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Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

Links to announced on-line events below program description

 

Bookwaves

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Dave Eggers discusses his novel, "The Parade" with host Richard Wolinsky.

The author of several works of fiction and non-fiction, Dave Eggers is best known for the memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the founder of McSweeney's publishing house in San Francisco, and is an acclaimed journalist who writes for The Guardian and elsewhere.

"The Parade" takes place in an unnamed country as two contractors work to complete a road leading from a formerly rebellious part of the country into the capital city.

In this wide-ranging interview, he also talks about Trump rallies and their surprisingly diverse audiences, and about his career as a writer and screenwriter.

Recorded in the green room at KQED in San Francisco. Thanks to KQED and McSweeney's. Complete 34-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. [1]

 

Artwaves

Suzanne Bradbeer, whose comedy "Shakespeare in Vegas" will be streamed as a Zoom reading with Broadway stars Karen Ziemba and Patrick Page, July 23, 6 pm -July 27, 2020, 6 pm on the TheatreWorks [2] website, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky.

Suzanne Bradbeer is the author of several plays, including "Confederates," which played at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley during the 2016-2017 season, "The God Game," and "The House That Jack Built." She is a member of the Ensemble Theatre, a contributing writer at Speakeasy at Joe'd Pub (The Public Theatre) in New York, and a librettist for two musicals, "Cocus and Doot" from the Virtual Theatre Company and "Max and the Truffle Pig."

"Shakespeare in Vegas" is the story of an out of work classically trained actress who is brought to Las Vegas by a shady impresario to offer Shakespearean plays to a somewhat unusual audience, and hijinks ensue. Complete 32-minute Bay Area Theater podcast. [3]

Both photos: Jeff McMorrough

 

Announcement Links

Central Works [4] Script Club, where you read the script of a new play and send comments to the playwright. The July script is The Lady Matador’s Hotel by Christina Garcia. A podcast with the playwright, hosted by Patricial Milton, will be posted to the Central Works website on July 28.

Theatreworks Silicon Valley [5] is presenting Shakespeare In Vegas, a new play by Suzanne Bradbeer, with Karen Ziemba and Patrick Page, directed by Giovanna Sardelli, streaming July 23-27, free.

Book Passage. [6] Conversations with authors features Mark Neepo on Saturday July 25 at 4 pm Pacific and Louise Erdrick on Sunday July 26 at 4 pm Pacific.

Bay Area Book Festival [7]. Various Unbound conversations available streaming.

Aurora Theatre [8]’s Aurora Connects series of interviews, every Friday at 4 pm. July 17: Joy Carlin and Nancy Carlin. Other interviews in the series are available streaming.

The Booksmith [9] presents Anne Appelbaum and her book Twilight of Democracy on Monday July 27 at 12:30 pm and Aimee Bender on Wednesday August 5 at 5:30 pm

Theatre Rhino [10]live performance July 23 conceived and performed by John Fisher on Facebook Live and Zoom at 8 pm is Growing Up: The World in 1976. The Death of Ruby Slippers by Stuart Bousel, available streaming.

Shotgun Players. [11]  The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess,has been extended with live performances July 28- August 3 through Zoom. A live stream performance of Quack by Eliza Clark, August 6 through 9. Registration required.

San Francisco Playhouse [12]. Zoomlet table read for Monday July 27 at 7 pm is Night Vision by Dominique Morrisseau, directed by Margo Hall. Registration required.

Marin Theatre Company [13] is presenting the second weekend of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival July 25-26. Go to website for tickets. Also. Lauren Gunderson's play Natural Shocks streams through Soundcloud on the Marin Theatre website.

42nd Street Moon [14]. Live cabaret Fridays at 8 pm; Theatre quiz Sundays at 8 pm; Theatre talks Tuesdays at 8 pm, through the website.

Kepler’s Book [15]s presents Refresh the Page, on line interviews and talks. Registration required.

Lincoln Center Live [16] Through September 8, 2020: Carousel, with Kelli O’Hara & Nathan Gunn.

Public Theatre: [17]The Line streams through the website. A radio recording of Richard II is also available through the website.

 

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[1] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/dave-eggers/

[2] https://theatreworks.org/

[3] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/playwright-interview-suzanne-bradbeer-shakespeare-in-vegas/

[4] http://centralworks.org/

[5] https://theatreworks.org/

[6] https://www.bookpassage.com/

[7] https://www.baybookfest.org/

[8] https://auroratheatre.org/

[9] https://www.booksmith.com/

[10] http://therhino.org/

[11] https://shotgunplayers.org/

[12] https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/

[13] https://www.marintheatre.org/

[14] https://42ndstmoon.org/

[15] https://www.keplers.com/

[16] http://www.lincolncenter.org/lincoln-center-at-home/series/live-from-lincoln-center

[17] https://publictheater.org/

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

Announcements.

Central Works [1] Script Club, where you read the script of a new play and send comments to the playwright. The July script is The Lady Matador’s Hotel by Christina Garcia. A podcast with the playwright, hosted by Patricial Milton, will be posted to the Central Works website on July 28.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival [2] is launching a new streaming service featuring full length videos of recent plays. The Copper Children plays through July 22, followed by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, also through July 22. Tickets through the website.

Theatreworks Silicon Valley [3] is presenting Shakespeare In Vegas, a new play by Suzanne Bradbeer, with Karen Ziemba and Patrick Page, directed by Giovanna Sardelli, streaming July 23-27, free.

Book Passage. [4] David Mitchell, and his new book Utopia Avenue, in conversation with Michael Chabon this afternoon, July 16, at 4 pm Pacific, tickets available on their website. This weekend’s conversations with authors features Miss Manners, Judith Martin on Saturday, and Amy Tan with John Muir Laws on Sunday.

Bay Area Book Festival [5]. Various Unbound conversations available streaming.

Aurora Theatre [6]’s Aurora Connects series of interviews, every Friday at 4 pm. July 17: Joy Carlin and Nancy Carlin. Other interviews in the series are available streaming.

The Booksmith [7] lists its entire July on-line schedule of interviews and readings on their website, which includes Lockdown Lit every Tuesday at 11 am

Theatre Rhino [8] Thursday play at 8 pm July 9, 2020 on Facebook Live is Dance Macabre, A Tale of the Plangue, conceived and performed by John Fisher. The Death of Ruby Slippers by Stuart Bousel, available streaming.

Shotgun Players. [9] Streaming, the folk opera Iron Shoes. Recorded in spring 2018, continuing through July 17, and The Claim, workshop production. The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess,has been extended with live performances July 17-18 through Zoom. Registration required.

San Francisco Playhouse [10]. Every Monday, SF Playhouse presents Zoomlets, a series of short play table reads.

42nd Street Moon [11]. Friday July 17 at 8 pm, Full Moon Live Cabaret: Super songs from not so super Shows,

Kepler’s Book [12]s presents Refresh the Page, on line interviews and talks. Registration required.

Lincoln Center Live [13] Through September 8, 2020: Carousel, with Kelli O’Hara & Nathan Gunn.

National Theater At Home [14] on You Tube: Amadeus.

 

Bookwaves

Erik Larson, author of "The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky.

Erik Larson is the author of several best-selling works of narrative non-fiction, including Dead Wake, In the Garden of Beasts and The Devil in the White City. His latest book takes us one year, from May 1940 to May 1941, a time which encompasses not only Winston Churchill's first year as Prime Minister of England, but also the Blitz, the often daily air raids by the Germans on London, Coventry and other cities, which began at the same time and ended almost to the day one year later. We follow the Churchill family's quotidian lives during that time, from watching to bombs to various wartime love affairs and break-ups, along with a look at how both the British and German governments worked during that year.

In the interview, Erik Larson discusses his source material, and compares some of what went on then to what's happening today, particularly in terms of heroic and destitute patterns of leadership. Radio Wolinsky podcast. [15]

 

Arts-Waves

A ten-minute interview with Gore Vidal, from 1998, in which he discusses his film, theatre and stage work with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff.

Complete 40-minute interview. [16]

 

[1] http://centralworks.org/

[2] https://www.osfashland.org/

[3] https://theatreworks.org/

[4] https://www.bookpassage.com/

[5] https://www.baybookfest.org/

[6] https://auroratheatre.org/

[7] https://www.booksmith.com/

[8] http://therhino.org/

[9] https://shotgunplayers.org/

[10] https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/

[11] https://42ndstmoon.org/

[12] https://www.keplers.com/

[13] http://www.lincolncenter.org/lincoln-center-at-home/series/live-from-lincoln-center

[14] http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/

[15] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/erik-larson-the-splendid-and-the-vile/

[16] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/gore-vidal-1998/

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

Announcements.

Central Works [1] Script Club, where you read the script of a new play and send comments to the playwright. The July script is The Lady Matador’s Hotel by Christina Garcia. A podcast with the playwright, hosted by Patricial Milton, will be posted to the Central Works website on July 28.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival [2] is launching a new streaming service featuring full length videos of recent plays. The Copper Children plays through July 15, followed by A Midsummer Night’s Dream through July 22. Tickets through the website.

Theatreworks Silicon Valley [3] is presenting another live solo performance from Florence, Italy with Hershey Felder, Beethoven, A play with Music on Sunday July 12 at 5 pm Pacific. Tickets through the website.

Moliere in the Park [4] presents Richard Wilbur’s translation of Tartuffe, starring Raul Esparza and Samira Wiley, recorded live with actors superimposed on a set, through July 12.

Book Passage [5]’s Conversations with Authors features Tim Cahill, Saturday July 11 at 4 pm Pacific time and Ann Patchett Sunday July 12 also at 4 pm Pacific. And David Mitchell in conversation with Michael Chabon, hosted by Tom Barbash airs on Thursday, July 16, again at 4 pm Pacific time.

Aurora Theatre [6]’s yearly fundraising event, Supernova, is open and free, on Monday July 13th. Registration required.

Bay Area Book Festival [7]. Various Unbound conversations available streaming.

The Booksmith [8] lists its entire July on-line schedule of interviews and readings on their website, which includes Lockdown Lit every Tuesday at 11 am

Theatre Rhino [9] Thursday play at 8 pm July 9, 2020 on Facebook Live is Modjeska, San Francisco's First Superstar, conceived and performed by John Fisher. The Death of Ruby Slippers by Stuart Bousel, available streaming.

Shotgun Players. [10] Streaming, the folk opera Iron Shoes. Recorded in spring 2018, continuing through July 17, and The Claim, workshop production. The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess, July 9-12, 7 pm. Registration required.

San Francisco Playhouse [11]. Every Monday, SF Playhouse presents Zoomlets, a series of short play table reads.

42nd Street Moon [12]. A live evening of Sondheim songs, Friday July 10th on Facebook Live, featuring an array of local theatrical talent.

Kepler’s Book [13]s presents Refresh the Page, on line interviews and talks. Registration required.

Lincoln Center Live [14] July 10 – September 8, 2020: Carousel, with Kelli O’Hara and Nathan Gunn.

National Theater At Home [15] on You Tube: The Deep Blue Sea.

 

Bookwaves

Barry Lopez, whose latest book is “Horizon”, now out in trade paperback, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky.

From Barry Lopez’s website [16]:

From the National Book Award-winning author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters–human, animal, and natural–that have shaped an extraordinary life.

Taking us nearly from pole to pole–from modern megacities to some of the most remote regions on the earth–and across decades of lived experience, Barry Lopez, hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as “one of our finest writers,” gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date, in a book that moves indelibly, immersively, through his travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica. Extended 45-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. [17]

Special thanks to the Bay Area Book Festival and Cherilyn Parsons.

 

Arts-Waves

Margaret Atwood, discussing her novel "The Robber Bride," recorded in San Francisco on November 24, 1993 with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, from the "Probabilities" archive.

The second of eight interviews with Margaret Atwood, author of such novels as The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Graceand the Oryx and Crake trilogy. In this interview, she discusses her novel "The Robber Bride," as well as what it feels like to be a Canadian author, her views on Philip K. Dick and Ursula K. LeGuin and science fiction and genres in general, and some of the thought processes behind writing her books.

 

 

[1] http://centralworks.org/

[2] https://www.osfashland.org/

[3] https://theatreworks.org/

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmGzfjO-W-M&t=4078s

[5] https://www.bookpassage.com/

[6] https://auroratheatre.org/

[7] https://www.baybookfest.org/

[8] https://www.booksmith.com/

[9] http://therhino.org/

[10] https://shotgunplayers.org/

[11] https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/

[12] https://42ndstmoon.org/

[13] https://www.keplers.com/

[14] http://www.lincolncenter.org/lincoln-center-at-home/series/live-from-lincoln-center

[15] http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/

[16] http://www.barrylopez.com/

[17] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/barry-lopez/

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

Announcements.

Bay Area Book Festival [1]. Merlin Sheldrake and Michael Pollan on Entangled Life, Tuesday July 7, 2020, noon Pacific.

The Booksmith [2] lists its entire July on-line schedule of interviews and readings on their website, which includes Lockdown Lit every Tuesday at 11 am, July 7: Meredith O’Brien and Lesley Gray Streeter. July 8, 7 pm, Thea Matthews with her collection, Unearth.

Theatre Rhino [3] Thursday play at 8 pm July 2, 2020 on Facebook Live is Johnson, conceived and performed by John Fisher. The Death of Ruby Slippers by Stuart Bousel, on Zoom, July 7, 2020, 7 pm, register in advance.

Shotgun Players. [4] Streaming, the folk opera Iron Shoes. Recorded in spring 2018, starting July 3 and continuing through July 17, and The Claim, workshop production. The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess, July 9-12, 7 pm. Registration required.

San Francisco Playhouse [5]. Every Monday, SF Playhouse presents Zoomlets, a series of short play table reads. Monday July 6, 7 pm: The Forgotten Place by Jeff Locker. Registration required.

42nd Street Moon [6] presents a zoom musical theatre trivia contest on Sundays at 8 pm You can get the meeting ID on their website.

Kepler’s Book [7]s presents Refresh the Page, on line interviews and talks, July 6, 7 pm Daniel Mason with Andrew Sean Greer; July 7, 6 pm, Kalyn Josephson with Shannon Price. Registration required.

Lincoln Center Live [8] July 10 - September 8, 2020: Carousel, with Kelli O'Hara and Nathan Gunn.

National Theater At Home [9] on You Tube: Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry.

 

Bookwaves

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, who died on June 19, 2020 in Los Angeles of colorectal cancer at the age of 55, burst onto the literary scene in 2001 with his novel, The Shadow of the Wind, first of an interrelated group of four novels titled The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, set in Barcelona, Spain, his birthplace. This interview, recorded in May, 2009, focuses on the second novel in the series, The Angel's Game.  The next book in the series, The Prisoner of Heaven, came out in 2012, and the final book, The Labyrinth of Spirits, was published in 2018. There were also four young adult novels, three published after this interview. Complete 54-minute interview. [10]

 

Arts-Waves

Rupert Everett and Richard Wolinsky.

Rupert Everett in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, September 26, 2018 about the film he wrote, directed and starred in, The Happy Prince, about Oscar Wilde's final years in exile.

Rupert Everett’s film career took off with lead roles in the British films “Another Country” and “Dance with a Stranger” in the mid 1980s before his career took a nosedive when he came out as gay. He resurfaced in the late 1990s as a Hollywood star in the film “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” a period that lasted a short time before roles again dried up. Shortly afterward, he began working on a screenplay about Oscar Wilde’s final years, which finally has reached the screen as “The Happy Prince. The film stars Rupert Everett, who also served as director and screenwriter. The Happy Prince is now available for STARZ subscribers as well as On Demand.

 

 

[1] https://www.baybookfest.org/

[2] https://www.booksmith.com/

[3] http://therhino.org/

[4] https://shotgunplayers.org/

[5] https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/

[6] https://42ndstmoon.org/

[7] https://www.keplers.com/

[8] http://www.lincolncenter.org/lincoln-center-at-home/series/live-from-lincoln-center

[9] http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/

[10] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/carlos-ruiz-zafon-1964-2020/

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

Announcements.

Pride 2020:

Playbill/Pride Plays: [1] The Men from the Boys by Mart Crowley, directed by Zachary Quinto, streams through June 29, 2020. Pride Spectacular Sunday June 28,2020 at 5 pm Pacific.

Global Pride [2] live stream, focusing on Black Lives Matter, and featuring guests ranging from Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi to Adam Lambert and Lavern Cox and the Dixie Chicks, starts Saturday June 27, 2020 at 7:30 am Pacific time, continuing through Sunday.

San Francisco Pride [3] is hosting two days of live events, with multiple streams featuring musical guests, panel discussions and more, starting Saturday morning and continuing through Sunday. Sunday main stream special guest is singer Thelma Houston, along with W. Kamau Bell and BLM co-founder Alicia Garza. A second stream features community programmed stages The Oasis Pride Drag Show [4] starting on Saturday June 27th at 7 pm.

Theatre Rhino  [5]Post-pride Zoom community mixer with Peaches Christ on Monday June 29 , 7 pm. Register at therhino.org [6]

New Conservatory Theatre Center [7]A Night Out with Katya Smirnoff Skyy Tues., June 30, 6 pm.

Other Announcements.

The Playground [8]is presenting, in honor of Black Lives Matter, a Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project: Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids [9] by Vincent Terrell Durham, Streaming through June 30th. Co-sponsored by 30 companies, including Berkeley Rep, Marin Theatre Company, Custom Made Theatre, Cal Shakes, Cutting Ball, etc.

Bay Area Book Festival [10]. Merlin Sheldrake and Michael Pollan on Entangled Life, Tuesday July 7, 2020, noon Pacific.

The Booksmith [11] lists its entire June on-line schedule of interviews and readings on their website, which includes Lockdown Lit every Tuesday at 11 am.

Book Passage [12] author events: Dominique Crenn, Sat. June 27, 4 pm Pacific; Jill Biden, Sun. June 28, 4 pm Pacific. Registration required.

Theatre Rhino [13] Thursday play at 8 pm June 11, 2020 on Facebook Live is Frank Kameny: Eyes on the Stars, conceived and performed by John Fisher. The Death of Ruby Slippers by Stuart Bousel, on Zoom, July 7, 2020, 7 pm, register in advance.

Shotgun Players. [14] Streaming: The Claim, workshop production. The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess, July 9-12, 7 pm. Registration required.

San Francisco Playhouse [15].\Every Monday, SF Playhouse presents Zoomlets, a series of short play table reads. Monday June 29, 7 pm: Rules of Comedy by Patricia Cotter.

Kepler’s Book [16]s presents Refresh the Page, on line interviews and talks, June 25, 7:30 Mohsin Hamid. June 30, 7 pm: Joyce Carol Oates with Leila Lalami

National Theater At Home [17] on You Tube: A Midsummer Night's Dream.

 

Bookwaves

Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Recorded in January 2013.

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie revolves around the matriarch of a black family of the Great Migration [18] and her children and grandchildren, and was an Oprah Book Club selection. From the New York Times review: "Hattie Shepherd, the title character of Ayana Mathis’s piercing debut novel, is at once a tragic heroine with mythic dimensions and an entirely recognizable mother and wife trying to make ends meet. Her story, set in 20th-century Philadelphia, is one of terrible loss and grief and survival, a story of endurance in the face of disappointment, heartbreak and harrowing adversity." This was a debut novel.

Complete 44-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast. [19]

 

Arts-Waves

Mart Crowley, author of “The Boys in the Band” and its sequel, “The Men from the Boys,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky on October 31, 2002.

Mart Crowley’s play The Boys in the Band, which deals with the lives of gay men in the 1960s burst upon the off-Broadway scene in 1968 and ran for a thousand performances, becoming a film directed by William Friedkin two years later. In 2002, he wrote a sequel titled The Men from the Boys, which took place 35 years later, after Stonewall and after the AIDS epidemic. It premiered at San Francisco’s New Conservatory Theatre on November 9, 2002. This past year, Broadway saw a revival of The Boys in the Band, featuring Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannels and Jim Parsons. Several members of that cast, including Mario Cantone and Denis O’Hare return to their roles for a live stream of The Men From the Boys, directed by Zachary Quinto, streams through June 29, 2020 on playbill.com/prideplays

Mart Crowley died of a heart attack on March 7, 2020 at the age of 84. Complete 62-minute Bay Area Theater podcast. [20]

 

 

[1] https://playbill.com/prideplays

[2] https://www.globalpride2020.org/

[3] https://sfpride.org/

[4] https://sfoasis.com/

[5] http://therhino.org/

[6] http://therhino.org/

[7] https://www.nctcsf.org/

[8] https://playground-sf.org/

[9] https://tickets.playground-sf.org/TheatreManager/1/online?event=0

[10] https://www.baybookfest.org/

[11] https://www.booksmith.com/

[12] https://www.bookpassage.com/

[13] http://therhino.org/

[14] https://shotgunplayers.org/

[15] https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/

[16] https://www.keplers.com/

[17] http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/

[18] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)

[19] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/ayana-mathis-the-twelve-tribes-of-hattie/

[20] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/playwright-interview-mart-crowley-1935-2020/

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

Announcements.

The Playground [1]is presenting, in honor of Black Lives Matter, a Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project: Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids [2] by Vincent Terrell Durham, June 19th at 7 pm. Via Zoom On Demand. Co-sponsored by 30 companies, including Berkeley Rep, Marin Theatre Company, Custom Made Theatre, Cal Shakes, Cutting Ball, etc.

Bay Area Book Festival [3]. Coming Together fundraiser from March with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Anthony Doerr and and RO Kwon now streaming as a benefit; available free in the future.

The Booksmith [4] lists its entire June on-line schedule of interviews and readings on their website, which includes Lockdown Lit every Tuesday at 11 am.

Book Passage [5] author interviews: Elizabeth George, Saturday June 20 at 4 pm and Jason and Paris Rosenthal Sunday June 21 at 4 pm. Registration required.

Theatre Rhino [6] Thursday play at 8 pm June 11, 2020 on Facebook Live is Wahoo, conceived and performed by John Fisher,on Facebook Live. and Lavender Scare can be streamed through the KALW website.   [7]

Shotgun Players. [8] Streaming: Arcadia by Tom Stoppard [9], 2018 production. The Claim, workshop production. June 20, 2020, 5 pm via Zoom, podcast [10].

San Francisco Playhouse [11]. Thursday June 18, 7 pm Artistic Director Bill English interviews Michael Gene Sullivan. Every Monday, SF Playhouse presents Zoomlets, a series of short play table reads. Monday June 22, 7 pm: The Jewish Wife by Bertolt Brecht, with Susi Damilano and Anthony Fusco, directed by Carey Perloff.

Kepler’s Book [12]s presents Refresh the Page, on line interviews and talks, June 18th, 6:30 featuring Neil Shubin with Kishore Hari. Robert Reich Tuesday June 23rd at 8 pm,

American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) [13]presents Take Ten, a series of six ten-minute interactive theatre games for adults and children.

National Theater At Home [14] on You Tube: Small Island.

Bookwaves:

Judy Juanita, author of the novel “Virgin Soul,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded spring, 2013.

Judy Juanita is a poet, novelist and playwright. In her younger days, as Judy Hart, while at San Francisco State, she served as editor in chief of The Black Panther newspaper, and lived in one of the Black Panther safe houses in 1967. Along the way she came to know such figures as Bobby Seale and Huey Newton.

In 2013, her first novel, Virgin Soul, was published. It’s a fictionalized memoir of her life in the black student movement and with the Panthers. This interview, recorded recorded in the spring of 2013, goes into detail about her life during the Panther days, about the relationship of the book to actual history, and about Judy Juanita’s life after the Panthers.

Since 2013, Judy Juanita has continued to write and teach Her collection of essays, DeFacto Feminism: Essays Straight Outta Oakland was published in 2016, and she recently had a story published in the collection Oakland Noir. Judy Juanita recently completed a second novel. Extended podcast. [15]

Bookwaves:

Bonnie Tsui discusses her book, Why We Swim, which examines the human need for moving in water, from the history of swim strokes, to how physiology plays a role in swimming, to the history of swimming from ancient times in the Sahara to Rome and to the present, and how swimming became a sport.

Bonnie Tsui lives in the Bay Area and swims regularly at the Albany Pool, when it's open, and also swims in San Francisco Bay. She is also the author of American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods.

In the interview she discusses some of the topics in her book, and how the pandemic has affected Asian Americans. Recorded using internal Mac microphones on the zencastr website. Extended 34-minute podcast. [16]

Bonnie Tsui portrait photo: copyright Lindsay Skiba. By permission of the publisher.

[1] https://playground-sf.org/

[2] https://tickets.playground-sf.org/TheatreManager/1/online?event=0

[3] https://www.baybookfest.org/

[4] https://www.booksmith.com/

[5] https://www.bookpassage.com/

[6] http://therhino.org/

[7] https://www.kalw.org/#stream/0

[8] https://shotgunplayers.org/

[9] https://vimeo.com/ondemand/arcadia2?utm_source=Shotgun+Players+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=05aebbc405-6.10+New+Streaming+Content&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5413d54b08-05aebbc405-142538425&mc_cid=05aebbc405&mc_eid=dd0953b604

[10] https://shotgunplayers.libsyn.com/?utm_source=Shotgun+Players+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=05aebbc405-6.10+New+Streaming+Content&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5413d54b08-05aebbc405-142538425&mc_cid=05aebbc405&mc_eid=dd0953b604

[11] https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/

[12] https://www.keplers.com/

[13] https://www.act-sf.org/

[14] http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/

[15] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/judy-juanita-virgin-soul-2013/

[16] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/bonnie-tsui-why-we-swim/

Announcements.

Bay Area Book Festival [1]. A conversation between poets Jericho Brown and Nikky Finney, The Witness We Bear, in conversation with Ismael Muhammed, recorded Friday, June 5, 2020, streaming on the Bay Area Book Festival You Tube [2] channel.

The Booksmith [3] lists its entire June on-line schedule of interviews and readings on their website, which includes Lockdown Lit every Tuesday at 11 am.

Book Passage [4] author interviews: Janine Urbaniak Reid in conversation with Anne Lamott on Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 4 pm, and Julie Lithcott Haynes in conversation with Paula Farma on Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 4 pm. You can register on the Book Passage website.

Theatre Rhino [5] Thursday play at 8 pm June 11, 2020 on Facebook Live is the Doodler Finale, the Castro Murders, Part Two with John Fisher., and Lavender Scare can be streamed through the KALW website.   [6]

California Shakespeare Theatre, [7] Friday June 12th, from 5 to 6:30 pm, Direct Address, a panel discussion on anti-racist practices and allyship. Moderated by Lauren Spencer (actor and educator). Panelists: Meredith Smith (People's Institute for Survival and Beyond), Fresh "Lev" White (Affirmative Acts Consulting), Michael Robertson (artEquity), and Jasmin Hoo (Asians4BlackLives, API Equality- Northern California). Registration page. [8]

Shotgun Players. [9] Streaming: Arcadia by Tom Stoppard [10], 2018 production. The Claim, workshop production. June 20, 2020, 5 pm via Zoom, podcast [11].

San Francisco Playhouse [12]. Zoomlets: Short play Table Read, Mondays at 7 pm

National Theater At Home [13] on You Tube: The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett.

This program features two recent interviews that resonate with the week’s protests and with the push toward fascism in Washington.

Bookwaves

Tayari Jones, whose latest novel is “An American Marriage,” is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky.

Tayari Jones is the author of the novels Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, Silver Sparrow, and her latest, An American Marriage (Algonquin Books, February 2018). Her writing has appeared in Tin House, The Believer, The New York Times, and Callaloo.  A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, she has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Lifetime Achievement Award in Fine Arts from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, United States Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship.

“An American Marriage” deals with a African American spouses torn apart by the unjust arrest and imprisonment of the husband after an accusation by a white woman at a motel, and how both husband and wife deal with the following few years.

Tayari Jones website. [14]Extended Radio Wolinsky podcast. [15]

 

Art-Waves

Richard Wolinsky & Frank Galati.

Frank Galati, director of “Rhinoceros” by Eugene Ionesco, which ran last June at ACT’s Geary Theatre in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky.

Frank Galati is a long-time member of the legendary Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, and has taught at Northwestern University. The winner of Tony Awards for the adaptation and direction of The Grapes of Wrath in 1990, was nominated for an Oscar for co-adapting The Accidental Tourist for the screen, and was the director of Ragtime and The Pirate Queen on Broadway Frank Galati is also known for adapting several other works for stage and screen.

“Rhinoceros” is considered to be one of the greatest works of political theatre of the absurd. Originally produced in the late 1950s, the play hearkens back to the origins of fascism and how propaganda infects the minds of citizens.

Extended 41-minute Bay Area Theatre podcast. [16]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[1] https://www.baybookfest.org/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6ErosL8s73PF6RtTzwlXQA

[3] https://www.booksmith.com/

[4] https://www.bookpassage.com/

[5] http://therhino.org/

[6] https://www.kalw.org/#stream/0

[7] https://calshakes.org/

[8] https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eh0byQzwTHSNn6mI9AFkrg?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AllyshipPanel%3AJasminHoo&utm_content=version_A

[9] https://shotgunplayers.org/

[10] https://vimeo.com/ondemand/arcadia2?utm_source=Shotgun+Players+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=05aebbc405-6.10+New+Streaming+Content&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5413d54b08-05aebbc405-142538425&mc_cid=05aebbc405&mc_eid=dd0953b604

[11] https://shotgunplayers.libsyn.com/?utm_source=Shotgun+Players+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=05aebbc405-6.10+New+Streaming+Content&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5413d54b08-05aebbc405-142538425&mc_cid=05aebbc405&mc_eid=dd0953b604

[12] https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/

[13] http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/

[14] http://www.tayarijones.com/

[15] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/encore-podcast-tayari-jones/

[16] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/interview-frank-galati-ionescos-rhinoceros-at-act-geary/

Announcements.

42nd Street Moon [1] discussion about the musical The Scottsboro Boys originally scheduled for Tuesday June 2nd will now air next Tuesday, June 9th at 8 pm on Facebook live and on the 42nd Street Moon website.

Theatre Rhino [2] presents Doodler, Thursday June 4th, conceived and performed by John Fisher, on Facebook Live at 8 pm (with a new play every Thursday at 8 pm, and Lavender Scare can be streamed through the KALW website.   [3]

The Booksmith [4] lists its entire June on-line schedule of interviews and readings on their website, which includes Lockdown Lit every Tuesday at 11 am.

Book Passage [5] also offers Conversations with Authors every weekend in June. Coming up this weekend, Jennifer Steinhauer at 4 pm on June 6th and Michael Connolly at 4 pm on June 7th.

Dark Carnival Bookstore [6] presents a conversation between John Scalzi and Sarah Gailey, Wednesday, June 10th at noon. Sign up for Zoom.

National Theater At Home [7] on You Tube: Shakespeare's Coriolanus with Tom Hiddleston.

Today's program is in solidarity with those protesting every day America's institutionalized racism and the racism and militarization of police departments around the country, and with the Black Lives Matter movement and for justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other African Americans killed by police violence, and in solidarity with anti-fascism the world over.

Bookwaves

Erik Larson discusses In The Garden of Beasts, recorded in 2011. While history never repeats itself exactly, some elements remain the same. After an election in which a plurality, not a majority, of votes went to the Nazi Party in 1933, Adolf Hitler became Germany’s Chancellor, and over the course of the next few years, used a combination of propaganda and state-sanctioned violence to become dictator. What we’re seeing in the United States are similar moves by Donald Trump and his enablers. Erik Larson is the author of several other works of narrative non-fiction, including his latest, The Splendid and the Vile, about Winston Churchill, Great Britain and World War Ii in 1940. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.    Complete 44-minute interview. [8]

Artwaves

Tarell Alvin McCraney, playwright, actor and screenwriter, recorded in 2014 as he had two plays produced in the Bay Area, Head of Passes at Berkeley Rep, and Choir Boy at Marin Theatre Company. Both plays eventually made it to New York to excellent reviews. Since the interview, he won the Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay of the film Moonlight, based on one of his plays, and wrote the screenplay for the Netflix film High Flying Bird. Tarell Alvin McCraney is also the author of the acclaimed Brother Sister Plays Trilogy, and most recently, created the TV series David Makes Man, which aired on the OWN network and can be seen now on DirectTV.

 

[1] https://42ndstmoon.org/

[2] http://therhino.org/

[3] https://www.kalw.org/#stream/0

[4] https://www.booksmith.com/

[5] https://www.bookpassage.com/

[6] http://www.darkcarnival.com/

[7] http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/

[8] https://kpfa.org/area941/episode/erik-larson-2011-in-the-garden-of-beasts-berlin-in-the-1930s/

Bookwaves presents in-depth interviews with authors of fiction and narrative non-fiction, delving deeply into political and social issues, literary technique, and the life of the author.

Interviews devoted to the arts, focusing on theatre and literature, with side-trips to film and non-fiction narratives. Also on tap: archive interviews from Probabilities and Bookwaves.

Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.

Bookwaves presents in-depth interviews with authors of fiction and narrative non-fiction, delving deeply into political and social issues, literary technique, and the life of the author.

Interviews devoted to the arts, focusing on theatre and literature, with side-trips to film and non-fiction narratives. Also on tap: archive interviews from Probabilities and Bookwaves.

Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.