KPFA theater critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “An Octoroon” by Branden Jacobs Jenkins, directed by Eric Ting, at Berkeley Rep, extended to July 29, 2017.
KPFA theater critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Spendour” by Abi Morgan, at Aurora Theatre in Berkeley through July 23, 2017.
In this episode of the IGDCAST, we catch up with longtime radio show and podcast The Final Straw, who has been producing high-quality anarchist content for years, to talk about their recent trip to an anarchist radio conference in Europe. We discuss the conference, the wide variety of anarchist radio projects from South America to Europe that … Continued
Colm Toibin, author of “House of Names,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. “House of Names” is a retelling of the story of the House of Atreus, the classic Greek tragedy of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Electra and Orestes, which formed the basis of plays by Sophocles, Euripedes and Aeschylus, as well as influenced playwrights from Shakespeare to Eugene O’Neill.
John Fisher, artistic director of Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco, discusses its latest production, the musical “Priscilla Queen of the Desert,” at the Eureka Theater in San Francisco through July 1st. He also discusses the upcoming season as well as the production of Shakespeare’s King Lear at Yerba Buena Gardens July 7th through 9th. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
From jumping off pianos with James Brown to running the streets with Etta James, Sugar Pie DeSanto has led a wild life. In this episode, the soul singer shares memories of performing in Oakland’s legendary 1950s blues clubs, stunning global audiences with her risqué moves, and making grown men cry. As Sugar Pie puts it, … Continued
What would you do if your family’s home was threatened by eminent domain to make way for a pipeline of fracked gas? Would you roll over? Give up? Take the money and run? Or would you stand and fight? This interview, with Camp White Pine, details how one family in Pennsylvania stood up to a … Continued
“OG Told Me” isn’t just a new book, it’s a survival guide packed full of advice that Pendarvis Harshaw gathered from more than 50 interviews with Black elders. This episode takes a trip back in time though hyphy-era sideshows, graffiti yards and even a possibly haunted building in downtown Oakland.
New Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District Housing Issues in San Francisco. The Mayor Race.
There’s no question that antifascism has taken up a lot of space on both IGD and within the wider anarchist movement. Talk about antifascists has also spilled into the mainstream, with many journalists treating it, along with the tactics like the black bloc, as a new phenomenon that has arisen in the past few months … Continued