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Paul Rudnick, author of the novel “Playing the Palace,” and the teleplay for the HBO film “Coastal Elites,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky.
Playwright, screenwriter and novelist Paul Rudnick’s latest novel, “Playing the Palace,” is the story of a gay man living in New York who falls in love with a gay Prince of Wales, and what ensues. His recent film, “Coastal Elites,” with Bette Midler, Dan Levy and others, is a contemporary account of life during the first half of 2020 when the awfulness of Donald Trump met the awfulness of the Covid-19 pandemic, seen as five separate monologues.
Paul Rudnick has a long career as a playwright, with such plays as “Jeffrey,” his view of the AIDS epidemic and how an HIV-negative man deals with the crisis, “I Hate Hamlet,” and “The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told.” His screenplays include “Addams Family Values,” “In and Out,” and “Sister Act.” He is currently working on a musical version of “The Devil Wears Prada,” based on the screenplay, for which he was one of several script doctors.
Paul Rudnick is also the author of film reviews by Libby Waxman-Gellmer, which have appeared in both Premiere Magazine and The New Yorker.
:Complete 57 minute podcast.
Streaming Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links
Bay Area Book Festival Gina Frangello, June 24, 7 pm. Check website for streaming events from the 2021 Festival.
Alter Theatre. Brer Peach, an audio play by Andrew Saito, see website for details.
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The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 17, 2021: Paul Rudnick appeared first on KPFA.
Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events
Kate MacKay is the curator of a retrospective of the Four Seasons cycle of films by the great French New Wave director Eric Rohmer, streaming on the BAM/PFA website through July 28, 2021. She talks about the films and about Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive’s year during the Covid shutdown with host Richard Wolinsky.
Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) was one of the contributors of the magazine Cahiers du Cinema, along with Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard and was one of the founders of the French New Wave. His success came later than that of his colleagues, finally arriving in 1969 with My Night at Maud’s, and continued both commercially and artistically into the 21st Century.
The films streaming in this Tales of the Four Seasons cycle, A Tale of Springtime, A Winter’s Tale, A Tale of Summer and A Tale of Autumn were all filmed between 1990 and 1998 when Rohmer was into his seventies. Despite that, the films all feel like the work of a young independent film-maker, and not an old master. Eric Rohmer Wikipedia page.
Kate MacKay has been as Associate Curator of Film since 2016, and has programmed several film retrospectives over the course of her career in Berkeley and previously in Toronto.
This brilliant and incisive essay by Richard Brody from the New Yorker discusses the four films, and Rohmer.
Complete 41-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.
Playwright and actress Jeanne Sakata in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky.
Jeanne Sakata is the author of the play “Hold These Truths” which is now playing in front of live audiences at San Francisco Playhouse through July 3, 2021, and streams June 12 – July 3, 2021 on the San Francisco Playhouse website.
Jeanne Sakata is an actress who has appeared on several TV shows and films, and on stage at both ACT and Berkeley Rep.
Hold These Truths is the true story following Gordon Hirabayashi, a Japanese-American student who fought internment to a relocation camp during World War II. This return to live theatre celebrates the human spirit as it chronicles Hirabayashi’s journey from college in Seattle all the way to the Supreme Court, and eventually to a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Directed by Jeffrey Lo, with Jomar Tagatac starring as Hirabayashi,
Hold These Truths made its world premiere in 2007 at East West Players in Los Angeles. In 2012, the solo play made its Off Broadway premiere at Epic Theatre Company and received a 2013 Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance. Since its world premiere, it has gone on to play throughout the nation including theatres in Boston, Honolulu, Washington, D.C., Portland, TheatreWorks in Palo Alto in July, 2018, and many others.
:Complete 41 minute podcast.
Streaming Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links
Bay Area Book Festival Keenan Norris, June 15, 7 pm. Gina Frangello, June 24, 7 pm. Check website for streaming events from the 2021 Festival.
Alter Theatre. Brer Peach, an audio play by Andrew Saito, see website for details.
National, Misc:
If you’d like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write [email protected]
The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 10, 2021: Kate MacKay – Jeanne Sakata appeared first on KPFA.
Links to on-line and streaming local theater & book events
Richard Wolinsky interviews Mick LaSalle, film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle about “Dream State: California in the Movies,” Tuesday June 8, 7 pm Pacific on Zoom. Tickets and information.
Flynn Berry, whose latest thriller is “Northern Spy,” set in contemporary Northern Ireland, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Recorded via zencastr on May 12, 2021.
Flynn Berry is the author of two other novels, “Under the Harrow,” which won the Edgar Award for best first novel, and “A Double Life.”
“Northern Spy” takes place in Northern Ireland as the tension between Catholics and Protestants has ratcheted up several notches. A single Catholic mother of an infant son, working as a producer in Belfast’s BBC studios, finds herself increasingly drawn into dealings with the IRA through her sister, who had lived a double life for the previous seven years.
In this interview Flynn Berry discusses how she came to write the novel, her writing process, and her history as an author of thrillers.
Complete 36-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.
Jacques d’Amboise (1934-2021) in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, April 6, 2011, during the tour for the memoir, “I Was A Dancer.”
Jacques d’Amboise, who died on May 2, 2021 at the age of 88 following complications from a stroke, was a principal dancer for the New York City Ballet from 1953 to his retirement in 1984. As such, he was considered the living embodiment of the choreography of the great George Balanchine.
In 1976, he founded the National Dance Institute to teach dance to children. In time, he became one of the most famous dancers in America, appearing as one of the Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and as the male dancer in the second act ballet in Carousel in those respective 1950s films.
The complete 46-minute version of this interview can be found as a Radio Wolinsky podcast.
Streaming Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links
Bay Area Book Festival Richard Flanagan, June 3, 7 pm. Keenan Norris, June 15, 7 pm. Gina Frangello, June 24, 7 pm. Check website for streaming events from the 2021 Festival.
Alter Theatre. Brer Peach, an audio play by Andrew Saito, see website for details.
National, Misc:
If you’d like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write [email protected]
The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 3, 2021: Flynn Berry – Jacques D’Amboise appeared first on KPFA.
On-air program pre-empted for fund drive.
Weekly Links to streaming book and theatre events.
Bay Area Book Festival Richard Flanagan, Thursday June 3, 7 pm. See website for streaming events from the 2021 festival
Alter Theatre. Brer Peach, an audio play by Andrew Saito, Preview available now.
National, Misc:
If you’d like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write [email protected]
The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – May 27, 2021: Pre-empted for fund drive appeared first on KPFA.
On-air program pre-empted for fund drive.
Weekly Links to streaming book and theatre events.
Bay Area Book Festival Richard Flanagan, Thursday June 3, 7 pm. See website for streaming events from the 2021 festival
Alter Theatre. Brer Peach, an audio play by Andrew Saito, Preview available now.
National, Misc:
If you’d like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write [email protected]
The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – May 20, 2021: Pre-empted for fund drive appeared first on KPFA.
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