SANTA CRUZ — Local high school students filled the Audrey Stanley Grove in DeLaveaga Park as they were treated last week to Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s staging of “Hamlet.” Student matinees ...

Santa Cruz Shakespeare Artistic Director Charles Pasternak and Operations Associate Shannen Craig wheeled costume-laden and prop-filled shelves through the streets of downtown Santa Cruz as the ...

The result was the launch of the nonprofit Santa Cruz Shakespeare in 2014, which has continued the tradition of putting on local productions of Shakespeare’s works, this time in DeLaveaga Park.

(Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz Sentinel) Professor Patty Gallagher confers with student actor Brenna Carrera as the two collaborate to bring a fresh approach to Shakespeare’s words. (Shmuel Thaler ...

Iconic Santa Cruz thespian Mike Ryan, second from right, is surrounded by actors Lincoln Best, Sigrid Breidenthal, Robert Zelaya and Julie James as he portrays Ebenezer Scrooge during a recent dress ...