.Christina Waters

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Santa Cruz Shakespeare scene
September 10, 2025

Prejudice…and Pride

In “Master Harold” ... and the Boys, Corey Jones is breathtaking. His final moments onstage—were among the most poignant this stage has ever seen.
performance feature photo of Santa Cruz Symphony conductor
September 3, 2025

Words and Music

Plan to be dazzled by the Santa Cruz Symphony’s 68th concert season. The entire year is filled with orchestral music that is both accessible and thrilling.
Two actors facing each other, dressed in period costumes
August 13, 2025

Challenge Accepted

Bravo to a director who trusts the intelligence of his audience and offers us ‘Pericles,’ the rarely performed work of a Renaissance genius, writes theater critic Christina Waters.
August 6, 2025

Mortal Fools

A Midsummer Night’s Dream once again fills the Grove with a frisky quartet of absorbing plotlines and repertory actors...
August 6, 2025

Midsummer Nights

The July 13 performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s ultimate legacy, the B Minor Mass, was this year’s highlight of the Carmel Bach Festival.
collage of Featured performers at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
July 30, 2025

Cabrillo Festival Brings It

Time again for the mighty Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music to fill the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and its surrounding landscape with unexpected, unpredictable and unrepeatable sights and sounds.
Good Times cover story Missy Mazzoli photo
July 30, 2025

Ode to Joy

A blazing-hot composer of radical multi-genre music, Missy Mazzoli brings her Violin Concerto (Procession) to this season’s Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
Performance sweeney todd cast photo
July 30, 2025

Close Shave!

The Cabrillo Stage production of Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street delivers a wealth of cutting-edge moments.
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