Emily Wilson

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Emily Wilson lives in San Francisco. She has written for different outlets, including Smithsonian.com, The Daily Beast, Hyperallergic, Women’s Media Center, The Observer, Alta Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, California Magazine, UC Santa Cruz Magazine, and SF Weekly. For many years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco. She hosts the short biweekly podcast Art Is Awesome.

Onstage

In ‘The Children,’ nuclear disaster, strange twists, and surprising humor

February 3, 2020

Barbara Damashek, Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University and three-time Tony nominee (for the score, lyrics and direction of 1985’s Quilters), looks for...

Onstage

Playwright Ana Bayat lets us peek inside her ‘Mimi’s Suitcase’

January 21, 2020

Many Iranian families who could, left Iran during the revolution in 1979. But Ana Bayat’s family members did things a little differently. They left...

Cartooning the Japanese Internment, through George Takei’s eyes

January 13, 2020

Harmony Becker, the creator of the comics Himawari Share, Love Potion, and Anemone and Catharus, was at her booth at an indie comic arts show in Brooklyn...

A 24/7 switchboard connecting participants to ‘The Dead Woman’

January 8, 2020

For her first solo show in California, Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle has converted the galleries at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts into...

The unflagging, cinematic visions of James Tissot

January 7, 2020

A sharpshooter in the Franco-Prussian War, a society painter, and a watercolorist who did hundreds of religious scenes that inspired filmmakers, including Steven Spielberg...

‘Bureau of Aesthetics’ prioritizes Native arts

December 15, 2019

With Native Art Department International (NADI), Jason Lujan says he and Maria Hupfield try to collapse distinctions and treat other artists in a way...

Onstage

From ‘Lock Her Up!’ to ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’

December 8, 2019

Growing up, MacArthur “Genius” Award winner and Tony nominee Sarah Ruhl read The Witch of Blackbird Pond, about a young woman, Kit Tyler, who...

Onstage

In ‘Mother of the Maid,’ Joan of Arc’s maternal support takes center stage

November 26, 2019

Jane Anderson wrote her play Mother of the Maid about Joan of Arc’s mother, Isabelle Arc, as a tribute to her own mother. When...

‘A Gothic Tale’ plumbs Legion of Honor’s haunting depths

October 28, 2019

Does Halloween have you in the mood for some film noir? Maybe some mirrored walls and alternate selves? Something SPOOKternatural? Then head to the Legion...

Onstage

Lesbian history finally takes center stage in ‘The Daughters’

October 23, 2019

The first act of The Daughters, a comedy by Patricia Cotter (at the San Francisco Playhouse through November 2), imagines the Daughters of Bilitis’ first meeting...

Emily Wilson

In ‘The Children,’ nuclear disaster, strange twists, and surprising humor

Playwright Ana Bayat lets us peek inside her ‘Mimi’s Suitcase’

Cartooning the Japanese Internment, through George Takei’s eyes

A 24/7 switchboard connecting participants to ‘The Dead Woman’

The unflagging, cinematic visions of James Tissot

‘Bureau of Aesthetics’ prioritizes Native arts

From ‘Lock Her Up!’ to ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’

In ‘Mother of the Maid,’ Joan of Arc’s maternal support takes center stage

‘A Gothic Tale’ plumbs Legion of Honor’s haunting depths

Lesbian history finally takes center stage in ‘The Daughters’

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