For Melinda Lopez, ‘Becoming Cuba’ Is Personal
Set in 1890s Cuba, the story features a young widow who runs a local pharmacy and faces decisions of personal and political dimensions.
Category Archives: West
Head out West with coverage of theatres in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.
The Real Merry Wives of San Francisco County
A new production at African American Shakespeare Company has a Chitlin’ Circuit flavor.
In “Smokefall,” A Womb With a View (Or Two)
Noah Haidle’s newest play Smokefall, which features two fetuses discussing the outside world, “only makes sense in the context of theatre.”
“The Bird House” Finds Deep Impact
Diane Glancy’s new play explores Native issues.
There Goes the Neighborhood!
In ‘Somewhere,’ Matthew Lopez dramatizes the tradeoffs of gentrification in the name of the arts.
Go West, Young Director: Carey Perloff’s First Year at A.C.T., Part 1
When San Francisco’s venerable but ailing flagship theatre hired a 32-year-old neophyte to lead it, they didn’t know what they were in for. Neither did she.
Questions for Robert Sean Leonard
The ‘House’ actor on Shaw, the high of theatre acting, and getting sloppy.
‘Woyzeck’ Meets Wilson Meets Waits
Shotgun Players mounts Robert Wilson and Tom Waits’s fragmented rethink of Büchner’s thorny classic.
Those Evil Machines
Des McAnuff will direct “Yoshimi” at La Jolla Playhouse through Dec. 16.
The Truth About That Piper
The Imaginists will present “The Ratcatcher” this December.
