Seattle: cold mountains.(Front and Center)(Tibet Through the Red Box is adapted for the stage.)

WHEN CZECH DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER VLADIMIR SIS was drafted by the Soviet government to film the Chinese invasion of Tibet in the 1950s, he was accidentally separated from his working team on the slopes of the Himalayas. It took over a year for Sis to make his way home to his family in Prague.

This trek--which his son, the illustrator and author Peter Sis, reimagined in the award-winning children's book Tibet Through the Red Box--is mapped out anew at Seattle Children's Theatre this month, in an adaptation by Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang. Hwang has drawn on Sis's ...

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