August 2024– SANTA CRUZ, CA—Santa Cruz Shakespeare (SCS), celebrating 12 years as a nationally recognized non-profit professional repertory theater company with history in Santa Cruz County going back more than 40 years, has announced its lineup of four productions for its 2025 season.
Performances will take place from July 13 to September 27 in the Audrey Stanley Grove (The Grove) in Santa Cruz’s DeLaveaga Park.
” … this season looks to bring our incredible community closer …”
The productions of the 2025 season include:
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- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
- Pericles by William Shakespeare and George Wilkins
- Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard
- Into the Woods, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine, licensed by Music Theatre International
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“This season’s unifying theme is No One is Alone, as the four masterpieces we’re producing all examine the threads that tie us together, from love, marriage or lust to adventure, catastrophe or redemption,” said Charles Pasternak, SCS artistic director.
“Whether it be threads woven by gods or giants or threads woven by the discovery of our shared humanity, in each of these plays the world is torn apart, sometimes quite literally. But it is knitted anew by recognition – recognition of ourselves in each other, in our need for each other. None of us is an island.
We hope the 2025 season helps us consider ourselves in a larger context than that of the individual. We need each other – now more than ever – and through both laughter and heartbreak, this season looks to bring our incredible community closer together.”
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