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

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...

Onstage

Expanding the face of Detroit’s working class with ‘Skeleton Crew’

February 5, 2018

The playwright Dominique Morisseau has family members and friends in Detroit who lost their houses in the 2008 recession, or got bad buyouts from...

What does marriage sound like?

February 2, 2018

ONSTAGE John Kolvenbach wanted to tell the intimate story of a long marriage. So in his latest play at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre, Reel...

Emily Wilson

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’

Expanding the face of Detroit’s working class with ‘Skeleton Crew’

What does marriage sound like?

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