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Her version of the middle-aged matron was a gentle innocent who faced the world with an unself-conscious enthusiasm.

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The Re-Read: I will reread at least one book annually to remember why I fell in love with reading in the first place. The ...

Revels last visited the frozen north in 2018, when it offered an imaginative fusion of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and the Finnish ...

Returning for its second year, and running through Dec. 24 at the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Cruz, “A Christmas Carol” is once again packed with more than a dozen Christmas carols sung ...