Aldrich Park

ANSEL ADAMS’ STUDENT PHOTO CALL A surprising photo credit for a college rehearsal shot sparks inquiry. Walking into UC Irvine’s main library in 2008, I stopped before a poster bearing a remarkable photograph. The rich-toned black-and-white image showed a group of ‘60s vintage actors in an ethereal outdoor rehearsal under the watchful eye of a […]

WE GATHERED TOGETHER The Pacific Playwrights Festival has a Very Good Year. Over the last weekend in April, many of the American theater’s artistic directors, literary managers, and dramaturgs congregated in Costa Mesa, California for South Coast Repertory’s 17th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival. Seven new plays – three in the midst of fully produced runs