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April 04, 2018 Interview: Head Over Heels I, Rachel York
Rachel York, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky.
Rachel York made her Broadway debut in 1989 in the Cy Coleman show, “City of Angels.” She went on to play Fantine in “Les Miserables,” opposite Julie Andrews in the Sondheim revue, “Putting It Together,” starred in the national tour, and came to San Francisco, of the revival of “Kiss Me Kate, ” appeared in Ragtime, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and more recently, in the musical comedy “Disaster!” She is in San Francisco as a member of the ensemble of the musical “Head Over Heels!” which has its pre-Broadway try-out at the Curran from April 10th through May 6th, with a Broadway previews scheduled for June 23rd.Richard Wolinsky had a chance to talk briefly with Rachel York during one of those two-hour press interview periods in which actors go from journalist to journalist in a round robin that is as exhausting as it sounds.
Curran Theatre web page
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10 min
April 04, 2018 Interview: Head Over Heels I, Rachel York
[caption id="attachment_284871" align="alignleft" width="307"] Rachel York and Richard Wolinsky.[/caption]
Rachel York, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky.
Rachel York made her Broadway debut in 1989 in the Cy Coleman show, “City of Angels.” She went on to play Fantine in “Les Miserables,” opposite Julie Andrews in the Sondheim revue, “Putting It Together,” starred in the national tour, and came to San Francisco, of the revival of “Kiss Me Kate, ” appeared in Ragtime, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and more recently, in the musical comedy “Disaster!” She is in San Francisco as a member of the ensemble of the musical “Head Over Heels!” which has its pre-Broadway try-out at the Curran from April 10th through May 6th, with a Broadway previews scheduled for June 23rd.Richard Wolinsky had a chance to talk briefly with Rachel York during one of those two-hour press interview periods in which actors go from journalist to journalist in a round robin that is as exhausting as it sounds.
Curran Theatre web page [1]
[1] https://sfcurran.com/head-over-heels/
10 min
March 28, 2018 Review: Iron Shoes, at Shotgun Players
KPFA associate theatre critic C.S. Soong reviews “Iron Shoes,” created by Janet Kutulas, Michelle Carter, and Erika Chong Shuch, at Shotgun Players’ Ashby Stage in Berkeley through May 6, 2018.
Shotgun Players website
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3 min
March 28, 2018 Review: Iron Shoes, at Shotgun Players
KPFA associate theatre critic C.S. Soong reviews “Iron Shoes,” created by Janet Kutulas, Michelle Carter, and Erika Chong Shuch, at Shotgun Players’ Ashby Stage in Berkeley through May 6, 2018.
Shotgun Players website [1]
[1] https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=F72CB6B5-F471-4D48-BA66-D1C249384EAD
3 min
March 27, 2018 Review: Heisenberg, at A.C.T. Geary
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Heisenberg” by Simon Stephens, at ACT’s Geary Theatre through April 8, 2018.
ACT website
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4 min
March 27, 2018 Review: Heisenberg, at A.C.T. Geary
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews "Heisenberg" by Simon Stephens, at ACT's Geary Theatre through April 8, 2018.
ACT website [1]
[1] http://www.act-sf.org/home/box_office/1718_season/heisenberg.html
4 min
March 25, 2018 Interview: Richard Fouts & Suze Allen, “The Birthday Lottery” at Z Space
Richard Fouts is the playwright and Suze Allen the director of “The Birthday Lottery,” at Z Space in San Francisco, March 29th through April 1st. The play concerns the first Vietnam draft lottery of students in 1969, and is set in a fraternity house as the numbers are being called. Those with low numbers will no longer have student deferments; those with high numbers will be free of the draft. The Nixon era lottery, created to even the playing field, took the anti-war movement to new heights. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky,

Z Space Website
The Birthday Lottery Website

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30 min
March 25, 2018 Interview: Richard Fouts & Suze Allen, “The Birthday Lottery” at Z Space
Richard Fouts is the playwright and Suze Allen the director of "The Birthday Lottery," at Z Space in San Francisco, March 29th through April 1st. The play concerns the first Vietnam draft lottery of students in 1969, and is set in a fraternity house as the numbers are being called. Those with low numbers will no longer have student deferments; those with high numbers will be free of the draft. The Nixon era lottery, created to even the playing field, took the anti-war movement to new heights. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky,

Z Space Website [1]
The Birthday Lottery Website [2]

[1] http://www.zspace.org/birthdaylottery
[2] https://www.thebirthdaylotteryplay.com/
30 min
March 20, 2018 Review: A Number, by Caryl Churchill at Aurora Harry’s Upstage
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “A Number” by Caryl Churchill, directed by Barbara Damashek, at Aurora’s Harry’s Upstage theatre in Berkeley through April 22, 2018.
Aurora Theatre website
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4 min
March 20, 2018 Review: A Number, by Caryl Churchill at Aurora Harry’s Upstage
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews "A Number" by Caryl Churchill, directed by Barbara Damashek, at Aurora's Harry's Upstage theatre in Berkeley through April 22, 2018.
Aurora Theatre website
4 min