Sandy Harper’s Northern Lights
On the stage she and her husband founded, Alaskan artists and themes are right at home.
Category Archives: West
Head out West with coverage of theatres in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.
Opening the Golden Gate
For generations of Asian-American artists in the Bay Area, life in the theatre has meant a passionate struggle for opportunity and change.
Ken Roht: Opera with a Twist
From underground L.A. emerges an auteur with music in his veins.
In Cahoots With Tony Taccone
The Berkeley Rep artistic director has made playing well with others his specialty.
Faith to Faith Confrontation
A new cycle of plays about religious belief prompts L.A.’s Cornerstone Theater Company to rethink some definitions: of community, of tolerance, of Cornerstone itself.
A Lesson From the Birds
Anthony Clarvoe takes flight to ‘Our Practical Heaven.’
West Probes Traumas, With No Flinching
Cheryl L. West is unafraid to go where her work take her, whether it’s the front lines of the HIV/AIDS crisis or the lives of generations of black women.
Green Theatre: Confessions of an Eco-Reporter
As the planet burns, what can art do that activism can’t? Perhaps, as the work of 3 path-breaking companies attests, that’s a false choice. Plus: a to-do list for green theatre, and sketches toward an eco-canon.
Golden Streets of San Francisco
A new adaptation of ‘McTeague’ is more about longing than greed.
Hellraiser
The shock tactics of Reza Abdoh push audiences to the edge.
