Twenty-five years ago, a new opera titled “Dead Man Walking” made its world premiere in a San Francisco Opera production. Based on the same-titled 1993 memoir by author and activist Sister Helen ...

The opening scene of “Dead Man Walking” immediately garnered discomfort: Dark, unsettling music echoed throughout the auditorium as two teenagers’ risqué lakeside rendezvous became the site of ...

President Trump blasted late-night host Stephen Colbert early Wednesday as a “dead man walking” — telling his bosses at CBS that the “humanitarian” thing would be to “put him to sleep.” “Stephen ...

Sister Helen Prejean returns to the San Francisco Opera House 25 years later. Photo by Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera. Nearly three decades ago, a nun wrote a bestseller about counseling a man ...