Sandra Ross

Photo by Debra DiPaoloJOHN FISHER'S MEDEA: THE MUSICAL (NOW AT THE Hudson Mainstage Theater) has evolved since it took the San Francisco theater scene by storm in 1996. Having packed a succession of progressively larger theaters, and having garnered major critical awards in the Bay Area, Fisher's gender-bending take on......

Photo by Brigitte M. MayerAFTER A HISTORIC FIRST U.S. ENGAGEMENT (at UCLA) that will also, somewhat ironically, be its last, the famed Berliner Ensemble is packing it in. The 50-year-old company, established by Bertolt Brecht when he returned to East Berlin rather than testify before HUAC, will disband and reconstitute......