Nov. 10, 2025– Santa Cruz, CA – Santa Cruz Shakespeare (SCS), a nationally recognized professional repertory theatre company staging imaginative productions for more than a decade, today announced the full cast for its annual adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. The production runs from Wednesday, November 26, through Christmas Eve with 26 opportunities for audiences to experience this festive holiday tradition. The 90-minute performances are scheduled for 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Hall at 846 Front St. in Downtown Santa Cruz. Opening night is Sunday, November 30 at 7:00 p.m. 

“I’m deeply grateful for my incredible collaborators in this annual holiday tradition,” said Charles Pasternak, artistic director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. “I’m thrilled to welcome our amazing production manager, Alicia Gibson, as my co-director and to welcome back cast favorites Julie James, Charlotte Munson and Andrea Sweeney Blanco. And, of course, the great Mike Ryan returns as Ebenezer Scrooge.” 

In addition to Mike Ryan, Julie James, Charlotte Munson and Andrea Sweeney Blanco, Eddie Lopez joins the cast as Bob Cratchit and other characters. Youth actors Lincoln Best, Joseph Pratt, Aria Atkinson and Sigrid Breidenthal round out the cast. Luke Shepherd provides music direction for the production. 

“Whether this is the audience’s first time or their hundredth time seeing A Christmas Carol, I hope they will take away how an act of grace can change a human heart,” said Alicia Gibson, co-director of A Christmas Carol. “The magic of this story is that it keeps us coming back for old reminders and new discoveries. My goal is that audience members feel the warmth and hope that so many of us are searching for this time of year.” 

View the full performance schedule at www.santacruzshakespeare.org/christmascarol.  

Tickets are available at www.santacruzshakespeare.org or through the seasonal Box Office, 831-460-6399, open Tuesday through Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.  

About Santa Cruz Shakespeare  

Featuring professional actors from around the country and inspired by deep local roots that go back more than 40 years, Santa Cruz Shakespeare stages bold productions of the plays of Shakespeare and other great playwrights that stimulate audiences’ senses and spark their imagination. For more information about SCS, visit santacruzshakespeare.org, Facebook and Instagram.   

August 26, 2025– SANTA CRUZ, CA— Santa Cruz Shakespeare (SCS), celebrating 12 years as a nationally recognized non-profit professional repertory theater company with history in Santa Cruz County going back more than 40 years, has announced its lineup of six productions for its 2026 season, expanding from its 2025 season to include a second fall show. Performances will take place July 12 to Oct. 4 in the Audrey Stanley Grove (The Grove) in Santa Cruz’s DeLaveaga Park, with the holiday production of A Christmas Carol taking place in Nov. and Dec. at the Veteran’s Memorial Hall in downtown Santa Cruz.

The productions of the 2026 season include:

• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Fences by August Wilson
• Private Lives by Noel Coward
• The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

“Hot on the heels of our most successful season ever, I am excited to build on our incredible accomplishments and continue the expansion that has made them possible,” said Charles Pasternak, SCS artistic director. “In 2026, we will further expand the fall into with a rotating repertory of two shows, which extends our summer and fall season to five shows. Add to that our production of A Christmas Carol, which will return for a third year in 2026, and we have doubled the number of shows we produce in only three years. It is a miraculous accomplishment, made possible by the enthusiasm and generous support of this incredible community.”

The 2026 Season will also include SCS’s Fringe Series, including two staged readings and two performances of the apprentice show. Titles and dates to be announced later.

The theme for 2026 summer and fall productions is Till Death Do Us Part, in which all productions take a deeper and more intimate look at partnerships and marriage.

About the Summer 2026 Productions:

Much Ado About Nothing

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Charles Pasternak

One of Shakespeare’s wittiest and most beloved comedies, the 2026 season will open with Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Of all the couples in Shakespeare, perhaps none is more widely loved than Beatrice and Benedict. Their battle of wits; their antagonism turned to eroticism; their history. Before the play begins, they already seem to define each other. The audience, like the other characters in the play, wait with excitement as their wits clash, and eventually, as their love blossoms.

Macbeth

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Paul Mullins

Dark, bloody, brutal, and magnificent, Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the greatest plays ever written. Its central couple, ironically, is one of Shakespeare’s happiest. At least at the beginning. Where Much Ado shows us the coming together of antagonists, Macbeth explores what we become when our second half is ripped away. A powerful unit, wildly in love with each other, the Macbeths follow the insinuations of the witches – the famous weird sisters – and commit murder in the name of their shared ambition: the throne of Scotland. But even with their goal achieved, Macbeth’s paranoia and guilt lead him further down the road of blood. The central unit tears apart under the shadow of its deeds. Who are these two without each other? Slowly and surely, the play shows us society’s ruin in the form of its leading pair.

Macbeth will star Dan Donahue in the title role and Paige Lindsey White as Lady Macbeth.

Fences

By August Wilson

Directed by Susan Dalian

August Wilson joins the Santa Cruz Shakespeare stage for the first time in 45 years. Fences is the perfect offering, wonderfully in line with the season’s theme: Till Death Do Us Part. Troy Maxson is one of Wilson’s great creations; Shakespearean in scope; a wordsmith and brilliant storyteller. He has survived the terrible trauma of his past and built himself a good life. But the backbone of that life, the spine that keeps it standing strong, is his wife Rose. Like all of Wilson’s best work, Fences is both mythic and intimate; the questions it asks both human and eternal.

Private Lives

By Noel Coward

Directed by Laura Gordon

If you think Beatrice and Benedict go at it in Much Ado, wait until you see Amanda and Elyot. Both on honeymoons with new spouses, having violently divorced years before, Amanda and Elyot discover each other sharing adjoining balconies in the same hotel. Well, one thing leads to another, and… sometimes the line between love and hate is so thin. In Noel Coward’s masterpiece, we witness two selfish, passionate, egotistical, madly in love people drive each other absolutely crazy. How can they possibly survive together? But more importantly, perhaps, how can they survive apart? With Coward’s searing wit, you’ll laugh until you cry while they scream until they kiss. And vice versa.

Private Lives will star Charles Pasternak as Elyot and Paige Lindsey White as Amanda.

The Last Five Years

By Jason Robert Brown

Directed by Laura Gordon

Music Direction by Luke Shepherd

Coming full circle on the theme, Till Death Do Us Part, Brown’s gorgeous musical looks at the beginning and ending of a relationship through the eyes of Cathy and Jamie. In rotating songs, Cathy’s journey moves backward through the relationship, while Jamie’s moves forward. Through beautiful music and clever, moving lyrics, Brown looks deeply at the sacrifices we make, how we come to define each other, and what it costs to let it go.

Tickets go on sale to members in April 2026 and the public on May 1, 2026.

For more information, visit santacruzshakespeare.org.

About Santa Cruz Shakespeare Membership

Become an annual member of SCS to support the entire 2025 season and ShakesEDU. SCS memberships range from $50-$10,000 with tiered benefits including pre-sales, ticket discounts, early admission, free parking, free food and drink, cushioned seats, and other benefits. For those under 25 years old, join the Hathaway Club and receive one half price regular ticket to any three shows. Learn more: https://old.santacruzshakespeare.org/member/.

About Santa Cruz Shakespeare

Featuring professional actors from around the country and inspired by deep local roots that go back more than 40 years, Santa Cruz Shakespeare stages bold productions of the plays of Shakespeare and other great playwrights that stimulate audiences’ senses and spark their imagination. Learn more at santacruzshakespeare.org, Facebook and Instagram.

April 15, 2025 – SANTA CRUZ, CA—Santa Cruz Shakespeare (SCS), a nationally recognized professional theatre company in Santa Cruz County with deep local roots that go back more than 40 years, today announced tickets will go on sale May 1 for its 2025 Summer and Fall Festival.

Performances will take place July 13 through September 20 in the Audrey Stanley Grove (The Grove) in Santa Cruz’s DeLaveaga Park. Tickets will be available at santacruzshakespeare.org.

Following two years of record-breaking ticket sales, the 2025 festival will include four plays running in rotating repertory: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, the musical Into the Woods, by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, Pericles by William Shakespeare and George Wilkins, and “Master Harold” …and the boys by Athol Fugard. The 2025 season theme is “No One is Alone”.

“The four masterpieces we’re producing this season all examine the threads that tie us together,” said Charles Pasternak, Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare. “In each of these plays, the world is torn apart – sometimes quite literally – but knitted anew by recognition. Recognition of ourselves in each other, in our need for each other. None of us is an island. We need each other – now more than ever – and through both laughter and heartbreak, this season looks to bring our incredible community closer together.”

ABOUT THE PRODUCTIONS:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Director: Paul Mullins

Opening Night: July 18, 2025, 8 p.m.

One of Shakespeare’s most famous and beloved works, Midsummer is a perfect evening of theatre, filled with magic, love, wild laughter and…an ass. In the mystical forest of Arden, the world is pulled apart and woven back together over the course of a single miraculous night. Fleeing lovers and earnest workingmen stumble into the magic of a fairy kingdom at war with itself. Hijinks and heartbreak ensue. Most famously, the amateur actor Nick Bottom is transformed into an ass before becoming the lover of the Fairy Queen, Titania. But by morning, all is set aright, and we return to Athens for a trio of marriages and an amateur performance for the ages. One of the funniest plays ever written, Midsummer celebrates our deep need to gather together, sacrifice and celebrate.

Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine

Director: Jerry Lee

Opening Night: July 19, 2025, 8 p.m.

The first summer musical produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare and Shakespeare Santa Cruz in 32 years and a brilliant pairing with Midsummer, Sondheim’s masterpiece sees another disparate group journeying into the forest, pursuing a wide range of desires, from a simple visit to grandmother’s house, a decent price for a cow or the magical ingredients to cure a curse of childlessness. Woods honors the various fairy tales it is drawn from and turns them on their head. It subverts expectations, surprising at every music-filled turn with pathos and humor. SCS’s season theme is drawn directly from the gorgeous Act II song of the same name, “No One is Alone.” Woods is Sondheim’s incredible meditation on just that – messy, painful or beautiful, as it may be.

Pericles by William Shakespeare and George Wilkins

Director: Charles Pasternak

Opening Night: July 31, 2025, 8 p.m.

Shakespeare’s brilliant late romance continues the 2025 festival’s sweep into the mythic. The first half of this rarely performed play follows Prince Pericles’ incredible journey through multiple kingdoms, wild adventures, desperate escapes; a magnificent love affair, a pair of storms at sea and a single shipwreck. And that’s just part one. The second half shifts some fourteen years later to Pericles’ daughter, Marina, who must survive her own trials: an assassination attempt, an abduction by pirates, the violence of a brothel. By the power of her kindness, wit and virtue, she rises above each of these dangers, finally meeting her father. The reunion of Pericles and Marina is one of the most beautiful scenes Shakespeare ever wrote. We cannot survive alone; the coming together of father and daughter is the rebirth of a world. The play ends, indeed, with another incredible rebirth; in love and unity, miracles are possible.

“Master Harold” …and the boys by Athol Fugard

Director: Rebecca Haley Clark

Opening Night: September 5, 2025, 7 p.m.

Following the epic sweep of the summer season, “Master Harold” snaps us into the deeply intimate and intense. Set in the apartheid era of South Africa, we find ourselves in the tea shop of Harold’s family. Young Hally, who is white, spends the afternoon after school in the shop with two of the family’s servants, Sam and Willie, who are black. Over the course of 90 minutes, we bear witness to the shifting relationship between all of them; a relationship built both on love and respect, as well as one built on bigotry and institutionalized racism. Fugard’s autobiographical masterpiece is both joyous and brutal, with an ending that will leave you both stunned and inspired. It brings home SCS’s 2025 festival theme “No One is Alone” with a beautiful recognition – one that would lead Fugard to becoming one of the great playwrights of the 20th century.

Playwright Fugard’s death in March of this year was a loss to Santa Cruz Shakespeare and the larger theatre community. SCS is especially grateful to produce Fugard’s work this year and honor his legacy.

The 2025 Festival will also include SCS’s Fringe Series, including two staged readings and two performances of its apprentice show happening Tuesday nights in August at 7 p.m. Price is pay-what-you-will.

The seasonal box office opens for phone orders beginning May 1. Box office hours will be Tuesday through Friday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Call 831-460-6399.

SCS’s performance calendar can be found here: https://old.santacruzshakespeare.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Calendar-for-Brochure.jpg

Learn more at: https://old.santacruzshakespeare.org/season-2025/

Santa Cruz Shakespeare Membership

Become an annual member of SCS to support the entire 2025 season and ShakesEDU. SCS Memberships range from $50-$10,000 with tiered benefits including pre-sales, ticket discounts, early admission, free parking, free food and drink, cushioned seats, and other benefits. For those under 25 years old, join the Hathaway Club and receive one half price regular ticket to any three shows. Learn more: https://old.santacruzshakespeare.org/member/

About Santa Cruz Shakespeare

Featuring professional actors from around the country and inspired by deep local roots that go back more than 40 years, Santa Cruz Shakespeare stages bold productions of the plays of Shakespeare and other great playwrights that stimulate audiences’ senses and spark their imagination.

Nov. 12, 2024– Santa Cruz, CA – Santa Cruz Shakespeare (SCS), a nationally recognized professional repertory theatre company staging imaginative productions for more than a decade, today announced the cast and production team for Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. A new Santa Cruz holiday tradition for the whole family, audiences can expect a theatrical and music-filled adaptation of this classic play.

“This play is ultimately a story about generosity above all else. This beautiful, theatrical, thrilling little story is more necessary today than ever,” said SCS Artistic Director, Charles Pasternak, who also will direct the production. “A Christmas Carol reminds us what is best in all of us.”

The production will run from November 23 through December 24, 2024, at the Veterans Memorial Hall at 846 Front St in Downtown Santa Cruz. There will be 28 performances, with shows at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Tickets are now on sale.

Cast

Production Team

Ticket prices range from $20 to $60 and are available at www.santacruzshakespeare.org or through the seasonal Box Office, 831-460-6399, open Tuesday through Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The show is 90 minutes with no intermission.

About Santa Cruz Shakespeare

Featuring professional actors from around the country and inspired by deep local roots that go back more than 40 years, Santa Cruz Shakespeare stages bold productions of the plays of Shakespeare and other great playwrights that stimulate audiences’ senses and spark their imagination. For more information about SCS, visit santacruzshakespeare.org, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

OCT. 16, 2024 – Santa Cruz, CA – Santa Cruz Shakespeare (SCS), a nationally recognized
professional repertory theatre company staging imaginative productions for more than a
decade, debuts a new holiday tradition for the whole family with its production of Charles
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, starring Mike Ryan as Ebeneezer Scrooge. Audiences can
expect a theatrical and music-filled adaptation of this classic play.

The production will run from November 23 through December 24, 2024, at the Veterans
Memorial Hall at 846 Front St in Downtown Santa Cruz. There will be 28 performances,
including shows at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

“It will be a wonderfully theatrical production, with five professional actors and two local
kids playing all the parts in Dickens’ beautiful story,” said SCS Artistic Director, Charles
Pasternak. “It is my sincere hope that we are creating a new holiday tradition for our
community with A Christmas Carol — one you can share with your children and
grandchildren.”

The show will be directed by Pasternak and star Santa Cruz favorites Mike Ryan as Scrooge
and Julie James as, among many roles, the Ghost of Christmas Present. Luke Shepherd will
serve as the production’s music director and sound designer for a show filled with music
and carols throughout.

Ticket prices range from $20 to $60. The show is 90 minutes with no intermission. Tickets are
available at www.santacruzshakespeare.org or through the seasonal Box Office, 831-460-
6399, open Tuesday through Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

About Santa Cruz Shakespeare

Featuring professional actors from around the country and inspired by deep local roots that go
back more than 40 years, Santa Cruz Shakespeare stages bold productions of the plays
of Shakespeare and other great playwrights that stimulate audiences’ senses and spark their
imagination. For more information about SCS, visit santacruzshakespeare.org, Facebook,
Instagram or Twitter.

Directed by Santa Cruz Shakespeare Artistic Director, Charles Pasternak, the production will run through September 28, 2024, under the trees and stars in the Audrey Stanley Grove (The Grove) at Santa Cruz’s DeLaveaga Park. Ticket prices range from $20 to $70. Tickets are available at www.santacruzshakespeare.org or through the seasonal Box Office, 831-460-6399, open Tuesday through Friday from 12p.m. to 4p.m.

“I picked the play both because it’s an American masterpiece that beautifully fits this year’s theme of “Generations” and also because we’ve never done Tennessee Williams,” said Charles Pasternak, artistic director, Santa Cruz Shakespeare. “Audiences can expect a moving, sentimental, nostalgic, poetic family drama; stunning September nights in the Grove that will leave visceral and moving memories.”

The Glass Menagerie is the first Fall production by Santa Cruz Shakespeare, extending the wildly successful summer festival which included William Shakespeare’s As You Like It and Hamlet and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (closing Sept. 8).

About Santa Cruz Shakespeare

Featuring professional actors from around the country and inspired by deep local roots that go back more than 40 years, Santa Cruz Shakespeare stages bold productions of the plays of Shakespeare and other great playwrights that stimulate audiences’ senses and spark their imagination. For more information about SCS, visit santacruzshakespeare.org, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

Santa Cruz, CA (August 27, 2024)—Santa Cruz Shakespeare (SCS), celebrating 12 years as a nationally recognized non-profit professional repertory theater company with history in Santa Cruz County going back more than 40 years, has announced its lineup of four productions for its 2025 season. Performances will take place July 13 to September 27 in the Audrey Stanley Grove (The Grove) in Santa Cruz’s DeLaveaga Park.

The productions of the 2025 season include:

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
• Pericles by William Shakespeare and George Wilkins
• Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard
• Into the Woods, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine, licensed by Music Theatre International

“This season’s unifying theme is No One is Alone, as the four masterpieces we’re producing all examine the threads that tie us together, from love, marriage or lust to adventure, catastrophe or redemption,” said Charles Pasternak, SCS artistic director. “Whether it be threads woven by gods or giants, or threads woven by the discovery of our shared humanity, in each of these plays the world is torn apart, sometimes quite literally. But it is knitted anew by recognition – recognition of ourselves in each other, in our need for each other. None of us is an island. We hope the 2025 season helps us consider ourselves in a larger context than that of the individual. We need each other – now more than ever – and through both laughter and heartbreak, this season looks to bring our incredible community closer together.”

About the Plays of the 2025 Season:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By William Shakespeare

The 2025 season will open with one of Shakespeare’s most famous and beloved works. Midsummer is a perfect evening of theatre, filled with magic, love, wild laughter, and a donkey. In the mystical forest of Arden, the world is pulled apart and woven back together over the course of a single miraculous night. Fleeing lovers and earnest workingmen stumble into the magic of a

fairy kingdom at war with itself. The gleeful fairy, Puck, mischievously joys in switching who loves who. Hijinks and heartbreak ensue. Most famously, the amateur actor Nick Bottom is transformed into an ass before becoming the lover of the Fairy Queen, Titania. But by morning, all is set right, and we return to Athens for a trio of marriages and an amateur performance for the ages. One of the funniest plays ever written, Midsummer celebrates our deep need to gather together, sacrifice and celebrate.

Midsummer was last performed by Santa Cruz Shakespeare in 2016, as part of SCS’ inaugural season in The Grove. It will be directed by Laura Gordon, who most recently directed The Book of Will for SCS in 2023.

Into the Woods

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine, licensed by Music Theatre International

A brilliant pairing with Midsummer, Sondheim’s masterpiece sees another disparate group journeying into the forest, pursuing a wide range of desires: from a simple visit to grandmother’s house, a decent price for a cow, or the magical ingredients to cure a curse of childlessness. Woods honors the various fairy tales it is drawn from and also turns them on their head. It subverts expectations, surprising at every music-filled turn with pathos and humor. Our season title is drawn directly from the gorgeous song of the same name, “No One is Alone,” from Act II; Woods is Sondheim’s incredible meditation on just that – loneliness; messy, painful, or beautiful, as it may be.

Santa Cruz Shakespeare has never produced a musical; though the defunct Shakespeare Santa Cruz programmed the musical Damn Yankees as part of their summer repertory in 1993, 31 years ago. Woods will be directed by Jerry Lee, the Artistic Director of Sierra Repertory Theatre in Sonora, CA. This will be his premiere with SCS.

Pericles

By William Shakespeare and George Wilkins

Shakespeare’s brilliant late romance continues the 2025 season’s sweep into the mythic. The first half of this rarely performed play follows Prince Pericles’ incredible journey through multiple kingdoms, wild adventures, desperate escapes, a magnificent love affair, a pair of storms at sea, and a shipwreck. And that’s just part one. Part two shifts some fourteen years later to Pericles’ daughter, Marina, who must survive her own trials: an assassination attempt, an abduction by pirates, and the violence of a brothel. By the power of her kindness, wit and virtue, she rises above each of these dangers, finally meeting her father. The reunion of Pericles and Marina is one of the most beautiful scenes Shakespeare ever wrote, delivering timeless messages: we cannot survive alone; the coming together of father and daughter is the rebirth of a world – and the play ends, indeed, with another incredible rebirth; and, in love and unity, miracles are possible.

Pericles was last produced by Shakespeare Santa Cruz in 1996. It will be directed by SCS Artistic Director, Charles Pasternak, who most recently directed The Glass Menagerie for SCS in 2024.

“Master Harold” …and the boys

By Athol Fugard

Following the wide-ranging and epic sweep of the summer season, “Master Harold” snaps us into the deeply intimate and intense for SCS’s second annual fall season. Set in the apartheid era of South Africa, we find ourselves in the tea shop of Harold’s family. Young Hally, who is white, spends the afternoon after school in the shop with two of the family’s servants, Sam and Willie, who are black. Over the course of ninety minutes, we bear witness to the shifting relationship between them: a relationship built both on love and respect, as well as one built on bigotry and institutionalized racism. Fugard’s autobiographical masterpiece is both joyous and brutal, with an ending that will leave you both stunned and inspired. It brings home our 2025 season’s theme with a beautiful recognition that led Fugard to become one of the great playwrights of the 20th century.

“Master Harold,” never before produced by SCS, will be directed by SCS Education Director Rebecca Haley Clark, who will be making her debut as a mainstage director for SCS. Clark has previously directed our intern shows over the last three seasons.

The 2025 Season will also include SCS’s Fringe Series, including two staged readings and two performances of the intern show. Titles to be announced later.

Tickets go on sale to members in March 2025 and the general public in May 2025.

SCS Membership

Become a member of SCS to support the 2025 season and its various education programs: the Student Matinee Program (SMAT) which brings high school students from Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, and Monterey counties to The Grove to experience live theatre; the new Shakespeare and Social Justice Program; and study guides for a selection of Shakespeare’s plays to enhance school curricula SCS’s education programs also support the Fringe Show, an all-intern production giving young artists an opportunity to showcase their talents. SCS Members enjoy pre-sales, ticket discounts, early admission, free parking, free drinks and cushioned seats.

About Santa Cruz Shakespeare

Featuring professional actors from around the country and inspired by deep local roots that go back more than 40 years, Santa Cruz Shakespeare stages bold productions of the plays of Shakespeare and other great playwrights that stimulate audiences’ senses and spark their imagination. For more information about SCS, visit santacruzshakespeare.org, Facebook, Instagram or X (formerly Twitter).

All productions will take place July 13 – Sept. 28, 2024, under the trees and stars in the Audrey Stanley Grove (The Grove) at Santa Cruz’s DeLaveaga Park. Ticket prices range from $20 to $70. Tickets available at www.santacruzshakespeare.org.

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Opening Night: July 18, 2024, 8 p.m.

Director: Carey Perloff

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Opening Night: July 19, 2024, 8 p.m.

Director: Paul Mullins

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Opening Night: Aug. 2, 2024, 8 p.m.

Director: Susan Dalian

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Opening Night: September 13, 2024, 8 p.m.

Director: Charles Pasternak

Proof by David Auburn (FRINGE SHOW, an intern production)

Opening Night: Aug. 20, 2024, 7 p.m.

Director: Rebecca Haley Clark

Tickets can be purchased online at santacruzshakespeare.org or through the seasonal Box Office, 831-460-6399, open Tuesday through Friday from 12p.m. to 4p.m.

About Santa Cruz Shakespeare

Featuring professional actors from around the country and inspired by deep local roots that go back more than 40 years, Santa Cruz Shakespeare stages bold productions of the plays of Shakespeare and other great playwrights that stimulate audiences’ senses and spark their imagination. For more information about SCS, visit santacruzshakespeare.org, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.