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

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

June 3, 2018

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)

May 8, 2018

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

April 16, 2018

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

April 3, 2018

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

March 19, 2018

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

March 15, 2018

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

March 7, 2018

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...

Onstage

A school mass shooting inspires a new play at Berkeley Rep

March 1, 2018

ONSTAGE After the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, playwright Julia Cho (Aubergine, The Language Archive) was looking for something that would help her understand...

Onstage

‘Born Yesterday’—but a 70-year-old play splendidly comments on today

February 26, 2018

ONSTAGE "It’s amazing how pertinent this feels," a man in front of me at the SF Playhouse told his friend at the end of...

Dance

Renowned dance company taps street musicians for ‘Bootstrap Tales’

February 19, 2018

DANCE Dancer and choreographer Robert Moses says he’s inherently optimistic and likes a challenge. So he decided his renowned company, Robert Moses’ Kin, would...

Emily Wilson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A school mass shooting inspires a new play at Berkeley Rep

‘Born Yesterday’—but a 70-year-old play splendidly comments on today

Renowned dance company taps street musicians for ‘Bootstrap Tales’

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