There is almost as much history in the creation of composer John Adams’ and poet-librettist Alice Goodman’s landmark opera Nixon in China as in the real events that inspired it.
Daniel Talbott’s play goes down many familiar roads in a story of romantic gay discovery, but it also has a few detours that help distinguish it from similarly themed plays.
Dancers, male and female (there are a few women), move like yoginis, with an introspective bent - but, of course, in patterns that require them to be responsible to the partners flying towards them, whom they have to catch.
California Shakespeare Theater is the first big gun to herald the approaching solstice, launching its 39th season with Artistic Director Jonathan Moscone’s unusual take on The Tempest .
