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.
Category Archives: West
Head out West with coverage of theatres in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.
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.
Joan Stein: 1953–2012
A tribute to the effervescent L.A. producer, who died in August.
Who’s Your Daddy?
‘Carmelina,’ an overlooked romantic musical from Lane, Lerner, and Stein, gets a revival in San Francisco.
Panthers and Lords
‘Party People’ focuses on American revolutionary movements from the 1960s and ’70s.
From East to West
The human condition gets a workout at 2 festivals: Humana and Pacific Playwrights.
Armistead Maupin & Jeff Whitty: Telling ‘Tales’
Their much-anticipated ‘Tales of the City’ musical will debut—where else?—in San Francisco.
