Drama unfolds in just 10 minutes at annual 8 Tens @ Eight Festival It started as a local contest, challenging Santa Cruz...
JTC dishes up folksy, lighthearted musical revue ‘Pump Boys and Dinettes’ After the intellectual acrobatics of its last offering, Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia,”...
An inside look at Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s final production, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play’ Harking back to a time...
UCSC’s Rainbow Theater celebrates 20 years of breaking down cultural walls and promoting dialogue For two decades, Don Williams has opened every...
Pacific Rim Film Festival celebrates 25 years of cross-cultural understanding Break out the silver confetti! One of Santa Cruz’s most beloved cultural...
Stoppard’s ambitious ‘Arcadia’ launches new JTC season Tom Stoppard’s plays are not for the intellectually faint of heart. In his dazzling and...
Shakespeare Santa Cruz hits one out of the park with ‘Henry V’ Shakespeare Santa Cruz has earned a sterling reputation for presenting...
Nearly flawless, Cabrillo Stage’s ‘Oklahoma!’ is musical theater at its finest
Laughter and love reign in SSC’s gorgeous ‘Taming of the Shrew’ Shakespeare Santa Cruz launches its 2013 season with a crowd-pleasing, often...
Inside the mind of the ‘Weird Al of children’s theater’ Often referred to as the “Weird Al of children’s theater,” Janinne Chadwick...
A young man and a state come of age in ‘Oklahoma!’ La Cage Aux Folles”—the first of three Cabrillo Stage musicals to...
Dance, diversity shine in Cabrillo’s fizzy ‘La Cage Aux Folles’ In celebration of the end of DOMA, and the repeal of Proposition...
Funny and fierce comediennes on a mission to split sides at the Santa Cruz Fringe Festival From thespians to burlesque dancers, spoken...
Cabrillo Stage’s summer season opens with flashy, yet heartfelt ‘La Cage Aux Folles’ La Cage Aux Folles” debuted as a French play...
Veteran solo performer revisits childhood trauma in ambitious one-man show When an 8-year-old Mark Kenward and his family moved from Normal, Il.,...
Area theater troupes gear up for annual Santa Cruz Improv Fest There’s one story that I must tell you, and I always...
Two local theater companies collaborate to produce two one-act plays by the late playwright Harold Pinter If what isn’t said speaks louder...
Iconic San Francisco revue continues to improve with age
On the eve of a rare Santa Cruz gig, we probe the mind of Bill Maher and explore how comedy and politics...
Behind SSC’s ‘The Man in the Iron Mask’
New play re-imagines the lives of famed Siamese twins Chang and Eng
‘The Letters’ explores life beneath state control in Soviet Russia
Jewel Theatre Company takes over the Actors’ Theatre spaceJulie James has some big shoes to fill. And we think she’ll do just...
Santa Cruz’s own equity theater company soarsIn an era when the arts are still getting hit hard financially, and money is so...
Burning questions for the crown princes of cannabis, Cheech & Chong
Paula Poundstone brings her quick wit to The Rio.
Local writer and performer Patrice Vecchione brings her one-woman show home
You can’t keep her down, so it’s best fly high with Margaret Cho at Mountain Winery
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson ignites the UCSC summer stage with ‘Burn This’. Plus: We raise the curtain and look inside Shakespeare...
Is it just us, or can this woman actually save the human race?
