Frank Galati, director of “Rhinoceros” by Eugene Ionesco, at ACT’s Geary Theatre through June 23, 2019, is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky.
Arts-Waves on Cover to Cover
3:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays
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.
An interview with Annette O’Toole, one of the stars of “The Good Book,” now at Berkeley Rep’s Peets Theatre. Annette O’Toole has been performing since the mid-1960s. She played Martha Kent for six seasons on “Smallville,” and has been a featured performer on other TV series. Most recently, she played the villain in the current season of “The Punisher” on Netflix. She is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky.
Kate Kilbane and and Dan Moses, The Kilbanes, discuss their rock opera “Weightless,” at ACT’s Strand Theatre through May 12, 2019 with host Richard Wolinsky. Weightless tells the story of Procne and Philomela, two sisters who are betrayed and seek revenge, from Ovid’s Metamorphosis.
George R.R. Martin, recorded in 1991, interviewed by Richard Wolinsky & Richard A. Lupoff. As Game of Thrones airs its final season, we can look back on the career of George R.R. Martin, to the days before his fantasy series was published, when he was best known as a writer for television, though he’d already written novels and short stories.
Tayari Jones, whose latest novel is “An American Marriage,” is interviewed by host Richard Wolinsky. “An American Marriage” deals with a marriage torn apart by the unjust arrest and imprisonment of the husband after an accusation by a white woman at a motel, and how both spouses deal with the following few years. Now out in trade paperback.
Justin Martin, co-director, and Ammar Haj Ahmad, one of the principal actors of “The Jungle,” a play by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco through May 18, 2019, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. “The Jungle” tells the story of the rise and fall of a camp near Calais for those seeking asylum in Britain.
Arts-Waves – March 25, 2019: Falsettos
James Lapine, director; William Finn, composer-lyricist; Spencer Liff, choreographer; and Jordan Roth, producer discuss the musical Falsettos, now in a national tour production at SHN’s Golden Gate Theatre through April 14, 2018. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Mfoniso Udofia is one of America’s fastest rising playwrights. A second-generation Nigerian-American, plays in her Ufot family cycle have been performed in New York, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area, where two of those works are currently seeing productions. “Her Portmaneau” can currently be seen at ACT’s Strand Theatre through March 31st, and … Continued
Don Reed, whose solo show, “That Don Reed Show,” can be seen at the Marsh in Berkeley through April 28th, and then later at the Marsh in San Francisco, is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky. Don Reed is a noted stand-up comedian and actor who can also be seen in the Amazon TV series, “Bartlett,” which stars Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Josh Costello, just named new Artistic Director of Aurora Theatre Company starting in July, 2019, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky.