Tickets on Sale now for A Christmas Carol, Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s Holiday Tradition  

(Front) Charlotte Munson (Belle) and Mike Ryan (Scrooge) (Back, left to right) Aria Atkinson (Girl), Julie James (Fezziwig), Joseph Pratt Lukefahr (Boy) and Robert Zelaya (Young Scrooge)

Production runs Nov. 26 – Dec. 24 in Downtown Santa Cruz Oct. 1, 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 that tickets are on sale for its annual adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. The production opens on…

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Santa Cruz Shakespeare Announces 2026 Season Expansion

Five Summer and Fall Productions Connected by Theme of “Till Death Do Us Part”; A Christmas Carol Returns for Winter Production 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,…

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Enrollment Open for Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s “ShakesEDU” Fall Classes for Local Youth

A group of kids with their Santa Cruz Shakespeare instructors and the Shakes EDU logo

Acting, writing, production and a taste of hip-hop offered August 5, 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 enrollment is open for ShakesEDU fall classes and theatre camp. Additionally, bookings are…

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Santa Cruz Shakespeare Announces Cast & Production Team for 2025 Summer and Fall Season

Portraits of the actors and directors featured in the 2025 SCS Summer Season

Tickets on sale now for outdoor productions of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Pericles, the musical Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, and Athol Fugard’s “Master Harold”… and the Boys June 17, 2025 – SANTA CRUZ, CA—Santa Cruz Shakespeare (SCS), a nationally recognized professional theatre company in Santa Cruz County with…

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Our Story So Far…

Shakespeare Play On (later to be known as Santa Cruz Shakespeare) was forged in 2013 when the University of California, Santa Cruz felt it could no longer host our predecessor organization, Shakespeare Santa Cruz. A small but intrepid group of community members met to determine how to continue the Shakespeare Festival and all its rich…

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Santa Cruz Shakespeare Launches Traveling Troupe “Shakes on the Move”

Now booking for spring and fall performances of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’ April 1, 2025 – SANTA CRUZ, CA – Santa Cruz Shakespeare announced today that it has launched Shakes On The Move, its traveling troupe that features a 45-minute adaptation of Shakespeare’s timeless comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Currently running…

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Santa Cruz Shakespeare Launches “ShakesEDU” Year-Round Education Program for Local Youth

Two running kids holding scripts

Enrollment open for spring classes and summer intensive program March 24, 2025 – SANTA CRUZ, CA —Santa Cruz Shakespeare (SCS), celebrating 12 years as a nationally recognized non-profit professional repertory theatre company with history in Santa Cruz County going back more than 40 years, today announced the launch of “ShakesEDU” its expanded education program. “ShakesEDU”…

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