Abstract

Theater

The article discusses developments related to theater and its benefits to the artists and society. The city of San Francisco opened a 755-seat state-of -the -art theater along with three art galleries, a film and video theater and a five-and-a-half-acre park in a trendy downtown neighborhood through its redevelopment agency, and mandated that these Yerba Buena Gardens Center Theaters and galleries focus on local and multicultural art. Now actors, dancers and musicians used to performing without sufficient lighting or wing space get to play in a theater that's equipped to the gills. The city gained a lively nighttime neighborhood, drawing audiences not generally seen at downtown performances. The Berkeley Repertory Theater presented a spring season of works devised by Asian Americans.