Santa Cruz Shakespeare announced its summer and fall festival lineup, featuring the company’s first summer musical in 32 years and a rotating repertory of four classic plays on the theme “No One is Alone.”
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Best 9: Top events for the week ahead in Santa Cruz County arts & entertainment, March 27-April 3
With the weekend nearly here, check out Wallace Baine’s Best 9 recommendations for things to do around Santa Cruz County via Lookout’s BOLO events calendar.
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Can ‘Christmas Carol’ christen a new Santa Cruz tradition?
Santa Cruz Shakespeare moves into the holiday season and into downtown Santa Cruz with the first of what it hopes will be many years of an annual tradition, the production of the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol.”
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A Midsummer musical: Santa Cruz Shakespeare to combine the Bard and Sondheim in 2025
Santa Cruz Shakespeare has announced its play lineup for the 2025 season. Included is Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Pericles,” alongside Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” and a fall production of Athol Fugard’s South African drama “Master Harold … and the Boys.”
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The soul of wit: The dazzling fashion of Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’
A highlight of Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s production of “Hamlet” this summer has been the costume design. Lookout caught up with designer Austin Blake Conlee on what inspired the late-1960s, early-1970s look he applied to the play.
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Madness meets method: Backstage at Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’
Backstage at Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s new production of “Hamlet” offers up some genuine surprises about the effortless grace and professionalism of the company’s 20-person cast.
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A method to their madness: Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s big gamble to expand
As it prepares for its new summer season, Santa Cruz Shakespeare is poised for big expansion when so many other theater companies are contracting. The three summer shows will be followed by another in the fall, and a holiday show in December, a reflection of the energy brought by new leaders.
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Santa Cruz Shakespeare takes a bow for 2023 season; next stop, a big 2024
It’s the final weekend to see “The Taming of the Shrew,” “King Lear” and Lauren Gunderson’s “The Book of Will” in the Grove at DeLaveaga, but an expanded five-production season is in the works for Santa Cruz Shakespeare next year.
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Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s stunning ambition: Company goes big with five productions in 2024
“Hamlet” — which co-artistic director Charles Pasternak calls “the world’s most famous play” — headlines next year’s season, with an announcement made Monday at the company’s DeLaveaga Park home. But the big news: five productions — the most ever by a company that can claim four decades of performance — and only two of them are Shakespeare’s. The works of Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams and Charles Dickens complete the 2024 playbill.
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As old guard passes baton on Santa Cruz arts scene, how will new leaders weather generational shift?
Many of the steady hands that have guided the likes of the Cabrillo Festival and Santa Cruz Shakespeare for years are stepping down even as the performing arts are at a crossroads nationally. There’s no guarantee it will be business as usual as a diverse group of millennials and Gen Z makes up larger shares of potential audiences, and whatever comes next will be fascinating to watch.