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Theatreworks presents August Wilson’s, RADIO GOLF. Directed by Harry Elam. A timely show for the conditions in which Obama is pioneering.
Podcast #187
[C.As.H]:
The very first thing I have all guest do on the cool as hell theatre podcast is, I give them 30 seconds to describe what the show is about. The show you are directing for Theatreworks is called Radio Golf by August Wilson. 30 seconds. Go.
[Harry Elam]:
The play is about Harmond Wilks who [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ragged Wing Ensemble presents Clive Barkers THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL, and asks us to consider the possibility that the Devil does not perpetrate atrocities against us!Podcast #186
Ragged Wing Ensemble Presents: The History of the Devil, playing Oct 3rd " Nov 1st
Clive Barker: Playwright
A rough sketch of the interview (not transcribed word for word)
[Synopsis]: The devil is being put on trial for his alleged crimes against humanity. If he is found innocent he gets to go up to heaven and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Magic Theatre Presents “The K of D: An Urban Legend”, written by Laura Schellhardt, directed by the lovely Rebecca Novick, and acted by the talented Maya Lawson.Podcast #185
ONE YOUNG GIRL, IN A SMALL TOWN, WHERE EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYONE, AND SHADINESS LURKS AROUND MANY CORNERS. CAN YOU GUESS WHAT HAPPENS TO HER IN THAT CIRCUMSTANCE? AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU INJECT THE IDEA OF URBAN LEGENDS INTO THE MIX?
The play is called The K of D, aka, The Kiss of Death
One [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Second Wind Productions presents FLAG DAY, by Lee Blessing. A blatant look at racism in America.Podcast #184
IF THE WORDS NIGGA AND CRACKA ARE TERMS YOU FEEL ARE IN NEED DEEP EXAMINATION IN OUR COUNTRY THEN YOU WILL UNDOUBTEDLY ENJOY THIS PODCAST WITH THE CAST AND CREW OF SECOND WIND WHO ARE PRESENTING FLAG DAY BY LEE BLESSING
And dont worry, those words arent said in the interview, but a deep [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aurora Theatre presents the political thriller, THE BEST MAN, written by Gore Vidal, and directed by Artistic Director Tom RossPodcast #183
IF YOU LIKE DRAMATIC SATIRICAL COMEDIES DRENCHED IN ISSUES SURROUNDING POLITICAL ETHICS, THEN YOU ARE BOUND TO LOVE GORE VIDALS “THE BEST MAN” PRESENTED BY AURORA THEATRE.
Its being performed August 22, - Sept 28
I personally did not grow up hearing about Gore Vidal. As a matter of fact, when I was contacted to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Along the Paths of Larks and Swallows, by Mia Paschal, being performed at the 2008 SF Fringe Festival.Podcast #182
Along The Paths Of Larks And Swallows performed by Mia Paschal, plays at the SF Fringe Festival 2008.
Winner of the Best Female Solo Award at the SF Fringe in 2004 and 2006, Mia returns with a darkly comic valentine.
“..beautifully written and performed…Cheerfully delivering crisp aphorisms, delving into the nitty-gritty of relationships gone bad, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Punchline, by Alicia Dattner, being performed at the 2008 SF Fringe Festival.Podcast #181
The Punchline performed by comic Alicia Dattner, plays at the SF Fringe Festival 2008.
This one-woman-show takes an irreverent look at what stops people from pursuing their dreams. Dives inside the wild playground of the mind and ask the big questions: What’s life all about? Why am I here? Where are you hiding the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exit Sign: A Rock Opera, being performed at the 2008 SF Fringe FestivalPodcast #180
Exit Sign: A Rock Opera performed by Supersonic Theatre, plays at the SF Fringe Festival 2008.
Hot off the heels of its sold-out June premiere, this rock-n-roll musical adventure follows a father and daughter as they travel through experiences of time, mortality, death and love. “Inspired by the fallout from her father’s death, Baum’s [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theres A Monster In The Well: SF Fringe Festival 2008Podcast #179
There is a Monster In The Well performed by Bitter Show plays at the SF Fringe Festival 2008.
Bitter Show is a well-seasoned sketch-comedy super group. Their latest effort is an over-produced, multi-media extravaganza of music, comedy that features an actual well with an actual fake monster in it. Bitter Show’s “There’s a Monster [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UBU FOR PRESIDENT, by Shotgun Players, promises to give an absurdist look at the presidential elections, based on the 1896 play UBU ROIPodcast #178
Ubu For President is about a big slobbering, farting war general who becomes the leader of the make-believe land called Fugall who goes on to rape, pillage and plunder the men women and children of the land
So why and the hell would anyone want to watch this show?
Because it is going to be [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pangs Theatre produces 3 Lorca plays: Blood Wedding, Yerma, and the House of Bernarda Alba.Podcast #177
SEX, MONEY, AND ACTION: PANGS THEATER PROMISES THERE PRODUCTION OF THE LORCA SUMMER FEST WILL GIVE YOU ALL THREE VICES MAKING THIS PRODUCTION WELL WORTH YOUR TIME AND ENTRANCE FEE.
Yes, thats right. S.M.Ac: Sex, Money and ACtion
Pangs theatres artistic director has taken on an impossible challenge. He is producing 3 of Frederico Garcia [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roger Rees: star of stage, TV and film, performs his one man show: WHAT YOU WILL at A.C.T. Geary TheatrePodcast #176
THERE IS A SHOW COMING CALLED WHAT YOU WILL
Initially to be called BARD FOR LIFE, until performer / playwright decided on the more practical
And it stars a gentleman of distinction. It will be playing July 18th - August 9th, 2008 at A.C.Ts Geary theatre for a limited engagement run.
I dont want to give [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liza Raynal does the Army in her new show AMERICAN JOE, performed at The Marsh Theatre.Podcast #175
IMAGINE YOUR SIBLING, WHO YOU ARE CLOSE TO, SUDDENLY DOES SOMETHING THAT GOES AGAINST THE VERY FIBER OF YOUR BEING. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
I will tell you what Bay Area artist, Liza Raynal did. She created a show. Can you imagine being put in a position of having someone so close to you [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The San Francisco Mime Troupe presents RED STATE: A play about a small town in a red state that hold the presidential elections by its genitals.Podcast #174
RED STATE: THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT MANY CONSIDER TO BE HEALTHY, INTELLIGENT AND PROGRESSIVE
Do you remember where you where the first time you heard about the explosive and derisive talks of evolution versus creationism? And do you remember the debates where evolution was to be ousted from school curriculum?
How do you feel [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theatreworks, Robert Kelley, and Stephen Swartz attempt to remix some famous songs from Pippen, Godspell, Wicked, Rags and Working in a new play called SNAPSHOTS!Podcast #173
WHAT GRAINS OF WISDOM CAN YOU HARVEST FROM A MAN WITH A PHENOMENAL MILESTONE THAT MOST THEATRES CAN ONLY DREAM OF
It takes a person of certain determination to take a theatre from nothing to attracting world class artists. Robert Kelley is the pioneering founding artistic director (and director of their current production: SNAPSHOTS) [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What happens when a cutting edge Literary magazine meets some of the most innovative theatre performers in the SF Bay Area?Podcast #172
WE ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD
The San Francisco Bay Area has some of the best performers in the world. This is no exaggeration, as, per capita, San Francisco has one of the largest performance communities in the nation. I have personally seen and / or interviewed many of the brilliant personalities that [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can a white jewish boy, immersed in the Hip Hop culture, re-define his religious, cultural and historical identity and find peace within himself?Podcast #171
Dan Wolf is a cool cat. He is a white jewish guy who raps, acts, produces and writes. he invited me to his house to talk about his latest production called ANGRY WHITE BLACK BOY, a play he re-imagined based on the novel of the same title by Adam Mansbach.
I felt compelled to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ann Randolph present SQUEEZE BOX: A comical exploration of dementia, psychosis, and her life as an employee at a woman’s homeless shelter.Podcast #170
Ann Randolph presents SQUEEZE BOX at the Marsh Theatre. Ann holds the distinction of having Anne Bancroft and Mel brooks invest over $300,000 of their own money to take her show off-Broadway as well as make it into a movie. Unfortunately Anne Bancroft died before the movie came to fruition. Not one [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oakland Opera Theatre presents QUEENIE PIE, a play that focuses on the first self made American female millionaire: Madame CJ WalkerPodcast #169
Oakland Opera Theatre presents Queenie Pie, an incomplete play written by Duke Ellington. Oakland Opera has felt the need to mount this production, that was originally written for television (but never made the air). They have put together a restoration team to finish the score and to finish the script. I talk with [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What do Sherry Glaser Love’s breasts have in common with a Mexican, an evangelist and presidental candidate Barack Obama?Podcast #168
Sherry Glaser Love presents THE BREAST OF SHERRY GLASER, her comedic look at her activism work for the past 20 years. In this podcast she discusses her work with the peace activist group “Breasts not Bombs” and how it relates to her current production. She reveals one of her most funny moments in [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Off Broadway West presents THE LADIES OF THE CAMELLIAS by Lillian GroagPodcast #167
Off Broadway West presents THE LADIES OF THE CAMELLIAS written by Lillian Groag. It is a fictional meeting between two 19th century divas, the Italian Eleanor Duse and the French Sarah Bernhardt. They both rivaled each other in reputation and actually played the same roles on the same stage with the same sets. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nebunele Theatre presents MEDEA KNOWS BEST at The Exit Theatre’s DivaFest 2008.Podcast #166
Nebunele Theatre presents MEDEA KNOWS BEST at the Exit Theatre’s Divafest 2008. Nebunele means “little crazies” in Romania. And these crazy ladies discuss their adaptation of the Greek classic, Medea, written by Euripides. If you know the classic story, you know it is riff with jealousy, lust, anger and infanticide (although the kids [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sean Owens, a male feminist, hosts Diva Cabaret 2008 at the Exit Theatre in San FranciscoPodcast #165
Sean Owens hosts this years Diva Cabaret 2008. He is a man, or woman or neither, or both, or none, (I am not sure), who writes, acts, sings, and hosts. Listen in to see if you can get a grasp of this cat.
SHOW NOTES
Diva Cabaret 2008
Playing APR 18th - 26th
Diva Cabaret: Show [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Defending The Caveman: The longest running solo show in Broadway HistoryPodcast #164
Defending The Caveman playing April 16th - 27th at Marines Memorial Theatre in San Francisco, is a time tested spectacle of hilarity honoring the perspective differences of men and women in relationships. Isaac Lamb is the performer of this current incarnation traveling thru our favorite city and he brings us to light on [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thomas Reardon, a real life Criminal Judge, says portraying a con man came naturally to Him, in, THE MUSIC MAN.Podcast #163
The Pleasanton Playhouse is presenting THE MUSIC MAN, being performed at The Bankhead Theater in Livermore, CA. Now understand, the Pleasanton playhouse produces family entertainment, so I took that into consideration when I was interviewing director John Baiocchi, and lead actor Thomas Reardon (pictured). The interesting thing about this production is that Tom [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RIPE Theatre presents MIMETIC: A dictionary.com word of the day that extends the idea of “mimicry in nature”, to the human condition.Podcast #162
Sarah McKereghan and Peter Parish of R.I.P.E Theatre discuss their new show, MIMETIC. This show explores the issues of human mimicry: how we mimic and why we mimic. The principle behind this piece is to explore the cages we humans live behind and how we then look out wishing to be something or somewhere [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SOUTHERN COMFORTS at Theatreworks stars Karen Grassle and Joy CarlinPodcast #161
Karen Grassle and Joy Carlin are the dynamic duo bringing you SOUTHERN COMFORTS at Theatreworks March 5th -30th. Karen Grassle found fame on LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE as Caroline “Ma” Engalls. Director Joy Carlin has been a Bay Area Veteran Actor, Director, and Educator for many years. These ladies are a treat to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jovelyn Richards, who exudes passion and sensuality, performs COME HOME at the Marsh Theatre in San Francisco.Podcast #160
Jovelyn Richards is undeniably a charismatic woman who warmed my cockles with her presence, honesty, openness and elegance. Prior to interviewing her, I EXPECTED her to be a Diva due to an article I found on the internet concerning her handling of relations between her and a Fringe theatre company in Minnesota. But she [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scrap and Salvage Theatre Company: The garbage collectors of theatre or misnomered innovators?Podcast #159
Scrap And Salvage is a venue hopping junkie type of theatre company. They perform in different venues in the SF Bay Area, and will not begin putting together a production until the space is found. In this interview with Co-Artistic director, Jaime Mulligan, we find out the ins and outs, quirks and weirdnesses that [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Indians, Americans and the French Collide, there is sure to be bloodshed, hatred and passion abound!Podcast #158
Sharon Eberhardt is the playwright and performer of SAVAGE ARTS, a one-woman play that explores the relationship between Native Americans and White thought, art and politics. Set in Buffalo, NY. this play explores the sometimes disturbing issues of ethnicity, stereotypes and racism, as seen thru the eyes of an American housewife, and a French [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Creature Podcast: Version 2.0: Presented by Black Box TheatrePodcast #157
The Creature is an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN, brought to you by Trevor Allen and Black Box Theatre.
MORE EPISODES
Part 2: A Dreary Night In November
Part 3: Homecoming
Part 4: Fathers and Sons
Part 5: Farewell
SHOW NOTES
Black Box Theatre Presents THE CREATURE: More Info
C.AS.H on KQED website
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If you look at the image, you can get a clue about what JUMP THEATRE is all about. One thing is for sure, it is not light material. This company specializes in material that focuses on the life and plight of the mentally disturbed, mentally ill, and/or the depressed. So if you are looking [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Un-Scripted Theatre Company does an improvised holiday musical. What the hell did I get myself into?Podcast #155
The Un-Scripted Theater Company presents LET IT SNOW!, an improvised Christmas Musical. I chat with a few of these cats about the show, their process and what happens if they just plain F$%^up the improvised process. Listen in.
SHOW NOTES
The Un-Scripted Website
C.AS.H on KQED website
PERFORMANCE DATES
Nov 23rd - Dec 16th, 2007
Show Info
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The Reduced Shakespeare Company, aka The RSC, are a group of funny ass white men who live and breath the mission statement of the RSC: “make all the stuff that people may find taboo, funny. And make it short and sweet.” If you like comedy, then the RSC is a must see for you. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theatre Company Naked Masks presents NO SUCH THING: A highly non-verbal study of the contrasts between assertiveness and irrelevence.Podcast #153
Theatre company Naked Masks, has a minimalist website. CLEAN. The artistic director, Jonathan Vandenberg, seems to truly represent that minimalist style. He seems shy, yet he purports to be producing theatre that differs from the norm. How? He claims his company looks beyond appearances to explore what lies beneath. Well, from my perspective, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website If you think “teeth are magical” (what the hell?!) then check out THE NECESSITY OF HANK, presented by RIPE Theatre.Podcast #152
Noah Kelly of Ripe Theatre, presents The Necessity of Hank. RIPE THEATRE is in residence at THE EXIT. Noah co-wrote this play: THE NECESSITY OF HANK, with his mother, Val Kelly. Unfortunately his mother was unable to attned the interview because she lives all the way out in BFE (for those who don’t know [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ELASTIC FUTURE explores sexuality in their play BEAUTIFUL!Podcast #151
Theatre Group Elastic Future, presents BEAUTIFUL: a play written and produced within the company.
SHOW NOTES
Elastic Future Website
C.AS.H on KQED website
PERFORMANCE DATES
October 31st - Nov 17th
Show Info
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Trevor Allen, Director of Company Services at Theatre Bay Area and Artistic Director of Black Box Theatre, has taken Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN and adapted it for the stage. He then did a reading and had made the audio available to you!
SHOW NOTES
Black Box Theatre Website
C.AS.H on KQED website
PERFORMANCE DATES
Monday, Oct. 29th [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark McGoldrick, a paralyzed lawyer, performs his one man play COUNTERCOUP at the Marsh Theatre.Podcast #149
Mark McGoldrick, is the creator of COUNTERCOUP, playing at the Marsh Theatre. I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Mark about his show. He is a lawyer, and was paralyzed many years ago. He tells his tale in his most recent production. He is raw and honest. Please be aware that [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Sudano of AOP Pictures, is about theatre and film. But is he for real?Podcast #148
Tim Sudano of Alpha Omega Pictures, is an recovering theatre addict that makes films. His latest project, entitled SECOND CHANCE, is a film that supposedly dares to be completely original, defying what Hollywood tends to put out. Listen in to see if he is the real deal or another one of those infamous talkers [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Willows Theatre presents: KENTUCKY CYCLE. Are you ready for this epic journey?Podcast #147
Richard Elliot, Artistic Director of Willows Theatre, talks about his latest production and the magnitude and scope of tackling such a huge project. 23 actors playing some 60-70 roles is an enormous undertaking. Listen to how Richard rose to the occasion to bridge the gap between the young and the old.
Actors Michael Moore [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SF Fringe Festival 2007: Kurt Bodden presents CLASS NOTES.Podcast #146
Kurt Bodden is the creator of CLASS NOTES. Listen to this Harvard alum illuminate us on the status of many of the Harvard alum that have went on to make names for themselves.
SHOW NOTES
Kurt Bodden website
C.AS.H on KQED website
PERFORMANCE DATES
SF Fringe Festival plays Sept 5th - Sept 16th: CLASS NOTES Show Info
Listen [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fringe Festival 2007: Steven Karwoski presents ADVENTURES OF A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER.Podcast #145
Steven Karwoski is the creator of ADVENTURES OF A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER. It is real life material and quite autobiographical. Check him out
SHOW NOTES
Steven Karwoski website
C.AS.H on KQED website
PERFORMANCE DATES
SF Fringe Festival plays Sept 5th - Sept 16th: Adventures of a Substitute Teacher Show Info
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Nick Olivero, artistic director of BOXCAR THEATRE, talks about his newly imagined play, BIG COMPANY. He and his company have decided to tackle the issues surrounding Corporations and Small Businesses and what they contribute to the community (good or bad).
SHOW NOTES
Boxcar Theatre website
C.AS.H on KQED website
PERFORMANCE DATES
BIG COMPANY plays Sept 7th - [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fringe Festival 2007: KOREAN BADASS, by Stevie Lee SaxtonPodcast #143
Stevie Lee Saxton, is a Korean Badass. Or so we are lead to believe. Check out this interview and see if you agree.
SHOW NOTES
C.AS.H on KQED website
PERFORMANCE DATES
SF Fringe 2007 Runs Sept 5th - 16th: Korean Badass Show Info
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Kim Harmon, is the creator of Parts Is Parts. She is a performance artists who promises that you will see blood, and cool acrobatics. Listen in on this interesting interview.
SHOW NOTES
The Real Kim Harmon Website
C.AS.H on KQED website
PERFORMANCE DATES
Ends Sept 5th-16th: Show Info
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John Hamilton, playwright of The Stetson Manifesto, talks about his new play, being influenced by the black culture, as well as his views on corporatism.
SHOW NOTES
John Hamilton Website
C.AS.H on KQED website
PERFORMANCE DATES
Ends Sept 5th-16th: Show Info
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Will Franken, creator of GRANDPA, IT’S NOT FITTING, reportedly first touched himself in a very meaningful and totally normal and completely inappropriate way for the first time when he was 10 years old. He attributes his first climax to “vigorous and repeated scratching over a private region that had been heavily infected by ‘chigger’ [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Nominated Broadway Composer: Paul GordonPodcast #139
Paul Gordon has composed hits for many famous people such as Bette Midler, Dione Warwick, Celine Deon, Quincy Jones, Alanis Morrisette, Olivia Newton John, and so on. He is now going to Theatreworks to flex his muscles.
SHOW NOTES
Theatreworks Website
C.AS.H on KQED website
PERFORMANCE DATES
August 22nd - Sept 16th, 2007: More Info
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