People to Watch: Bernardo Cubría
A year after the Los Angeles wildfires, the playwright reflects on community and responsibility with ‘The People of Pompeii.’
Category Archives: West
Head out West with coverage of theatres in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.
BIPOC Critics Lab Goes Bicoastal With Old Globe, Public Theater
Applications are now open for the first bicoastal 2026-27 BIPOC Critics Lab cohort, as the 2025-26 cohort completes their training.
Trans Rights Rising: 2 Shows Revisit the Compton’s Cafeteria Riots
‘Riot Queens’ in Portland, Oregon, and an immersive staging at San Francisco’s Tenderloin Museum recall a seminal pre-Stonewall moment, and prompt fresh reflections about the ongoing search for safe havens.
Bernard Weiner: San Francisco Theatre’s Chronicler
A colleague remembers the San Francisco Chronicle theatre critic of the 1970s and ’80s, who died on Feb. 15 at the age of 86.
Ruskin Group Theatre Arts Center Opens in L.A.
The theatre’s expanded new hub will host revivals, new works, and more intimate smaller plays and live music.
Why ‘Ten Brave Seconds’ Seems Right on Time
A new musical about a gay teen’s coming-out journey premieres at Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City.
Seattle Children’s Theatre Pulls Kennedy Center Run of ‘Bruce Lee Story’
Originally set for a 2-week presentation at the Kennedy Center, the new TYA play by Keiko Green now, instead, hopes to extend its Seattle run.
Outside In Theatre: A New Venue in L.A.’s Highland Park
A new black box theatre and art space founded by local stage veterans is staging bilingual dramas and doing experimental residencies.
National Readings to Raise Awareness of Violence Against Indigenous Women
Theatres are stepping up for a national series of play readings by Indigenous writers, set for May 5, 2026, National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives.
Where Stories Take Root: La Jolla’s Latinx New Play Festival
The gathering’s eighth edition was grounded in narratives of faith, myth, and spirituality that define the complexities of the Latinx experience, for better or worse.
