When Idina Menzel is in a musical, she is one of the most talked-about stars onstage. In her latest, “Redwood,” Stella, a ...

Redwood National Park has an incredibly diverse array of wildlife. Among all the animals you can spot, there are two that you ...

A long-empty kiosk on downtown Redwood City’s Courthouse Square is now a new venue for art. The kiosk, which years ago housed a coffee shop, will be home to a rotating series of site-specific ...

Asking, at every turn, what makes these trees epically singular in nature? - [Lucy Kerhoulas] There's something really magical about a redwood forest. Hanging out in a tree that you know is 2,000 ...

There, she befriends two arborists who let her climb a towering Redwood tree on her own to process her trauma and reconnect with her wife. The most exciting moments of the musical revolve around ...

Grappling with grief and trying to maintain her relationship with her wife, she travels from New York City to California and ends up climbing redwood trees with a group of eco-scientists ...

But perhaps the most awe-inspiring character in Redwood are the trees themselves, on display in LED screens that wrap the theater. In the center, an oversized monitor displaying the trunk of one ...

Portraying a woman in flight from grief who finds herself entranced by the majestic beauty of an ancient forest in California, Ms. Menzel is rigged up to a massive facsimile of a redwood tree ...

There’s a powerful appeal to the idea of leaving behind the turbulence of the personal — or for that matter, the political — and escaping to a place of beauty, safety and solace. A separate ...

But there’s little ideal about “Redwood,” a wholly unsurprising new tree-hugging musical (and I mean that literally) written and directed by Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Tina Landau ...

In “Redwood,” which opened Thursday at the Nederland Theatre, her character Jesse climbs a tree to escape the traumatic memories of her adult son’s death. As the title makes clear ...