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Josh Costello, just named new Artistic Director of Aurora Theatre Company starting in July, 2019, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky.

For the past five years, Josh Costello has served as the Associate Director of the company, directing one play a season. Prior to that, he worked at Marin Theatre Company and was the founder of Impact Theatre. His goal, he says, at Aurora, is to enlarge the company’s footprint and bring new audiences to its thrust stage by producing works relevant to the Berkeley and Bay Area community.

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Pam MacKinnon, the new Artistic Director of A.C.T., American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky.

The Tony Award winning director of 2013’s Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” and Obie winning director of “Clybourne Park” was hired by A.C.T. as Artistic Director on January 18, 2018, and is now in the midst of the first season she has curated since her arrival.

In this interview, she discusses the challenges of working at A.C.T., her perspective as a leading interpreter of the plays of Edward Albee, the rest of this season, and other topics.

A.C.T’s latest production is Edward Albee’s “Seascape,” which Pam MacKinnon is directing. It runs through February 17, 2019.

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KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Paradise Square,” a new musical at Berkeley Rep through February 24, 2019.

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KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews the Broadway musical “Come from Away” on its national tour at the SHN Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco through February 3, 2019.

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KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Dear Evan Hansen” at the Curran through December 30, 2018.

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