Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange, October 18, 2026 3:00PM

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October 18, 2026

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Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange

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For this month’s Spotlight Sunday join us for a live production of Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange, an immersive one-hour play written by Tess Taylor and directed by Ciera Eis. Last West was born from OMCA’s archive of Lange’s images and notebooks and returns to bring this legendary Bay Area photographer’s stories to life. We will travel with Lange as actors perform the journey outlined in her road journals and oral histories, and witness again the California we experience today. Set against a stunning projected backdrop of Lange’s photographs, this offering is a meditation on witness, migration, and time. 

This production is a culmination of a weekend of programming centering and celebrating Dorothea Lange’s life and work. Kick off the weekend on Friday, October 16, 5:30–7:30pm with a free public symposium at UC Berkeley’s Northgate Hall, featuring Last West creator Tess Taylor and Ken Light, UC Berkeley Professor of Photojournalism. Saturday, October 17, 1-3pm join Last West actors from the production in an intimate day of teasers with pop up monologues in OMCA’s Galleries of Art and History right alongside Lange’s displays. Free with gallery admission. 

Explore more of Lange’s work in our latest special exhibition, BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration, an augmented reality (AR) experience that brings new context to Lange’s iconic 1942 photographs. We invite you to join us for this special weekend of programming and experience Lange’s work through new perspectives, stories, and voices.