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Theatre gained a national reputation in the 1970s, when Sam Shepard was the theater's
resident playwright, and it still premieres innovative California playwrights today. An
audience-interactive troupe, We Players stages classic plays including Shakespearean dra-
mas at unusual locations like Alcatraz. Across the Bay, the Berkeley Repertory Theatre has
launched acclaimed productions based on such unlikely subjects as the rise and fall of Jim
Jones's Peoples Temple.
Timeless, rare Ansel Adams photographs are paired with excerpts from canonical Califor-
nian writers such as John Steinbeck and Joan Didion in
California: With Classic California
Writings
, edited by Andrea Gray Stillman.
