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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

Comedian Gina Yashere rides the ‘up’ elevator to stardom

ONSTAGE Growing up in London, Gina Yashere never considered a career in comedy. She came from an academic family, and her mother had specific careers...
Culture

In classic doc ‘Sing Faster,’ stagehands tackle epic ‘Ring Cycle’

Filmmaker Jon Else,whose 2000 documentary, Sing Faster, about the stagehands working on Richard Wagner’s epic The Ring Cycle at the San Francisco Opera, didn’t used...
Onstage

Swimming through teen girls’ intense friendship in ‘Dry Land’

ONSTAGE Grace Ng played Wilhelm, the lead, in the Shotgun Player’s recent production of The Black Rider. So when the theater held auditions for...
Onstage

Stephen Spinella: Playing Trump and Reagan’s lawyer in ‘Angels in America’

ONSTAGE Twenty-five years ago, Stephen Spinella won two Tonys playing main character Prior Walter in the Broadway debut of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on...
Movies

Flying high with ‘The Seagull’ (and a few other things, beside)

Michael Mayer, who won a Tony for Broadway rock musical/teenage hormone eruption "Spring Awakening," has directed TV shows, operas, and movies, along with theater....

A ‘Timon’ for our times? Cutting Ball Theatre transfers Shakespeare to SF

ARTS Rob Melrose first read one of Shakespeare’s least-produced plays, Timon of Athens (through May 6 at Cutting Ball Theatre), in a contemporary English version...

‘The Wolves’ kicks up young women’s power, rage, and sheer joy

ONSTAGE Morgan Green grew up in Marin and went to Redwood High School. Now she lives in Brooklyn. So directing Marin Theatre Company's The Wolves (through...
Onstage

‘How To Be a White Man’ explores power and identity with a comic touch

ONSTAGE Growing up in rural Louisiana, queer black comedian and social worker Luna Malbroux was pretty familiar with assumptions people might make about her....

Blackface betrayal and ‘Black Lies’ in Edgar Arceneaux’s new YBCA installation

ART LOOKS In 1981, Ben Vereen, known for his role as Chicken George in the miniseries Roots, and for winning a Tony in Bob...

SFMOMA’s immersive ‘Sublime Seas’ mixes ‘Blue Planet’ beauty with unfathomable brutality

ART LOOKS Artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah grew up in London, near the Tate Gallery. He would go there as a 12-year-old, fascinated by, among...
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