KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Heisenberg” by Simon Stephens, at ACT’s Geary Theatre through April 8, 2018. ACT website
Peter Carey, whose latest novel is “A Long Way from Home,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Two-time winner of the prestigious Booker Prize, Peter Carey is Australia’s most distinguished author. Among his works are Oscar and Lucinda, The True History of the Kelly Gang, Jack Maggs and Parrott and Olivier in America. A Long Way From Home delves into the story of racism in Australia and the oppression of the indigenous aboriginal peoples who inhabited the continent for two centuries before the white man and colonialism arrived.
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
In the space of a few days, Facebook’s gotten itself back in the spotlight over its role in the 2016 election, dropped over $50 billion from its market valuation, gotten called on to testify in both the US Congress and the UK Parliament — all because it let data on 50 million users slip into … Continued
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.
Joyce Maynard, whose latest book is a memoir, “The Best of Us,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. The author of several novels and multiple memoirs, Joyce Maynard’s latest book deals with her unexpected relationship and marriage in her late sixties, followed shortly thereafter with her husband’s diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. It’s both a love story and a harrowing tale of coping with a fatal disease.
Ryan Weible, director of the Bay Area professional premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s first show, “Saturday Night,” a 42nd Street Moon production at the Gateway (formerly Eureka) Theatre in San Francisco, which runs March 28-April 15, discusses the show, its history, and his own history in theatre and as a director, with host Richard Wolinsky.
Once, the internet was a utopia, a new intellectual commons. Then it was a goldmine, where new businesses would stake their claim. For the past couple years, we’ve been been covering it as a swamp – a convening ground for trolls and Nazis, a platform for disinformation and and fake news, an impressive tool for … Continued
Last fall, the tech world was a-twitter over a post by Google employee James Damore suggesting the company’s gender diversity problem might have more to do with women’s genetics than the company’s culture, and complaining that the company was too politically correct to engage his arguments. That post—and the fact that he eventually got fired … Continued
Jackie Chung plays a writing professor who reaches out to a troubled student in Julia Cho’s play “Office Hour,” now at Berkeley Repertory Theatre through March 25. She is interviewed by KPFA associate theater critic C.S. Soong.