Make no mistake: just like the 1946 film, this stage adaptation of It’s A Wonderful Life has much deeper subtexts than the story’s Christmas-y reputation would suggest.
Posts Tagged: Shakespeare Santa Cruz
The End of Shakespeare Santa Cruz
After 32 years as a dynamic staple of Santa Cruz’s theater world, SSC will hold their final production.
Review: ‘Henry V’
SSC’s Henry V proves itself “a rousing dramatic feast.”
Preview: SSC’s ‘Henry V’
Henry V, the concluding drama in Shakespeare’s turbulent “Henriad” trilogy, has it all.
Review: SSC’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’
Director Edward Morgan has made the most purely entertaining take on Taming of the Shrew you may ever see.
Review: ‘The Lover’/‘One for the Road’
The deceptively mundane setting of a domestic living room is a springboard into a search for individual and marital identity in The Lover, one of two Harold Pinter plays produced jointly by Jewel Theatre Company and Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and running through May 19 at the Center Stage in Santa Cruz.
Theater Review: ‘Honk!’ at UCSC’s Mainstage Theater
This joint production from UCSC’s Theater Arts Department and Shakespeare Santa Cruz is professional all the way through, though the cast is a mixture of seasoned actors and students. And with the song and dance and positive messages of individuality and a mother’s love, ‘Honk!’ calls to mind the days of classic Disney.
5 Things To Do In Santa Cruz This Weekend
From Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s new holiday show to radical crafts, comedy and music, our picks for events that shouldn’t be missed this weekend in Santa Cruz.
Shakespeare Santa Cruz ‘Henry IV Part Two’
Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s production of Henry IV Part Two bristles with strong performances and dramatic tension. Directed by SSC veteran actor and director Scott Wentworth, it plays in the Festival Glen in repertory with The Man in The Iron Mask, a Wentworth-authored play receiving its world premiere this season. Watching the cast members perform wildly different roles between the two adds an extra layer of pleasure to this already excellent production.
Review: ‘Twelfth Night’ at SSC
For sheer entertainment value, it’s hard to beat a Shakespearean comedy. The shipwrecks, the cases of mistaken identity, the reunion of long-lost twins, the cross-dressing, the drunks: who doesn’t love these tropes? Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s current production of Twelfth Night, built on this formula, delivers the madcap goods with style and belly laughs a-plenty—along with the peculiar sense of unease that this very odd “comedy” imparts.
