by Frances Phillips | Jun 30, 1998 | 1998, Performing Arts
Brava! for Women in the Arts, Ellen Sebastian Chang, Naomi Iizuka, Jorge Cortinas, Tanya Mayo, Sean San Jose, Andrea Thome, Michael Torres and others collaborating with Mission District teenagers to create Mariposa, the Journey Home, an hour-long theater piece about...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 30, 1998 | 1998, Performing Arts
Cal Performances, University of California, Berkeley, collaborating with composer and pianist Jon Jang, composer and flutist James Newton, and poet Genny Lim on When Sorrow Turns to Joy, a contemporary cantata that seeks to illuminate commonalities between African...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 30, 1998 | 1998, Performing Arts
Magic Theater collaborating with Kenn Watt, the ensemble Fifth Floor, and Charles Mee, Jr. on the creation and development of Summertime, a new play that transposes the story of Euripides’ Hippolytus and its later interpretations by Racine and others into a...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 30, 1998 | 1998, Performing Arts
Thick Description and ensemble member Karen Amano collaborating with jazz composer Francis Wong on an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes that moves Conrad’s novel from Tsarist Russia and democratic Geneva to the student lounge of Columbia...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 21, 1998 | 1998, Literary Arts
Zyzzyva collaborating with Heather Drohan, Paul Stojsavljevic Flores, Chaim Bertman, Robert Mailer Anderson on a new “Zyzzyva Discovery” series of first books by Bay Area and West Coast writers. The project addresses new writers’ need for close...
