Josh Costello. Artistic Director of Aurora Theatre Company. Second of two parts.
Theatre Review: Private Lives at ACT Toni Rembe Theatre through October 6, 2024.
Theatre Review: Mexodus at Berkeley Rep Peets Theatre through October 29, 2024.
Naomi Iizuka. Second of two parts.
Bay Area Theatre Interviews
Naomi Iizuka, playwright and screenwriter, translator of Shakespeare's Richard II for the Magic Theatre (through Sept. 15, 2024) Complete 42-minute interview Part One.
Erik Larson, author of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War. Complete 59-minute Interview.
Edna O'Brien (1930-2024) author of Wild Decembers, The Country Girls and other novels set in Ireland. Recorded April 28, 2000. Digitized August 2024. Complete 43-minute Interview.
John Sayles Second of two parts.
John Sayles, author of Jamie McGillivray, the Renegade's Journey, screenwriter and director. Part One.
Theatre Review: Girl from the North Country, at BroadwaySF Golden Gate Theatre through August 18, 2024.
John Barth (1930-2024), author of The Sot Weed Factor, Giles Goat Boy, The Floating Opera. Master of Metafiction. Recorded November 12, 2001. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff. Complete 46-minute Interview.
Theatre Review: Collective Rage at Shotgun Players through August 18, 2024.
Aya de Leon, Poet Laureate of Berkeley, author of That Dangerous Energy and Untraceable.
Stuart Klawans, author of Crooked but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges, former film critic, The Nation.
Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, recorded October 20, 2017.
Mystery Authors from the Archive, 2004.
Jonathan and Faye Kellerman, recorded October 28, 2004 while on tour for Double Homicide: Boston and Santa Fe.
Walter Mosley, recorded July 9, 2004 while on tour for the Easy Rawlins mystery, Little Scarlet.
Theatre Review: The Lifespan of a Fact, at Aurora Theatre through July 21, 2024.
Bookwaves/Artwaves Hour, July 4, 2024.
Pam MacKinnon, Artistic Director, American Conservatory Theatre (ACT).
David Sedaris, humorist and essayist. Recorded June 28, 2008 while on tour for When You Are Engulfed in Flames.
Theatre Review: Mother Road, at Berkeley Rep's Peets Theatre through July 21, 2024.
Helen Benedict, author of the novel, The Good Deed. Columbia University Professor of Journalism.
Joseph Hansen (1923-2004) Author of mysteries featuring gay detective Dave Brandstetter. Recorded June 14, 1990. Co-interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff
Colm Tóibín, author of the novel, Long Island. Recorded May 5, 2024 at the Irish Cultural Center in San Francisco.
Ayodele Nzinga, Oakland Poet Laureate, director of the play Pac and Biggie Are Dead by Biko Eisen-Martin at BAM House in Oakland through June 30.
Maureen Gosling, documentary film-maker, collaborator with Les Blank (1935-2013). A Les Blank retrospective runs at Pacific Film Archive , June 7-July 27, 2024.
Theatre Review: The Lehman Trilogy, at ACT Toni Rembe Theatre through June 23, 2024
Aya de Leon, Berkeley Poet Laureate, novelist, Interim Program Director, Bay Area Book Festival, June 1-2, 2024.
Paul Auster (1947-2024), novelist, screenwriter, director, died April 30, 2024. Interview recorded October 2, 2002 while on tour for The Book of Illusions. (Part One).
Theatre Review: The Glass Menagerie at San Francisco Playhouse through June 15, 2024.
Theatre Review: Galileo, A Rock Musical at Berkeley Rep Roda Theatre through June 23, 2024.
Joan Baez, legendary singer and activist, author of When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance.
Ty Burr, former Boston Globe film critic, author of Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame, recorded November, 2012.
Theatre Review: A Strange Loop at ACT Toni Rembe Theatre through May 12, 2024.
Trina Robbins (1938-2024), comic book artist and historian of women in comics, author of the memoir, Last Girl Standing, recorded February 6, 2018.
Robert MacNeil (1931-2024), PBS anchor, the MacNeil Lehrer News Hour, author of the memoir, Looking for My Country, recorded April 12, 2003..
April 18, 2024 - Hour Show
Don Winslow, author of City in Ruins, third volume in his Danny Ryan trilogy, and the final book before retirement. Don Winslow also creates anti-Trump videos for X (Twitter).
Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer. Recorded in in the KPFA studios,May 5, 2016.
Theatre Review: Tiger Style! at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley through Apirl 18, 2024.
Margot Livesey, author of the novel, The Road
from Belhaven.
Theatre Review: Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord at ACT Strand through May 5, 2024.
Rebecca Makkai, author of the novel I Have Some Questions for You, now out in trade paper
Otessa Moshfegh, author of the short story collection, Homesick for Another World. Recorded February 2, 2017.
Susan Oxtoby, curator, Pacific Film Archive, discussing the films of director Agnes Varda (1928-2019) as part of a retrospective that runs at Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive through May 5, 2024.
Burton Lane (1912-1997) Part Two
Theatre Review: The 39 Steps at San Francisco Playhouse through April 20, 2024.
Burton Lane (1912-1997), Broadway composer, Finian's Rainbow, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. George Gershwin protege. Interview recorded for an uncompleted Gershwin documentary, recorded August 17, 1992.
David Thomson, author of The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film, interview in conjunction with Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive.
Theatre Review: Queen at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley through March 31, 2024.
Walter Mosley, author of the Easy Rawlins mystery series and other works, recorded October 25, 1992 while on tour for White Butterfly. Digitized Feb. 2024. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.
Jack O'Brien, author of Jack in the Box, or How to Goddamn Direct, now out in trade paperback.
Kate Wilhelm (1928-2018), Hugo and Nebula Award winner, science fiction/fantasy and mystery fiction author, recorded on tour for her novel Malice Prepense, August 5, 1996. Digitized Feb. 2024. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky/Richard A. Lupoff.
Jesse Green, New York Times theatre critic, excerpt from an interview recorded Sept. 28, 2022 while on virtual tour for Shy, co-written with Mary Rodgers.
Theatre Review: Cult of Love at Berkeley Rep Roda Theatre through March 3, 2024.
Theatre Review: MJ The Musical at BroadwaySF Orpheum Theatre through Feb. 25, 2024.
The Story of Bushman. Film director Rob Nillson, activist Gail Schickele and archivist Jon Shibata discuss the 1971 film Bushman and its director David Schickele. A restored Bushman is shown at BAMPFA Feb. 4 and 24.
Theatre Review: How I Learned What I Learned at TheatreWorks Mountain View thru February 4, 2024.
Theatre Review: Babes in Ho-lland, at Shotgun Players Ashby Stage thru Feb. 10, 2024.
Jane Smiley, author of A Dangerous Business, now out in trade paperback. Recorded via Zencastr, January 23, 2023.
Harlan Coben,noir and thriller author, recorded on tour for Fool Me Once, now a Netflix miniseries, March 26, 2016 in the KPFA studios.
Theatre Review: The Wiz, at Broadway SF Golden Gate Theatre through February 11, 2024.
Terry Bisson (1942-2024), science fiction and fantasy author and activist, recorded January20, 2013 on the publication of his final novel, Any Day Now.
Roger Ebert (1942-2013), film critic, recorded March 3, 2005 while on tour for The Great Movies II.
Helen Benedict, co-author (with Eyad Awwadawnon) of Map of Hope and Sorrow: Stories of Refugees Trapped in Greece, recorded October 25, 2022.
Martin Amis (1949-2023) recorded on tour for The Zone of Interest, October 29, 2014.
Amos Oz (1939-2018) recorded on tour for his memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness, December 7, 2004.
