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En garde! Prepare for serious roistering in The Three Musketeers, the second production of Shakespeare Santa Cruz's 30t...

Longtime local theatergoers may remember Danny Scheie's original staging of The Comedy of Errors as possibly the single ...

You say you have the next Great American Novel (or the next non-fiction bestseller) burning a hole in your software? Wouldn't y...

Next to pirates and Robin Hood , one of my absolute favorite swashbuckling properties is The Three Musketeers . I just about went nuts...

As the beloved Professor Dumbledore tells Harry Potter during their brief encounter in limbo in the final chapter of the film franc...

The winning streak continues at Cabrillo Stage with its new production of "The Last Five Years," the second offering in ...

For years, Trish Black Melehan has worked with the Scotts Valley Performing Arts Youth Shakespeare program, mostly adapting a...

It's been a long time coming, but Harry Potter finally meets his destiny this week when the eighth and final installment of the...

If you were a book, what would your cover look like? This was the question, more or less, posed to the fourth-grade students at B...

Cabrillo Stage's fun, raucous 'Full Monty' delivers the goods As a property, The Full Monty is not for the fainth...

Notorious homebodies that we are, Art Boy and I don't travel all that much. The sun is out (yay!), the fruit trees are ripe...

Don't expect linear storytelling from Terrence Malick. His rapturous last film, The New World, plunged viewers into first c...

Here comes the sun (do-da-doo-doo), and you might as well get out there and bask because today is the Summer Solstice, the long...

From the fabulous poster art to a sweet little epiphany in the last frame, there is nothing not to love in Woody Allen's l...

The Feast Day of St. Cecilia is in November, but the Santa Cruz Chorale is celebrating early this year with three upcoming concerts ...