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
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.
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “What The Constitution Means to Me” by Heidi Schreck, at Berkeley Rep through June 17, 2018.
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Marjorie Prime” by Jordan Harrison at Marin Theatre Company through May 27, 2018.
Liz Diamond, director of “Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts 1, 2 and 3” by Suzan-Lori Parks, at ACT’s Geary Theatre, and the head of Yale Drama School’s Directing Department, in coversation with Richard Wolinsky.
KPFA theater critic Richard Wolinsky gives capsule reviews of Angels in America at Berkeley Rep; FAther Comes Home from the Wars Parts 1, 2 and 3 at ACT Geary Theatre; The Color Purple at SHN Orpheum, and Tinderella, a Faultline Theatre production at Custom Made.
Tom Alan Robbins portrayed Pumbaa the warthog on Broadway for thirteen years in The Lion King. At present he plays Dametas, the king’s servant, in Head over Heels at the Curran through May 6, 2018 and in June, on Broadway. He also performed in the original casts of Sunset Blvd, Jerome Robbins Broadway and other shows. Richard Wolinsky had a chance to speak with Tom Alan Robbins during press day for Head Over Heels.
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Aurora Day,” a world premiere play by Jonathan Spector, at Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley through May 13, 2018
