah Hennies’ The Grain House, a world premiere that closed the Cabrillo Festival’s Defiant Dreams concert, arguing that sonic hostility overwhelmed musical imagination.
Much Ado about Much Ado
Santa Cruz Shakespeare turns Much Ado About Nothing into a bright, fast-moving romantic comedy filled with sharp wordplay, music, dancing and inspired physical humor.
We the Dreamers
The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music invites audiences to imagine a more expansive future through Philip Glass, Rita Dove, Leilehua Lanzilotti and other visionary artists.
Daggers of the Mind
Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s Macbeth delivers a chilling, psychologically rich production led by Dan Donohue's riveting descent into paranoia, ambition and bloodshed.