Lisa Jensen Online - Express

Onwumere and Smolin: lie coach If you're one of those slightly benighted folks who think Santa Cruz Shakespeare would be so much fun...

Dressed to thrill: Parret & Pickering William Shakespeare might as well have written Macbeth for the Festival Glen at UCSC. Who can...

"You can't spit on board a ship and not hit eight fellows called 'Jack.'" So says the pirate hero of my first swas...

Aging detective vs. memory in lyrical Mr. Holmes In the canon of famous literary characters, few have been so gleefully adulterated ove...

Normally, I'm a tad superstitious about illustrating the characters in my novels. As a reader (and all writers are readers first), I...

Very sad to hear of the passing of Roger Rees, beloved (and inexhaustible) star of the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic 8-hour product...

Big kudos to Mr. Wallace Baine, the Bard of Corralitos, for his entertaining reading before a crowd of fans at Bookshop Santa Cruz last ni...

Break out the bubbly! I've been working with my fabulous new editor, Kaylan Adair, at Candlewick for two months, but this week I fin...

Political made personal in lush, heartfelt 'Testament of Youth' It was called the war to end all wars. Its effects were so cata...

Female gardener helps build Versailles in fun, if uneven 'A Little Chaos' Alan Rickman is capable of so much more tha...

It takes a village for me to edit a book. I never have any less than about three or four docs of plot, character motivations, Note...

Buckle your sword belts, folks. It's that time of year that Game of Thrones fans fear above all others—the end of the season. Which m...

Davidson, Carroll: head-smacked. JTC closes season with bittersweet comedy 'Woman In Mind' Santa Cruz's Jewel Theatre Compa...

Hey kids, remember when the future used to be fun? We were going to colonize the Moon, zip around in hover cars like, the Jetsons, and voy...