San Francisco - Chinese Theaters (closed)

In and around John Street in San Francisco's Chinatown are three Chinese theaters. A visit is particularly interesting because of the simple style of staging, the dissonant music, the exotic audience, the wonderful costumes and the apparent lack of event in the plot of the plays, the performance of which used to go on for days and weeks on end, and in which even the women's roles were formerly taken by men.

The Chinese theaters are now closed.