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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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November 20, 2024

Ghost Story

Mark Twain declared that A Christmas Carol had no heart, to which Charles Pasternak, Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s artistic director, says, “Bah, Humbug!”

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November 20, 2024

Twisted Roots

"In Some Dark Valley" explores the life of a religious fanatic in the aftermath of the American Civil War

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November 5, 2024

Order Up!

Everyone’s favorite adorable yellow sponge...shorts-wearing starfish and more are coming to Cabrillo College’s Crocker Theater for SpongeBob: the Musical

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October 15, 2024

Twisted Tale

...one devil of a tasty and twisted tale called Lucky Time, a two-act psychological puzzle produced by Actors Theatre.

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October 9, 2024

Watching the Detective

“A million-dollar project on a shoestring budget,” Who Killed Simon Braggart? ...finds unique and inventive ways to play with theater and the audience.

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Curating Good Ideas

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A New Tradition

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Twisted Roots

Order Up!

Twisted Tale

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