Dogsleds, White Water, New Plays.(Last Frontier Theater Conference)
American Theatre, October, 2001 by Gussow, Mel
An all-star theatre festival in a remote Alaska city grows in impact and prestige
VALDEZ, ALASKA: This small city in southern Alaska, his torically a way station for prospectors in the Gold Rush, was leveled by an earthquake in 1964. Rebuilt, it is filled with trailer parks and low-lying buildings, but it is surrounded by dramatic scenery--the breathtaking beauty of the glacial mountains bordering Prince William Sound. Because of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, the place will forever be associated with an environmental disaster. However, in the past decade, Valdez ...
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