Elizabethan trader John Hawkins takes the stage with a scowl and windmilling assertion. Two centuries later, John Newton journeys from drunken bullyboy pressganged into service to frockcoated ...
Perhaps most people will not want to go there, to the world of "The Handmaid's Tale." My wife doesn’t, and I trust and respect her intellectual ability to critique the arts.
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ at San Francisco Opera. (Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera) Running through Oct. 1 at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, composer Poul Ruders’ and librettist Paul ...