To understand the ramifications of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s decision to pull “Hamilton” from the Kennedy Center, we might look to another musical: “Soft Power.”
The San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Conservatory of Music started the project in 2020 to lower some of the structural barriers Black composers face.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s transcendent production of Anton Chekhov’s 1898 play, adapted by Connor McPherson, benefits from a directorial master stroke.