When there are wall-to-wall words, is there any room for dance? And when those words describe horrifying intolerance, is there any place for dance? These were the dual challenges that Lloyd Newson, founder and director of DV8 Physical Theatre, set to conquer in To Be Straight With You, an 80-minute whirlwind through religiously and culturally sanctioned homophobia. (read more)

Richard Mayhew may be the greatest contemporary artist you've never heard of. He's been called a romantic painter, an abstract expressionist and an American impressionist; none of the labels fit. Abstract landscape artist begins to approach a description of the Santa Cruz-based painter's work, but it doesn't complete the picture; his mystical scenes of trees, valleys and mountains, executed in a jazzy, improvisatory style, are of no known landscape other than one firmly rooted in Mayhew's state of mind, expressing, as he once said, "a universal space with the illusion of time." (read more)