Emily Jeanne Brown plays a managing director of a private equity firm in Sarah Burgess’s play “Dry Powder,” now at Aurora Theatre through July 29. She is interviewed by KPFA associate theater critic C.S. Soong.
Bay Area Theater
Bay Area theatre reviews with KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky, plus interviews with local Artistic Directors, actors and directors. Older posts include interviews witth former associate KPFA theatre critic C.S. Soong. Dates when reviews airs can be found at http://bookwaves.homestead.com/Theatre_Reviews.html
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Dry Powder,” written by Sarah Burgess and directed by Jennifer King, at Aurora Theatre Company through July 22, 2018.
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews the new musical “Soft Power,” at the Curran Theatre through July 8, 2018.
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Straight White Men” by Young Jean Lee, at Marin Theatre Company through July 8, 2018.
Octavio Solis, whose latest play is “Quixote Nuevo” at California Shakespeare Theatre, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Author of over 20 plays, Octavio Solis is considered by many to be one of the most prominent Latino playwrights in America.
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews a world premiere musical, “A Walk on the Moon” at ACT’s Geary Theatre, through July 1, 2018.
Playwright David Henry Hwang and composer Jeanine Tesori discuss their latest project, an original musical titled “Soft Power,” at the Curran Theatre June 20-July 8, 2018, with host Richard Wolinsky. “Soft Power” starts with a play and turns into a musical, about a reverse “King and I” created in China and produced fifty years in … Continued
Sheryl Kaller, director, and Pamela Gray, playwright of “A Walk on the Moon,” a world premiere musical at A.C.T. Geary Theatre, June 9-July 1, 2018, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. “A Walk in the Moon” is based on the 1999 film with a screenplay by Pamela Gray. Sheryl Kaller is a Tony-nominated director whose most recent Broadway play was “Mothers & Sons” by Terence McNally in 2014. And among Pamela Gray’s other screenplays are “Music of the Heart” and more recently, “Megan Leavey.”
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Howard Crabtree’s When Pigs Fly,” at New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco through June 10, 2018
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “An Entomologist’s Love Story” by Melissa Ross, at San Francisco Playhouse through June 23, 2018.