Fences by August Wilson at Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Dates: 7/28/2026 - 8/28/2026
📍 Theatre: Santa Cruz Shakespeare
501 Upper Park Rd
Santa Cruz, CA
Phone: (831) 460-6399
Tickets: $25-$98
Santa Cruz Shakespeare invites you to experience August Wilson’s Fences, under the trees and stars of the Audrey Stanley Grove in Santa Cruz’s DeLaveaga Park this summer.
Fences
By August Wilson
Directed by Susan Dalian
August Wilson joins the Santa Cruz Shakespeare stage for the first time in 45 years. Fences is the perfect offering, wonderfully in line with the season’s theme: Till Death Do Us Part. Troy Maxson is one of Wilson’s great creations; Shakespearean in scope; a wordsmith and brilliant storyteller. He has survived the terrible trauma of his past and built himself a good life. But the backbone of that life, the spine that keeps it standing strong, is his wife Rose. Like all of Wilson’s best work, Fences is both mythic and intimate; the questions it asks both human and eternal.
Fences runs July 28 - August 28.
Tickets available for purchase starting May 1. More information at https://santacruzshakespeare.org/tickets/
Seasonal box office hours beginning May 1 are Tuesday through Friday from 12p.m. to 4p.m. Call 831-460-6399.
Performance Dates:
- Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 2:00 PM – preview
- Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 8:00 PM – preview
- Thursday, July 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM – opening
- Sunday, August 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM
- Tuesday, August 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM – wine club
- Friday, August 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM
- Saturday, August 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM – post-show talk-back
- Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM – pre-show dramaturgy
- Saturday, August 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
- Sunday, August 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM – all-ages matinee
- Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM – pre-show backstage tour (ticket required)
- Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 7:00 PM
- Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM
- Friday, August 28, 2026 at 8:00 PM – closing
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