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June 25, 2025

Lending Support

Renegade Theater Co. is back with another fundraiser: Stop Kiss, a play about two women falling in love against the backdrop of a violent hate crime.

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June 18, 2025

Too Fast to Live

An old favorite Broadway play has gotten a facelift. Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean: A New Musical is being produced by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.

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May 14, 2025

Mountain Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time embraces this inspiring and challenging story of an autistic teenage boy.

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April 23, 2025

Myth-Begotten

When I was a freshman, we went on a field trip to see Hadestown in San Francisco and I think everyone just fell in love with it right then and there.

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March 19, 2025

Bring Kleenex

Steel Magnolias explores themes of community, Southern life and overcoming tragedy.

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February 11, 2025

Curating Good Ideas

Patty Gallagher finds inspiration in the eras that preceded her...the work of actors like Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd.

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February 11, 2025

Wilkommen!

Cabaret is a tale of the dangers of ignorance and lack of action set in the Kit Kat Klub—a representation of the debaucherous cabarets that flourished in Berlin

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February 4, 2025

All That Jazz

After more than half a dozen years of production, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby finally hits the stage in a way never seen before.

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January 29, 2025

Short and Sweet

Live theater at its most brisk, theatrical diversity at its most playful. Quick, grab some of the remaining tickets. 8Tens@Eight runs through Feb. 16 at Actors’ Theatre

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December 27, 2024

Stage of Dreams

Taking over the former home of the Jewel Theater with her new project, Theatre 831, Lindsey Chester is reaching out to local arts groups.

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December 17, 2024

Double the Pleasure

This weekend brings two Nutcrackers to local stages: Santa Cruz Dance Theater at the Santa Cruz Civic and Santa Cruz City Ballet at Cabrillo's Crocker Theater

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December 11, 2024

A New Tradition

Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s new and utterly delightful A Christmas Carol has already enchanted half the town. Review by Christina Waters

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