Steve Palopoli

What can you say about a company of Shakespearean actors whose “Hamlet” can make you laugh, and whose “As You Like It” can make you cry?

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Everything you thought you knew about Ebenezer Scrooge is … wrong?? Apparently, the Muppets lied to us. Now, a new Santa Cruz Shakespeare production of the Dickens classic tells the tale.

Ambitious effort hopes to launch a pilot program in the Bay Area – focusing on teens from Santa Clara, Alameda, San Mateo, San Francisco and Contra Costa counties – by 2026.

If you look closely, you can find a lot of Art Deco in the Bay Area.

The play runs through Aug. 30 in the Audrey Stanley Grove in Santa Cruz.