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Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio and Elizabeth Lail Director: Emma Tammi Rated: PG-13 (Strong violent content, bloody ...

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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 ...

Hamlet protests in response that he isn’t acting. Dressing in black and crying all the time are the kinds of things anyone would do if they were acting, he acknowledges, but he happens to be telling ...

On April 28, 1996, an Australian man took two semiautomatic rifles to the seaside town of Port Arthur and killed 35 people.

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I would never be so presumptuous, nor so incorrect, as to compare myself to William Shakespeare. But the portrayal of Shakespeare’s brand of grief in “Hamnet” — his need to put words to and make a ...

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