"This country's a hard country, when you die, you're dead, that's all." Climate change; migrancy; shelterlessness; what it takes to get by. A Great Depression photographer documents a state in crisis through pictures and haunting, detailed notes. Ninety years later, a poet follows her footsteps attempting to make sense of California's uneasy present. Welcome to LAST WEST: ROADSONGS FOR DOROTHEA LANGE — a theater piece which explores Lange's work and legacy and asks how looking through the lens of Dorothea Lange can help us reckon with the beauty and crises of California now.

In an era when the issues Lange photographed haunt us newly, we're traveling a theater piece that is part immersive exhibition, part play, and all conversation about dignity, repair, and common cause. Lange's photographs are luminous and unsparing; her road notebooks electric with the voices of those she met along California's roads. Weaving witness, grief, and wonder, LAST WEST creates a new and immersive way of encountering an iconic American artist and reminds us of the enduring relationships between art, witness, and repair.

An interdisciplinary interpretation engaging projection, poetry, theater, and photography, LAST WEST creates a new and immersive way of encountering an iconic American artist whose work speaks across boundaries and reminds us of the enduring relationships between art, witness, and repair.