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2024

October 24 2024: Actors' Theatre's Absorbing Original Wallace Baine, Lookout Santa Cruz (review)

October 23 2024: Santa Cruz Actors' Theatre premieres grim new play "Lucy Time" Jake Thomas, Santa Cruz Sentinel (review)

October 15, 2024: Twisted Tale: Actors' Theatre Plays Theatrical Mind Games in "Lucky Time" Christina Waters, Good Times (preview)

May 1, 2024: ‘Spike Wong’s powerful "White Sky, Falling Dragon" plays at Santa Cruz Actors’ Theater Jake Thomas, Santa Cruz Sentinel (review)

April 11, 2024: Weekender: Spike Wong’s Star Turn Wallace Baine, Lookout Santa Cruz (preview)

2023

October 25, 2023: ‘The Thin Place’ Stages Some Genuine Thrills in Santa Cruz Dylan Music, KAZU News (article/radio interview)

October 22, 2023: ‘The Thin Place’ Delivers Heavy Emotional Weight at Santa Cruz County Actors’ Theater Jake Thomas, Santa Cruz Sentinel (review)

October 12, 2023: Halloween Thrills, Audio Theater: Santa Cruz County Theater Stages a Fall Comeback Wallace Baine, Lookout Santa Cruz (preview)

October 11, 2023: I Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts! DNA, Good Times (preview)

February 9, 2023: Second Part of Short Play Festival Reaches Higher Ground Joanne Engelhardt, Santa Cruz Sentinel
(review-Part 2)

January 27, 2023: Beloved Santa Cruz 10-Minute Play Festival Returns to Actors' Theatre Wallace Baine, Lookout Santa Cruz (review)

January 25, 2023: The 8 Tens @ 8 Short Play Festival Returns Christina Waters, Good Times (review)

January 25, 2023: Santa Cruz Welcomes Back Short Play Festival After Three Years Joanne Engelhardt, Santa Cruz Sentinel (review-Part 1)

2022

September 22, 2022: The 8 Tens @ 8 Short Play Festival Returns Christina Wise, Good Times (review)

September 2, 2022: News from the Stage: "8 Tens" Reboots for Fall Wallace Baine, Lookout Santa Cruz

April 11, 2022: Despite Shake-Up, Actors' Theatre's "8 Tens" Show Will Go On Wallace Baine, Lookout Santa Cruz

January 11, 2022: Actors’ Theatre’s Pandemic Strategy Could Be Future of Stage Companies Christina Waters, Good Times (cover story)

January 5, 2022: Safety concerns shut down the comeback of celebrated theater festival ‘8 Tens @ 8', Wallace Baine, Lookout Santa Cruz

January 5, 2022: Actors' Theatre Cancels Live Performances of 8 Tens Festival Broadway World

2021

December 15, 2021: Actors' Theatre Reopens with 8 Tens Festival Susan Shena, The Patch

December 7, 2021: Actors' Theatre Reopens with 8 Tens @ 8 Short Play Festival, Broadway World

July 1, 2021: Actors Theatre Young Playwrights Winners, Growing Up Santa Cruz

June 16, 2021: Student Productions Shine at Young Playwrights Festival Joanne Engelhardt, Sentinel

2020

June 24, 2020: Santa Cruz Theater Scene Makes Virtual Comeback, Joanne Engelhardt, Sentinel

May 28, 2020: Santa Cruz Theater Scene Pays Tribute to Bonnie Ronzio, Wallace Baine, Good Times

April 15, 2020: Theater Productions Halted During COVID-19 Shelter in Place Joanne Engelhardt, Sentinel

January 21, 2020: 8 Tens Festival Jocelyn McMahon, Performing Arts Monterey Bay (review)

January 8, 2020: How The 8 Tens Festival Became a Theatre Phenomenon Wallace Baine, Good Times Cover Story

January 1, 2020: 8 Tens Festival Celebrates Silver Anniversary, Broadway World

2019

October 3, 2019: Company Brought to Life by Music, Actors, Joanne Engelhardt, Sentinel (review)

October 2, 2019: Joys, Pitfall of Marriage Explored in Actors' Theatre's 'Company', Lisa Jensen, Good Times (review)

September 1, 2019: Actors' Theatre Presents Sondheim's 'Company', Broadway World (photos)

April 16, 2019: Actors' Theatre Explores Gender Identity in 'Looking For Normal', Christina Waters, Good Times (review)

April 16, 2019: Looking for Normal, Jocelyn McMahon, Monterey Bay Performing Arts (review)

April 16, 2019: 'Looking For Normal' an Absorbing Production About Gender Identity Joanne Engelhardt, Sentinel (review)

March 13, 2019: Actors' Theatre Presents Transgender Comedy-Drama 'Looking For Normal', Broadway World

January 10, 2019: Sharp dialog runs through this year’s 8 Tens @ 8 productions, Joanne Engelhardt, Sentinel (review)

January 9, 2019: 8 Tens @ 8, Lisa Jensen, Good Times (review) (photos)

January 8, 2019: 8 Tens @ 8 - B NIght, Philip Pearce, PAMB (review)

January 8, 2019: 8 Tens @ 8 - A Night, Philip Pearce, PAMB (review)

January 1, 2019: Actors' Theatre Announces 2019 Season, Capitola Times

2018

Dec 10, 2018: 8 Tens Festival Starts 2019 Season, BroadwayWorld

Oct 11, 2018: Red Leaves Audiences Spellbound, Joanne Engelhardt, Sentinel (review)

Oct 10, 2018: Dramatic savvy in intense theater experience of Red, Christina Waters, Good Times (review)

Oct 10, 2018: Red, Philip Pearce, Monterey Bay Performing Arts (review)

Oct 10, 2018: Actors' Theatre Presents Red, Sentinel Best Bets

Sept 6, 2018: Actors' Theatre Presents Acclaimed Broadway Play RED About Artist Mark Rothko BroadwayWorld

May 24, 2018: The Realistic Joneses Offers Laughs, Joanne Englehardt, Sentinel (review)

May 22, 2018: The Realistic Joneses, Jocelyn McMahon, Monterey Bay Performing Arts (review)

May 10, 2018: The Realistic Joneses, Capitola Times

April 16, 2018: Realistic Joneses at Actors' Theartre, BroadwayWorld

January 10, 2018: A Search for Empathy, 10 Minutes at a Time, Steve Palopoli, Good Times (review)

January 8, 2018: 8 Tens Festival, Philip Pearce, Performing Arts Monterey Bay (review)

January 1, 2018: 8 Tens Play Festival Returns, Times Publishing

2017

December 8, 2017: 8 Tens Festival Produces 16 Award-Winning Plays for 23rd Season, Broadway World San Francisco

November 22, 2017: The Rebirth of Actors' Theatre, Steve Palopoli, Good Times (cover story)

October 4, 2017: Intriguing Look at MLK's Last Hours, Lisa Jensen, Good Times (review)

October 2, 2017: Mountaintop, Philip Pearce, Monterey Bay Performing Arts (review) (photos)

September18, 2017: 'Mountaintop' Turns History Into Sublime Theatre, Joanne Englehardt, Santa Cruz Sentinel (review)

September18, 2017: King for the Play; Avondina Wills, Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel

September 5, 2017: Actors' Theatre Presents Powerful, Award-winning Play About MLK's Last Night, BroadwayWorld San Francisco

January 12, 2017: Annual Play Festival Back With Dizzying Variety of Comedy and Drama, Joanne Engelhardt, Santa Cruz Sentinel (review)

January 11, 2017: 8 Tens Double Feature, Philip Pearce, Monterey Bay Performing Arts (review)

January 5, 2017: New Year, New Moods, Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel

January 1, 2017: 22nd Season Showcases 16 Award-Winning Works. Times Publishing

2016

October 13, 2016: The Delicious Viciousness of ‘God of Carnage', by Joanne Englehardt, Santa Cruz Sentinel (review)

January 7, 2016: Eight 10s Give Santa Cruz Audiences 16 Different Tastes of Live Theater, by Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel

January 6, 2016: Hanging Ten, by Wendy Mayer-Lochtefeld, Good Times

2015

January 15, 2015: ‘8 Tens’ Doubles Down with Delightful 20th Anniversary Season, by Joanne Englehardt, Santa Cruz Sentinel (review)

January 12, 2015: Review by Philip Pearce, Monterey Bay Performing Arts (review)

January 8, 2015: Give Me Ten Minutes, by Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel

January 8, 2015: Short Play Festival Celebrates 20 Years, Register-Pajaronian

January 7, 2015: Doubling Down, by Anne-Marie Harrison, Good Times

2014

December, 2014: Celebrating 20 Years with 16 Award-Winning Works, Times Publishing Group

December, 2014: 8 Tens @ Eight Short Play Festival Celebrates 20 Years (press release)

May 23, 2014: 8 Tens Looking For a Few Good Playwrights, Santa Cruz Sentinel

January 2, 2014: Santa Cruz's popular 'Eight 10s @ 8' festival returns with more local writers than ever by Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel

2013

January 23, 2013: Terrific Tens by Lisa Jensen, Good TImes

January 13, 2013: After 18 years, Santa Cruz's 10-minute play festival has lots to draw from by Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel

January 4, 2013: Act Fast by Jocelyn McMahon, Good Times (review)