It was in the 1990s when Mark Lamos, then the artistic director of Hartford Stage, realized he didn't need to keep his gay profile low and his longtime partner out of his professional social life.
San Francisco Ballet closed its season with a blazing performance of "Romeo & Juliet," which artistic director Helgi Tomasson choreographed for the company 20 years ago and has never looked better.
She was an Iranian film star who didn't see her own movies; now Vida Ghahremani is playing a fictionalized version of herself in a new play written by daughter Torange Yeghiazarian.
