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

Exploring consent—and its conversations—in ‘Actually’

March 12, 2019

ONSTAGE In the first grade, Michael A. Curry had a role in “The Wiz.” He loved being on stage, and he never really considered another...

Onstage

In ‘Yoga Play,’ Dipika Guha twists commerce into comedy

March 9, 2019

ONSTAGE When Dipika Guha got her Bachelor’s degree in English from University College London, she wasn’t thinking of being a playwright. She’d just moved with...

Arts + Culture

Man vs Tammany in classic musical ‘Fiorello!’

February 27, 2019

ONSTAGE Here’s something you may not know: There’s a 60-year-old musical about Fiorello La Guardia, who went from being a lawyer to a congressman to...

Exploring the ‘Convergence’ of Yiddish and African American spiritual music

February 19, 2019

ALL EARS There are a couple of reactions that stand out to Black Yiddishist opera singer Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell when he performs a...

Onstage

Detailing the splashy brilliance of Berkeley Rep’s ‘Metamorphoses’

February 12, 2019

ONSTAGE When actor Benjamin Ismail was in high school, he loved Edith Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. "They're so primal and ancient...

Arts + Culture

Teens takeover the Contemporary Jewish Museum — and it’s about time

February 7, 2019

“When we talked it through, they were interested in the openness and breaking strict and rigid notions of identity and gender and sexuality,” said PJ...

Arts + Culture

In Vija Celmins’ new solo show, an SFMoMa curator reflects on her slow look

January 31, 2019

Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory, currently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, encompasses five decades of the artist’s work...

Arts + Culture

SF Ballet’s ‘Don Quixote’ provides a home away from home for Sardinian star

January 25, 2019

The ballet of Don Quixote, the San Francisco Ballet season opener, doesn’t tell the whole tale of the man who read too many novels, decided he...

Arts + Culture

Playwright Lauren Yee’s tribute to China Town community comes home to SF

January 18, 2019

Lauren Yee’s play, King of the Yees, has been produced all over – Baltimore, Toronto, Seattle, and Chicago. But she’s particularly excited for it...

Arts + Culture

Among the flourishes of ‘Volver’, a lesson of flamenco’s past and present

January 17, 2019

Kerensa DeMars first saw flamenco dance in 1995. The next year, she went to Spain with “high school- level Spanish,” intending to stay for...

Emily Wilson

Exploring consent—and its conversations—in ‘Actually’

In ‘Yoga Play,’ Dipika Guha twists commerce into comedy

Man vs Tammany in classic musical ‘Fiorello!’

Exploring the ‘Convergence’ of Yiddish and African American spiritual music

Detailing the splashy brilliance of Berkeley Rep’s ‘Metamorphoses’

Teens takeover the Contemporary Jewish Museum — and it’s about time

In Vija Celmins’ new solo show, an SFMoMa curator reflects on her slow look

SF Ballet’s ‘Don Quixote’ provides a home away from home for Sardinian star

Playwright Lauren Yee’s tribute to China Town community comes home to SF

Among the flourishes of ‘Volver’, a lesson of flamenco’s past and present

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