(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Members of the 25-strong cast of the upcoming The Claw musical run through the show on Monday, July 21, 2025, at the Chilkat Center in Haines, Alaska. The musical is the product of the annual Summer Youth Theater Conservatory.

In a future Haines bowling alley,  a group of toys stuck in an out-of-order claw machine sing, dance and philosophize their way through an uncertain future in a 45-minute romp debuting in…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...