Santa Cruz Shakespeare

06/08/2026

Happy Pride, Santa Cruz! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

06/07/2026

And the next thrilling designer of our 2026 season: Megan Evans, returns to us for their third season and their first as an associate costume designer, working on Private Lives and The Last Five Years! 🎨

Megan is a theatrical costume artist from Modesto, California and is delighted to return to Santa Cruz Shakespere for a third year. Megan currently serves as the Wardrobe Supervisor of Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and has led wardrobe on 30+ professional productions. When not backstage, Megan is freelancing collaborations with costume designers to bring creative visions to life. Select credits include, Assistant Costume Design: Hamlet, Into The Woods (Santa Cruz Shakespere), A Christmas Carol (Falls Patio Players), The Graduate, Jersey Boys, Sh-Boom! Life Could Be A Dream (Sierra Repertory Theatre). Costume Design: Mean Girls Jr. (Sierra Repertory Theatre).

06/04/2026

Santa Cruz Shakespeare is proud to announce our FALL 2026 TOUR: The Tempest, and Macbeth! Our goal is for every school student to experience Shakespeare, but getting to the theater may be difficult to do... so let SCS come to you! Whether in a school, a library, a retirement community, a park, or another type of venue, we have something that will fit your space! www.santacruzshakespeare.org/tour

06/04/2026

Announcing the next brilliant designer of our 2026 season: Marcella Barbeau, returns for her fourth year as our season lighting designer! 💡

Marcella (she/her) is a New York City based lighting designer and thrilled to return for her fourth season with Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Recent credits include Here Lies Love (Center Theater Group), La Boheme (Portland Opera), The Heart Sellers (Cincinnati Playhouse), Octet (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Into the Woods, Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Madama Butterfly, Maria de Buenos Aires (Opera San Antonio), La Traviata , The Threepenny Opera, Rigoletto, Maria de Buenos Aires (Opera Columbus), Carmen, Madama Butterfly (Austin Opera), La Traviata (Opera Omaha), Acis and Galatea, L’elisir D’amore (Florentine Opera), L’Amant Anonyme (Madison Opera), Murder on the Orient Express (Playmaker’s Repertory), Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon (Lookingglass Theatre, world premiere). Upcoming: Our Town (Playmaker's Repertory). She received her Master of Fine Arts at Boston University and is a proud member of USA 829. As a Chinese-American lighting designer, Marcella actively seeks to collaborate with and amplify the voices of fellow BIPOC artists of all intersectionalities.

06/04/2026

EDUCATORS! BRING YOUR STUDENTS TO OUR THEATER! Santa Cruz Shakespeare offers Student Matinee (SMAT) programming as an important piece of our goal to ensure that every high school student in Santa Cruz County has seen a live, professional production of one of Shakespeare’s plays by the time they graduate.

Performances and Performance Dates:
-- Fences -- August 20 @ 10 a.m. & August 28 @ 10 a.m. – The Audrey Stanley Grove -- Much Ado About Nothing -- August 21 @ 10 a.m.
-- Macbeth -- August 27 @ 10 a.m.

These 10am matinees are for students and their chaperones only, and include a post-show discussion with the actors after each performance. www.santacruzshakespeare.org/student-matinees

06/03/2026

This Sunday, June 7, our collaborators at The Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, will have a pair of fundraiser performances. All money raised supports the building and vets in our community. Check out their website for tickets and more info.

06/02/2026

Welcome Stage Managers!! 🗂️ Our incredible stage management team begins prep week this week, getting us ready for rehearsals to begin one week from today! 💥 .13_ .stageleft516 📸

06/01/2026

Happy Pride! Catch Kristin Key on the SCS stage in the Audrey Stanley Grove at DeLaveaga Park on September 21!

05/31/2026

Announcing our next incredible designer of the 2026 season: Austin Blake Conlee, returns for his third season to costume design Private Lives and The Last Five Years! 🎨

Returning for his third season, ABC previously designed Into the Woods and Hamlet at SCS. Professor of Costume Design at Ramapo College of New Jersey; Regional credits include Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Opera Columbus, The Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Signature Theatre, Northern Stage, Cumberland Playhouse, and Sierra Repertory Theatre. Select design credits include The Importance of Being Earnest, Cinderella (2023 BWW Award), Gentleman’s Guide, La Traviata, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Streetcar Named Desire, Joseph… Technicolor Dreamcoat, Threepenny Opera, Cunning Little Vixen, Hamlet: Replayed, Urinetown!, Black Madonna, La Boheme, Twelfth Night, & Baskerville. Website: https://www.abcdesigns.me/

05/29/2026

Our friends and neighbors at Mountain Community Theater are doing great work -- their production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” runs until June 7 at 9400 Mill St. in Ben Lomond. Don't miss this one.

Manirose Bobisuthi’s performance lives up the legendary reputation that accompanies the character Martha in Edward Albee’s masterful play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” directed by Peter Gelblum.