10 Hot Tickets to Bay Area Plays and Musicals This Summer
So You Began Your Event With an Indigenous Land Acknowledgement. Now What?
'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' a Grand Reunion for Dave Malloy and Shotgun Players
Shotgun Players Kicks Off 30th Season by Going to Church in 'Feel the Spirit'
The Good, the Bad, and the Glitchy: Streaming Theater During Shelter-in-Place
5 Plays to See for the Holidays (That Aren't 'A Christmas Carol')
The Secret Life of Movie Theater Employees in 'The Flick'
Fall Theater Guide 2019: Top Plays and Performances in SF and the East Bay
The Do List: Listen to Our Weekend Picks for Aug. 23–30
Sponsored
window.__IS_SSR__=true
window.__INITIAL_STATE__={"attachmentsReducer":{"audio_0":{"type":"attachments","id":"audio_0","imgSizes":{"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg"}}},"audio_1":{"type":"attachments","id":"audio_1","imgSizes":{"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background1.jpg"}}},"audio_2":{"type":"attachments","id":"audio_2","imgSizes":{"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background2.jpg"}}},"audio_3":{"type":"attachments","id":"audio_3","imgSizes":{"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background3.jpg"}}},"audio_4":{"type":"attachments","id":"audio_4","imgSizes":{"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background4.jpg"}}},"placeholder":{"type":"attachments","id":"placeholder","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-160x96.jpg","width":160,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-800x478.jpg","width":800,"height":478,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1020x610.jpg","width":1020,"height":610,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-lrg":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1920x1148.jpg","width":1920,"height":1148,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-med":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1180x705.jpg","width":1180,"height":705,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-sm":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-960x574.jpg","width":960,"height":574,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xxsmall":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-240x143.jpg","width":240,"height":143,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xsmall":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-375x224.jpg","width":375,"height":224,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"small":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-520x311.jpg","width":520,"height":311,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xlarge":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1180x705.jpg","width":1180,"height":705,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1920x1148.jpg","width":1920,"height":1148,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-50":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-e1514998105161.jpg","width":1920,"height":1148}}},"arts_13929279":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13929279","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13929279","found":true},"title":"INTO THE WOODS 1","publishDate":1684351322,"status":"inherit","parent":13929225,"modified":1684354761,"caption":"Aymee Garcia, Cole Thompson and Kennedy Kanagawa in 'Into the Woods.'","credit":"Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman","altTag":"three people, a white woman, a Black man and a Japanese-American man in colorful outfits, perform on a stage with a fake animal skeleton of some kind","description":null,"imgSizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-800x533.jpg","width":800,"height":533,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-1020x680.jpg","width":1020,"height":680,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-160x107.jpg","width":160,"height":107,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-768x512.jpg","width":768,"height":512,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-1536x1023.jpg","width":1536,"height":1023,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1.jpg","width":1600,"height":1066}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"arts_13926294":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13926294","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13926294","found":true},"title":"A land acknowledgment is a statement before an event recognizing the Indigenous communities that originally inhabited the event space. Above is a detail of a Tribal Nations Map by Aaron Carapella.","publishDate":1678907030,"status":"inherit","parent":13926293,"modified":1678908756,"caption":"A land acknowledgment is a statement before an event recognizing the Indigenous communities that originally inhabited the event space. Above is a detail of a Tribal Nations Map by Aaron Carapella.","credit":"Aaron Carapella/Tribal Nations Map","altTag":null,"description":null,"imgSizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/tnm-copy_enl-c5673cf3faf41e89073f1f54a9ea5e85e7fa0f6b-scaled-e1678908681856-800x918.jpg","width":800,"height":918,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/tnm-copy_enl-c5673cf3faf41e89073f1f54a9ea5e85e7fa0f6b-scaled-e1678908681856-1020x1170.jpg","width":1020,"height":1170,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/tnm-copy_enl-c5673cf3faf41e89073f1f54a9ea5e85e7fa0f6b-scaled-e1678908681856-160x184.jpg","width":160,"height":184,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/tnm-copy_enl-c5673cf3faf41e89073f1f54a9ea5e85e7fa0f6b-scaled-e1678908681856-768x881.jpg","width":768,"height":881,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/tnm-copy_enl-c5673cf3faf41e89073f1f54a9ea5e85e7fa0f6b-scaled-e1678908681856-1339x1536.jpg","width":1339,"height":1536,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"2048x2048":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/tnm-copy_enl-c5673cf3faf41e89073f1f54a9ea5e85e7fa0f6b-scaled-e1678908681856-1786x2048.jpg","width":1786,"height":2048,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/tnm-copy_enl-c5673cf3faf41e89073f1f54a9ea5e85e7fa0f6b-scaled-e1678908681856-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/tnm-copy_enl-c5673cf3faf41e89073f1f54a9ea5e85e7fa0f6b-scaled-e1678908681856-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/tnm-copy_enl-c5673cf3faf41e89073f1f54a9ea5e85e7fa0f6b-1920x2202.jpg","width":1920,"height":2202,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/tnm-copy_enl-c5673cf3faf41e89073f1f54a9ea5e85e7fa0f6b-scaled-e1678908681856.jpg","width":1920,"height":2202}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"arts_13921572":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13921572","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13921572","found":true},"title":"GreatComet_Ensemble_Credit_BenjaminKrantz","publishDate":1668448859,"status":"inherit","parent":13921567,"modified":1668448993,"caption":"Shotgun Players ensemble cast for Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, by Dave Malloy","credit":"Benjamin Krantz","altTag":"Shotgun Players ensemble cast for the Great Comet of 1812 dancing onstage and leaping into the air with arms raised in stage jubilation","description":"Shotgun Players ensemble cast for the Great Comet of 1812 dancing onstage and leaping into the air with arms raised in stage jubilation.","imgSizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_Ensemble_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x533.jpg","width":800,"height":533,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_Ensemble_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1020x680.jpg","width":1020,"height":680,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_Ensemble_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-160x107.jpg","width":160,"height":107,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_Ensemble_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-768x512.jpg","width":768,"height":512,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_Ensemble_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1536x1024.jpg","width":1536,"height":1024,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_Ensemble_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_Ensemble_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_Ensemble_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1920x1280.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_Ensemble_Credit_BenjaminKrantz.jpg","width":2000,"height":1333}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"arts_13895278":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13895278","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13895278","found":true},"title":"FeelTheSpirit","publishDate":1617745830,"status":"inherit","parent":13895195,"modified":1617745896,"caption":"'Feel the Spirit,' commissioned specifically for Zoom, runs through April 11. ","credit":"Patrick Dooley","altTag":"The Ashby Players marquee advertising 'Feel the Spirit'","description":"'Feel the Spirit,' commissioned specifically for Zoom, runs through April 11. ","imgSizes":{"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit-800x450.jpg","width":800,"height":450,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit-1020x574.jpg","width":1020,"height":574,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit-160x90.jpg","width":160,"height":90,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit-768x432.jpg","width":768,"height":432,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit-1536x864.jpg","width":1536,"height":864,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"arts_13879319":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13879319","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13879319","found":true},"title":"TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne6-scaled","publishDate":1588021225,"status":"inherit","parent":13879316,"modified":1588048061,"caption":"Anthony Fusco, Stacy Ross, and Sarah Mitchell in 'They Promised Her the Moon' at TheatreWorks.","credit":"Kevin Berne","description":"Anthony Fusco, Stacy Ross, and Sarah Mitchell in They Promised Her the Moon at TheatreWorks.","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne6-scaled-160x106.jpg","width":160,"height":106,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne6-scaled-800x532.jpg","width":800,"height":532,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne6-scaled-768x511.jpg","width":768,"height":511,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne6-scaled-1020x678.jpg","width":1020,"height":678,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne6-scaled-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne6-scaled-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne6-scaled-1920x1277.jpg","width":1920,"height":1277,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne6-scaled.jpg","width":2000,"height":1330}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"arts_13865985":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13865985","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13865985","found":true},"title":"The_Flick","publishDate":1568046216,"status":"inherit","parent":13865965,"modified":1568046334,"caption":"Left to right, Avery (Justin Howard), Sam (Chris Ginesi) and Rose (Ari Rampy) in Shotgun Players' production of 'The Flick.'","credit":"Ben Krantz Studio","description":"Left to right, Avery (Justin Howard), Sam (Chris Ginesi) and Rose (Ari Rampy) in Shotgun Players' production of 'The Flick.'","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/The_Flick-160x90.jpg","width":160,"height":90,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/The_Flick-800x450.jpg","width":800,"height":450,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/The_Flick-768x432.jpg","width":768,"height":432,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/The_Flick-1020x574.jpg","width":1020,"height":574,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"complete_open_graph":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/The_Flick-1200x675.jpg","width":1200,"height":675,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/The_Flick-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/The_Flick-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/The_Flick.jpg","width":1200,"height":675}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"arts_13864732":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13864732","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13864732","found":true},"title":"HPATCC NY - Year Two - Wand Dance – Photo By Matthew Murphy","publishDate":1566584157,"status":"inherit","parent":13864721,"modified":1566584233,"caption":"New York cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.","credit":"Matthew Murphy","description":"New York cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Wand-Dance-–-Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-160x107.jpg","width":160,"height":107,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Wand-Dance-–-Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-800x535.jpg","width":800,"height":535,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Wand-Dance-–-Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-768x514.jpg","width":768,"height":514,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Wand-Dance-–-Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-1020x682.jpg","width":1020,"height":682,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"complete_open_graph":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Wand-Dance-–-Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-1200x803.jpg","width":1200,"height":803,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Wand-Dance-–-Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Wand-Dance-–-Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Wand-Dance-–-Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-1920x1284.jpg","width":1920,"height":1284,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Wand-Dance-–-Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy.jpg","width":2000,"height":1338}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"arts_13864692":{"type":"attachments","id":"arts_13864692","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"arts","id":"13864692","found":true},"title":"LionelRichie.MAIN","publishDate":1566499981,"status":"inherit","parent":13864671,"modified":1566499999,"caption":"Lionel Richie.","credit":"Artist photo","description":"Lionel Richie.","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LionelRichie.MAIN_-160x90.jpg","width":160,"height":90,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LionelRichie.MAIN_-800x450.jpg","width":800,"height":450,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LionelRichie.MAIN_-768x432.jpg","width":768,"height":432,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LionelRichie.MAIN_-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/LionelRichie.MAIN_.jpg","width":900,"height":506}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false}},"audioPlayerReducer":{"postId":"stream_live"},"authorsReducer":{"byline_arts_13929225":{"type":"authors","id":"byline_arts_13929225","meta":{"override":true},"slug":"byline_arts_13929225","name":"David John Chávez","isLoading":false},"byline_arts_13926293":{"type":"authors","id":"byline_arts_13926293","meta":{"override":true},"slug":"byline_arts_13926293","name":"Chloe Veltman","isLoading":false},"gmeline":{"type":"authors","id":"185","meta":{"index":"authors_1591205172","id":"185","found":true},"name":"Gabe Meline","firstName":"Gabe","lastName":"Meline","slug":"gmeline","email":"gmeline@kqed.org","display_author_email":false,"staff_mastheads":["arts"],"title":"Senior Editor, KQED Arts & Culture","bio":"Gabe Meline entered journalism at age 15 making photocopied zines, and has since earned awards from the Edward R. Murrow Awards, the Society for Professional Journalists, the Online Journalism Awards, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Prior to KQED, he was the editor of the \u003cem>North Bay Bohemian\u003c/em> and a touring musician. He lives with his wife, his daughter, and a 1964 Volvo in his hometown of Santa Rosa, CA.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/80e9715844c5fc3f07edac5b08973b76?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":"gmeline","facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"arts","roles":["administrator"]},{"site":"artschool","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"news","roles":["author"]},{"site":"pop","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"bayareabites","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"food","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"liveblog","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"hiphop","roles":["editor"]}],"headData":{"title":"Gabe Meline | KQED","description":"Senior Editor, KQED Arts & Culture","ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/80e9715844c5fc3f07edac5b08973b76?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/80e9715844c5fc3f07edac5b08973b76?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/gmeline"},"ngluckstern":{"type":"authors","id":"11497","meta":{"index":"authors_1591205172","id":"11497","found":true},"name":"Nicole Gluckstern","firstName":"Nicole","lastName":"Gluckstern","slug":"ngluckstern","email":"gluckstern.nicole@gmail.com","display_author_email":false,"staff_mastheads":[],"title":null,"bio":null,"avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4fa7e0128404fc3d06ce5f9e27ab9e5a?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":null,"facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"arts","roles":["author"]}],"headData":{"title":"Nicole Gluckstern | KQED","description":null,"ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4fa7e0128404fc3d06ce5f9e27ab9e5a?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4fa7e0128404fc3d06ce5f9e27ab9e5a?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/ngluckstern"}},"breakingNewsReducer":{},"campaignFinanceReducer":{},"firebase":{"requesting":{},"requested":{},"timestamps":{},"data":{},"ordered":{},"auth":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"authError":null,"profile":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"listeners":{"byId":{},"allIds":[]},"isInitializing":false,"errors":[]},"navBarReducer":{"navBarId":"arts","fullView":true,"showPlayer":false},"navMenuReducer":{"menus":[{"key":"menu1","items":[{"name":"News","link":"/","type":"title"},{"name":"Politics","link":"/politics"},{"name":"Science","link":"/science"},{"name":"Education","link":"/educationnews"},{"name":"Housing","link":"/housing"},{"name":"Immigration","link":"/immigration"},{"name":"Criminal Justice","link":"/criminaljustice"},{"name":"Silicon Valley","link":"/siliconvalley"},{"name":"Forum","link":"/forum"},{"name":"The California Report","link":"/californiareport"}]},{"key":"menu2","items":[{"name":"Arts & Culture","link":"/arts","type":"title"},{"name":"Critics’ Picks","link":"/thedolist"},{"name":"Cultural Commentary","link":"/artscommentary"},{"name":"Food & Drink","link":"/food"},{"name":"Bay Area Hip-Hop","link":"/bayareahiphop"},{"name":"Rebel Girls","link":"/rebelgirls"},{"name":"Arts Video","link":"/artsvideos"}]},{"key":"menu3","items":[{"name":"Podcasts","link":"/podcasts","type":"title"},{"name":"Bay Curious","link":"/podcasts/baycurious"},{"name":"Rightnowish","link":"/podcasts/rightnowish"},{"name":"The Bay","link":"/podcasts/thebay"},{"name":"On Our Watch","link":"/podcasts/onourwatch"},{"name":"Mindshift","link":"/podcasts/mindshift"},{"name":"Consider This","link":"/podcasts/considerthis"},{"name":"Political Breakdown","link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown"}]},{"key":"menu4","items":[{"name":"Live Radio","link":"/radio","type":"title"},{"name":"TV","link":"/tv","type":"title"},{"name":"Events","link":"/events","type":"title"},{"name":"For Educators","link":"/education","type":"title"},{"name":"Support KQED","link":"/support","type":"title"},{"name":"About","link":"/about","type":"title"},{"name":"Help Center","link":"https://kqed-helpcenter.kqed.org/s","type":"title"}]}]},"pagesReducer":{},"postsReducer":{"stream_live":{"type":"live","id":"stream_live","audioUrl":"https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio","title":"Live Stream","excerpt":"Live Stream information currently unavailable.","link":"/radio","featImg":"","label":{"name":"KQED Live","link":"/"}},"stream_kqedNewscast":{"type":"posts","id":"stream_kqedNewscast","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1","title":"KQED Newscast","featImg":"","label":{"name":"88.5 FM","link":"/"}},"arts_13929225":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13929225","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13929225","score":null,"sort":[1684785644000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-area-plays-musicals-summer","title":"10 Hot Tickets to Bay Area Plays and Musicals This Summer","publishDate":1684785644,"format":"aside","headTitle":"10 Hot Tickets to Bay Area Plays and Musicals This Summer | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Be sure to check out our full \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/summerguide2023\">2023 Summer Arts Guide to live music, movies, art, theater, festivals and more\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theater companies typically grind hard from September to June, and as a result, the summer months ease up a bit before the cycle starts again in the fall. This doesn’t mean the Bay Area theater scene is a barren wasteland over the summer; quite the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area stages this summer host a healthy mix of the classic and contemporary, along with world premieres and hearty musicals. Here are 10 shows from late May to early September that you don’t want to miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929271\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-800x818.jpg\" alt=\"a photo of three people posed in front of a wooden door, two youngish Latino-appearing men with a Latina woman in an orange standing between them, looking at the camera\" width=\"800\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-800x818.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-1020x1043.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-160x164.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-768x785.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-1502x1536.jpg 1502w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-1920x1963.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caleb Cabrera and Regina Morones and Samuel Prince in ‘Yerma.’ \u003ccite>(Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp\">Yerma\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ashby Stage, Berkeley\u003cbr>\nMay 27–June 18, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whose passion explodes from the ink, has a special quality that knows no end. Lorca’s characters are not simply products of circumstance; they are wholly consumed by fate. His ideas and word combinations are incredibly thrilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Yerma\u003c/em>, a play not as frequently produced as the two others in his Rural Trilogy, the title character is childless, desperately yearning to be a mother. Her desperation leads to her self-destruction, which parallels the tragedy of Lorca himself, killed in 1936 at the hands of a firing squad at age 38. \u003cem>Yerma\u003c/em> is the type of play that Shotgun Players does beautifully, with the immeasurable benefit of one of Spain’s greatest voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929279\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"three people, a white woman, a Black man and a Japanese-American man in colorful outfits, perform on a stage with a fake animal skeleton of some kind\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aymee Garcia, Cole Thompson and Kennedy Kanagawa in ‘Into the Woods’ \u003ccite>(Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://sfcurran.com/\">Into the Woods\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Curran, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 20–25, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is a regular stop for national tours, but \u003cem>Into the Woods\u003c/em> offers an added bonus: multiple original cast members from the critically acclaimed Broadway production. The show opened in May of 2022 as a two-week run at the New York City Center before a Broadway transfer led to multiple extensions and six Tony Award nominations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The masterpiece from James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim joins together multiple plots of various fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm — often with much darker consequences than their Disney counterparts. Making its way out West as well is the melancholy cow puppet Milky White, an aspect of the show that was all the rage in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"a young Black woman with curly hair poses for a portrait in a red dress\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Bay Area performer Elizabeth Carter makes her TheatreWorks directorial debut with ‘Steel Magnolias.’ \u003ccite>(Jenny Graham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org/\">Steel Magnolias\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts\u003cbr>\nJune 7–July 2, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has been crafting great, innovative artistry for its recent productions, rethinking what a classic can be and infusing the work with components that expand a show’s inclusivity. (Exhibit A: their \u003cem>Little Shop of Horrors\u003c/em>, placed in San Francisco’s Chinatown, this past December.) This year, a play set in the South, which featured an all-white cast in the popular 1989 film, adapts the action into a Black-owned salon. Longtime Bay Area performer Elizabeth Carter directs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"a large group of people in top hats and shiny outfits perform a dance in a chorus line on stage\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘A Chorus Line’ at the London Palladium. San Francisco Playhouse closes its 20th anniversary season with the musical starting June 22. \u003ccite>(Alamy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/2022-2023-season/a-chorus-line/\">A Chorus Line\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>San Francisco Playhouse\u003cbr>\nJune 22–Sept. 9, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Playhouse is going all in with its collection of musicals, offering up three in a 12-month span. One of the most decorated musicals in history, winning nine Tony awards and the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1976, \u003cem>A Chorus Line\u003c/em> follows a colorful group of dancers vying for a coveted spot on a Broadway chorus line. Each dancer brings deep, personal stories with lots of humor and heartbreak. Despite their variety of backgrounds, each of the dancers ultimately asks the same question — if the dream were to end instantly after so much sacrifice, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwk0Sh3id4w\">are there any regrets\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929284\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-800x450.png\" alt=\"a group of four people, three Black women and one Black man, Questlove, smile for the camera\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-768x432.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0.png 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team behind ‘Hippest Trip’: Dominique Morrisseau (book), Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson (executive producer), Camille A. Brown (choreography), Kamilah Forbes (director). \u003ccite>(Nicola Goode)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/2023-24-season/soul-train/\">Hippest Trip — The Soul Train Musical\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Toni Rembe Theater, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nAug. 25–Oct. 1, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Chicago disc jockey Joe Cobb pierced the television speaker with his dulcet falsetto screaming, “The soooooouuulllll train,” followed by Sid McCoy smoothly introducing “the hippest trip in America” while a colorful train \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8osiVlz6Ws\">bounced along outer space\u003c/a>, you knew that Saturday morning was ready to commence with unbridled Black joy. Every ounce of \u003cem>Soul Train\u003c/em> is iconic — dapper host Don Cornelius, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lODBVM802H8\">Soul Train line\u003c/a>, prime fashion, and the show’s indelible role in popular culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new musical, which finally premieres at A.C.T. after plenty of delays, is led by a dream team, including playwright Dominique Morrisseau and musician/Soul Train savant Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. A long-anticipated world premiere, it’s poised to become the theatre event of the summer with high ambitions beyond the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a glass of water on a table in front of a woman's face, lit darkly; she has brown skin and black hair and is wearing dark lipstick\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Ramirez in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.’ \u003ccite>(Ben Krantz Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/virginia\">Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Flax Art & Design, Oakland\u003cbr>\nMay 26–June 18, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long considered a masterpiece of the American theater, this unflinchingly comedic and profound work from Edward Albee follows middle-aged couple George and Martha, who invite a young professor and his wife over to their place for a nightcap; a dangerous round of fun and games ensues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Theater Project is on a roll of late, producing gritty narratives from fresh playwrights while continuing to build upon a healthy repertory company of terrific artists. Popular company members Lisa Ramirez and Michael Socrates Moran perform and direct, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-800x1201.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait of a man with light brown skin and a very short beard wearing a black t-shirt\" width=\"800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-1020x1531.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-768x1153.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ari’el Stachel in ‘Out of Character’ \u003ccite>(Sergio Pasquariello)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/out-of-character/\">Out of Character\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeley Repertory Theatre\u003cbr>\nJune 23–July 20, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing the beautiful musical \u003cem>The Band’s Visit\u003c/em> in 2017 was to witness an incredible set of performances from an all-star cast. One of those performers, the handsome Berkeley-raised talent Ari’el Stachel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUW-yM2y53s\">made audiences swoon\u003c/a> as the confident musician Haled. That swooning was no accident; his performance landed him the 2018 Tony Award for best featured actor in a musical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stachel returns home for this solo debut, telling his story of the difficulties he faced as an Israeli American of Yemeni Jewish descent shortly after the 9/11 attacks. In keeping with the homegrown nature of the piece, the show was developed at the Rep’s Ground Floor and is directed by former artistic director Tony Taccone, who led the Rep for 33 years before retiring in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-800x501.jpg\" alt=\"three people, a Black man in a suit, a Black woman in a white top and black pants and a Black woman in a peach dress, laugh while performing a reading in front of an applauding crowd\" width=\"800\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-800x501.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-1020x639.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-768x481.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-1536x962.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actor Rotimi Agbabiaka, playwright Traci Tolmaire and actor Ryan Nicole Austin perform a staged reading of ‘In the Evening by the Moonlight’ at the Museum of African Diaspora. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Lorraine Hansberry Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.lhtsf.org/\">In the Evening by the Moonlight\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Young Performer’s Theatre at Fort Mason, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 15–July 2, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is the home for this new play that imagines a conversation between three major figures: the theatre’s namesake, Lorraine Hansberry, Nina Simone and James Baldwin. The piece is set in Hansberry’s Waverly Place flat in New York, as the three icons confront a fearful future while expressing hopes for a revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play, which received a successful reading in April, is written by Traci Tolmaire, and co-created and directed by artistic director Margo Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-800x600.png\" alt=\"three white people, two men and one woman, smile for the camera while sitting in an empty theater\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-800x600.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-1020x765.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-768x576.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team behind ‘Hamlet’ from the Marin Shakespeare Company, left to right: Jon Tracy (director), Bridgette Loriaux (‘Gertrude’) and Nick Musleh (‘Hamlet’). \u003ccite>(Jon Tracy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinshakespeare.org/\">Hamlet\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, San Rafael\u003cbr>\nJune 16–July 16, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing screams summer like Shakespeare in an outdoor setting, and the Marin Shakespeare Company has presented the Bard outside since 1989. Well-known Bay Area director Jon Tracy is taking over the reins as summer season artistic producer, and while he has directed for the company plenty, this is his debut in the new role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of Hamlet has everything one can ask for in a drama — iconic characters, lust, betrayal, greed, humor and deception. To be or not to be in the house? Grabbing some Shakespeare on a beautiful North Bay night under the stars is a definite “to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-800x1105.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1105\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-800x1105.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-1020x1408.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-160x221.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-768x1060.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-1112x1536.jpeg 1112w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-1483x2048.jpeg 1483w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1.jpeg 1854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy Near, director of ‘The Road to Mecca.’ \u003ccite>(David Allen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.zspace.org/\">The Road to Mecca\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Z Below, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 4–30, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This work from Athol Fugard, long considered the greatest of South African playwrights, centers an aging Miss Helen, who fills her home and garden with sculptures made from junk after the death of her husband. As her mental health continues to deteriorate, two people — a local pastor and a young teacher — fight to determine the ultimate path of her perilous future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The piece brings together a group of artists who last worked together on another Fugard piece at Z Below, \u003cem>A Lesson from Aloes\u003c/em>, in 2018. Timothy Near leads the three-hander, reuniting the longtime director with top acting talents Victor Talmadge and Wendy vanden Heuvel.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"This summer, local theatre stages host a mix of the classic and contemporary, alongside world premieres and hearty musicals.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005471,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1559},"headData":{"title":"10 Hot Tickets to Bay Area Plays and Musicals This Summer | KQED","description":"This summer, local theatre stages host a mix of the classic and contemporary, alongside world premieres and hearty musicals.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"10 Hot Tickets to Bay Area Plays and Musicals This Summer","datePublished":"2023-05-22T20:00:44.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:37:51.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Hot Summer Guide 2023","sourceUrl":"/summerguide2023","sticky":false,"nprByline":"David John Chávez","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13929225/bay-area-plays-musicals-summer","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Be sure to check out our full \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/summerguide2023\">2023 Summer Arts Guide to live music, movies, art, theater, festivals and more\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theater companies typically grind hard from September to June, and as a result, the summer months ease up a bit before the cycle starts again in the fall. This doesn’t mean the Bay Area theater scene is a barren wasteland over the summer; quite the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area stages this summer host a healthy mix of the classic and contemporary, along with world premieres and hearty musicals. Here are 10 shows from late May to early September that you don’t want to miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929271\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929271\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-800x818.jpg\" alt=\"a photo of three people posed in front of a wooden door, two youngish Latino-appearing men with a Latina woman in an orange standing between them, looking at the camera\" width=\"800\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-800x818.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-1020x1043.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-160x164.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-768x785.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-1502x1536.jpg 1502w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159-1920x1963.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Caleb-Cabrera-and-Regina-Morones-and-Samuel-Prince-Credit-Robbie-Sweeny-DSC00159.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caleb Cabrera and Regina Morones and Samuel Prince in ‘Yerma.’ \u003ccite>(Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp\">Yerma\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ashby Stage, Berkeley\u003cbr>\nMay 27–June 18, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whose passion explodes from the ink, has a special quality that knows no end. Lorca’s characters are not simply products of circumstance; they are wholly consumed by fate. His ideas and word combinations are incredibly thrilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Yerma\u003c/em>, a play not as frequently produced as the two others in his Rural Trilogy, the title character is childless, desperately yearning to be a mother. Her desperation leads to her self-destruction, which parallels the tragedy of Lorca himself, killed in 1936 at the hands of a firing squad at age 38. \u003cem>Yerma\u003c/em> is the type of play that Shotgun Players does beautifully, with the immeasurable benefit of one of Spain’s greatest voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929279\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"three people, a white woman, a Black man and a Japanese-American man in colorful outfits, perform on a stage with a fake animal skeleton of some kind\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/INTO-THE-WOODS-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aymee Garcia, Cole Thompson and Kennedy Kanagawa in ‘Into the Woods’ \u003ccite>(Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://sfcurran.com/\">Into the Woods\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Curran, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 20–25, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is a regular stop for national tours, but \u003cem>Into the Woods\u003c/em> offers an added bonus: multiple original cast members from the critically acclaimed Broadway production. The show opened in May of 2022 as a two-week run at the New York City Center before a Broadway transfer led to multiple extensions and six Tony Award nominations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The masterpiece from James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim joins together multiple plots of various fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm — often with much darker consequences than their Disney counterparts. Making its way out West as well is the melancholy cow puppet Milky White, an aspect of the show that was all the rage in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929281\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"a young Black woman with curly hair poses for a portrait in a red dress\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Elizabeth_Carter_Jenny-Graham-2-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime Bay Area performer Elizabeth Carter makes her TheatreWorks directorial debut with ‘Steel Magnolias.’ \u003ccite>(Jenny Graham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org/\">Steel Magnolias\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts\u003cbr>\nJune 7–July 2, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has been crafting great, innovative artistry for its recent productions, rethinking what a classic can be and infusing the work with components that expand a show’s inclusivity. (Exhibit A: their \u003cem>Little Shop of Horrors\u003c/em>, placed in San Francisco’s Chinatown, this past December.) This year, a play set in the South, which featured an all-white cast in the popular 1989 film, adapts the action into a Black-owned salon. Longtime Bay Area performer Elizabeth Carter directs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"a large group of people in top hats and shiny outfits perform a dance in a chorus line on stage\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/SFP_AChorusLine_Alamy-scaled-1-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘A Chorus Line’ at the London Palladium. San Francisco Playhouse closes its 20th anniversary season with the musical starting June 22. \u003ccite>(Alamy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/2022-2023-season/a-chorus-line/\">A Chorus Line\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>San Francisco Playhouse\u003cbr>\nJune 22–Sept. 9, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Playhouse is going all in with its collection of musicals, offering up three in a 12-month span. One of the most decorated musicals in history, winning nine Tony awards and the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1976, \u003cem>A Chorus Line\u003c/em> follows a colorful group of dancers vying for a coveted spot on a Broadway chorus line. Each dancer brings deep, personal stories with lots of humor and heartbreak. Despite their variety of backgrounds, each of the dancers ultimately asks the same question — if the dream were to end instantly after so much sacrifice, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwk0Sh3id4w\">are there any regrets\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929284\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-800x450.png\" alt=\"a group of four people, three Black women and one Black man, Questlove, smile for the camera\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-768x432.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0.png 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team behind ‘Hippest Trip’: Dominique Morrisseau (book), Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson (executive producer), Camille A. Brown (choreography), Kamilah Forbes (director). \u003ccite>(Nicola Goode)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.act-sf.org/whats-on/2023-24-season/soul-train/\">Hippest Trip — The Soul Train Musical\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Toni Rembe Theater, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nAug. 25–Oct. 1, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Chicago disc jockey Joe Cobb pierced the television speaker with his dulcet falsetto screaming, “The soooooouuulllll train,” followed by Sid McCoy smoothly introducing “the hippest trip in America” while a colorful train \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8osiVlz6Ws\">bounced along outer space\u003c/a>, you knew that Saturday morning was ready to commence with unbridled Black joy. Every ounce of \u003cem>Soul Train\u003c/em> is iconic — dapper host Don Cornelius, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lODBVM802H8\">Soul Train line\u003c/a>, prime fashion, and the show’s indelible role in popular culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new musical, which finally premieres at A.C.T. after plenty of delays, is led by a dream team, including playwright Dominique Morrisseau and musician/Soul Train savant Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. A long-anticipated world premiere, it’s poised to become the theatre event of the summer with high ambitions beyond the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a glass of water on a table in front of a woman's face, lit darkly; she has brown skin and black hair and is wearing dark lipstick\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Virginia_Wolf_h.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Ramirez in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.’ \u003ccite>(Ben Krantz Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/virginia\">Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Flax Art & Design, Oakland\u003cbr>\nMay 26–June 18, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long considered a masterpiece of the American theater, this unflinchingly comedic and profound work from Edward Albee follows middle-aged couple George and Martha, who invite a young professor and his wife over to their place for a nightcap; a dangerous round of fun and games ensues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Theater Project is on a roll of late, producing gritty narratives from fresh playwrights while continuing to build upon a healthy repertory company of terrific artists. Popular company members Lisa Ramirez and Michael Socrates Moran perform and direct, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-800x1201.jpg\" alt=\"a portrait of a man with light brown skin and a very short beard wearing a black t-shirt\" width=\"800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-1020x1531.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-768x1153.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/StachelAri_SergioPasquariello.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ari’el Stachel in ‘Out of Character’ \u003ccite>(Sergio Pasquariello)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/shows/out-of-character/\">Out of Character\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Berkeley Repertory Theatre\u003cbr>\nJune 23–July 20, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing the beautiful musical \u003cem>The Band’s Visit\u003c/em> in 2017 was to witness an incredible set of performances from an all-star cast. One of those performers, the handsome Berkeley-raised talent Ari’el Stachel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUW-yM2y53s\">made audiences swoon\u003c/a> as the confident musician Haled. That swooning was no accident; his performance landed him the 2018 Tony Award for best featured actor in a musical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stachel returns home for this solo debut, telling his story of the difficulties he faced as an Israeli American of Yemeni Jewish descent shortly after the 9/11 attacks. In keeping with the homegrown nature of the piece, the show was developed at the Rep’s Ground Floor and is directed by former artistic director Tony Taccone, who led the Rep for 33 years before retiring in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-800x501.jpg\" alt=\"three people, a Black man in a suit, a Black woman in a white top and black pants and a Black woman in a peach dress, laugh while performing a reading in front of an applauding crowd\" width=\"800\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-800x501.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-1020x639.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-768x481.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited-1536x962.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/1-01_edited_edited.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actor Rotimi Agbabiaka, playwright Traci Tolmaire and actor Ryan Nicole Austin perform a staged reading of ‘In the Evening by the Moonlight’ at the Museum of African Diaspora. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Lorraine Hansberry Theatre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.lhtsf.org/\">In the Evening by the Moonlight\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Young Performer’s Theatre at Fort Mason, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 15–July 2, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is the home for this new play that imagines a conversation between three major figures: the theatre’s namesake, Lorraine Hansberry, Nina Simone and James Baldwin. The piece is set in Hansberry’s Waverly Place flat in New York, as the three icons confront a fearful future while expressing hopes for a revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The play, which received a successful reading in April, is written by Traci Tolmaire, and co-created and directed by artistic director Margo Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-800x600.png\" alt=\"three white people, two men and one woman, smile for the camera while sitting in an empty theater\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-800x600.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-1020x765.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-768x576.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/pasted-image-0-1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The team behind ‘Hamlet’ from the Marin Shakespeare Company, left to right: Jon Tracy (director), Bridgette Loriaux (‘Gertrude’) and Nick Musleh (‘Hamlet’). \u003ccite>(Jon Tracy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinshakespeare.org/\">Hamlet\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, San Rafael\u003cbr>\nJune 16–July 16, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing screams summer like Shakespeare in an outdoor setting, and the Marin Shakespeare Company has presented the Bard outside since 1989. Well-known Bay Area director Jon Tracy is taking over the reins as summer season artistic producer, and while he has directed for the company plenty, this is his debut in the new role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of Hamlet has everything one can ask for in a drama — iconic characters, lust, betrayal, greed, humor and deception. To be or not to be in the house? Grabbing some Shakespeare on a beautiful North Bay night under the stars is a definite “to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929293\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-800x1105.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1105\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-800x1105.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-1020x1408.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-160x221.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-768x1060.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-1112x1536.jpeg 1112w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1-1483x2048.jpeg 1483w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Timothy-Near_DavidAllenPhoto-scaled-1.jpeg 1854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy Near, director of ‘The Road to Mecca.’ \u003ccite>(David Allen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.zspace.org/\">The Road to Mecca\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Z Below, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nJune 4–30, 2023\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This work from Athol Fugard, long considered the greatest of South African playwrights, centers an aging Miss Helen, who fills her home and garden with sculptures made from junk after the death of her husband. As her mental health continues to deteriorate, two people — a local pastor and a young teacher — fight to determine the ultimate path of her perilous future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The piece brings together a group of artists who last worked together on another Fugard piece at Z Below, \u003cem>A Lesson from Aloes\u003c/em>, in 2018. Timothy Near leads the three-hander, reuniting the longtime director with top acting talents Victor Talmadge and Wendy vanden Heuvel.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13929225/bay-area-plays-musicals-summer","authors":["byline_arts_13929225"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235","arts_967"],"tags":["arts_1237","arts_10278","arts_1321","arts_2360","arts_20565","arts_1072","arts_1815","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13929279","label":"source_arts_13929225"},"arts_13926293":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13926293","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13926293","score":null,"sort":[1678908992000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"so-you-began-your-event-with-an-indigenous-land-acknowledgement-now-what","title":"So You Began Your Event With an Indigenous Land Acknowledgement. Now What?","publishDate":1678908992,"format":"standard","headTitle":"So You Began Your Event With an Indigenous Land Acknowledgement. Now What? | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Land acknowledgments have become increasingly common nationwide over the past few years. Many mainstream public events — from soccer games and performing arts productions to city council meetings and corporate conferences — begin with these formal statements recognizing Indigenous communities’ rights to territories seized by colonial powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indigenous leaders and activists have mixed feelings about land acknowledgments. While some say they are a waste of time, others are working to make the well-meaning but often empty speeches more useful. The debate is more than a niche issue; the pros and cons of land acknowledgments are the subject of myriad \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/against-land-acknowledgements-native-american/620820/\">mainstream media articles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/michellecyca/status/1525198115304636416?lang=en\">social media posts \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_3W7KKB-Vc\">online videos\u003c/a>. And they’ve even been parodied on TV, in series like \u003cem>Reservation Dogs, \u003c/em>about the exploits of a group of Oklahoma Indigenous teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8UpKVImNcU&t=72s\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>In one ear and out the other\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“If it becomes routine, or worse yet, is strictly performative, then it has no meaning at all,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.edu/about/bios/kevin-gover\">Kevin Gover\u003c/a>, a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and undersecretary for museums and culture at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.edu/\">Smithsonian Institution\u003c/a>. “It goes in one ear and out the other.” (Gover said only one or two Smithsonian museums have land acknowledgments; the \u003ca href=\"https://americanindian.si.edu/\">National Museum of the American Indian\u003c/a> is among those that do, and \u003ca href=\"https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/informational/land-acknowledgment\">its acknowledgment\u003c/a> is only one sentence long.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13920243']Gover said the statements — which first appeared in Australia back in the 1970s in the push for Aboriginal peoples’ rights and more recently blossomed in Canada with the \u003ca href=\"https://nctr.ca/records/reports/\">Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report\u003c/a>, which brought to light how generations of Indigenous school children had been stripped of their native languages and cultural traditions — can also feel disempowering to the very people they’re supposed to uplift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I hear a land acknowledgment, part of what I’m hearing is, ‘There used to be Indians here. But now they’re gone. Isn’t that a shame?’ And I don’t wish to be made to feel that way,” Gover said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A first step toward positive action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But other Indigenous experts say land acknowledgments do have value. If people are thinking about how they go about crafting and using these statements, they can provide a first step toward action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land acknowledgment gets you to that start,” said \u003ca href=\"https://nasp.humboldt.edu/people/dr-cutcha-risling-baldy\">Cutcha Risling Baldy\u003c/a>, a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and an associate professor of Native American Studies at \u003ca href=\"https://www.humboldt.edu/\">California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt\u003c/a>. “Now it’s time to think about what that actually means for you or your institution. What are the concrete actions you’re gonna take? What are the ways you’re gonna assist Indigenous peoples in uplifting and upholding their sovereignty and self-determination?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926295\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/img_0446-86c59dac84f2d23b473bc6f1d360c2351653ac6d-800x600.jpg\" alt='A poster for an \"Unthanksgiving event\" welcomes visitors in a hallway.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/img_0446-86c59dac84f2d23b473bc6f1d360c2351653ac6d-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/img_0446-86c59dac84f2d23b473bc6f1d360c2351653ac6d-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/img_0446-86c59dac84f2d23b473bc6f1d360c2351653ac6d-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/img_0446-86c59dac84f2d23b473bc6f1d360c2351653ac6d-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/img_0446-86c59dac84f2d23b473bc6f1d360c2351653ac6d.jpg 1474w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flyer advertising Cutcha Risling Baldy’s talk at Dominican University in which she used the land acknowledgment to solicit support for the First Nations Garden in nearby Chicago. \u003ccite>(Fawn Pochel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Baldy demonstrates how land acknowledgments can be used in talks she gives around the country. For example, she used the land acknowledgment at the start of a lecture at Dominican University in River Forest, Ill., in November 2022 to ask audience members to support an Indigenous community garden nearby Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13916457']“She put up a QR code for people to donate directly to the \u003ca href=\"https://chinations.org/first-nations-garden/\">First Nations Garden\u003c/a>,” said Fawn Pochel, who was in Baldy’s audience that day. “She literally paused so people could take pictures and create donations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pochel, who identifies as First Nations Ojibwe and is part of the community organization effort around the First Nations Garden, said her group received more than $200 in unexpected donations within 24 hours due to Baldy’s callout during the land acknowledgment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a direct result of her uplifting our space during her conversation,” Pochel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Putting land acknowledgments to further use\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sometimes land acknowledgments can lead to more than one-off donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13916175']At \u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp\">Shotgun Players\u003c/a>, a theater company in Berkeley, Calif., all performances and staff meetings begin with a 45-second-long statement acknowledging, “that the land beneath our theater and our studios and throughout East Bay is Huichin, the traditional unceded land of the Lisjan Ohlone people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artistic director Patrick Dooley, who’s not Native American, said having a land acknowledgment helps remind his theater company and audience of their privileges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just here for a brief time,” Dooley said. “And the way we can really honor our opportunity to live wherever we live is to acknowledge and honor the people that came before us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company developed its land acknowledgment three years ago in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/\">Sogorea Te’ Land Trust\u003c/a>, a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit focused on Indigenous land return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we work with people around creating land acknowledgments, it really has to be a reciprocal relationship,” said \u003ca href=\"https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/directors/corrina-gould/\">Corrina Gould\u003c/a>, co-director of the land trust and tribal chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://villagesoflisjan.org/\">Confederated Villages of Lisjan-Ohlone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theater company takes the reciprocity seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13921886']Artistic director Dooley said Shotgun Players pays a voluntary land tax — known as “\u003ca href=\"https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/shuumi-land-tax/\">Shuumi Land Tax\u003c/a>,” incorporating the Chochenyo word for “gift” — of between $3,000 and $6,000 a year to the trust. (Dooley said the amount depends on the company’s annual income). The theater company has also offered the trust tickets to performances and invitations to use its space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sogorea Te’ Land Trust co-director Gould said she’d like to see Shotgun Players do even more, including hiring Indigenous theater artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hoping that it’ll be a long-term relationship that our children will be able to say, ‘Hey, this started a long time ago, but we’re still in this together,’ ” said Gould, who added her organization has been developing deeper relationships with a variety of local organizations including \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandrootssc.com/stolen-land/\">Oakland Roots\u003c/a> soccer team and \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/about/land-acknowledgement/\">Berkeley Repertory Theatre\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shotgun’s Dooley said he agrees. But he admits he still needs to do more to seek out Indigenous talent for his theater’s productions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a seasoned selection committee,” the artistic director said. “And one of the priorities that we have is to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Audio and digital stories edited by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/881642560/ciera-crawford\">\u003cem>Ciera Crawford\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. Audio produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/766798576/isabella-gomez-sarmiento\">\u003cem>Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. Web copy edited by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/348743704/beth-novey\">\u003cem>Beth Novey\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. Editorial consultant, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/933079708/sam-yellowhorse-kesler\">\u003cem>Sam Yellowhorse Kesler\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=So+you+began+your+event+with+an+indigenous+land+acknowledgement.+Now+what%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Statements recognizing Indigenous territories are well-meaning, but some Native leaders find them performative.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005736,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1126},"headData":{"title":"So You Began Your Event With an Indigenous Land Acknowledgement. Now What? | KQED","description":"Statements recognizing Indigenous territories are well-meaning, but some Native leaders find them performative.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"So You Began Your Event With an Indigenous Land Acknowledgement. Now What?","datePublished":"2023-03-15T19:36:32.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:42:16.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Aaron Carapella","nprByline":"Chloe Veltman","nprImageAgency":"Tribal Nations Map","nprStoryId":"1160204144","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1160204144&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/15/1160204144/indigenous-land-acknowledgments?ft=nprml&f=1160204144","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 15 Mar 2023 10:58:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 15 Mar 2023 05:00:52 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 15 Mar 2023 10:58:42 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13926293/so-you-began-your-event-with-an-indigenous-land-acknowledgement-now-what","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Land acknowledgments have become increasingly common nationwide over the past few years. Many mainstream public events — from soccer games and performing arts productions to city council meetings and corporate conferences — begin with these formal statements recognizing Indigenous communities’ rights to territories seized by colonial powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indigenous leaders and activists have mixed feelings about land acknowledgments. While some say they are a waste of time, others are working to make the well-meaning but often empty speeches more useful. The debate is more than a niche issue; the pros and cons of land acknowledgments are the subject of myriad \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/against-land-acknowledgements-native-american/620820/\">mainstream media articles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/michellecyca/status/1525198115304636416?lang=en\">social media posts \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_3W7KKB-Vc\">online videos\u003c/a>. And they’ve even been parodied on TV, in series like \u003cem>Reservation Dogs, \u003c/em>about the exploits of a group of Oklahoma Indigenous teens.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/r8UpKVImNcU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/r8UpKVImNcU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>In one ear and out the other\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“If it becomes routine, or worse yet, is strictly performative, then it has no meaning at all,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.edu/about/bios/kevin-gover\">Kevin Gover\u003c/a>, a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and undersecretary for museums and culture at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.edu/\">Smithsonian Institution\u003c/a>. “It goes in one ear and out the other.” (Gover said only one or two Smithsonian museums have land acknowledgments; the \u003ca href=\"https://americanindian.si.edu/\">National Museum of the American Indian\u003c/a> is among those that do, and \u003ca href=\"https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/informational/land-acknowledgment\">its acknowledgment\u003c/a> is only one sentence long.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13920243","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gover said the statements — which first appeared in Australia back in the 1970s in the push for Aboriginal peoples’ rights and more recently blossomed in Canada with the \u003ca href=\"https://nctr.ca/records/reports/\">Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report\u003c/a>, which brought to light how generations of Indigenous school children had been stripped of their native languages and cultural traditions — can also feel disempowering to the very people they’re supposed to uplift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I hear a land acknowledgment, part of what I’m hearing is, ‘There used to be Indians here. But now they’re gone. Isn’t that a shame?’ And I don’t wish to be made to feel that way,” Gover said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A first step toward positive action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But other Indigenous experts say land acknowledgments do have value. If people are thinking about how they go about crafting and using these statements, they can provide a first step toward action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land acknowledgment gets you to that start,” said \u003ca href=\"https://nasp.humboldt.edu/people/dr-cutcha-risling-baldy\">Cutcha Risling Baldy\u003c/a>, a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and an associate professor of Native American Studies at \u003ca href=\"https://www.humboldt.edu/\">California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt\u003c/a>. “Now it’s time to think about what that actually means for you or your institution. What are the concrete actions you’re gonna take? What are the ways you’re gonna assist Indigenous peoples in uplifting and upholding their sovereignty and self-determination?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13926295\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13926295\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/img_0446-86c59dac84f2d23b473bc6f1d360c2351653ac6d-800x600.jpg\" alt='A poster for an \"Unthanksgiving event\" welcomes visitors in a hallway.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/img_0446-86c59dac84f2d23b473bc6f1d360c2351653ac6d-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/img_0446-86c59dac84f2d23b473bc6f1d360c2351653ac6d-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/img_0446-86c59dac84f2d23b473bc6f1d360c2351653ac6d-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/img_0446-86c59dac84f2d23b473bc6f1d360c2351653ac6d-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/img_0446-86c59dac84f2d23b473bc6f1d360c2351653ac6d.jpg 1474w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flyer advertising Cutcha Risling Baldy’s talk at Dominican University in which she used the land acknowledgment to solicit support for the First Nations Garden in nearby Chicago. \u003ccite>(Fawn Pochel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Baldy demonstrates how land acknowledgments can be used in talks she gives around the country. For example, she used the land acknowledgment at the start of a lecture at Dominican University in River Forest, Ill., in November 2022 to ask audience members to support an Indigenous community garden nearby Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13916457","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“She put up a QR code for people to donate directly to the \u003ca href=\"https://chinations.org/first-nations-garden/\">First Nations Garden\u003c/a>,” said Fawn Pochel, who was in Baldy’s audience that day. “She literally paused so people could take pictures and create donations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pochel, who identifies as First Nations Ojibwe and is part of the community organization effort around the First Nations Garden, said her group received more than $200 in unexpected donations within 24 hours due to Baldy’s callout during the land acknowledgment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a direct result of her uplifting our space during her conversation,” Pochel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Putting land acknowledgments to further use\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sometimes land acknowledgments can lead to more than one-off donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13916175","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp\">Shotgun Players\u003c/a>, a theater company in Berkeley, Calif., all performances and staff meetings begin with a 45-second-long statement acknowledging, “that the land beneath our theater and our studios and throughout East Bay is Huichin, the traditional unceded land of the Lisjan Ohlone people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artistic director Patrick Dooley, who’s not Native American, said having a land acknowledgment helps remind his theater company and audience of their privileges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just here for a brief time,” Dooley said. “And the way we can really honor our opportunity to live wherever we live is to acknowledge and honor the people that came before us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company developed its land acknowledgment three years ago in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/\">Sogorea Te’ Land Trust\u003c/a>, a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit focused on Indigenous land return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we work with people around creating land acknowledgments, it really has to be a reciprocal relationship,” said \u003ca href=\"https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/directors/corrina-gould/\">Corrina Gould\u003c/a>, co-director of the land trust and tribal chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://villagesoflisjan.org/\">Confederated Villages of Lisjan-Ohlone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theater company takes the reciprocity seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13921886","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Artistic director Dooley said Shotgun Players pays a voluntary land tax — known as “\u003ca href=\"https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/shuumi-land-tax/\">Shuumi Land Tax\u003c/a>,” incorporating the Chochenyo word for “gift” — of between $3,000 and $6,000 a year to the trust. (Dooley said the amount depends on the company’s annual income). The theater company has also offered the trust tickets to performances and invitations to use its space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sogorea Te’ Land Trust co-director Gould said she’d like to see Shotgun Players do even more, including hiring Indigenous theater artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hoping that it’ll be a long-term relationship that our children will be able to say, ‘Hey, this started a long time ago, but we’re still in this together,’ ” said Gould, who added her organization has been developing deeper relationships with a variety of local organizations including \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandrootssc.com/stolen-land/\">Oakland Roots\u003c/a> soccer team and \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyrep.org/about/land-acknowledgement/\">Berkeley Repertory Theatre\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shotgun’s Dooley said he agrees. But he admits he still needs to do more to seek out Indigenous talent for his theater’s productions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a seasoned selection committee,” the artistic director said. “And one of the priorities that we have is to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Audio and digital stories edited by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/881642560/ciera-crawford\">\u003cem>Ciera Crawford\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. Audio produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/766798576/isabella-gomez-sarmiento\">\u003cem>Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. Web copy edited by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/348743704/beth-novey\">\u003cem>Beth Novey\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. Editorial consultant, \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/933079708/sam-yellowhorse-kesler\">\u003cem>Sam Yellowhorse Kesler\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=So+you+began+your+event+with+an+indigenous+land+acknowledgement.+Now+what%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13926293/so-you-began-your-event-with-an-indigenous-land-acknowledgement-now-what","authors":["byline_arts_13926293"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835"],"tags":["arts_7005","arts_3178","arts_2360"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13926294","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13921567":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13921567","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13921567","score":null,"sort":[1668618036000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"review-natasha-pierre-the-great-comet-of-1812-dave-malloy-shotgun-players","title":"'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' a Grand Reunion for Dave Malloy and Shotgun Players","publishDate":1668618036,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812’ a Grand Reunion for Dave Malloy and Shotgun Players | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>It’s been a good year for composer and playsmith Dave Malloy reconnecting to the Bay Area. His chamber musical \u003cem>Octet\u003c/em> had a Berkeley Rep run in the spring, and, last week, his highly-anticipated West Coast premiere of \u003cem>Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 \u003c/em>opened for previews at the Ashby Stage. Once a Shotgun Players regular — having co-developed \u003cem>Beowulf, a Thousand Years of Baggage\u003c/em> in 2008, and \u003cem>Beardo\u003c/em> in 2011 — Malloy’s triumphal return feels almost pre-ordained. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch enough theatre in the Bay Area and you start to identify how one moment in an artist’s trajectory connects to another, years, sometimes decades down the line. In \u003cem>Great Comet\u003c/em> are reverberations of Malloy’s earlier works: A riff on a literary manuscript of great importance (in this case, \u003cem>War and Peace\u003c/em>), a reuniting with Imperial Russia, a rock-inflected score revealing the emotional layers of each character before they’re expressed in verse, and a playful quality infusing the action with an undercurrent of genial bonhomie, no matter its weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13921570\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_JacquelineDennis_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jacqueline Dennis, a Black woman in a pink satin ballgown, stands centerstage in blue lighti, singing with her arms outstretched beneath a large chandelier\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_JacquelineDennis_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_JacquelineDennis_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_JacquelineDennis_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_JacquelineDennis_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_JacquelineDennis_Credit_BenjaminKrantz.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqueline Dennis as Natasha in ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,’ by Dave Malloy. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Krantz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This gaiety makes itself known even before the play begins. A Nina Ball-designed banquet table-cum-catwalk stretches from the stage into the center of the room, with the audience seated on either side. An enormous chandelier commands the space from above, a lone chair upholstered in red satin sits at one end of the runway, and the world’s smallest orchestra pit — containing just two musicians — peeks up from its center. (From here, music director Daniel Alley conducts and plays an upright piano while actors spin and prance all around.) Some audience members have come in costume (those who do get free drinks), jello shots are on the menu, and Russian electronica pumps through the sound system. It all adds up to a modern-day approximation of aristocratic decadence circa 1812.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right from the top, Malloy makes this small foray into Tolstoy’s masterpiece as breezy and accessible as possible. There’s no need to have done the reading beforehand. The characters are each introduced by their defining characteristic. Natasha (Jacqueline Dennis) is “young.” Marya (Michelle Ianiro) is “old-school.” Anatole (Nick Rodrigues) is “hot.” His sister Hélène (Angel Adedokun) is a “slut.” And Andrey (James Mayagoitia) — Natasha’s fiancé — “isn’t here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13921569\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AngelAdedokun_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Angel Adedokun walks down a long catwalk, her hand raised in the air. She is a slender Black woman with long textured hair and a purple silk dress and black boots. The ensemble dances behind her.\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AngelAdedokun_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AngelAdedokun_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AngelAdedokun_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AngelAdedokun_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AngelAdedokun_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AngelAdedokun_Credit_BenjaminKrantz.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Adedokun as Hélène owning the runway in ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,’ \u003ccite>(Benjamin Krantz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From this point the story follows a predictable, almost melodramatic path. Natasha falls for the rakish Anaotle. Marya (and most of Moscovian society) is appalled. Hélène is an active participant in orchestrating their impending elopement. And Pierre (Albert Hodge) — Hélène’s beleaguered husband, whose satined seat at the center of the room affords him the best, most voyeuristic view into the lives of his play-mates — quietly turns the pages of his leather-bound copy of \u003cem>War and Peace\u003c/em> as its rambunctious contents unfold on the stage in front of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Natasha, Jacqueline Dennis is a delightful anchor for the staged tempests of Tolstoy. Wearing her ill-advised desire for Anatole as freshly as the virginal rose she wears in her hair, Dennis shines with a celestial radiance that brightens and enhances each performer pulled into her orbit. These include a blissfully lovely duet with her winsome cousin Sonya (Veronica Renner); a blushing acceptance of the effects of her evident charms on Moscow’s elite, gathered around her at the opera; and the rakish whims of Anatole transformed almost to gentleness by her illuminating presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13921571\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_NickRodrigues_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Rodrigues wearing a loose purple silk shirt and tight black trousers holds out his hand and smiles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_NickRodrigues_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_NickRodrigues_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_NickRodrigues_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_NickRodrigues_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_NickRodrigues_Credit_BenjaminKrantz.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anatole is hot. Nick Rodrigues as Anatole in ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,’ by Dave Malloy. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Krantz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In turn, Nick Rodrigues as Anatole cuts a very convincing cad. His vocals, while sometimes shaky, combine with superlative cheekbones to lend him the blazing sex appeal of a Wham!-era George Michael. Equally matched for heat and charm, Angel Adedokun as Hélène steals almost every scene she’s present in, even when it’s merely as a witness to the forward motion of unstoppable events. She struts down the catwalk like she owns it, flirts outrageously with every person within a 100-foot radius, and pounds out the beat of Anatole’s own overheated heart on a drum as he capriciously plots Natasha’s inevitable downfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13921568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AlbertHodge_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Hodge, a Black Man in a furcoat and a brown suit and red satin tie looks into the distance, a red curtain behind him.\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AlbertHodge_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AlbertHodge_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AlbertHodge_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AlbertHodge_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AlbertHodge_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AlbertHodge_Credit_BenjaminKrantz.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albert Hodge as Pierre in ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,’ by Dave Malloy. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Krantz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through all of the tumult and drama and excess, Pierre watches, often silently, from his corner of the room. When he joins the others, he drinks too much and speaks too loudly — a barroom philosophizer with a maudlin streak. And yet, Albert Hodge imbues his Pierre with a gravitas befitting his centrality to the plot. Despite (or perhaps because of) his less dignified moments, one can’t help but to root for things to finally work out in his favor. And so they do, when the long tail of the play comes back around to meet itself on the other side of intermission, like that of the titular Great Comet that dazzles both the nineteenth-century countryside and the twenty-first century theatre set. A brilliant beacon heralding a new age. Or, at least, a new path forward for Pierre and for his well-wishers, past and present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812’ runs through Jan. 15, 2023, at Ashby Stage in Berkeley. \u003ca href=\"http://shotgunplayers.org/online/article/great-comet\">Details here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With an elaborate set in tow, Dave Malloy's return to the Bay Area offers a joyful adaptation of 'War and Peace.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006154,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":985},"headData":{"title":"Review: 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' is Elegant, Elaborate at Shotgun Players | KQED","description":"With an elaborate set in tow, Dave Malloy's return to the Bay Area offers a joyful adaptation of 'War and Peace.'","ogTitle":"Review: 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' is Elegant, Elaborate at Shotgun Players","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Review: 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' is Elegant, Elaborate at Shotgun Players","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Review: 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' is Elegant, Elaborate at Shotgun Players %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' a Grand Reunion for Dave Malloy and Shotgun Players","datePublished":"2022-11-16T17:00:36.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:49:14.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/arts/13921567/review-natasha-pierre-the-great-comet-of-1812-dave-malloy-shotgun-players","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s been a good year for composer and playsmith Dave Malloy reconnecting to the Bay Area. His chamber musical \u003cem>Octet\u003c/em> had a Berkeley Rep run in the spring, and, last week, his highly-anticipated West Coast premiere of \u003cem>Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 \u003c/em>opened for previews at the Ashby Stage. Once a Shotgun Players regular — having co-developed \u003cem>Beowulf, a Thousand Years of Baggage\u003c/em> in 2008, and \u003cem>Beardo\u003c/em> in 2011 — Malloy’s triumphal return feels almost pre-ordained. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch enough theatre in the Bay Area and you start to identify how one moment in an artist’s trajectory connects to another, years, sometimes decades down the line. In \u003cem>Great Comet\u003c/em> are reverberations of Malloy’s earlier works: A riff on a literary manuscript of great importance (in this case, \u003cem>War and Peace\u003c/em>), a reuniting with Imperial Russia, a rock-inflected score revealing the emotional layers of each character before they’re expressed in verse, and a playful quality infusing the action with an undercurrent of genial bonhomie, no matter its weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13921570\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_JacquelineDennis_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jacqueline Dennis, a Black woman in a pink satin ballgown, stands centerstage in blue lighti, singing with her arms outstretched beneath a large chandelier\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_JacquelineDennis_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_JacquelineDennis_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_JacquelineDennis_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_JacquelineDennis_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_JacquelineDennis_Credit_BenjaminKrantz.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqueline Dennis as Natasha in ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,’ by Dave Malloy. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Krantz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This gaiety makes itself known even before the play begins. A Nina Ball-designed banquet table-cum-catwalk stretches from the stage into the center of the room, with the audience seated on either side. An enormous chandelier commands the space from above, a lone chair upholstered in red satin sits at one end of the runway, and the world’s smallest orchestra pit — containing just two musicians — peeks up from its center. (From here, music director Daniel Alley conducts and plays an upright piano while actors spin and prance all around.) Some audience members have come in costume (those who do get free drinks), jello shots are on the menu, and Russian electronica pumps through the sound system. It all adds up to a modern-day approximation of aristocratic decadence circa 1812.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right from the top, Malloy makes this small foray into Tolstoy’s masterpiece as breezy and accessible as possible. There’s no need to have done the reading beforehand. The characters are each introduced by their defining characteristic. Natasha (Jacqueline Dennis) is “young.” Marya (Michelle Ianiro) is “old-school.” Anatole (Nick Rodrigues) is “hot.” His sister Hélène (Angel Adedokun) is a “slut.” And Andrey (James Mayagoitia) — Natasha’s fiancé — “isn’t here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13921569\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AngelAdedokun_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Angel Adedokun walks down a long catwalk, her hand raised in the air. She is a slender Black woman with long textured hair and a purple silk dress and black boots. The ensemble dances behind her.\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AngelAdedokun_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AngelAdedokun_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AngelAdedokun_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AngelAdedokun_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AngelAdedokun_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AngelAdedokun_Credit_BenjaminKrantz.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Adedokun as Hélène owning the runway in ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,’ \u003ccite>(Benjamin Krantz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From this point the story follows a predictable, almost melodramatic path. Natasha falls for the rakish Anaotle. Marya (and most of Moscovian society) is appalled. Hélène is an active participant in orchestrating their impending elopement. And Pierre (Albert Hodge) — Hélène’s beleaguered husband, whose satined seat at the center of the room affords him the best, most voyeuristic view into the lives of his play-mates — quietly turns the pages of his leather-bound copy of \u003cem>War and Peace\u003c/em> as its rambunctious contents unfold on the stage in front of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Natasha, Jacqueline Dennis is a delightful anchor for the staged tempests of Tolstoy. Wearing her ill-advised desire for Anatole as freshly as the virginal rose she wears in her hair, Dennis shines with a celestial radiance that brightens and enhances each performer pulled into her orbit. These include a blissfully lovely duet with her winsome cousin Sonya (Veronica Renner); a blushing acceptance of the effects of her evident charms on Moscow’s elite, gathered around her at the opera; and the rakish whims of Anatole transformed almost to gentleness by her illuminating presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13921571\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_NickRodrigues_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Rodrigues wearing a loose purple silk shirt and tight black trousers holds out his hand and smiles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_NickRodrigues_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_NickRodrigues_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_NickRodrigues_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_NickRodrigues_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_NickRodrigues_Credit_BenjaminKrantz.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anatole is hot. Nick Rodrigues as Anatole in ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,’ by Dave Malloy. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Krantz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In turn, Nick Rodrigues as Anatole cuts a very convincing cad. His vocals, while sometimes shaky, combine with superlative cheekbones to lend him the blazing sex appeal of a Wham!-era George Michael. Equally matched for heat and charm, Angel Adedokun as Hélène steals almost every scene she’s present in, even when it’s merely as a witness to the forward motion of unstoppable events. She struts down the catwalk like she owns it, flirts outrageously with every person within a 100-foot radius, and pounds out the beat of Anatole’s own overheated heart on a drum as he capriciously plots Natasha’s inevitable downfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13921568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13921568\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AlbertHodge_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Hodge, a Black Man in a furcoat and a brown suit and red satin tie looks into the distance, a red curtain behind him.\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AlbertHodge_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AlbertHodge_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AlbertHodge_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AlbertHodge_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AlbertHodge_Credit_BenjaminKrantz-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/GreatComet_AlbertHodge_Credit_BenjaminKrantz.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albert Hodge as Pierre in ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,’ by Dave Malloy. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Krantz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through all of the tumult and drama and excess, Pierre watches, often silently, from his corner of the room. When he joins the others, he drinks too much and speaks too loudly — a barroom philosophizer with a maudlin streak. And yet, Albert Hodge imbues his Pierre with a gravitas befitting his centrality to the plot. Despite (or perhaps because of) his less dignified moments, one can’t help but to root for things to finally work out in his favor. And so they do, when the long tail of the play comes back around to meet itself on the other side of intermission, like that of the titular Great Comet that dazzles both the nineteenth-century countryside and the twenty-first century theatre set. A brilliant beacon heralding a new age. Or, at least, a new path forward for Pierre and for his well-wishers, past and present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812’ runs through Jan. 15, 2023, at Ashby Stage in Berkeley. \u003ca href=\"http://shotgunplayers.org/online/article/great-comet\">Details here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13921567/review-natasha-pierre-the-great-comet-of-1812-dave-malloy-shotgun-players","authors":["11497"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_967"],"tags":["arts_1270","arts_10278","arts_2360","arts_1072","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13921572","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13895195":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13895195","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13895195","score":null,"sort":[1617750083000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"shotgun-players-kicks-off-30th-season-by-going-to-church-in-feel-the-spirit","title":"Shotgun Players Kicks Off 30th Season by Going to Church in 'Feel the Spirit'","publishDate":1617750083,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Shotgun Players Kicks Off 30th Season by Going to Church in ‘Feel the Spirit’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>While it’s safe to say that the Berkeley-based Shotgun Players would have preferred to kick off their 30th anniversary season in person, their ongoing innovation has nonetheless given shape to a robust slate of upcoming events. In addition to their projected Mainstage season, combined with an attendant Champagne staged reading series as in years past, Shotgun has actually expanded their programming to add what they’re calling their “Bridge” series of four plays. These productions are performed exclusively online—as with their current production of \u003cem>Feel the Spirit\u003c/em>—or with a combination of small audiences and streaming, helping “bridge” the transition between all-remote programming and full, in-person productions.[aside postID='arts_13890054']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And indeed, season opener \u003cem>Feel the Spirit\u003c/em>—a commissioned play written specifically for Zoom by Noelle Viñas—does feel transitional. Bringing the audience back to the early days of shutdown—and all of the awkwardness that entailed—as schools, theaters, and places of worship all shifted their practice online, \u003cem>Feel the Spirit \u003c/em>revisits a moment in time perhaps not far enough removed to feel historic. Centered primarily on a “progressive” church congregation and their dynamic queer pastor, Gabriela (Vero Maynez), \u003cem>Feel the Spirit\u003c/em> unpacks the everyday traumas and misconceptions of pandemic life and worship. To punctuate it all, an embodied holy trinity (Akaina Ghosh, J. Riley Jr., and Linda Girón) occasionally interjects their views on faith and human nature in triplicate verse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895202\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGiro%CC%81n_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-800x458.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGirón_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-800x458.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGirón_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-1020x584.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGirón_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-160x92.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGirón_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-768x440.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGirón_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-1536x880.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGirón_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-2048x1173.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGirón_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-1920x1099.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">God waiting for their entrance in ‘Feel the Spirit,’ by Noelle Viñas, with J. Riley Jr., Akaina Ghosh, and Linda Girón. \u003ccite>(Jayme Catalano)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The struggles encountered by Gabriela are both personal and professional. And though they’re exacerbated by the pandemic, like many struggles, their roots lie outside of it. Gabriela’s luminous wife, Rebecca (Lauren Garcia), is pregnant with their first child. The congregation is welcoming but wary, with an attachment to their insular traditions despite their progressive mission. Gabriela still feels like the newcomer she is, and as the very real distance created by various stay-at-home orders and protocols begins to erode her community relationships, she finds her very faith shaken. Meanwhile, the pandemic continues apace, and grim statistics of both COVID cases and deaths scroll across our screens, as devastating now as the first time they rolled in real time from March to June 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_LaurenGarcia_VeroMaynez_photocredit_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-800x431.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_LaurenGarcia_VeroMaynez_photocredit_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-800x431.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_LaurenGarcia_VeroMaynez_photocredit_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-1020x549.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_LaurenGarcia_VeroMaynez_photocredit_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-160x86.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_LaurenGarcia_VeroMaynez_photocredit_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-768x413.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_LaurenGarcia_VeroMaynez_photocredit_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern.png 1271w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren Garcia as Rebecca and Vero Maynez as Gabriela in ‘Feel the Spirit,’ by Noelle Viñas. \u003ccite>(screenshot/Shotgun Players)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Directed by Elizabeth Carter, Vero Maynez as Gabriela is vivacious and compelling. Her frustrations with her reluctant congregants—some of whom pressure her to reopen the church for in-person services within a month of the shutdown—crease the corners of her eyes and furrow her brow. She exudes kindness, but also insecurity, as she internalizes the myriad complaints of her congregants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Rebecca, Lauren Garcia alternates between loving and longing. She wants to be supportive of Gabriela, but comes to the conclusion much earlier that perhaps she’s taken on too much. Fred Pitts and Jean Forsman, as a pair of church “elders” with contradictory views about Gabriela’s role and efficacy, provide a grounded energy to the overall production. And footage of the three faces of God—interspersed with that of blue skies, cherry blossoms, redwoods, and other natural phenomena—shifts the mood of the play from the workaday to the metaphysical. But the fact that even God thinks Gabriela should ditch her congregation doesn’t bode well for it, and we really only hear of the church’s spiritual pain circuitously, with Pitts and Forsman as conduits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895200\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_FredPitts_JeanForsman_VeroMaynez_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-800x447.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_FredPitts_JeanForsman_VeroMaynez_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-800x447.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_FredPitts_JeanForsman_VeroMaynez_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-1020x570.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_FredPitts_JeanForsman_VeroMaynez_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-160x89.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_FredPitts_JeanForsman_VeroMaynez_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-768x430.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_FredPitts_JeanForsman_VeroMaynez_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern.png 1273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Pitts as Carleton, Jean Forsman as Angie, and Vero Maynez as Gabriela in ‘Feel the Spirit,’ by Noelle Viñas. \u003ccite>(screenshot/Shotgun Players)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Where \u003cem>Feel the Spirit\u003c/em> falters is mostly in its format, and in making the case for a Zoom production as \u003cem>compelling\u003c/em>, now that theater has mostly left the platform behind. Commissioning Noelle Viñas (whose recent \u003cem>Derecho\u003c/em> delved into the human impact of electoral politics and grassroots campaigning) to explore the pandemic shutdown through a lens of faith and community is an inspired choice for Shotgun. But while plays like \u003cem>Derecho\u003c/em> have had years to develop into their fullness, this play feels rushed, both in concept and in execution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A nominally “interactive” play, the audience is positioned as the congregation. But the interactivity is limited and superficial: a moment to drop gratitude on the chat, a muted singalong, the dreaded breakout rooms. Despite the very real stakes as experienced by the cast, the audience-as-congregation doesn’t get a chance to experience those stakes for themselves, and it’s difficult to “bridge” that distance.[aside postID='arts_13894324']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike some of the more innovatively crafted or raucously interactive streaming experiences that have pushed the boundaries of what’s possible with these technologies over the past few months, \u003cem>Feel the Spirit\u003c/em> gets an earnest, face-forward Zoom meeting experience with very little to separate it technologically or creatively from the “early” days of Zoom theater. The overall effect is very much that of a production designed to make one yearn wholeheartedly for the return of a live theater experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we look back upon this past year, it will be a blessing to have these records of our first impulses and evolving attitudes to draw from. It’s exciting to think that several years from now, should Viñas decide to revisit these characters and this time period, she’ll have this work to build from and expand upon. As seeds of a deeper historical narrative, \u003cem>Feel the Spirit\u003c/em> displays great promise. But as a bridge to what otherwise looks to be a wild and long-anticipated anniversary season, it’s shaky at best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Feel the Spirit’ runs through April 11. \u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/online/article/spirit\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new commission by Noelle Viñas tests the boundaries of the pandemic 'Zoom play.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705019215,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":1023},"headData":{"title":"Shotgun Players Kicks Off 30th Season by Going to Church in 'Feel the Spirit' | KQED","description":"A new commission by Noelle Viñas tests the boundaries of the pandemic 'Zoom play.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Shotgun Players Kicks Off 30th Season by Going to Church in 'Feel the Spirit'","datePublished":"2021-04-06T23:01:23.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T00:26:55.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13895195/shotgun-players-kicks-off-30th-season-by-going-to-church-in-feel-the-spirit","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>While it’s safe to say that the Berkeley-based Shotgun Players would have preferred to kick off their 30th anniversary season in person, their ongoing innovation has nonetheless given shape to a robust slate of upcoming events. In addition to their projected Mainstage season, combined with an attendant Champagne staged reading series as in years past, Shotgun has actually expanded their programming to add what they’re calling their “Bridge” series of four plays. These productions are performed exclusively online—as with their current production of \u003cem>Feel the Spirit\u003c/em>—or with a combination of small audiences and streaming, helping “bridge” the transition between all-remote programming and full, in-person productions.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13890054","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And indeed, season opener \u003cem>Feel the Spirit\u003c/em>—a commissioned play written specifically for Zoom by Noelle Viñas—does feel transitional. Bringing the audience back to the early days of shutdown—and all of the awkwardness that entailed—as schools, theaters, and places of worship all shifted their practice online, \u003cem>Feel the Spirit \u003c/em>revisits a moment in time perhaps not far enough removed to feel historic. Centered primarily on a “progressive” church congregation and their dynamic queer pastor, Gabriela (Vero Maynez), \u003cem>Feel the Spirit\u003c/em> unpacks the everyday traumas and misconceptions of pandemic life and worship. To punctuate it all, an embodied holy trinity (Akaina Ghosh, J. Riley Jr., and Linda Girón) occasionally interjects their views on faith and human nature in triplicate verse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895202\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGiro%CC%81n_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-800x458.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGirón_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-800x458.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGirón_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-1020x584.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGirón_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-160x92.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGirón_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-768x440.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGirón_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-1536x880.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGirón_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-2048x1173.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_J.RileyJr._AkainaGhosh_LindaGirón_photocredit_JaymeCatalano-1920x1099.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">God waiting for their entrance in ‘Feel the Spirit,’ by Noelle Viñas, with J. Riley Jr., Akaina Ghosh, and Linda Girón. \u003ccite>(Jayme Catalano)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The struggles encountered by Gabriela are both personal and professional. And though they’re exacerbated by the pandemic, like many struggles, their roots lie outside of it. Gabriela’s luminous wife, Rebecca (Lauren Garcia), is pregnant with their first child. The congregation is welcoming but wary, with an attachment to their insular traditions despite their progressive mission. Gabriela still feels like the newcomer she is, and as the very real distance created by various stay-at-home orders and protocols begins to erode her community relationships, she finds her very faith shaken. Meanwhile, the pandemic continues apace, and grim statistics of both COVID cases and deaths scroll across our screens, as devastating now as the first time they rolled in real time from March to June 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_LaurenGarcia_VeroMaynez_photocredit_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-800x431.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_LaurenGarcia_VeroMaynez_photocredit_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-800x431.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_LaurenGarcia_VeroMaynez_photocredit_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-1020x549.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_LaurenGarcia_VeroMaynez_photocredit_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-160x86.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_LaurenGarcia_VeroMaynez_photocredit_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-768x413.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_LaurenGarcia_VeroMaynez_photocredit_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern.png 1271w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauren Garcia as Rebecca and Vero Maynez as Gabriela in ‘Feel the Spirit,’ by Noelle Viñas. \u003ccite>(screenshot/Shotgun Players)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Directed by Elizabeth Carter, Vero Maynez as Gabriela is vivacious and compelling. Her frustrations with her reluctant congregants—some of whom pressure her to reopen the church for in-person services within a month of the shutdown—crease the corners of her eyes and furrow her brow. She exudes kindness, but also insecurity, as she internalizes the myriad complaints of her congregants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Rebecca, Lauren Garcia alternates between loving and longing. She wants to be supportive of Gabriela, but comes to the conclusion much earlier that perhaps she’s taken on too much. Fred Pitts and Jean Forsman, as a pair of church “elders” with contradictory views about Gabriela’s role and efficacy, provide a grounded energy to the overall production. And footage of the three faces of God—interspersed with that of blue skies, cherry blossoms, redwoods, and other natural phenomena—shifts the mood of the play from the workaday to the metaphysical. But the fact that even God thinks Gabriela should ditch her congregation doesn’t bode well for it, and we really only hear of the church’s spiritual pain circuitously, with Pitts and Forsman as conduits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13895200\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_FredPitts_JeanForsman_VeroMaynez_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-800x447.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_FredPitts_JeanForsman_VeroMaynez_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-800x447.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_FredPitts_JeanForsman_VeroMaynez_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-1020x570.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_FredPitts_JeanForsman_VeroMaynez_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-160x89.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_FredPitts_JeanForsman_VeroMaynez_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern-768x430.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/FeelTheSpirit_FredPitts_JeanForsman_VeroMaynez_screenshot_NicoleGluckstern.png 1273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Pitts as Carleton, Jean Forsman as Angie, and Vero Maynez as Gabriela in ‘Feel the Spirit,’ by Noelle Viñas. \u003ccite>(screenshot/Shotgun Players)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Where \u003cem>Feel the Spirit\u003c/em> falters is mostly in its format, and in making the case for a Zoom production as \u003cem>compelling\u003c/em>, now that theater has mostly left the platform behind. Commissioning Noelle Viñas (whose recent \u003cem>Derecho\u003c/em> delved into the human impact of electoral politics and grassroots campaigning) to explore the pandemic shutdown through a lens of faith and community is an inspired choice for Shotgun. But while plays like \u003cem>Derecho\u003c/em> have had years to develop into their fullness, this play feels rushed, both in concept and in execution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A nominally “interactive” play, the audience is positioned as the congregation. But the interactivity is limited and superficial: a moment to drop gratitude on the chat, a muted singalong, the dreaded breakout rooms. Despite the very real stakes as experienced by the cast, the audience-as-congregation doesn’t get a chance to experience those stakes for themselves, and it’s difficult to “bridge” that distance.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13894324","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike some of the more innovatively crafted or raucously interactive streaming experiences that have pushed the boundaries of what’s possible with these technologies over the past few months, \u003cem>Feel the Spirit\u003c/em> gets an earnest, face-forward Zoom meeting experience with very little to separate it technologically or creatively from the “early” days of Zoom theater. The overall effect is very much that of a production designed to make one yearn wholeheartedly for the return of a live theater experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we look back upon this past year, it will be a blessing to have these records of our first impulses and evolving attitudes to draw from. It’s exciting to think that several years from now, should Viñas decide to revisit these characters and this time period, she’ll have this work to build from and expand upon. As seeds of a deeper historical narrative, \u003cem>Feel the Spirit\u003c/em> displays great promise. But as a bridge to what otherwise looks to be a wild and long-anticipated anniversary season, it’s shaky at best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Feel the Spirit’ runs through April 11. \u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org/online/article/spirit\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13895195/shotgun-players-kicks-off-30th-season-by-going-to-church-in-feel-the-spirit","authors":["11497"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_967"],"tags":["arts_2360","arts_1072","arts_10478"],"featImg":"arts_13895278","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13879316":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13879316","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13879316","score":null,"sort":[1588086040000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-good-the-bad-and-the-glitchy-streaming-theater-during-shelter-in-place","title":"The Good, the Bad, and the Glitchy: Streaming Theater During Shelter-in-Place","publishDate":1588086040,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Good, the Bad, and the Glitchy: Streaming Theater During Shelter-in-Place | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Normally, you wouldn’t be allowed to eat a bowl of caramel corn while watching a play. Even the most accommodating and hip theater companies don’t offer snacks that are so notably \u003cem>audible\u003c/em>—at least not to be eaten during the show. But that’s one of the secret silver linings of watching theater during the coronavirus crisis: kicking one’s snack game up a notch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, more often than not, my online theater watching coincides with my full dinner hour, an enjoyable combination that’s far less possible to pull off when a show is \u003cem>in situ\u003c/em>. Nor do I have to worry about an unpredictable BART delay making me late for curtain, since curtain can be whenever I decide, and perhaps most amazingly of all, intermission and bathroom breaks are whenever I want them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879321\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/beardo1_credit_PakHan-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/beardo1_credit_PakHan-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/beardo1_credit_PakHan-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/beardo1_credit_PakHan-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/beardo1_credit_PakHan-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/beardo1_credit_PakHan-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/beardo1_credit_PakHan.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Ishida in 2011’s ‘Beardo,’ part of Shotgun Players’ Art in the Time of Corona screening series. \u003ccite>(Pak Han)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the last show I was able to review live, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/13876835/despite-an-early-closing-toni-stone-hits-a-home-run-at-a-c-t\">\u003cem>Toni Stone\u003c/em> at A.C.T.\u003c/a> (which closed the morning after its March 11 opening night), I haven’t been able to attend any shows in person. But thanks to modern technology, recorded shows from the archives of notable companies from around the globe are now available to anyone with an internet connection. Being able to binge-watch my way around the world—from The National Theatre of London to Schaubühne Berlin to the Wooster Group from NYC—has been an instructive crash course in shows that, in some cases, haven’t been seen onstage in decades, and never in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But catching up with the many works offered by local theaters online has been a wonderful way to fill in some recent gaps, as well as revisit old favorites. Theaters that are challenging for a non-driver such as myself to visit, such as Marin Theatre Company and TheatreWorks, are suddenly accessible, and closed-captioning options offer another important accommodation not generally available in a live setting. With a few exceptions, such as TheatreWorks live-streamed \u003cem>Pride and Prejudice\u003c/em>—which had a proscribed, universal “curtain time”—videos can be viewed when convenient for the viewer. This removes some of the ritual of live performance, to be sure, but increases access for people on unconventional timelines (quarantine-induced or otherwise).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879320\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/MTC_LOVE_Schweitzer_Alsip_Bakhtiari_HiRes-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/MTC_LOVE_Schweitzer_Alsip_Bakhtiari_HiRes-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/MTC_LOVE_Schweitzer_Alsip_Bakhtiari_HiRes-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/MTC_LOVE_Schweitzer_Alsip_Bakhtiari_HiRes-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/MTC_LOVE_Schweitzer_Alsip_Bakhtiari_HiRes-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/MTC_LOVE_Schweitzer_Alsip_Bakhtiari_HiRes-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/MTC_LOVE_Schweitzer_Alsip_Bakhtiari_HiRes.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Marin Theatre Company’s ‘Love,’ the first show presented as part of their ongoing virtual programming. With Rebecca Schweitzer, Clea Alsip, and Bobak Cyrus Bakhtiari. \u003ccite>(Alessandra Mello/mellophoto)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A known hotbed of new works, the Bay Area premieres many shows that tend to be one-and-done, rarely performed again elsewhere. So what a rare joy it’s been to dive into Shotgun Players’ Art in the Time of Corona series online, where they’ve been posting two shows a week from their archives. Through May 8, you can check out the 2008 Glickman award-winning, Banana Bag & Bodice collaboration, \u003cem>Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage\u003c/em>, as well as last year’s triumphal \u003cem>Three Sisters\u003c/em>-remix \u003cem>Kill the Debbie Downers! Kill Them! Kill Them! Kill Them Off!\u003c/em>, both of which defied conventional structures at their inception, and neither of which are likely to see another full production this side of the continent any time soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enough time has passed for some companies to pivot to creating new made-for-digital content while sheltered-in-place, such as the San Francisco Neo-Futurists and Queer Cat Productions. Queer Cat’s quarantine-specific web series \u003cem>Felix B. Love is Not Alone\u003c/em>, available through April 30, stars Nic A. Sommerfeld as the somewhat bemused Felix, who deals with isolation by dropping in on exes and struggles with the quest for “closure”—all while in the company of Zoomed-in friends. I discover, in a group-chat breakout room, that the audience is watching from at least five different states. It’s one of my favorite revelations about the experience: here is an instance where not being under the same roof is actually connecting audience members for a ritual far better than would a conventional, location-specific production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne7-scaled-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne7-scaled-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne7-scaled-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne7-scaled-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne7-scaled-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne7-scaled-1920x1277.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne7-scaled.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cast of ‘They Promised Her the Moon,’ by Lauren Ollstein, at TheatreWorks. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, even pre-recorded theater-in-place has had its challenges. A streamed version of A.C.T.’s \u003cem>Gloria\u003c/em>, which had opened on Feb. 13, kept pausing to rebuffer, derailing its fierce momentum and therefore its emotional impact. I couldn’t get the livestream of TheatreWorks’ \u003cem>Pride and Prejudice\u003c/em> to work at all, so I watched their curtailed production of \u003cem>They Promised Her the Moon\u003c/em>, by Laurel Ollstein instead. Sound and lighting issues plagued almost all of the videos. Because they were filmed for archival purposes rather than polished production values, certain effects simply didn’t translate to video the way they did onstage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, though, I’m grateful that in this moment, theater-lovers still have ways to satiate our craving for whatever part of the experience we can access safely. In the long term, theaters large and small will likely undergo a huge restructuring in order to accommodate the new normal—a formidable task. Which makes these archives of past productions seem especially valuable, even historic. Don’t miss your opportunity to check some of them out while you have the chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more details, dates, and costs of online theater streams, see the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk\">National Theatre\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.schaubuehne.de\">Schaubühne Berlin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://thewoostergroup.org\">The Wooster Group\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.marintheatre.org\">Marin Theatre Company\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org\">TheatreWorks\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.act-sf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A.C.T.\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org\">Shotgun Players\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfneofuturists.org\">San Francisco Neo-Futurists\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.queercatproductions.com\">Queer Cat Productions\u003c/a>—and don’t forget to check out your favorite local theater companies to see what online productions they may have available.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It's never going to be as good as seeing a play live, but streamed theatre has plenty of upsides. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705020845,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":993},"headData":{"title":"The Good, the Bad, and the Glitchy: Streaming Theater During Shelter-in-Place | KQED","description":"It's never going to be as good as seeing a play live, but streamed theatre has plenty of upsides. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The Good, the Bad, and the Glitchy: Streaming Theater During Shelter-in-Place","datePublished":"2020-04-28T15:00:40.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T00:54:05.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13879316/the-good-the-bad-and-the-glitchy-streaming-theater-during-shelter-in-place","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Normally, you wouldn’t be allowed to eat a bowl of caramel corn while watching a play. Even the most accommodating and hip theater companies don’t offer snacks that are so notably \u003cem>audible\u003c/em>—at least not to be eaten during the show. But that’s one of the secret silver linings of watching theater during the coronavirus crisis: kicking one’s snack game up a notch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, more often than not, my online theater watching coincides with my full dinner hour, an enjoyable combination that’s far less possible to pull off when a show is \u003cem>in situ\u003c/em>. Nor do I have to worry about an unpredictable BART delay making me late for curtain, since curtain can be whenever I decide, and perhaps most amazingly of all, intermission and bathroom breaks are whenever I want them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879321\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/beardo1_credit_PakHan-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/beardo1_credit_PakHan-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/beardo1_credit_PakHan-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/beardo1_credit_PakHan-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/beardo1_credit_PakHan-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/beardo1_credit_PakHan-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/beardo1_credit_PakHan.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Ishida in 2011’s ‘Beardo,’ part of Shotgun Players’ Art in the Time of Corona screening series. \u003ccite>(Pak Han)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the last show I was able to review live, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/13876835/despite-an-early-closing-toni-stone-hits-a-home-run-at-a-c-t\">\u003cem>Toni Stone\u003c/em> at A.C.T.\u003c/a> (which closed the morning after its March 11 opening night), I haven’t been able to attend any shows in person. But thanks to modern technology, recorded shows from the archives of notable companies from around the globe are now available to anyone with an internet connection. Being able to binge-watch my way around the world—from The National Theatre of London to Schaubühne Berlin to the Wooster Group from NYC—has been an instructive crash course in shows that, in some cases, haven’t been seen onstage in decades, and never in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But catching up with the many works offered by local theaters online has been a wonderful way to fill in some recent gaps, as well as revisit old favorites. Theaters that are challenging for a non-driver such as myself to visit, such as Marin Theatre Company and TheatreWorks, are suddenly accessible, and closed-captioning options offer another important accommodation not generally available in a live setting. With a few exceptions, such as TheatreWorks live-streamed \u003cem>Pride and Prejudice\u003c/em>—which had a proscribed, universal “curtain time”—videos can be viewed when convenient for the viewer. This removes some of the ritual of live performance, to be sure, but increases access for people on unconventional timelines (quarantine-induced or otherwise).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879320\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/MTC_LOVE_Schweitzer_Alsip_Bakhtiari_HiRes-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/MTC_LOVE_Schweitzer_Alsip_Bakhtiari_HiRes-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/MTC_LOVE_Schweitzer_Alsip_Bakhtiari_HiRes-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/MTC_LOVE_Schweitzer_Alsip_Bakhtiari_HiRes-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/MTC_LOVE_Schweitzer_Alsip_Bakhtiari_HiRes-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/MTC_LOVE_Schweitzer_Alsip_Bakhtiari_HiRes-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/MTC_LOVE_Schweitzer_Alsip_Bakhtiari_HiRes.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from Marin Theatre Company’s ‘Love,’ the first show presented as part of their ongoing virtual programming. With Rebecca Schweitzer, Clea Alsip, and Bobak Cyrus Bakhtiari. \u003ccite>(Alessandra Mello/mellophoto)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A known hotbed of new works, the Bay Area premieres many shows that tend to be one-and-done, rarely performed again elsewhere. So what a rare joy it’s been to dive into Shotgun Players’ Art in the Time of Corona series online, where they’ve been posting two shows a week from their archives. Through May 8, you can check out the 2008 Glickman award-winning, Banana Bag & Bodice collaboration, \u003cem>Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage\u003c/em>, as well as last year’s triumphal \u003cem>Three Sisters\u003c/em>-remix \u003cem>Kill the Debbie Downers! Kill Them! Kill Them! Kill Them Off!\u003c/em>, both of which defied conventional structures at their inception, and neither of which are likely to see another full production this side of the continent any time soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enough time has passed for some companies to pivot to creating new made-for-digital content while sheltered-in-place, such as the San Francisco Neo-Futurists and Queer Cat Productions. Queer Cat’s quarantine-specific web series \u003cem>Felix B. Love is Not Alone\u003c/em>, available through April 30, stars Nic A. Sommerfeld as the somewhat bemused Felix, who deals with isolation by dropping in on exes and struggles with the quest for “closure”—all while in the company of Zoomed-in friends. I discover, in a group-chat breakout room, that the audience is watching from at least five different states. It’s one of my favorite revelations about the experience: here is an instance where not being under the same roof is actually connecting audience members for a ritual far better than would a conventional, location-specific production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879318\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne7-scaled-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne7-scaled-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne7-scaled-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne7-scaled-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne7-scaled-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne7-scaled-1920x1277.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/TW_TheyPromisedHertheMoon_KevinBerne7-scaled.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cast of ‘They Promised Her the Moon,’ by Lauren Ollstein, at TheatreWorks. \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, even pre-recorded theater-in-place has had its challenges. A streamed version of A.C.T.’s \u003cem>Gloria\u003c/em>, which had opened on Feb. 13, kept pausing to rebuffer, derailing its fierce momentum and therefore its emotional impact. I couldn’t get the livestream of TheatreWorks’ \u003cem>Pride and Prejudice\u003c/em> to work at all, so I watched their curtailed production of \u003cem>They Promised Her the Moon\u003c/em>, by Laurel Ollstein instead. Sound and lighting issues plagued almost all of the videos. Because they were filmed for archival purposes rather than polished production values, certain effects simply didn’t translate to video the way they did onstage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, though, I’m grateful that in this moment, theater-lovers still have ways to satiate our craving for whatever part of the experience we can access safely. In the long term, theaters large and small will likely undergo a huge restructuring in order to accommodate the new normal—a formidable task. Which makes these archives of past productions seem especially valuable, even historic. Don’t miss your opportunity to check some of them out while you have the chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more details, dates, and costs of online theater streams, see the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk\">National Theatre\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.schaubuehne.de\">Schaubühne Berlin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://thewoostergroup.org\">The Wooster Group\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.marintheatre.org\">Marin Theatre Company\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://theatreworks.org\">TheatreWorks\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.act-sf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A.C.T.\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org\">Shotgun Players\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfneofuturists.org\">San Francisco Neo-Futurists\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.queercatproductions.com\">Queer Cat Productions\u003c/a>—and don’t forget to check out your favorite local theater companies to see what online productions they may have available.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13879316/the-good-the-bad-and-the-glitchy-streaming-theater-during-shelter-in-place","authors":["11497"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_967"],"tags":["arts_10126","arts_10318","arts_2360","arts_6427","arts_1072","arts_2323"],"featImg":"arts_13879319","label":"arts"},"arts_13871091":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13871091","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13871091","score":null,"sort":[1576112432000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"5-plays-for-the-holidays-that-arent-a-christmas-carol","title":"5 Plays to See for the Holidays (That Aren't 'A Christmas Carol')","publishDate":1576112432,"format":"standard","headTitle":"5 Plays to See for the Holidays (That Aren’t ‘A Christmas Carol’) | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Ah, December. The most magical time of year… unless the relentless onslaught of the holly-daze leaves you cold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I gave up counting how many Christmas-themed theater shows are currently running in the Bay Area, from the old standby \u003cem>A Christmas Carol\u003c/em> to fanciful mashups such as \u003cem>Christmas in OZ\u003c/em> and Peaches Christ’s \u003cem>Femlins\u003c/em>. (Not to mention at least eight versions of \u003cem>The Nutcracker\u003c/em>.) And while these clearly beloved classics and comedies appeal to a specific, doubtlessly enthusiastic audience, for the non-denominational arts lover in December it can be difficult to find secular alternatives. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happily, they do exist. Here are just a few standouts to get you started on your mistletoe-free theater spree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871098\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-768x548.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-1020x727.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-1200x855.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King.jpg 1658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Aaron Oh, Will Livingston, and Caitlin Evenson in Shualee Cook’s ‘An Invitation Out,’ presented by Quantum Dragon Theatre. \u003ccite>(Morgan Finley King)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘An Invitation Out’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Shualee Cook, Quantum Dragon Theatre\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s only theatre company dedicated to the production of science fiction and fantasy plays presents the West Coast premiere of Shualee Cook’s \u003cem>An Invitation Out.\u003c/em> Billed as a “science fiction comedy of manners,” this social-media inspired futuristic comedy is set in an online virtual reality, where one can assume and shed identities with the click of a button. But can anything convince them to “unplug” and rejoin the world of the Outdwellers? Anchored by a nine-person cast of Bay Area stalwarts, and directed by Kieran Beccia, this play delves into the questions that make us human—while wrapped in neo-Victorian/cyberspace glamour. (\u003cem>Runs Dec. 14-29; \u003ca href=\"http://www.quantumdragon.org/an-invitation-out\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-805x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Ernst as Niels Bohr in 'Copenhagen,' by Michael Frayn, presented by Indra's Net Theater.\" width=\"640\" height=\"954\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-13871097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-805x1200.jpg 805w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-160x239.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-800x1193.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-768x1145.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Ernst as Niels Bohr in ‘Copenhagen,’ by Michael Frayn, presented by Indra’s Net Theater. \u003ccite>(Irene Young)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Copenhagen’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Michael Frayn, Indra’s Net Theater\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From science fiction to scientists, Bay Area Theater is carving out a space for scientific discourse of many kinds, and Indra’s Net Theater is at the forefront. As a company focused on producing plays about hard science, their characters include Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and Shrinivasa Ramanujan. This year they’re reprising their successful 2013 production, \u003cem>Copenhagen\u003c/em>—a play about a secret meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg to discuss the viability of an atomic bomb. After new information about the historic meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg came to light in 2018, Michael Frayn made some changes to his Tony Award-winning script to reflect the additional material. This is the Bay Area premiere of the newly revised script, and a chance to revisit this ethical dilemma as it plays out in the afterlife. (\u003cem>Runs Dec. 19, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020. \u003ca href=\"http://www.indrasnettheater.com/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871094\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamela Reed in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s world premiere, ‘Becky Nurse.’ \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Becky Nurse’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Sarah Ruhl, Berkeley Repertory Theatre\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wrestling with the complex reverberations of the Salem Witch trials through the eyes of a present-day descendant of Rebecca Nurse, one of the wrongfully accused and murdered, this world premiere production ties the two together with dark comedy and a magickal reckoning. Written by Sarah Ruhl, an award-winning playwright whose deft and inspired comedies have been produced five other times on the Berkeley Rep stage, and starring Pamela Reed in the titular role, \u003cem>Becky Nurse \u003c/em>will provide a bracing antidote to the “holiday spirit” with its nods to the occult, female power, and the art of speaking out. (\u003cem>Previews from Dec. 12, show runs through Jan. 26, 2020. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1920/14545.asp\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-768x483.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-1200x754.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-1920x1207.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Megan Trout as Alice in ‘Vinegar Tom,’ by Caryl Churchill, presented by Shotgun Players. \u003ccite>(Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Vinegar Tom’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Caryl Churchill, Shotgun Players\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of the occult and female power, Caryl Churchill’s exploration of witchy women \u003cem>Vinegar Tom\u003c/em> gets the Shotgun Players treatment this month on the Ashby Stage. Directed by Ariel Craft, with music direction by Daniel Alley and original music by songwriter Diana Lawrence, this audacious nod to Brechtian “epic theater” examines the ruling power’s propensity to demonize its challengers—one witch trial and contemporary ballad at a time. Celebrate the continuation of the Bay Area’s spontaneous Caryl Churchill revival with the fourth play of hers to be produced this year on area stages, with a fifth to open at Magic Theatre next April. (\u003cem>Runs Dec. 6, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/2FPuyCJ\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-960x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Devin A. Cunningham and Funmi Lola in the African-American Shakespeare Company's annual presentation of 'Cinderella.'\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-13871095\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-960x1200.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devin A. Cunningham and Funmi Lola in the African-American Shakespeare Company’s annual presentation of ‘Cinderella.’ \u003ccite>(Lance Huntley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Cinderella’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By the African American Shakespeare Company\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s fun to spend time with family during the holidays, but there are only so many times one can bring the kids to the \u003cem>Nutcracker\u003c/em> before “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” imprints itself permanently into your auditory cortex. Spare yourself and take the kiddies instead to \u003cem>Cinderella\u003c/em>, presented by the African American Shakespeare Company. This traditional offering, now in its 18th year, is an elegant, big-hearted foray into a world of lovers, dreamers, and fairy magic (not the sugar plum kind) sprinkled throughout. This year’s action-packed weekend of shows also includes an activity-filled afternoon tea with a meet-and-greet opportunity with the cast, and treats for all. Directed by Sherri Young. (Runs Dec. 20-22. \u003ca href=\"http://www.african-americanshakes.org/productions/cinderella/\">Details here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Science fiction! Witches! Cinderella! There's more than 'The Nutcracker' on Bay Area stages this December.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705021688,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":913},"headData":{"title":"5 Plays to See for the Holidays (That Aren't 'A Christmas Carol') | KQED","description":"Science fiction! Witches! Cinderella! There's more than 'The Nutcracker' on Bay Area stages this December.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"5 Plays to See for the Holidays (That Aren't 'A Christmas Carol')","datePublished":"2019-12-12T01:00:32.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T01:08:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","startTime":1575187200,"endTime":1577779200,"startTimeString":"December, 2019","path":"/arts/13871091/5-plays-for-the-holidays-that-arent-a-christmas-carol","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ah, December. The most magical time of year… unless the relentless onslaught of the holly-daze leaves you cold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I gave up counting how many Christmas-themed theater shows are currently running in the Bay Area, from the old standby \u003cem>A Christmas Carol\u003c/em> to fanciful mashups such as \u003cem>Christmas in OZ\u003c/em> and Peaches Christ’s \u003cem>Femlins\u003c/em>. (Not to mention at least eight versions of \u003cem>The Nutcracker\u003c/em>.) And while these clearly beloved classics and comedies appeal to a specific, doubtlessly enthusiastic audience, for the non-denominational arts lover in December it can be difficult to find secular alternatives. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happily, they do exist. Here are just a few standouts to get you started on your mistletoe-free theater spree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871098\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-768x548.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-1020x727.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King-1200x855.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/QuantumDragon_James-Aaron-Oh-as-FlyByNiteSOA-Will-Livingston-as-Wridget-Caitlin-Evenson-as-Flutterbye99__credit-Morgan-Finley-King.jpg 1658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Aaron Oh, Will Livingston, and Caitlin Evenson in Shualee Cook’s ‘An Invitation Out,’ presented by Quantum Dragon Theatre. \u003ccite>(Morgan Finley King)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘An Invitation Out’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Shualee Cook, Quantum Dragon Theatre\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s only theatre company dedicated to the production of science fiction and fantasy plays presents the West Coast premiere of Shualee Cook’s \u003cem>An Invitation Out.\u003c/em> Billed as a “science fiction comedy of manners,” this social-media inspired futuristic comedy is set in an online virtual reality, where one can assume and shed identities with the click of a button. But can anything convince them to “unplug” and rejoin the world of the Outdwellers? Anchored by a nine-person cast of Bay Area stalwarts, and directed by Kieran Beccia, this play delves into the questions that make us human—while wrapped in neo-Victorian/cyberspace glamour. (\u003cem>Runs Dec. 14-29; \u003ca href=\"http://www.quantumdragon.org/an-invitation-out\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-805x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Ernst as Niels Bohr in 'Copenhagen,' by Michael Frayn, presented by Indra's Net Theater.\" width=\"640\" height=\"954\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-13871097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-805x1200.jpg 805w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-160x239.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-800x1193.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young-768x1145.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/IndrasNet_Robert-Ernst_0339HiResPRINT_by-Irene-Young.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Ernst as Niels Bohr in ‘Copenhagen,’ by Michael Frayn, presented by Indra’s Net Theater. \u003ccite>(Irene Young)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Copenhagen’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Michael Frayn, Indra’s Net Theater\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From science fiction to scientists, Bay Area Theater is carving out a space for scientific discourse of many kinds, and Indra’s Net Theater is at the forefront. As a company focused on producing plays about hard science, their characters include Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and Shrinivasa Ramanujan. This year they’re reprising their successful 2013 production, \u003cem>Copenhagen\u003c/em>—a play about a secret meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg to discuss the viability of an atomic bomb. After new information about the historic meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg came to light in 2018, Michael Frayn made some changes to his Tony Award-winning script to reflect the additional material. This is the Bay Area premiere of the newly revised script, and a chance to revisit this ethical dilemma as it plays out in the afterlife. (\u003cem>Runs Dec. 19, 2019-Jan. 12, 2020. \u003ca href=\"http://www.indrasnettheater.com/\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871094\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/berkeleyrep_Beckynurse_PamelaReed_credit_KevinBerne.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamela Reed in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s world premiere, ‘Becky Nurse.’ \u003ccite>(Kevin Berne)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Becky Nurse’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Sarah Ruhl, Berkeley Repertory Theatre\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wrestling with the complex reverberations of the Salem Witch trials through the eyes of a present-day descendant of Rebecca Nurse, one of the wrongfully accused and murdered, this world premiere production ties the two together with dark comedy and a magickal reckoning. Written by Sarah Ruhl, an award-winning playwright whose deft and inspired comedies have been produced five other times on the Berkeley Rep stage, and starring Pamela Reed in the titular role, \u003cem>Becky Nurse \u003c/em>will provide a bracing antidote to the “holiday spirit” with its nods to the occult, female power, and the art of speaking out. (\u003cem>Previews from Dec. 12, show runs through Jan. 26, 2020. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/1920/14545.asp\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871096\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-768x483.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-1200x754.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_-1920x1207.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/VinegarTom_ShotgunPlayer_MeganTrout_credit_.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Megan Trout as Alice in ‘Vinegar Tom,’ by Caryl Churchill, presented by Shotgun Players. \u003ccite>(Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Vinegar Tom’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Caryl Churchill, Shotgun Players\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of the occult and female power, Caryl Churchill’s exploration of witchy women \u003cem>Vinegar Tom\u003c/em> gets the Shotgun Players treatment this month on the Ashby Stage. Directed by Ariel Craft, with music direction by Daniel Alley and original music by songwriter Diana Lawrence, this audacious nod to Brechtian “epic theater” examines the ruling power’s propensity to demonize its challengers—one witch trial and contemporary ballad at a time. Celebrate the continuation of the Bay Area’s spontaneous Caryl Churchill revival with the fourth play of hers to be produced this year on area stages, with a fifth to open at Magic Theatre next April. (\u003cem>Runs Dec. 6, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020. \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/2FPuyCJ\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-960x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Devin A. Cunningham and Funmi Lola in the African-American Shakespeare Company's annual presentation of 'Cinderella.'\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-13871095\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-960x1200.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/AASC_DevinACunninham_FunmiLola_crdit_LanceHuntley.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devin A. Cunningham and Funmi Lola in the African-American Shakespeare Company’s annual presentation of ‘Cinderella.’ \u003ccite>(Lance Huntley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Cinderella’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By the African American Shakespeare Company\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s fun to spend time with family during the holidays, but there are only so many times one can bring the kids to the \u003cem>Nutcracker\u003c/em> before “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” imprints itself permanently into your auditory cortex. Spare yourself and take the kiddies instead to \u003cem>Cinderella\u003c/em>, presented by the African American Shakespeare Company. This traditional offering, now in its 18th year, is an elegant, big-hearted foray into a world of lovers, dreamers, and fairy magic (not the sugar plum kind) sprinkled throughout. This year’s action-packed weekend of shows also includes an activity-filled afternoon tea with a meet-and-greet opportunity with the cast, and treats for all. Directed by Sherri Young. (Runs Dec. 20-22. \u003ca href=\"http://www.african-americanshakes.org/productions/cinderella/\">Details here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13871091/5-plays-for-the-holidays-that-arent-a-christmas-carol","authors":["11497"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_967"],"tags":["arts_1237","arts_3388","arts_1118","arts_3247","arts_2360","arts_1072"],"featImg":"arts_13871093","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13865965":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13865965","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13865965","score":null,"sort":[1568048457000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-secret-life-of-movie-theater-employees-in-the-flick","title":"The Secret Life of Movie Theater Employees in 'The Flick'","publishDate":1568048457,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Secret Life of Movie Theater Employees in ‘The Flick’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Every customer service job comes with moments of relative inactivity; those blessed stretches of the work shift where there’s nobody to wait on, and where you can take a breather to commiserate with your fellow employees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At movie theaters, those stretches last much longer, and the routine talk between rushes goes deeper. Add the fact that many theater staff are young. Also, that discussing why you like or don’t like a movie usually brings up personal experiences and emotional details. All of this gets magnified as the clock ticks into nighttime, when movies regularly get out after midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the premise of \u003cem>The Flick\u003c/em>, the Pulitzer-winning play by Annie Baker currently making its West Coast premiere at Shotgun Players’ Ashby Stage in Berkeley. Full of dialogue and situations that will feel very familiar to anyone who’s worked a customer service job, it also (hopefully) inspires empathy toward the beleaguered minimum-wage worker in those who haven’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Flick\u003c/em> starts slowly, because time at a movie theater moves slowly. As Sam (Chris Ginesi) and Avery (Justin Howard) sweep up between rows of seats after a show, the pauses between conversation are almost painfully long. Sam is showing new employee Avery the basic stuff like where to take the trash, and soon, more complicated stuff, like the elaborate system of skimming the box office cash register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also complicated is Sam’s attraction to projectionist Rose (Ari Rampy), who flirts instead with Avery, the new kid on the block. Meanwhile, Avery’s worried about Rose’s blatant overtures upsetting Sam, and about being blamed, as a nonwhite employee, should the cash-theft scheme be discovered. Hanging over all this is the theater industry’s imminent conversion to digital projection, and rumors that the small local theater will be sold to a corporate chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Directed by Jon Tracy, \u003cem>The Flick\u003c/em>‘s pace may throw some viewers off. But not only is it necessary for the revelations in the space between, it’s realistic to customer-service life. That’s true also for the set, designed by Randy Wong-Westbrooke: a perfect replica of a faded 1970s movie theater auditorium and projection booth. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a lot here that resonates beyond movie theaters. Love, ethics, mental health, goals, race, courage and vulnerability all play a role in \u003cem>The Flick\u003c/em>. They’re the type of things that stick around long after the credits roll and the lights come up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In Berkeley, Shotgun Players' production of this Pulitzer-winning play nails the customer-service experience.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705022186,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":429},"headData":{"title":"The Secret Life of Movie Theater Employees in 'The Flick' | KQED","description":"In Berkeley, Shotgun Players' production of this Pulitzer-winning play nails the customer-service experience.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The Secret Life of Movie Theater Employees in 'The Flick'","datePublished":"2019-09-09T17:00:57.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T01:16:26.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"event","featuredImageType":"standard","startTime":1566457200,"endTime":1569135600,"startTimeString":"Through Sept. 22","venueName":"Ashby Stage","venueAddress":"1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley","eventLink":"https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp","path":"/arts/13865965/the-secret-life-of-movie-theater-employees-in-the-flick","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Every customer service job comes with moments of relative inactivity; those blessed stretches of the work shift where there’s nobody to wait on, and where you can take a breather to commiserate with your fellow employees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At movie theaters, those stretches last much longer, and the routine talk between rushes goes deeper. Add the fact that many theater staff are young. Also, that discussing why you like or don’t like a movie usually brings up personal experiences and emotional details. All of this gets magnified as the clock ticks into nighttime, when movies regularly get out after midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the premise of \u003cem>The Flick\u003c/em>, the Pulitzer-winning play by Annie Baker currently making its West Coast premiere at Shotgun Players’ Ashby Stage in Berkeley. Full of dialogue and situations that will feel very familiar to anyone who’s worked a customer service job, it also (hopefully) inspires empathy toward the beleaguered minimum-wage worker in those who haven’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Flick\u003c/em> starts slowly, because time at a movie theater moves slowly. As Sam (Chris Ginesi) and Avery (Justin Howard) sweep up between rows of seats after a show, the pauses between conversation are almost painfully long. Sam is showing new employee Avery the basic stuff like where to take the trash, and soon, more complicated stuff, like the elaborate system of skimming the box office cash register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also complicated is Sam’s attraction to projectionist Rose (Ari Rampy), who flirts instead with Avery, the new kid on the block. Meanwhile, Avery’s worried about Rose’s blatant overtures upsetting Sam, and about being blamed, as a nonwhite employee, should the cash-theft scheme be discovered. Hanging over all this is the theater industry’s imminent conversion to digital projection, and rumors that the small local theater will be sold to a corporate chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Directed by Jon Tracy, \u003cem>The Flick\u003c/em>‘s pace may throw some viewers off. But not only is it necessary for the revelations in the space between, it’s realistic to customer-service life. That’s true also for the set, designed by Randy Wong-Westbrooke: a perfect replica of a faded 1970s movie theater auditorium and projection booth. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a lot here that resonates beyond movie theaters. Love, ethics, mental health, goals, race, courage and vulnerability all play a role in \u003cem>The Flick\u003c/em>. They’re the type of things that stick around long after the credits roll and the lights come up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13865965/the-secret-life-of-movie-theater-employees-in-the-flick","authors":["185"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_74","arts_967"],"tags":["arts_1270","arts_769","arts_2360","arts_1334","arts_1072"],"featImg":"arts_13865985","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13864721":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13864721","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13864721","score":null,"sort":[1567105246000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fall-theater-guide-2019-top-plays-and-performances-in-sf-and-the-east-bay","title":"Fall Theater Guide 2019: Top Plays and Performances in SF and the East Bay","publishDate":1567105246,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Fall Theater Guide 2019: Top Plays and Performances in SF and the East Bay | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>After a summer full of outdoor festivals, touring shows in parks, and family-style recreating, autumn signals a shift—if not in temperature, than in the theatrical climate. For many Bay Area theaters, fall is when new seasons begin, and even for theater companies whose seasons follow the calendar year, rarely is their autumnal offering anything but a grand centerpiece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For even the occasional theatergoer, it’s hard to choose wrong—the real challenge is in narrowing down the field. Here are nine picks from the heavy-hitting months ahead. (And as always, check \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/thedolist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Do List\u003c/a> for weekly recommendations in music, art and more from KQED Arts editors.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864734\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CuttingBall_FREE4ALL_credit_EstelaHernandez-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CuttingBall_FREE4ALL_credit_EstelaHernandez-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CuttingBall_FREE4ALL_credit_EstelaHernandez-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CuttingBall_FREE4ALL_credit_EstelaHernandez-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CuttingBall_FREE4ALL_credit_EstelaHernandez.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Wong and Stacy Ross in Megan Cohen’s ‘Free for All’ at Cutting Ball Theater. \u003ccite>(Estela Hernandez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Free For All’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Cutting Ball Theater, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nSept. 19-Oct. 20, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://cuttingball.com/productions/free-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This highly anticipated world premiere from local playwright and librettist Megan Cohen—the first playwright selected for Cutting Ball Theater’s new playwright commissions program—opens their 21st season with a champagne cork pop. Billed as a “new \u003cem>Miss Julie\u003c/em> for a new world,” this non-naturalistic, San Francisco-centric riff on Strindberg’s problematic interrogation of power dynamics promises comedy, theatricality, and a foray into a future of elegant waste and survivalism. Can San Francisco be saved before half of it washes out to sea? Does anyone even care to try? Directed by Ariel Craft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/inkedbaby_-Leigh-Rondon-Davis_Christell-Lewis_David-Everett-Moore_credit_CheshireIssacs-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/inkedbaby_-Leigh-Rondon-Davis_Christell-Lewis_David-Everett-Moore_credit_CheshireIssacs-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/inkedbaby_-Leigh-Rondon-Davis_Christell-Lewis_David-Everett-Moore_credit_CheshireIssacs-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/inkedbaby_-Leigh-Rondon-Davis_Christell-Lewis_David-Everett-Moore_credit_CheshireIssacs-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/inkedbaby_-Leigh-Rondon-Davis_Christell-Lewis_David-Everett-Moore_credit_CheshireIssacs.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leigh Rondon-Davis, Christell Lewis, and Everett Moore star in ‘Inked Baby’ at Crowded Fire Theater. \u003ccite>(Cheshire Issacs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Inked Baby’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Crowded Fire Theater, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nSept. 12-Oct. 5, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.crowdedfire.org/inked-baby/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowded Fire Theater continues its tradition of bringing dynamic American playwrights to their Potrero Hill stage with this early Christina Anderson work. A playwright with a history of Crowded Fire productions (they produced her \u003cem>Drip\u003c/em> in 2009, and \u003cem>Good Goods\u003c/em> in 2012), and erstwhile Bay Area artistic roots, Anderson has garnered international acclaim for her multi-layered works centering the black American experience. With \u003cem>Inked Baby\u003c/em>, she begins by wrestling with the dynamics of an in-family surrogate pregnancy and winds up in a speculative realm where a mysterious malady ravages the city, and potentially their future. Directed by Lisa Marie Rollins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Churchill_Caryl_courtesyofAmericanConservatoryTheater-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Churchill_Caryl_courtesyofAmericanConservatoryTheater-800x601.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Churchill_Caryl_courtesyofAmericanConservatoryTheater-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Churchill_Caryl_courtesyofAmericanConservatoryTheater-768x577.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Churchill_Caryl_courtesyofAmericanConservatoryTheater.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caryl Churchill. \u003ccite>(American Conservatory Theater)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Caryl Churchill-palooza\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Top Girls’\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>A.C.T., San Francisco\u003cbr>\nSept. 19-Oct. 13, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.act-sf.org/home/box_office/1920_season/top_girls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vinegar Tom\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Shotgun Players, Berkeley\u003cbr>\nDec. 6, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/2FPuyCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hot on the heels of new Caryl Churchill one-acts produced by Berkeley’s Anton’s Well, A.C.T. opens its new season with her best-known work, the \u003cspan class=\"st\">inimitable\u003c/span> \u003cem>Top Girls—\u003c/em>partly set at the most interesting dinner party of all time. Then, closing their season in December, Shotgun Players presents a rollicking rendition of Churchill’s \u003cem>Vinegar Tom\u003c/em>, a Brechtian musical foray set in a 17th century of witchfinders and oppressive patriarchy. It’s a wonderful opportunity for Bay Area theatergoers to reacquaint themselves with multiple decades’ worth of Churchill’s feminist ideals and strong-willed protagonists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/terrorvault_credit_JoseAGuzmanColon-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/terrorvault_credit_JoseAGuzmanColon-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/terrorvault_credit_JoseAGuzmanColon-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/terrorvault_credit_JoseAGuzmanColon-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/terrorvault_credit_JoseAGuzmanColon.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terror Vault returns to the Old Mint. \u003ccite>(Jose A. Guzman Colon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Terror Vault’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The Old Mint, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nOct. 10-Nov. 10, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.intothedarksf.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most haunted houses don’t qualify as theater picks, but then again, most haunted houses aren’t 45-minute immersive experiences, scripted and staged by the great Peaches Christ (in collaboration with Non Plus Ultra and legendary haunted house designer David Flower). Last year’s \u003cem>Terror Vault\u003c/em> was a taut tightrope of creepshow, camp, and bloodbath, with a surprisingly cohesive narrative throughline and plenty of (optional) audience participation, and this year’s version looks to be all that and more. This edition introduces \u003cem>Apolcalypse,\u003c/em> a zombie-themed escape-room experience for folks who just can’t get scared enough. Discover the haunted histories of San Francisco’s Old Mint—or become one of them yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/TheatreFIRST_DanWolf_courtesyoftheartist-800x1110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/TheatreFIRST_DanWolf_courtesyoftheartist-800x1110.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/TheatreFIRST_DanWolf_courtesyoftheartist-160x222.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/TheatreFIRST_DanWolf_courtesyoftheartist-768x1066.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/TheatreFIRST_DanWolf_courtesyoftheartist-865x1200.jpg 865w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/TheatreFIRST_DanWolf_courtesyoftheartist.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Wolf. \u003ccite>(TheatreFIRST)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Haunted Playwrights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘From the Ground Up’\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>TheatreFIRST, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nOct. 27-Nov. 10, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://theatrefirst.com/2019-20-season/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eugene O’Neill Festival\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Various venues\u003cbr>\nAug. 24-Sept. 29, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.eugeneoneill.org/20th-annual-eugene-oneill-festival/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of hauntings, is there anything so haunted as the unresolved past? TheatreFIRST’s anthology of commissioned short plays explores the personal as peril—and how society is shaped by the supernatural—in \u003cem>From the Ground Up: An Anthology of Ghost Stories Made New\u003c/em>, penned by a who’s-who of some of the Bay Area’s most inventive voices, including Eugenie Chan, Dan Wolf, and Cleavon Smith. Meanwhile, the 20th Annual Eugene O’Neill Festival calls back to a pair of American Theater’s “haunted poets”—Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams. It includes a special weekend of O’Neill’s seafaring short plays at Hyde Street Pier, and a production of his epic \u003cem>Long Day’s Journey Into Night \u003c/em>at his historic Tao House in Danville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CentralWorks_CristinaGarcia_Headshot_courtesyoftheartist-800x891.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CentralWorks_CristinaGarcia_Headshot_courtesyoftheartist-800x891.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CentralWorks_CristinaGarcia_Headshot_courtesyoftheartist-160x178.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CentralWorks_CristinaGarcia_Headshot_courtesyoftheartist-768x856.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CentralWorks_CristinaGarcia_Headshot_courtesyoftheartist.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristina García. \u003ccite>(Central Works)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘The Lady Matador’s Hotel’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Central Works, Berkeley\u003cbr>\nOct. 12-Nov. 10, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://centralworks.org/the-lady-matadors-hotel/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So successful was \u003cem>King of Cuba,\u003c/em> last year’s Central Works collaboration with novelist Cristina García, that they’re back this year with another, \u003cem>The Lady Matador’s Hotel\u003c/em>. Adapted from her 2010 book of the same name, \u003cem>The Lady Matador’s Hotel\u003c/em> follows the adventures of an unlikely coterie of travelers, stranded in an unnamed Central American country in a state of political unrest. Featuring a high-caliber cast and directed by Central Works’ co-artistic director, Gary Graves, this production closes out their 29th season with their 65th world premiere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Bubba-Weiler_Nadia-Brown_Nicholas-Podany_Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Bubba-Weiler_Nadia-Brown_Nicholas-Podany_Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Bubba-Weiler_Nadia-Brown_Nicholas-Podany_Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Bubba-Weiler_Nadia-Brown_Nicholas-Podany_Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Bubba-Weiler_Nadia-Brown_Nicholas-Podany_Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bubba Weller, Nadia Brown, Nicholas Podany in the New York production of ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.’ \u003ccite>(Matthew Murphy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The Curran, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nOct. 23, 2019-May 2020\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://sfcurran.com/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling all wizards! The extravaganza that is \u003cem>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child \u003c/em>is coming to San Francisco in October for its West Coast premiere under the refurbished Curran Theater roof. \u003cem>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\u003c/em> features a grown-up Harry and his children, in particular his son Albus, who is heading to Hogwarts. Having been written with the many Harry Potter superfans in mind, the play is a two-part marathon, with tickets available for both consecutive and non-consecutive showings. Either way, be prepared to board the Hogwarts Express from Platform 9 ¾.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from ‘Nassim.’ \u003ccite>(David Monteith-Hodge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Nassim’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Magic Theatre, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nNov. 12-16, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://magictheatre.secure.force.com/ticket#details_a0S5A00000VLiXtUAL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his infamous \u003cem>White Rabbit, Red Rabbit\u003c/em>, Nassim Soleimanpour challenged actors around the globe to perform his play without rehearsal, direction, or even time to read the script before the show. His eponymous \u003cem>Nassim \u003c/em>asks a similar leap of performer faith. The twist, however, is that Soleimanpour himself controls how and when the actor receives the text they are to speak via a projection screen. They’ll also receive an onstage crash course in Farsi, while exploring the human nuances of language and our universal struggles to communicate. Winner of the 2017 Fringe First award in Edinburgh, Scotland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Skyline at Beach Blanket Babylon \u003ccite>(Rick Markovich)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Beach Blanket Babylon’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Club Fugazi, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nThrough Dec. 31, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.beachblanketbabylon.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, it’s a little over the top. Ok, a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em>. But \u003cem>Beach Blanket Babylon\u003c/em> is as much a San Francisco institution as any of our mainstages, and predates many of them at a venerable 45 years old; it’s the world’s longest-running musical revue. But despite its enduring charm, unflappable energy, and strong sales, the show must apparently not go on, closing for good on Dec. 31. So whether you’re a long-time fan, or one who’s been meaning to go but just haven’t quite made it out, this is your last opportunity to make some \u003cem>Beach Blanket Babylon \u003c/em>memories to carry with you into a future bereft of its broad-stroke satire and iconic hats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"World premieres! Famous playwrights! Avant-garde stagings! Harry Potter! This fall, get out and see some theater. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705022235,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1397},"headData":{"title":"Fall Theater Guide 2019: Top Plays and Performances in SF and the East Bay | KQED","description":"World premieres! Famous playwrights! Avant-garde stagings! Harry Potter! This fall, get out and see some theater. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Fall Theater Guide 2019: Top Plays and Performances in SF and the East Bay","datePublished":"2019-08-29T19:00:46.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T01:17:15.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13864721/fall-theater-guide-2019-top-plays-and-performances-in-sf-and-the-east-bay","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After a summer full of outdoor festivals, touring shows in parks, and family-style recreating, autumn signals a shift—if not in temperature, than in the theatrical climate. For many Bay Area theaters, fall is when new seasons begin, and even for theater companies whose seasons follow the calendar year, rarely is their autumnal offering anything but a grand centerpiece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For even the occasional theatergoer, it’s hard to choose wrong—the real challenge is in narrowing down the field. Here are nine picks from the heavy-hitting months ahead. (And as always, check \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/thedolist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Do List\u003c/a> for weekly recommendations in music, art and more from KQED Arts editors.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864734\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CuttingBall_FREE4ALL_credit_EstelaHernandez-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CuttingBall_FREE4ALL_credit_EstelaHernandez-800x582.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CuttingBall_FREE4ALL_credit_EstelaHernandez-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CuttingBall_FREE4ALL_credit_EstelaHernandez-768x558.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CuttingBall_FREE4ALL_credit_EstelaHernandez.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Wong and Stacy Ross in Megan Cohen’s ‘Free for All’ at Cutting Ball Theater. \u003ccite>(Estela Hernandez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Free For All’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Cutting Ball Theater, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nSept. 19-Oct. 20, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://cuttingball.com/productions/free-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This highly anticipated world premiere from local playwright and librettist Megan Cohen—the first playwright selected for Cutting Ball Theater’s new playwright commissions program—opens their 21st season with a champagne cork pop. Billed as a “new \u003cem>Miss Julie\u003c/em> for a new world,” this non-naturalistic, San Francisco-centric riff on Strindberg’s problematic interrogation of power dynamics promises comedy, theatricality, and a foray into a future of elegant waste and survivalism. Can San Francisco be saved before half of it washes out to sea? Does anyone even care to try? Directed by Ariel Craft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/inkedbaby_-Leigh-Rondon-Davis_Christell-Lewis_David-Everett-Moore_credit_CheshireIssacs-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/inkedbaby_-Leigh-Rondon-Davis_Christell-Lewis_David-Everett-Moore_credit_CheshireIssacs-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/inkedbaby_-Leigh-Rondon-Davis_Christell-Lewis_David-Everett-Moore_credit_CheshireIssacs-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/inkedbaby_-Leigh-Rondon-Davis_Christell-Lewis_David-Everett-Moore_credit_CheshireIssacs-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/inkedbaby_-Leigh-Rondon-Davis_Christell-Lewis_David-Everett-Moore_credit_CheshireIssacs.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leigh Rondon-Davis, Christell Lewis, and Everett Moore star in ‘Inked Baby’ at Crowded Fire Theater. \u003ccite>(Cheshire Issacs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Inked Baby’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Crowded Fire Theater, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nSept. 12-Oct. 5, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.crowdedfire.org/inked-baby/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowded Fire Theater continues its tradition of bringing dynamic American playwrights to their Potrero Hill stage with this early Christina Anderson work. A playwright with a history of Crowded Fire productions (they produced her \u003cem>Drip\u003c/em> in 2009, and \u003cem>Good Goods\u003c/em> in 2012), and erstwhile Bay Area artistic roots, Anderson has garnered international acclaim for her multi-layered works centering the black American experience. With \u003cem>Inked Baby\u003c/em>, she begins by wrestling with the dynamics of an in-family surrogate pregnancy and winds up in a speculative realm where a mysterious malady ravages the city, and potentially their future. Directed by Lisa Marie Rollins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864735\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Churchill_Caryl_courtesyofAmericanConservatoryTheater-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Churchill_Caryl_courtesyofAmericanConservatoryTheater-800x601.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Churchill_Caryl_courtesyofAmericanConservatoryTheater-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Churchill_Caryl_courtesyofAmericanConservatoryTheater-768x577.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/Churchill_Caryl_courtesyofAmericanConservatoryTheater.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caryl Churchill. \u003ccite>(American Conservatory Theater)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Caryl Churchill-palooza\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Top Girls’\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>A.C.T., San Francisco\u003cbr>\nSept. 19-Oct. 13, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.act-sf.org/home/box_office/1920_season/top_girls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vinegar Tom\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Shotgun Players, Berkeley\u003cbr>\nDec. 6, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/2FPuyCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hot on the heels of new Caryl Churchill one-acts produced by Berkeley’s Anton’s Well, A.C.T. opens its new season with her best-known work, the \u003cspan class=\"st\">inimitable\u003c/span> \u003cem>Top Girls—\u003c/em>partly set at the most interesting dinner party of all time. Then, closing their season in December, Shotgun Players presents a rollicking rendition of Churchill’s \u003cem>Vinegar Tom\u003c/em>, a Brechtian musical foray set in a 17th century of witchfinders and oppressive patriarchy. It’s a wonderful opportunity for Bay Area theatergoers to reacquaint themselves with multiple decades’ worth of Churchill’s feminist ideals and strong-willed protagonists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/terrorvault_credit_JoseAGuzmanColon-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/terrorvault_credit_JoseAGuzmanColon-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/terrorvault_credit_JoseAGuzmanColon-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/terrorvault_credit_JoseAGuzmanColon-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/terrorvault_credit_JoseAGuzmanColon.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terror Vault returns to the Old Mint. \u003ccite>(Jose A. Guzman Colon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Terror Vault’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The Old Mint, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nOct. 10-Nov. 10, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.intothedarksf.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most haunted houses don’t qualify as theater picks, but then again, most haunted houses aren’t 45-minute immersive experiences, scripted and staged by the great Peaches Christ (in collaboration with Non Plus Ultra and legendary haunted house designer David Flower). Last year’s \u003cem>Terror Vault\u003c/em> was a taut tightrope of creepshow, camp, and bloodbath, with a surprisingly cohesive narrative throughline and plenty of (optional) audience participation, and this year’s version looks to be all that and more. This edition introduces \u003cem>Apolcalypse,\u003c/em> a zombie-themed escape-room experience for folks who just can’t get scared enough. Discover the haunted histories of San Francisco’s Old Mint—or become one of them yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/TheatreFIRST_DanWolf_courtesyoftheartist-800x1110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/TheatreFIRST_DanWolf_courtesyoftheartist-800x1110.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/TheatreFIRST_DanWolf_courtesyoftheartist-160x222.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/TheatreFIRST_DanWolf_courtesyoftheartist-768x1066.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/TheatreFIRST_DanWolf_courtesyoftheartist-865x1200.jpg 865w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/TheatreFIRST_DanWolf_courtesyoftheartist.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Wolf. \u003ccite>(TheatreFIRST)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Haunted Playwrights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘From the Ground Up’\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>TheatreFIRST, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nOct. 27-Nov. 10, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://theatrefirst.com/2019-20-season/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eugene O’Neill Festival\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Various venues\u003cbr>\nAug. 24-Sept. 29, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.eugeneoneill.org/20th-annual-eugene-oneill-festival/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of hauntings, is there anything so haunted as the unresolved past? TheatreFIRST’s anthology of commissioned short plays explores the personal as peril—and how society is shaped by the supernatural—in \u003cem>From the Ground Up: An Anthology of Ghost Stories Made New\u003c/em>, penned by a who’s-who of some of the Bay Area’s most inventive voices, including Eugenie Chan, Dan Wolf, and Cleavon Smith. Meanwhile, the 20th Annual Eugene O’Neill Festival calls back to a pair of American Theater’s “haunted poets”—Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams. It includes a special weekend of O’Neill’s seafaring short plays at Hyde Street Pier, and a production of his epic \u003cem>Long Day’s Journey Into Night \u003c/em>at his historic Tao House in Danville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CentralWorks_CristinaGarcia_Headshot_courtesyoftheartist-800x891.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CentralWorks_CristinaGarcia_Headshot_courtesyoftheartist-800x891.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CentralWorks_CristinaGarcia_Headshot_courtesyoftheartist-160x178.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CentralWorks_CristinaGarcia_Headshot_courtesyoftheartist-768x856.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/CentralWorks_CristinaGarcia_Headshot_courtesyoftheartist.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristina García. \u003ccite>(Central Works)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘The Lady Matador’s Hotel’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Central Works, Berkeley\u003cbr>\nOct. 12-Nov. 10, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://centralworks.org/the-lady-matadors-hotel/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So successful was \u003cem>King of Cuba,\u003c/em> last year’s Central Works collaboration with novelist Cristina García, that they’re back this year with another, \u003cem>The Lady Matador’s Hotel\u003c/em>. Adapted from her 2010 book of the same name, \u003cem>The Lady Matador’s Hotel\u003c/em> follows the adventures of an unlikely coterie of travelers, stranded in an unnamed Central American country in a state of political unrest. Featuring a high-caliber cast and directed by Central Works’ co-artistic director, Gary Graves, this production closes out their 29th season with their 65th world premiere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Bubba-Weiler_Nadia-Brown_Nicholas-Podany_Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Bubba-Weiler_Nadia-Brown_Nicholas-Podany_Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Bubba-Weiler_Nadia-Brown_Nicholas-Podany_Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Bubba-Weiler_Nadia-Brown_Nicholas-Podany_Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/HPATCC-NY-Year-Two-Bubba-Weiler_Nadia-Brown_Nicholas-Podany_Photo-By-Matthew-Murphy.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bubba Weller, Nadia Brown, Nicholas Podany in the New York production of ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.’ \u003ccite>(Matthew Murphy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>The Curran, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nOct. 23, 2019-May 2020\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://sfcurran.com/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling all wizards! The extravaganza that is \u003cem>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child \u003c/em>is coming to San Francisco in October for its West Coast premiere under the refurbished Curran Theater roof. \u003cem>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\u003c/em> features a grown-up Harry and his children, in particular his son Albus, who is heading to Hogwarts. Having been written with the many Harry Potter superfans in mind, the play is a two-part marathon, with tickets available for both consecutive and non-consecutive showings. Either way, be prepared to board the Hogwarts Express from Platform 9 ¾.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge-1920x1282.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/MagicTheatre_Nassim_credit_David-Monteith-Hodge.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from ‘Nassim.’ \u003ccite>(David Monteith-Hodge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Nassim’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Magic Theatre, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nNov. 12-16, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://magictheatre.secure.force.com/ticket#details_a0S5A00000VLiXtUAL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his infamous \u003cem>White Rabbit, Red Rabbit\u003c/em>, Nassim Soleimanpour challenged actors around the globe to perform his play without rehearsal, direction, or even time to read the script before the show. His eponymous \u003cem>Nassim \u003c/em>asks a similar leap of performer faith. The twist, however, is that Soleimanpour himself controls how and when the actor receives the text they are to speak via a projection screen. They’ll also receive an onstage crash course in Farsi, while exploring the human nuances of language and our universal struggles to communicate. Winner of the 2017 Fringe First award in Edinburgh, Scotland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13864737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13864737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich-1200x799.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/BBB_San-Francisco-Skyline-Hat_RickMarkovich.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Skyline at Beach Blanket Babylon \u003ccite>(Rick Markovich)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Beach Blanket Babylon’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Club Fugazi, San Francisco\u003cbr>\nThrough Dec. 31, 2019\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.beachblanketbabylon.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Details here\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, it’s a little over the top. Ok, a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em>. But \u003cem>Beach Blanket Babylon\u003c/em> is as much a San Francisco institution as any of our mainstages, and predates many of them at a venerable 45 years old; it’s the world’s longest-running musical revue. But despite its enduring charm, unflappable energy, and strong sales, the show must apparently not go on, closing for good on Dec. 31. So whether you’re a long-time fan, or one who’s been meaning to go but just haven’t quite made it out, this is your last opportunity to make some \u003cem>Beach Blanket Babylon \u003c/em>memories to carry with you into a future bereft of its broad-stroke satire and iconic hats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13864721/fall-theater-guide-2019-top-plays-and-performances-in-sf-and-the-east-bay","authors":["11497"],"categories":["arts_967"],"tags":["arts_1238","arts_2372","arts_1118","arts_1376","arts_2020","arts_2360","arts_1334","arts_1072"],"featImg":"arts_13864732","label":"arts"},"arts_13864671":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13864671","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13864671","score":null,"sort":[1566500720000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-do-list-listen-to-our-weekend-picks-for-aug-23-30","title":"The Do List: Listen to Our Weekend Picks for Aug. 23–30","publishDate":1566500720,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The Do List: Listen to Our Weekend Picks for Aug. 23–30 | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>It’s time for the weekend!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking for things to do in the Bay Area? Listen to KQED Arts’ Gabe Meline and Nastia Voynovskaya discuss their critic’s picks for this weekend at the audio link above, and read about each event below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lionel Richie\u003c/strong>: You might remember seven or so years ago when Lionel Richie went country, and even performed on the CMA Awards—don’t worry, this ain’t that. Lately, he’s been playing hit after hit: “Hello,” “Running With the Night,” “Stuck on You,” “Dancing on the Ceiling”… hours of ’80s classics. He performs Saturday, Aug. 24, at the recently refurbished Frost Amphitheater at Stanford. \u003ca href=\"https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/august-2019/lionel-richie\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tankcrimes Takeover\u003c/strong>: Tankcrimes has held it down in the Bay Area punk and metal scene for almost 20 years as an underground label that champions bands of the dark, heavy and face-melting variety. They’re taking over Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland on Friday, Aug. 23, with a showcase of some of the doom metal, death metal, punk and hardcore bands on their roster, including Necrot, as well as Kicker, Cliterati and Deathgrave. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tankcrimes-takeover-of-elis-necrot-kicker-cliterati-deathgrave-tickets-67329160331\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘The Flick’\u003c/strong>: We’ve seen movies about record store employees—\u003cem>High Fidelity\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Empire Records\u003c/em>—but there’s never been a great script about movie theater employees… until now. \u003cem>The Flick\u003c/em> is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play about three employees working at a suburban movie theater, and how their lives intersect. But it’s about more than the movie trivia they try to stump each other with—it’s about those interactions we all have during formative years in our lives, that shape us in even the most basic environments. It opens Thursday, Aug,. 22, at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley, and runs through Sept. 22. \u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Shame // Reflections’\u003c/strong>: At Oros Gallery in the back of Pentacle Coffee in SF, this photo show features photography by Hannah Said and Sammy Jonny, two Muslim artists. They juxtapose photos of Muslim women in hijabs from their community with photos of Trump supporters at his inauguration to ask questions about power, privilege and intimidation. There’s an opening reception on Friday, Aug. 23, with an artist talk on Sept. 20. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/orosgallery/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meredith Monk\u003c/strong>: There is nobody quite like Meredith Monk, a singer and composer who’s always intriguing. And at Grace Cathedral, with its high ceilings and famous seven-second echo, her music should sound even more amazing. On her current tour, she’s stopping by the L.A. Philharmonic and Lincoln Center in New York—and while those shows are not free, this one is. That’s on Friday night, Aug, 23, at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"https://gracecathedral.org/events/meredith-monk-vocal-ensemble-unearthed/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"On the Do List this week, we're talking about Muslim photography, movie theater employees, the Bay Area's premier death metal record label, and more.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705022268,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":486},"headData":{"title":"The Do List: Listen to Our Weekend Picks for Aug. 23–30 | KQED","description":"On the Do List this week, we're talking about Muslim photography, movie theater employees, the Bay Area's premier death metal record label, and more.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The Do List: Listen to Our Weekend Picks for Aug. 23–30","datePublished":"2019-08-22T19:05:20.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T01:17:48.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"audioUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/podcasts/wp-content/uploads/sites/77/2019/08/288719_TheDoListforThursdayAugust22-SundayAugust25mix1.mp3","sticky":false,"audioTrackLength":251,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13864671/the-do-list-listen-to-our-weekend-picks-for-aug-23-30","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s time for the weekend!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking for things to do in the Bay Area? Listen to KQED Arts’ Gabe Meline and Nastia Voynovskaya discuss their critic’s picks for this weekend at the audio link above, and read about each event below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lionel Richie\u003c/strong>: You might remember seven or so years ago when Lionel Richie went country, and even performed on the CMA Awards—don’t worry, this ain’t that. Lately, he’s been playing hit after hit: “Hello,” “Running With the Night,” “Stuck on You,” “Dancing on the Ceiling”… hours of ’80s classics. He performs Saturday, Aug. 24, at the recently refurbished Frost Amphitheater at Stanford. \u003ca href=\"https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/august-2019/lionel-richie\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tankcrimes Takeover\u003c/strong>: Tankcrimes has held it down in the Bay Area punk and metal scene for almost 20 years as an underground label that champions bands of the dark, heavy and face-melting variety. They’re taking over Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland on Friday, Aug. 23, with a showcase of some of the doom metal, death metal, punk and hardcore bands on their roster, including Necrot, as well as Kicker, Cliterati and Deathgrave. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tankcrimes-takeover-of-elis-necrot-kicker-cliterati-deathgrave-tickets-67329160331\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘The Flick’\u003c/strong>: We’ve seen movies about record store employees—\u003cem>High Fidelity\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Empire Records\u003c/em>—but there’s never been a great script about movie theater employees… until now. \u003cem>The Flick\u003c/em> is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play about three employees working at a suburban movie theater, and how their lives intersect. But it’s about more than the movie trivia they try to stump each other with—it’s about those interactions we all have during formative years in our lives, that shape us in even the most basic environments. It opens Thursday, Aug,. 22, at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley, and runs through Sept. 22. \u003ca href=\"https://shotgunplayers.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Shame // Reflections’\u003c/strong>: At Oros Gallery in the back of Pentacle Coffee in SF, this photo show features photography by Hannah Said and Sammy Jonny, two Muslim artists. They juxtapose photos of Muslim women in hijabs from their community with photos of Trump supporters at his inauguration to ask questions about power, privilege and intimidation. There’s an opening reception on Friday, Aug. 23, with an artist talk on Sept. 20. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/orosgallery/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meredith Monk\u003c/strong>: There is nobody quite like Meredith Monk, a singer and composer who’s always intriguing. And at Grace Cathedral, with its high ceilings and famous seven-second echo, her music should sound even more amazing. On her current tour, she’s stopping by the L.A. Philharmonic and Lincoln Center in New York—and while those shows are not free, this one is. That’s on Friday night, Aug, 23, at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"https://gracecathedral.org/events/meredith-monk-vocal-ensemble-unearthed/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13864671/the-do-list-listen-to-our-weekend-picks-for-aug-23-30","authors":["185"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_835","arts_69","arts_967","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_1118","arts_2360","arts_2309","arts_1334"],"featImg":"arts_13864692","label":"arts_140"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? Each episode also includes a short fiction story generated by advanced AI GPT-4, serving as a thought-provoking springboard to speculate how humanity could leverage technology for good.","airtime":"SUN 2pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Possible-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.possible.fm/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"Possible"},"link":"/radio/program/possible","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/possible/id1677184070","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/730YpdUSNlMyPQwNnyjp4k"}},"1a":{"id":"1a","title":"1A","info":"1A is home to the national conversation. 1A brings on great guests and frames the best debate in ways that make you think, share and engage.","airtime":"MON-THU 11pm-12am","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/1a.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://the1a.org/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/1a","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=1188724250&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/1A-p947376/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510316/podcast.xml"}},"all-things-considered":{"id":"all-things-considered","title":"All Things Considered","info":"Every weekday, \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro, and Kelly McEvers present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Michel Martin hosts on the weekends.","airtime":"MON-FRI 1pm-2pm, 4:30pm-6:30pm\u003cbr />SAT-SUN 5pm-6pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/All-Things-Considered-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/all-things-considered"},"american-suburb-podcast":{"id":"american-suburb-podcast","title":"American Suburb: The Podcast","tagline":"The flip side of gentrification, told through one town","info":"Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them?","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Suburb-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"/news/series/american-suburb-podcast","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"13"},"link":"/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=1287748328","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/American-Suburb-p1086805/","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/feed/podcast","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMzMDExODgxNjA5"}},"baycurious":{"id":"baycurious","title":"Bay Curious","tagline":"Exploring the Bay Area, one question at a time","info":"KQED’s new podcast, Bay Curious, gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bay-Curious-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"\"KQED Bay Curious","officialWebsiteLink":"/news/series/baycurious","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"4"},"link":"/podcasts/baycurious","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/bay-curious-podcast/feed/podcast","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9jYXRlZ29yeS9iYXktY3VyaW91cy1wb2RjYXN0L2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdA","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/bay-curious","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k"}},"bbc-world-service":{"id":"bbc-world-service","title":"BBC World Service","info":"The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.","airtime":"MON-FRI 9pm-10pm, TUE-FRI 1am-2am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BBC-World-Service-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service","meta":{"site":"news","source":"BBC World Service"},"link":"/radio/program/bbc-world-service","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-news-podcast/id135067274?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-World-Service-p455581/","rss":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"}},"code-switch-life-kit":{"id":"code-switch-life-kit","title":"Code Switch / Life Kit","info":"\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em>, which listeners will hear in the first part of the hour, has fearless and much-needed conversations about race. Hosted by journalists of color, the show tackles the subject of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and more.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>, which will be in the second part of the hour, guides you through spaces and feelings no one prepares you for — from finances to mental health, from workplace microaggressions to imposter syndrome, from relationships to parenting. The show features experts with real world experience and shares their knowledge. Because everyone needs a little help being human.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch\">\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />","airtime":"SUN 9pm-10pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Code-Switch-Life-Kit-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/code-switch-life-kit","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/1112190608?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy9yc3MvcG9kY2FzdC5waHA_aWQ9NTEwMzEy","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/3bExJ9JQpkwNhoHvaIIuyV","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510312/podcast.xml"}},"commonwealth-club":{"id":"commonwealth-club","title":"Commonwealth Club of California Podcast","info":"The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.","airtime":"THU 10pm, FRI 1am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Commonwealth-Club-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.commonwealthclub.org/podcasts","meta":{"site":"news","source":"Commonwealth Club of California"},"link":"/radio/program/commonwealth-club","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/commonwealth-club-of-california-podcast/id976334034?mt=2","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb21tb253ZWFsdGhjbHViLm9yZy9hdWRpby9wb2RjYXN0L3dlZWtseS54bWw","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Commonwealth-Club-of-California-p1060/"}},"considerthis":{"id":"considerthis","title":"Consider This","tagline":"Make sense of the day","info":"Make sense of the day. Every weekday afternoon, Consider This helps you consider the major stories of the day in less than 15 minutes, featuring the reporting and storytelling resources of NPR. Plus, KQED’s Bianca Taylor brings you the local KQED news you need to know.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Consider-This-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"Consider This from NPR and KQED","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/considerthis","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"7"},"link":"/podcasts/considerthis","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1503226625?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/coronavirusdaily","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM1NS9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbA","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/3Z6JdCS2d0eFEpXHKI6WqH"}},"forum":{"id":"forum","title":"Forum","tagline":"The conversation starts here","info":"KQED’s live call-in program discussing local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.","airtime":"MON-FRI 9am-11am, 10pm-11pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forum-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal","officialWebsiteLink":"/forum","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"8"},"link":"/forum","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-forum/id73329719","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432307980/forum","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-forum-podcast","rss":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9557381633"}},"freakonomics-radio":{"id":"freakonomics-radio","title":"Freakonomics Radio","info":"Freakonomics Radio is a one-hour award-winning podcast and public-radio project hosted by Stephen Dubner, with co-author Steve Levitt as a regular guest. It is produced in partnership with WNYC.","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/freakonomicsRadio.png","officialWebsiteLink":"http://freakonomics.com/","airtime":"SUN 1am-2am, SAT 3pm-4pm","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"WNYC"},"link":"/radio/program/freakonomics-radio","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/Freakonomics-Radio-p272293/","rss":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio"}},"fresh-air":{"id":"fresh-air","title":"Fresh Air","info":"Hosted by Terry Gross, \u003cem>Fresh Air from WHYY\u003c/em> is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. One of public radio's most popular programs, Fresh Air features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.","airtime":"MON-FRI 7pm-8pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fresh-Air-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/fresh-air","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=214089682&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Fresh-Air-p17/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml"}},"here-and-now":{"id":"here-and-now","title":"Here & Now","info":"A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it's happening in the middle of the day, with timely, in-depth news, interviews and conversation. Hosted by Robin Young, Jeremy Hobson and Tonya Mosley.","airtime":"MON-THU 11am-12pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Here-And-Now-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/here-and-now","subsdcribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=426698661","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Here--Now-p211/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510051/podcast.xml"}},"how-i-built-this":{"id":"how-i-built-this","title":"How I Built This with Guy Raz","info":"Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/howIBuiltThis.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this","airtime":"SUN 7:30pm-8pm","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/how-i-built-this","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/3zxy","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/How-I-Built-This-p910896/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510313/podcast.xml"}},"inside-europe":{"id":"inside-europe","title":"Inside Europe","info":"Inside Europe, a one-hour weekly news magazine hosted by Helen Seeney and Keith Walker, explores the topical issues shaping the continent. No other part of the globe has experienced such dynamic political and social change in recent years.","airtime":"SAT 3am-4am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Inside-Europe-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg","meta":{"site":"news","source":"Deutsche Welle"},"link":"/radio/program/inside-europe","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-europe/id80106806?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Inside-Europe-p731/","rss":"https://partner.dw.com/xml/podcast_inside-europe"}},"latino-usa":{"id":"latino-usa","title":"Latino USA","airtime":"MON 1am-2am, SUN 6pm-7pm","info":"Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/latinoUsa.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"http://latinousa.org/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/latino-usa","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/xtTd","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=79681317&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Latino-USA-p621/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510016/podcast.xml"}},"live-from-here-highlights":{"id":"live-from-here-highlights","title":"Live from Here Highlights","info":"Chris Thile steps to the mic as the host of Live from Here (formerly A Prairie Home Companion), a live public radio variety show. Download Chris’s Song of the Week plus other highlights from the broadcast. Produced by American Public Media.","airtime":"SAT 6pm-8pm, SUN 11am-1pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Live-From-Here-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.livefromhere.org/","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"american public media"},"link":"/radio/program/live-from-here-highlights","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1167173941","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Live-from-Here-Highlights-p921744/","rss":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/a-prairie-home-companion-highlights/rss/rss"}},"marketplace":{"id":"marketplace","title":"Marketplace","info":"Our flagship program, helmed by Kai Ryssdal, examines what the day in money delivered, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Updated Monday through Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PT.","airtime":"MON-FRI 4pm-4:30pm, MON-WED 6:30pm-7pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marketplace-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.marketplace.org/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"American Public Media"},"link":"/radio/program/marketplace","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201853034&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/APM-Marketplace-p88/","rss":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-pm/rss/rss"}},"mindshift":{"id":"mindshift","title":"MindShift","tagline":"A podcast about the future of learning and how we raise our kids","info":"The MindShift podcast explores the innovations in education that are shaping how kids learn. Hosts Ki Sung and Katrina Schwartz introduce listeners to educators, researchers, parents and students who are developing effective ways to improve how kids learn. We cover topics like how fed-up administrators are developing surprising tactics to deal with classroom disruptions; how listening to podcasts are helping kids develop reading skills; the consequences of overparenting; and why interdisciplinary learning can engage students on all ends of the traditional achievement spectrum. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. KQED is an NPR/PBS member station based in San Francisco. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MindShiftKQED\">@MindShiftKQED\u003c/a> or visit us at \u003ca href=\"/mindshift\">MindShift.KQED.org\u003c/a>","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mindshift-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED MindShift: How We Will Learn","officialWebsiteLink":"/mindshift/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"2"},"link":"/podcasts/mindshift","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindshift-podcast/id1078765985","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1NzY0NjAwNDI5","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/464615685/mind-shift-podcast","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/stories-teachers-share","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/0MxSpNYZKNprFLCl7eEtyx"}},"morning-edition":{"id":"morning-edition","title":"Morning Edition","info":"\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> takes listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. Hosts Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin bring you the latest breaking news and features to prepare you for the day.","airtime":"MON-FRI 3am-9am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Morning-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/morning-edition"},"onourwatch":{"id":"onourwatch","title":"On Our Watch","tagline":"Police secrets, unsealed","info":"For decades, the process for how police police themselves has been inconsistent – if not opaque. In some states, like California, these proceedings were completely hidden. After a new police transparency law unsealed scores of internal affairs files, our reporters set out to examine these cases and the shadow world of police discipline. On Our Watch brings listeners into the rooms where officers are questioned and witnesses are interrogated to find out who this system is really protecting. Is it the officers, or the public they've sworn to serve?","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/On-Our-Watch-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"On Our Watch from NPR and KQED","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/onourwatch","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"1"},"link":"/podcasts/onourwatch","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1567098962","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM2MC9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbD9zYz1nb29nbGVwb2RjYXN0cw","npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/onourwatch","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/0OLWoyizopu6tY1XiuX70x","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/On-Our-Watch-p1436229/","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-our-watch","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510360/podcast.xml"}},"on-the-media":{"id":"on-the-media","title":"On The Media","info":"Our weekly podcast explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of \"making media,\" especially news media, because it's through that lens that we see the world and the world sees us","airtime":"SUN 2pm-3pm, MON 12am-1am","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/onTheMedia.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm","meta":{"site":"news","source":"wnyc"},"link":"/radio/program/on-the-media","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/On-the-Media-p69/","rss":"http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"}},"our-body-politic":{"id":"our-body-politic","title":"Our Body Politic","info":"Presented by KQED, KCRW and KPCC, and created and hosted by award-winning journalist Farai Chideya, Our Body Politic is unapologetically centered on reporting on not just how women of color experience the major political events of today, but how they’re impacting those very issues.","airtime":"SAT 6pm-7pm, SUN 1am-2am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Our-Body-Politic-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://our-body-politic.simplecast.com/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kcrw"},"link":"/radio/program/our-body-politic","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/our-body-politic/id1533069868","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9feGFQaHMxcw","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/4ApAiLT1kV153TttWAmqmc","rss":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/_xaPhs1s","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/Our-Body-Politic-p1369211/"}},"pbs-newshour":{"id":"pbs-newshour","title":"PBS NewsHour","info":"Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.","airtime":"MON-FRI 3pm-4pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PBS-News-Hour-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"pbs"},"link":"/radio/program/pbs-newshour","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pbs-newshour-full-show/id394432287?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/PBS-NewsHour---Full-Show-p425698/","rss":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"}},"perspectives":{"id":"perspectives","title":"Perspectives","tagline":"KQED's series of of daily listener commentaries since 1991","info":"KQED's series of of daily listener commentaries since 1991.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Perspectives-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"/perspectives/","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"kqed","order":"15"},"link":"/perspectives","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id73801135","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432309616/perspectives","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/perspectives/category/perspectives/feed/","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvcGVyc3BlY3RpdmVzL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BlcnNwZWN0aXZlcy9mZWVkLw"}},"planet-money":{"id":"planet-money","title":"Planet Money","info":"The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy. Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.","airtime":"SUN 3pm-4pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/planetmoney.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/money/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/planet-money","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/M4f5","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Planet-Money-p164680/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"}},"politicalbreakdown":{"id":"politicalbreakdown","title":"Political Breakdown","tagline":"Politics from a personal perspective","info":"Political Breakdown is a new series that explores the political intersection of California and the nation. Each week hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos are joined with a new special guest to unpack politics -- with personality — and offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics happens.","airtime":"THU 6:30pm-7pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Political-Breakdown-2024-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED Political Breakdown","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"kqed","order":"11"},"link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-breakdown/id1327641087","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5Nzk2MzI2MTEx","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/political-breakdown","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/07RVyIjIdk2WDuVehvBMoN","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown/feed/podcast"}},"pri-the-world":{"id":"pri-the-world","title":"PRI's The World: Latest Edition","info":"Each weekday, host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is.","airtime":"MON-FRI 2pm-3pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-World-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world","meta":{"site":"news","source":"PRI"},"link":"/radio/program/pri-the-world","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pris-the-world-latest-edition/id278196007?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/PRIs-The-World-p24/","rss":"http://feeds.feedburner.com/pri/theworld"}},"radiolab":{"id":"radiolab","title":"Radiolab","info":"A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for listeners who demand skepticism, but appreciate wonder. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.","airtime":"SUN 12am-1am, SAT 2pm-3pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/radiolab1400.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/","meta":{"site":"science","source":"WNYC"},"link":"/radio/program/radiolab","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/RadioLab-p68032/","rss":"https://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab"}},"reveal":{"id":"reveal","title":"Reveal","info":"Created by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal is public radios first one-hour weekly radio show and podcast dedicated to investigative reporting. Credible, fact based and without a partisan agenda, Reveal combines the power and artistry of driveway moment storytelling with data-rich reporting on critically important issues. The result is stories that inform and inspire, arming our listeners with information to right injustices, hold the powerful accountable and improve lives.Reveal is hosted by Al Letson and showcases the award-winning work of CIR and newsrooms large and small across the nation. In a radio and podcast market crowded with choices, Reveal focuses on important and often surprising stories that illuminate the world for our listeners.","airtime":"SAT 4pm-5pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/reveal300px.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/reveal","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Reveal-p679597/","rss":"http://feeds.revealradio.org/revealpodcast"}},"says-you":{"id":"says-you","title":"Says You!","info":"Public radio's game show of bluff and bluster, words and whimsy. The warmest, wittiest cocktail party - it's spirited and civil, brainy and boisterous, peppered with musical interludes. Fast paced and playful, it's the most fun you can have with language without getting your mouth washed out with soap. Our motto: It's not important to know the answers, it's important to like the answers!","airtime":"SUN 4pm-5pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Says-You-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"http://www.saysyouradio.com/","meta":{"site":"comedy","source":"Pipit and Finch"},"link":"/radio/program/says-you","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/says-you!/id1050199826","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Says-You-p480/","rss":"https://saysyou.libsyn.com/rss"}},"science-friday":{"id":"science-friday","title":"Science Friday","info":"Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide. Each week, the show focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.","airtime":"FRI 11am-1pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-Friday-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/science-friday","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/science-friday","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=73329284&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Science-Friday-p394/","rss":"http://feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday"}},"science-podcast":{"id":"science-podcast","title":"KQED Science News","tagline":"From the lab, to your ears","info":"KQED Science explores science and environment news, trends, and events from the Bay Area and beyond.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-News-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/category/science-podcast/","meta":{"site":"science","source":"kqed","order":"17"},"link":"/science/category/science-podcast","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqed-science-news/id214663465","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2Jsb2dzLmtxZWQub3JnL3NjaWVuY2UvZmVlZC8","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed-science-news","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/category/science-podcast/feed/podcast"}},"selected-shorts":{"id":"selected-shorts","title":"Selected Shorts","info":"Spellbinding short stories by established and emerging writers take on a new life when they are performed by stars of the stage and screen.","airtime":"SAT 8pm-9pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Selected-Shorts-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.pri.org/programs/selected-shorts","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"pri"},"link":"/radio/program/selected-shorts","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=253191824&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Selected-Shorts-p31792/","rss":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/selectedshorts"}},"snap-judgment":{"id":"snap-judgment","title":"Snap Judgment","info":"Snap Judgment (Storytelling, with a BEAT) mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic, kick-ass radio. Snap’s raw, musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. WNYC studios is the producer of leading podcasts including Radiolab, Freakonomics Radio, Note To Self, Here’s The Thing With Alec Baldwin, and more.","airtime":"SAT 1pm-2pm, 9pm-10pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/snapJudgement.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://snapjudgment.org","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"WNYC"},"link":"/radio/program/snap-judgment","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=283657561&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Snap-Judgment-p243817/","rss":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/snapjudgment-wnyc"}},"soldout":{"id":"soldout","title":"SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America","tagline":"A new future for housing","info":"Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sold-Out-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/soldout","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":3},"link":"/podcasts/soldout","subscribe":{"npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-a-new-future-for-housing","apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937","rss":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/soldout","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america","tunein":"https://tunein.com/radio/SOLD-OUT-Rethinking-Housing-in-America-p1365871/","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vc29sZG91dA"}},"ted-radio-hour":{"id":"ted-radio-hour","title":"TED Radio Hour","info":"The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.","airtime":"SUN 3pm-4pm, SAT 10pm-11pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/tedRadioHour.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2018-06-22","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/ted-radio-hour","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/8vsS","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=523121474&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/TED-Radio-Hour-p418021/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510298/podcast.xml"}},"tech-nation":{"id":"tech-nation","title":"Tech Nation Radio Podcast","info":"Tech Nation is a weekly public radio program, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Founded in 1993, it has grown from a simple interview show to a multi-faceted production, featuring conversations with noted technology and science leaders, and a weekly science and technology-related commentary.","airtime":"FRI 10pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tech-Nation-Radio-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"http://technation.podomatic.com/","meta":{"site":"science","source":"Tech Nation Media"},"link":"/radio/program/tech-nation","subscribe":{"rss":"https://technation.podomatic.com/rss2.xml"}},"thebay":{"id":"thebay","title":"The Bay","tagline":"Local news to keep you rooted","info":"Host Devin Katayama walks you through the biggest story of the day with reporters and newsmakers.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"\"KQED The Bay","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/thebay","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"kqed","order":"6"},"link":"/podcasts/thebay","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM4MjU5Nzg2MzI3","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/586725995/the-bay","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ","rss":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC8259786327"}},"californiareport":{"id":"californiareport","title":"The California Report","tagline":"California, day by day","info":"KQED’s statewide radio news program providing daily coverage of issues, trends and public policy decisions.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED The California Report","officialWebsiteLink":"/californiareport","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"9"},"link":"/californiareport","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1MDAyODE4NTgz","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432285393/the-california-report","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-the-california-report-podcast-8838","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcram/feed/podcast"}},"californiareportmagazine":{"id":"californiareportmagazine","title":"The California Report Magazine","tagline":"Your state, your stories","info":"Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.","airtime":"FRI 4:30pm-5pm, 6:30pm-7pm, 11pm-11:30pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Magazine-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"/californiareportmagazine","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"10"},"link":"/californiareportmagazine","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM3NjkwNjk1OTAz","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564733126/the-california-report-magazine","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-california-report-magazine","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/feed/podcast"}},"theleap":{"id":"theleap","title":"The Leap","tagline":"What if you closed your eyes, and jumped?","info":"Stories about people making dramatic, risky changes, told by award-winning public radio reporter Judy Campbell.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Leap-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED The Leap","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/theleap","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"14"},"link":"/podcasts/theleap","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-leap/id1046668171","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM0NTcwODQ2MjY2","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/447248267/the-leap","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-leap","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/3sSlVHHzU0ytLwuGs1SD1U","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-leap/feed/podcast"}},"masters-of-scale":{"id":"masters-of-scale","title":"Masters of Scale","info":"Masters of Scale is an original podcast in which LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman sets out to describe and prove theories that explain how great entrepreneurs take their companies from zero to a gazillion in ingenious fashion.","airtime":"Every other Wednesday June 12 through October 16 at 8pm (repeats Thursdays at 2am)","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Masters-of-Scale-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://mastersofscale.com/","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"WaitWhat"},"link":"/radio/program/masters-of-scale","subscribe":{"apple":"http://mastersofscale.app.link/","rss":"https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"}},"the-moth-radio-hour":{"id":"the-moth-radio-hour","title":"The Moth Radio Hour","info":"Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. For information on all of our programs and live events, visit themoth.org.","airtime":"SAT 8pm-9pm and SUN 11am-12pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/theMoth.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://themoth.org/","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"prx"},"link":"/radio/program/the-moth-radio-hour","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moth-podcast/id275699983?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/The-Moth-p273888/","rss":"http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast"}},"the-new-yorker-radio-hour":{"id":"the-new-yorker-radio-hour","title":"The New Yorker Radio Hour","info":"The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation. Theme music for the show was composed and performed by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YArDs.","airtime":"SAT 10am-11am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-New-Yorker-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/tnyradiohour","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"WNYC"},"link":"/radio/program/the-new-yorker-radio-hour","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1050430296","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/New-Yorker-Radio-Hour-p803804/","rss":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/newyorkerradiohour"}},"the-takeaway":{"id":"the-takeaway","title":"The Takeaway","info":"The Takeaway is produced in partnership with its national audience. It delivers perspective and analysis to help us better understand the day’s news. Be a part of the American conversation on-air and online.","airtime":"MON-THU 12pm-1pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Takeaway-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/takeaway","meta":{"site":"news","source":"WNYC"},"link":"/radio/program/the-takeaway","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-takeaway/id363143310?mt=2","tuneIn":"http://tunein.com/radio/The-Takeaway-p150731/","rss":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/takeawaypodcast"}},"this-american-life":{"id":"this-american-life","title":"This American Life","info":"This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.","airtime":"SAT 12pm-1pm, 7pm-8pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/thisAmericanLife.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.thisamericanlife.org/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"wbez"},"link":"/radio/program/this-american-life","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201671138&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","rss":"https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml"}},"truthbetold":{"id":"truthbetold","title":"Truth Be Told","tagline":"Advice by and for people of color","info":"We’re the friend you call after a long day, the one who gets it. Through wisdom from some of the greatest thinkers of our time, host Tonya Mosley explores what it means to grow and thrive as a Black person in America, while discovering new ways of being that serve as a portal to more love, more healing, and more joy.","airtime":"","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Truth-Be-Told-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED Truth Be Told with Tonya Mosley","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.kqed.ord/podcasts/truthbetold","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr","order":"12"},"link":"/podcasts/truthbetold","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/truth-be-told/id1462216572","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9jYXRlZ29yeS90cnV0aC1iZS10b2xkLXBvZGNhc3QvZmVlZA","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/719210818/truth-be-told","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=398170&refid=stpr","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/587DhwTBxke6uvfwDfaV5N"}},"wait-wait-dont-tell-me":{"id":"wait-wait-dont-tell-me","title":"Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!","info":"Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis host the weekly NPR News quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities.","airtime":"SUN 10am-11am, SAT 11am-12pm, SAT 6pm-7pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wait-Wait-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/wait-wait-dont-tell-me","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/Xogv","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=121493804&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Wait-Wait-Dont-Tell-Me-p46/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/344098539/podcast.xml"}},"washington-week":{"id":"washington-week","title":"Washington Week","info":"For 50 years, Washington Week has been the most intelligent and up to date conversation about the most important news stories of the week. Washington Week is the longest-running news and public affairs program on PBS and features journalists -- not pundits -- lending insight and perspective to the week's important news stories.","airtime":"SAT 1:30am-2am","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/washington-week.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"pbs"},"link":"/radio/program/washington-week","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/washington-week-audio-pbs/id83324702?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Current-Affairs/Washington-Week-p693/","rss":"http://feeds.pbs.org/pbs/weta/washingtonweek-audio"}},"weekend-edition-saturday":{"id":"weekend-edition-saturday","title":"Weekend Edition Saturday","info":"Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.","airtime":"SAT 5am-10am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/weekend-edition-saturday"},"weekend-edition-sunday":{"id":"weekend-edition-sunday","title":"Weekend Edition Sunday","info":"Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.","airtime":"SUN 5am-10am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday"},"world-affairs":{"id":"world-affairs","title":"World Affairs","info":"The world as we knew it is undergoing a rapid transformation…so what's next? Welcome to WorldAffairs, your guide to a changing world. We give you the context you need to navigate across borders and ideologies. Through sound-rich stories and in-depth interviews, we break down what it means to be a global citizen on a hot, crowded planet. Our hosts, Ray Suarez, Teresa Cotsirilos and Philip Yun help you make sense of an uncertain world, one story at a time.","airtime":"MON 10pm, TUE 1am, SAT 3am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/World-Affairs-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg ","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.worldaffairs.org/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"World Affairs"},"link":"/radio/program/world-affairs","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/world-affairs/id101215657?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/WorldAffairs-p1665/","rss":"https://worldaffairs.libsyn.com/rss"}},"on-shifting-ground":{"id":"on-shifting-ground","title":"On Shifting Ground with Ray Suarez","info":"Geopolitical turmoil. A warming planet. Authoritarians on the rise. We live in a chaotic world that’s rapidly shifting around us. “On Shifting Ground with Ray Suarez” explores international fault lines and how they impact us all. Each week, NPR veteran Ray Suarez hosts conversations with journalists, leaders and policy experts to help us read between the headlines – and give us hope for human resilience.","airtime":"MON 10pm, TUE 1am, SAT 3am","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/12/onshiftingground-600x600-1.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://worldaffairs.org/radio-podcast/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"On Shifting Ground"},"link":"/radio/program/on-shifting-ground","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/on-shifting-ground/id101215657","rss":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/36668/rss"}},"hidden-brain":{"id":"hidden-brain","title":"Hidden Brain","info":"Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/hiddenbrain.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain","airtime":"SUN 7pm-8pm","meta":{"site":"news","source":"NPR"},"link":"/radio/program/hidden-brain","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Hidden-Brain-p787503/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510308/podcast.xml"}},"city-arts":{"id":"city-arts","title":"City Arts & Lectures","info":"A one-hour radio program to hear celebrated writers, artists and thinkers address contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Please note: tapes or transcripts are not available","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/cityartsandlecture-300x300.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.cityarts.net/","airtime":"SUN 1pm-2pm, TUE 10pm, WED 1am","meta":{"site":"news","source":"City Arts & Lectures"},"link":"https://www.cityarts.net","subscribe":{"tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/City-Arts-and-Lectures-p692/","rss":"https://www.cityarts.net/feed/"}},"white-lies":{"id":"white-lies","title":"White Lies","info":"In 1965, Rev. James Reeb was murdered in Selma, Alabama. Three men were tried and acquitted, but no one was ever held to account. Fifty years later, two journalists from Alabama return to the city where it happened, expose the lies that kept the murder from being solved and uncover a story about guilt and memory that says as much about America today as it does about the past.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/White-Lies-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510343/white-lies","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/white-lies","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/whitelies","apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1462650519?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM0My9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbA","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/12yZ2j8vxqhc0QZyRES3ft?si=LfWYEK6URA63hueKVxRLAw","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510343/podcast.xml"}},"rightnowish":{"id":"rightnowish","title":"Rightnowish","tagline":"Art is where you find it","info":"Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rightnowish-Podcast-Tile-500x500-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/rightnowish","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"kqed","order":"5"},"link":"/podcasts/rightnowish","subscribe":{"npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/rightnowish/feed/podcast","apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMxMjU5MTY3NDc4","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I"}},"jerrybrown":{"id":"jerrybrown","title":"The Political Mind of Jerry Brown","tagline":"Lessons from a lifetime in politics","info":"The Political Mind of Jerry Brown brings listeners the wisdom of the former Governor, Mayor, and presidential candidate. Scott Shafer interviewed Brown for more than 40 hours, covering the former governor's life and half-century in the political game – and Brown has some lessons he'd like to share. ","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Political-Mind-of-Jerry-Brown-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED The Political Mind of Jerry Brown","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/jerrybrown","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"16"},"link":"/podcasts/jerrybrown","subscribe":{"npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/790253322/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492194549","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/jerrybrown/feed/podcast/","tuneIn":"http://tun.in/pjGcK","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/54C1dmuyFyKMFttY6X2j6r?si=K8SgRCoISNK6ZbjpXrX5-w","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9zZXJpZXMvamVycnlicm93bi9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv"}},"the-splendid-table":{"id":"the-splendid-table","title":"The Splendid Table","info":"\u003cem>The Splendid Table\u003c/em> hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Splendid-Table-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.splendidtable.org/","airtime":"SUN 10-11 pm","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/the-splendid-table"}},"racesReducer":{"5921":{"id":"5921","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 7","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":158422,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.97,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Doris Matsui","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":89456,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Tom Silva","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":48920,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"David Mandel","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":20046,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-09T01:00:38.194Z"},"5922":{"id":"5922","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 8","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Rudy Recile","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"John Garamendi","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"5924":{"id":"5924","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 10","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":185034,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.07,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mark DeSaulnier","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":121265,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Katherine Piccinini","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":34883,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Nolan Chen","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":19459,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Joe Sweeney","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":7606,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Mohamed Elsherbini","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":1821,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-09T01:02:32.415Z"},"5926":{"id":"5926","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 12","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":153801,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.88,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 20, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:41 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Lateefah Simon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":85905,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Jennifer Tran","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":22964,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Tony Daysog","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":17197,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Stephen Slauson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":9699,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Glenn Kaplan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":6785,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Eric Wilson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":4243,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Abdur Sikder","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2847,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ned Nuerge","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":2532,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Andre Todd","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":1629,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-16T00:22:36.062Z"},"5928":{"id":"5928","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 14","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":125831,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.14,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 20, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:41 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Eric Swalwell","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":83989,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Vin Kruttiventi","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":22106,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Alison Hayden","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":11928,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Luis Reynoso","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":7808,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:51:36.366Z"},"5930":{"id":"5930","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 16","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":182135,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.91,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","timeUpdated":"3:04 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Sam Liccardo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":38489,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Evan Low","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":30249,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Joe Simitian","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":30249,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Peter Ohtaki","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":23275,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Peter Dixon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":14673,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Rishi Kumar","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":12377,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Karl Ryan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":11557,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Julie Lythcott-Haims","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":11383,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ahmed Mostafa","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":5811,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Greg Tanaka","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2421,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Joby Bernstein","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":1651,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:32:05.002Z"},"5931":{"id":"5931","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 17","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":117534,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.92,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Ro Khanna","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":73941,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Anita Chen","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":31539,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Ritesh Tandon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":5728,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Mario Ramirez","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":4491,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Joe Dehn","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"Lib","voteCount":1835,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-08T01:50:53.956Z"},"5932":{"id":"5932","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 18","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":96302,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.93,"eevp":98.83,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Zoe Lofgren","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":49323,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Peter Hernandez","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":31622,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Charlene Nijmeh","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":10614,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Lawrence Milan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2712,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Luele Kifle","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2031,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:26:02.706Z"},"5963":{"id":"5963","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 2","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":139085,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.62,"eevp":98.6,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Michael Greer","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":38079,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Chris Rogers","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":27126,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Rusty Hicks","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":25615,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ariel Kelley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":19483,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Frankie Myers","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":17694,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ted Williams","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":9550,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Cynthia Click","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":1538,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-22T21:38:36.711Z"},"5972":{"id":"5972","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 11","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":99775,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Lori Wilson","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":50085,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Dave Ennis","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":26074,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Wanda Wallis","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":14638,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jeffrey Flack","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":8978,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-08T02:01:24.524Z"},"5973":{"id":"5973","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 12","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":143532,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.19,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:38 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Damon Connolly","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":111275,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Andy Podshadley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":17240,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Eryn Cervantes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":15017,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-21T00:25:32.262Z"},"5975":{"id":"5975","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 14","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":106997,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.06,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Buffy Wicks","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":78678,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Margot Smith","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":18251,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Utkarsh Jain","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":10068,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-15T01:30:34.539Z"},"5976":{"id":"5976","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 15","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":97144,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.98,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Sonia Ledo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":30946,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Anamarie Farias","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":29512,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Monica Wilson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":24775,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Karen Mitchoff","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":11911,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-14T00:19:38.858Z"},"5977":{"id":"5977","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 16","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Joseph Rubay","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Rebecca Bauer-Kahan","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"5978":{"id":"5978","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 17","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":111003,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"8:25 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Matt Haney","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":90915,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Manuel Noris-Barrera","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":13843,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Otto Duke","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":6245,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:36:19.697Z"},"5979":{"id":"5979","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 18","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":86008,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.1,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 20, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:41 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mia Bonta","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":73040,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Andre Sandford","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"AIP","voteCount":4575,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Mindy Pechenuk","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":4389,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Cheyenne Kenney","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":4004,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T08:03:23.729Z"},"5980":{"id":"5980","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 19","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":113959,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.8,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Catherine Stefani","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":64960,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"David Lee","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":33035,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Nadia Flamenco","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":8335,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Arjun Sodhani","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":7629,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-11T23:50:23.109Z"},"5981":{"id":"5981","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 20","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 20, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:36 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Liz Ortega","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"5982":{"id":"5982","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 21","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mark Gilham","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Diane Papan","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"5984":{"id":"5984","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 23","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":116963,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.91,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Marc Berman","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":67106,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Lydia Kou","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":23699,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Gus Mattammal","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":13277,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Allan Marson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":12881,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T01:13:06.280Z"},"5987":{"id":"5987","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 26","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":72753,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.19,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Patrick Ahrens","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":25036,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Tara Sreekrishnan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":19600,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Sophie Song","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":15954,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Omar Din","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":8772,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Bob Goodwyn","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"Lib","voteCount":2170,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ashish Garg","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":1221,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-13T21:06:29.070Z"},"5989":{"id":"5989","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 28","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:10 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Gail Pellerin","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Liz Lawler","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6010":{"id":"6010","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 49","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:36 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mike Fong","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Long Liu","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6018":{"id":"6018","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 2","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":229348,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.05,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:38 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jared Huffman","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":169005,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Chris Coulombe","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":37372,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Tief Gibbs","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":18437,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jolian Kangas","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":3166,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jason Brisendine","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":1368,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:46:10.103Z"},"6020":{"id":"6020","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 4","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":187640,"precinctsReportPercentage":96.32,"eevp":96.36,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mike Thompson","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":118147,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"John Munn","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":56232,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Andrew Engdahl","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":11202,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Niket Patwardhan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":2059,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-07T00:30:57.980Z"},"6025":{"id":"6025","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 9","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":121271,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.17,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:10 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Josh Harder","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":60396,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Kevin Lincoln","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":36346,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"John McBride","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":15525,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Khalid Jafri","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":9004,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:49:44.113Z"},"6031":{"id":"6031","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 15","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Anna Kramer","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Kevin Mullin","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6035":{"id":"6035","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 19","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":203670,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.11,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jimmy Panetta","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":132540,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Jason Anderson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":58120,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Sean Dougherty","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"Grn","voteCount":13010,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-07T00:23:46.779Z"},"6066":{"id":"6066","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 3","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:10 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jamie Gallagher","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Aaron Draper","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6067":{"id":"6067","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 4","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Cecilia Aguiar-Curry","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6087":{"id":"6087","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 24","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":66643,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.19,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Alex Lee","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":45544,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Bob Brunton","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":14951,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Marti Souza","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":6148,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-14T23:23:49.770Z"},"6088":{"id":"6088","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 25","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":69560,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.31,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Ash Kalra","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":35821,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Ted Stroll","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":18255,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Lan Ngo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":15484,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-14T02:40:57.200Z"},"6092":{"id":"6092","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 29","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Robert Rivas","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"J.W. Paine","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6223":{"id":"6223","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 46","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:16 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Lou Correa","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"David Pan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6530":{"id":"6530","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 3","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":222193,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Thom Bogue","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":61776,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Christopher Cabaldon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":59041,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Rozzana Verder-Aliga","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":45546,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jackie Elward","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":41127,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jimih Jones","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":14703,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-15T01:24:31.539Z"},"6531":{"id":"6531","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 5","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":171623,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.09,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:10 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jim Shoemaker","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":74935,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Jerry McNerney","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":57040,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Carlos Villapudua","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":39648,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-13T20:07:46.382Z"},"6532":{"id":"6532","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 7","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":192446,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.72,"eevp":98.78,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jesse Arreguín","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":61837,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Jovanka Beckles","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":34025,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Dan Kalb","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":28842,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Kathryn Lybarger","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":28041,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Sandre Swanson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":22862,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jeanne Solnordal","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":16839,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-16T00:58:11.533Z"},"6533":{"id":"6533","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 9","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Tim Grayson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Marisol Rubio","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6534":{"id":"6534","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 11","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":228260,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.09,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Scott Wiener","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":166592,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Yvette Corkrean","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":34438,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Cynthia Cravens","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":18513,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jing Xiong","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":8717,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T02:01:51.597Z"},"6535":{"id":"6535","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 13","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":227191,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.88,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Josh Becker","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":167127,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Alexander Glew","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":42788,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Christina Laskowski","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":17276,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T01:56:24.964Z"},"6536":{"id":"6536","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 15","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":180231,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.81,"eevp":98.95,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Dave Cortese","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":124440,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Robert Howell","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":34173,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Tony Loaiza","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":21618,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-13T01:15:45.365Z"},"6548":{"id":"6548","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 39","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 20, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:55 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Akilah Weber","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Bob Divine","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6611":{"id":"6611","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 11","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":188732,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.89,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"8:25 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Nancy Pelosi","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":138285,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Bruce Lou","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":16285,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Marjorie Mikels","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":9363,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Bianca Von Krieg","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":7634,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jason Zeng","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":6607,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jason Boyce","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":4325,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Larry Nichelson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":3482,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Eve Del Castello","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":2751,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:31:55.445Z"},"8589":{"id":"8589","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. Senate, Class I","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":7276537,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Adam Schiff","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2299507,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Steve Garvey","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":2292414,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Katie Porter","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":1115606,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Barbara Lee","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":714408,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Eric Early","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":240723,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"James Bradley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":98180,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Christina Pascucci","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":61755,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Sharleta Bassett","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":54422,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Sarah Liew","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":38483,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Laura Garza ","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":34320,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jonathan Reiss","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":34283,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Sepi Gilani","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":34056,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Gail Lightfoot","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"Lib","voteCount":33046,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Denice Gary-Pandol","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":25494,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"James Macauley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":23168,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Harmesh Kumar","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":21522,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"David Peterson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":21076,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Douglas Pierce","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":19371,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Major Singh","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":16965,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"John Rose","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":14577,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Perry Pound","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":14134,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Raji Rab","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":13558,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Mark Ruzon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":13429,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Forrest Jones","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"AIP","voteCount":13027,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Stefan Simchowitz","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":12717,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Martin Veprauskas","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":9714,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Don Grundmann","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":6582,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T05:01:46.589Z"},"8686":{"id":"8686","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"President,","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top1","totalVotes":3589127,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:48 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Joe Biden","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":3200188,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Marianne Williamson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":145690,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Dean Phillips","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":99981,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Armando Perez-Serrato","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":42925,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Gabriel Cornejo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":41261,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"President Boddie","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":25373,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Stephen Lyons","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":21008,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Eban Cambridge","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":12701,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:12:27.559Z"},"8688":{"id":"8688","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"President,","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top1","totalVotes":2466569,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Donald Trump","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":1953947,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Nikki Haley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":430792,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ron DeSantis","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":35581,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Chris Christie","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":20164,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Vivek Ramaswamy","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":11069,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Rachel Swift","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":4231,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"David Stuckenberg","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":3895,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ryan Binkley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":3563,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Asa Hutchinson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":3327,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:13:19.766Z"},"81993":{"id":"81993","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. Senate, Class I Unexpired Term","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":7358837,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Steve Garvey","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":2444940,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Adam Schiff","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2155146,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Katie Porter","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":1269194,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Barbara Lee","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":863278,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Eric Early","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":448788,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Christina Pascucci","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":109421,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Sepi Gilani","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":68070,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:31:08.186Z"},"82014":{"id":"82014","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"Proposition, 1 - Behavioral Health Services Program","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top1","totalVotes":7221972,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":null,"voteCount":3624998,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":null,"voteCount":3596974,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-21T00:11:06.265Z"},"timeLoaded":"April 26, 2024 5:49 AM","nationalRacesLoaded":true,"localRacesLoaded":true,"overrides":[{"id":"5921","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 7","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5922","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 8","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5924","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 10","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5926","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 12","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/congress-12th-district"},{"id":"5928","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 14","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5930","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 16","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/congress-16th-district"},{"id":"5931","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 17","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5932","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 18","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5963","raceName":"State Assembly, District 2","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5972","raceName":"State Assembly, District 11","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5973","raceName":"State Assembly, District 12","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5975","raceName":"State Assembly, District 14","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5976","raceName":"State Assembly, District 15","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/contracosta/state-assembly"},{"id":"5977","raceName":"State Assembly, District 16","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5978","raceName":"State Assembly, District 17","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5979","raceName":"State Assembly, District 18","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5980","raceName":"State Assembly, District 19","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5981","raceName":"State Assembly, District 20","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5982","raceName":"State Assembly, District 21","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5984","raceName":"State Assembly, District 23","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/state-assembly-23rd-district"},{"id":"5987","raceName":"State Assembly, District 26","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/santaclara/state-assembly-26th-district"},{"id":"5989","raceName":"State Assembly, District 28","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6010","raceName":"State Assembly, District 4","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6018","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 2","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6020","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 4","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6025","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 9","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6031","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 15","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6035","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 19","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6067","raceName":"State Assembly, District 4","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6087","raceName":"State Assembly, District 24","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6088","raceName":"State Assembly, District 25","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6092","raceName":"State Assembly, District 29","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6223","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 4","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6530","raceName":"State Senate, District 3","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/state-senate-3rd-district"},{"id":"6531","raceName":"State Senate, District 5","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6532","raceName":"State Senate, District 7","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/state-senate-7th-district"},{"id":"6533","raceName":"State Senate, District 9","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6534","raceName":"State Senate, District 11","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6535","raceName":"State Senate, District 13","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6536","raceName":"State Senate, District 15","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6611","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 11","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"8589","raceName":"U.S. Senate (Full Term)","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/senator"},{"id":"8686","raceName":"California Democratic Presidential Primary","raceDescription":"Candidates are competing for 496 delegates.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/president/democrat"},{"id":"8688","raceName":"California Republican Presidential Primary","raceDescription":"Candidates are competing for 169 delegates.","raceReadTheStory":"https://kqed.org/elections/results/president/republican"},{"id":"81993","raceName":"U.S. Senate (Partial/Unexpired Term)","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election."},{"id":"82014","raceName":"Proposition 1","raceDescription":"Bond and mental health reforms. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/proposition-1"}],"AlamedaJudge5":{"id":"AlamedaJudge5","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 5","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":200601,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Terry Wiley","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":200601}]},"AlamedaJudge12":{"id":"AlamedaJudge12","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 12","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":240853,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mark Fickes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":133009},{"candidateName":"Michael P. Johnson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":107844}]},"AlamedaBoard2":{"id":"AlamedaBoard2","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Education, Trustee Area 2","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":33580,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"John Lewis","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6943},{"candidateName":"Angela Normand","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":26637}]},"AlamedaBoard5":{"id":"AlamedaBoard5","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Education, Trustee Area 5","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":26072,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Guadalupe \"Lupe\" Angulo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7521},{"candidateName":"Janevette Cole","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":13338},{"candidateName":"Joe Orlando Ramos","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5213}]},"AlamedaBoard6":{"id":"AlamedaBoard6","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Education, Trustee Area 6","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":30864,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"John Guerrero","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":9989},{"candidateName":"Eileen McDonald","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":20875}]},"AlamedaSup1":{"id":"AlamedaSup1","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 1","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":41038,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"David Haubert","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":41038}]},"AlamedaSup2":{"id":"AlamedaSup2","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":31034,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Elisa Márquez","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":31034}]},"AlamedaSup4":{"id":"AlamedaSup4","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/supervisor-4th-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":57007,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jennifer Esteen","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":22400},{"candidateName":"Nate Miley","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":34607}]},"AlamedaSup5":{"id":"AlamedaSup5","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/supervisor-5th-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":81059,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Ben Bartlett","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":13518},{"candidateName":"Nikki Fortunato Bas","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":27597},{"candidateName":"John J. Bauters","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":16783},{"candidateName":"Ken Berrick","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7520},{"candidateName":"Omar Farmer","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1240},{"candidateName":"Gregory Hodge","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3419},{"candidateName":"Chris Moore","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7428},{"candidateName":"Gerald Pechenuk","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":305},{"candidateName":"Lorrel Plimier","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3249}]},"AlamedaBoard7":{"id":"AlamedaBoard7","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Flood Control & Water Conservation District Director, Zone 7, Full Term","raceDescription":"Top three candidates win seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top3","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":134340,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Alan Burnham","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":15723},{"candidateName":"Sandy Figuers","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":22454},{"candidateName":"Laurene K. Green","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":30343},{"candidateName":"Kathy Narum","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":23833},{"candidateName":"Seema Badar","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7468},{"candidateName":"Catherine Brown","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":34519}]},"AlamedaAuditor":{"id":"AlamedaAuditor","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Oakland Auditor","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":59227,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Michael Houston","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":59227}]},"AlamedaMeasureA":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Alameda County. Civil service. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":282335,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":167903},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":114432}]},"AlamedaMeasureB":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Alameda County. Recall rules. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/measure-b","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":282683,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":182200},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":100483}]},"AlamedaMeasureD":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureD","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure D","raceDescription":"Oakland. Appropriations limit. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":79797,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":59852},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":19945}]},"AlamedaMeasureE":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureE","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure E","raceDescription":"Alameda Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":22692,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":17280},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5412}]},"AlamedaMeasureF":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureF","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure F","raceDescription":"Piedmont. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":4855,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3673},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1182}]},"AlamedaMeasureG":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureG","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure G","raceDescription":"Albany Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote. ","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":5898,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4651},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1247}]},"AlamedaMeasureH":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureH","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure H","raceDescription":"Berkeley Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":33331,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":29418},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3913}]},"AlamedaMeasureI":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureI","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure I","raceDescription":"Hayward Unified School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":21929,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":14151},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7778}]},"AlamedaMeasureJ":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureJ","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure J","raceDescription":"San Leandro Unified School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":12338,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7784},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4554}]},"CCD2":{"id":"CCD2","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":45776,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Candace Andersen","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":45776}]},"CCD3":{"id":"CCD3","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 3","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":25120,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Diane Burgis","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":25120}]},"CCD5":{"id":"CCD5","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/contracosta/supervisor-5th-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":37045,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mike Barbanica","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":14338},{"candidateName":"Jelani Killings","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5683},{"candidateName":"Shanelle Scales-Preston","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":12993},{"candidateName":"Iztaccuauhtli Hector Gonzalez","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4031}]},"CCMeasureA":{"id":"CCMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Martinez. Appoint City Clerk. Passes with a majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":11513,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7554},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3959}]},"CCMeasureB":{"id":"CCMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Antioch Unified School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":17971,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10397},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7574}]},"CCMeasureC":{"id":"CCMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Martinez Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":9230,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6917},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2313}]},"CCMeasureD":{"id":"CCMeasureD","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Measure D","raceDescription":"Moraga School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":6007,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4052},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1955}]},"MarinD2":{"id":"MarinD2","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/marin/supervisor-2nd-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":18466,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Brian Colbert","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7971},{"candidateName":"Heather McPhail Sridharan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4851},{"candidateName":"Ryan O'Neil","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2647},{"candidateName":"Gabe Paulson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2997}]},"MarinD3":{"id":"MarinD3","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 3","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":13274,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Stephanie Moulton-Peters","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":13274}]},"MarinD4":{"id":"MarinD4","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":12986,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Dennis Rodoni","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10086},{"candidateName":"Francis Drouillard","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2900}]},"MarinLarkspurCC":{"id":"MarinLarkspurCC","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Larkspur City Council (Short Term)","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":4176,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Stephanie Andre","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2514},{"candidateName":"Claire Paquette","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1008},{"candidateName":"Lana Scott","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":654}]},"MarinRossCouncil":{"id":"MarinRossCouncil","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Ross Town Council","raceDescription":"Top three candidates win seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top3","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":1740,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Charles William \"Bill\" Kircher, Jr.","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":536},{"candidateName":"Mathew Salter","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":502},{"candidateName":"Shadi Aboukhater","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":187},{"candidateName":"Teri Dowling","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":515}]},"MarinMeasureA":{"id":"MarinMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Tamalpais Union High School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":45345,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":24376},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":20969}]},"MarinMeasureB":{"id":"MarinMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Petaluma Joint Union High School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":132,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":62},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":70}]},"MarinMeasureC":{"id":"MarinMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Belvedere. Appropriation limit. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":870,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":679},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":191}]},"MarinMeasureD":{"id":"MarinMeasureD","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure D","raceDescription":"Larkspur. Rent stabilization. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/marin/measure-d","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":4955,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2573},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2382}]},"MarinMeasureE":{"id":"MarinMeasureE","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure E","raceDescription":"Ross. Special tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/marin/measure-e","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":874,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":683},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":191}]},"MarinMeasureF":{"id":"MarinMeasureF","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure F","raceDescription":"San Anselmo. Flood Control and Water Conservation District. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":5193,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3083},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2110}]},"MarinMeasureG":{"id":"MarinMeasureG","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure G","raceDescription":"Bel Marin Keys Community Services District. Special tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":830,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":661},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":169}]},"MarinMeasureH":{"id":"MarinMeasureH","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure H","raceDescription":"Marinwood Community Services District. Appropriations limit, fire protection. Passes with a majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":1738,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1369},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":369}]},"MarinMeasureI":{"id":"MarinMeasureI","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure I","raceDescription":"Marinwood Community Services District. Appropriations limit, parks. Passes with a majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":1735,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1336},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":399}]},"NapaD2":{"id":"NapaD2","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":8351,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Liz Alessio","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6340},{"candidateName":"Doris Gentry","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2011}]},"NapaD4":{"id":"NapaD4","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/napa/supervisor-4th-district","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":7306,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Amber Manfree","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3913},{"candidateName":"Pete Mott","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3393}]},"NapaD5":{"id":"NapaD5","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/napa/supervisor-5th-district","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":5356,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mariam Aboudamous","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2379},{"candidateName":"Belia Ramos","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2977}]},"NapaMeasureD":{"id":"NapaMeasureD","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Measure D","raceDescription":"Howell Mountain Elementary School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":741,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":367},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":374}]},"NapaMeasureU":{"id":"NapaMeasureU","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Measure U","raceDescription":"Lake Berryessa Resort Improvement District. Appropriations limit. Passes with majority vote. ","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":86,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":63},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":23}]},"NapaMeasureU1":{"id":"NapaMeasureU1","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Measure U","raceDescription":"Yountville. Appropriations limit. Passes with majority vote. ","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":925,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":793},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":132}]},"SFJudge1":{"id":"SFJudge1","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Seat 1","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/superior-court-seat-1","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":202960,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Michael Begert","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":124943},{"candidateName":"Chip Zecher","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":78017}]},"SFJudge13":{"id":"SFJudge13","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Seat 13","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/superior-court-seat-13","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":202386,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jean Myungjin Roland","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":90012},{"candidateName":"Patrick S. Thompson","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":112374}]},"SFPropA":{"id":"SFPropA","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition A","raceDescription":"Housing bond. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/proposition-a","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":225187,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":158497},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":66690}]},"SFPropB":{"id":"SFPropB","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition B","raceDescription":"Police staffing. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":222954,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":61580},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":161374}]},"SFPropC":{"id":"SFPropC","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition C","raceDescription":"Transfer tax exemption. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":220349,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":116311},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":104038}]},"SFPropD":{"id":"SFPropD","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition D","raceDescription":"Ethics laws. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":222615,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":198584},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":24031}]},"SFPropE":{"id":"SFPropE","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition E","raceDescription":"Police policies. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/proposition-e","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":222817,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":120529},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":102288}]},"SFPropF":{"id":"SFPropF","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition F","raceDescription":"Drug screening. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/proposition-f","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":224004,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":130214},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":93790}]},"SFPropG":{"id":"SFPropG","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition G","raceDescription":"Eighth-grade algebra. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":222704,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":182066},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":40638}]},"SMJudge4":{"id":"SMJudge4","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":108919,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Sarah Burdick","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":108919}]},"SMD1":{"id":"SMD1","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 1","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanmateo/supervisor-1st-district","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":29650,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jackie Speier","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":20353},{"candidateName":"Ann Schneider","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":9297}]},"SMD4":{"id":"SMD4","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanmateo/supervisor-4th-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":22725,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Antonio Lopez","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5730},{"candidateName":"Lisa Gauthier","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10358},{"candidateName":"Celeste Brevard","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1268},{"candidateName":"Paul Bocanegra","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1909},{"candidateName":"Maggie Cornejo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3460}]},"SMD5":{"id":"SMD5","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":19937,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"David Canepa","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":19937}]},"SMMeasureB":{"id":"SMMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"County Service Area #1 (Highlands). Special tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":1549,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1360},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":189}]},"SMMeasureC":{"id":"SMMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Jefferson Elementary School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":12234,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8543},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3691}]},"SMMeasureE":{"id":"SMMeasureE","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Measure E","raceDescription":"Woodside Elementary School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":1392,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":910},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":482}]},"SMMeasureG":{"id":"SMMeasureG","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Measure G","raceDescription":"Pacifica School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":11548,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7067},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4481}]},"SMMeasureH":{"id":"SMMeasureH","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Measure H","raceDescription":"San Carlos School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":9938,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6283},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3655}]},"SCJudge5":{"id":"SCJudge5","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":301953,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jay Boyarsky","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":142549},{"candidateName":"Nicole M. Ford","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":52147},{"candidateName":"Johnene Linda Stebbins","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":107257}]},"SCD2":{"id":"SCD2","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/santaclara/supervisor-2nd-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":44059,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Corina Herrera-Loera","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10519},{"candidateName":"Jennifer Margaret Celaya","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2394},{"candidateName":"Madison Nguyen","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":12794},{"candidateName":"Betty Duong","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":14031},{"candidateName":"Nelson McElmurry","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4321}]},"SCD3":{"id":"SCD3","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 3","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":42549,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Otto Lee","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":42549}]},"SCD5":{"id":"SCD5","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/santaclara/supervisor-5th-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":88712,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Margaret Abe-Koga","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":37172},{"candidateName":"Sally J. Lieber","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":21962},{"candidateName":"Barry Chang","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6164},{"candidateName":"Peter C. Fung","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":17892},{"candidateName":"Sandy Sans","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5522}]},"SCSJMayor":{"id":"SCSJMayor","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José Mayor","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":167064,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Matt Mahan","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":144701},{"candidateName":"Tyrone Wade","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":22363}]},"SCSJD2":{"id":"SCSJD2","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José City Council, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":14131,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Joe Lopez","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4950},{"candidateName":"Pamela Campos","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3436},{"candidateName":"Vanessa Sandoval","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2719},{"candidateName":"Babu Prasad","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3026}]},"SCSJD4":{"id":"SCSJD4","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José City Council, District 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":14322,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Kansen Chu","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5931},{"candidateName":"David Cohen","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8391}]},"SCSJD6":{"id":"SCSJD6","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José City Council, District 6","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":25108,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"David Cohen","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":9875},{"candidateName":"Alex Shoor","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3850},{"candidateName":"Angelo \"A.J.\" Pasciuti","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2688},{"candidateName":"Michael Mulcahy","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8695}]},"SCSJD8":{"id":"SCSJD8","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José City Council, District 8","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":21462,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Tam Truong","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6982},{"candidateName":"Domingo Candelas","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8466},{"candidateName":"Sukhdev Singh Bainiwal","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5513},{"candidateName":"Surinder Kaur Dhaliwal","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":501}]},"SCSJD10":{"id":"SCSJD10","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José City Council, District 10","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":22799,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"George Casey","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8805},{"candidateName":"Arjun Batra","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8354},{"candidateName":"Lenka Wright","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5640}]},"SCMeasureA":{"id":"SCMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Santa Clara. Appointed city clerk. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":20315,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6580},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":13735}]},"SCMeasureB":{"id":"SCMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Santa Clara. Appointed police chief. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":20567,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5680},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":14887}]},"SCMeasureC":{"id":"SCMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Sunnyvale School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":14656,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10261},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4395}]},"SolanoD15":{"id":"SolanoD15","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Department 15","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":81709,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mike Thompson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":36844},{"candidateName":"Bryan J. Kim","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":44865}]},"SolanoD1":{"id":"SolanoD1","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 1","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/solano/supervisor-1st-district","raceType":"","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":13786,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Michael Wilson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6401},{"candidateName":"Cassandra James","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7385}]},"SolanoD2":{"id":"SolanoD2","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":19903,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Monica Brown","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10951},{"candidateName":"Nora Dizon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3135},{"candidateName":"Rochelle Sherlock","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5817}]},"SolanoD5":{"id":"SolanoD5","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":17888,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mitch Mashburn","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":11210},{"candidateName":"Chadwick J. Ledoux","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6678}]},"SolanoEducation":{"id":"SolanoEducation","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Sacramento County Board of Education","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":3650,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Heather Davis","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2960},{"candidateName":"Shazleen Khan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":690}]},"SolanoMeasureA":{"id":"SolanoMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Benicia. Hotel tax. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/solano/measure-a","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":10136,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7869},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2267}]},"SolanoMeasureB":{"id":"SolanoMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Benicia. Sales tax. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/solano/measure-b","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":10164,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7335},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2829}]},"SolanoMeasureC":{"id":"SolanoMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Benicia Unified School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":10112,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6316},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3796}]},"SolanoMeasureN":{"id":"SolanoMeasureN","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Measure N","raceDescription":"Davis Joint Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":15,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10}]},"SonomaJudge3":{"id":"SonomaJudge3","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 3","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":115405,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Kristine M. Burk","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":79498},{"candidateName":"Beki Berrey","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":35907}]},"SonomaJudge4":{"id":"SonomaJudge4","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":86789,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Paul J. Lozada","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":86789}]},"SonomaJudge6":{"id":"SonomaJudge6","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 6","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":117990,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Omar Figueroa","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":42236},{"candidateName":"Kenneth English","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":75754}]},"SonomaD1":{"id":"SonomaD1","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 1","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":30348,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Rebecca Hermosillo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":23958},{"candidateName":"Jonathan Mathieu","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6390}]},"SonomaD3":{"id":"SonomaD3","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 3","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sonoma/supervisor-3rd-district","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":16312,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Chris Coursey","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":11346},{"candidateName":"Omar Medina","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4966}]},"SonomaD5":{"id":"SonomaD5","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":23356,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Lynda Hopkins","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":23356}]},"SonomaMeasureA":{"id":"SonomaMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":13756,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10320},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3436}]},"SonomaMeasureB":{"id":"SonomaMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Petaluma Joint Union High School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":24877,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":15795},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":9082}]},"SonomaMeasureC":{"id":"SonomaMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Fort Ross School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":286,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":159},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":127}]},"SonomaMeasureD":{"id":"SonomaMeasureD","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure D","raceDescription":"Harmony Union School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":1925,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1089},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":836}]},"SonomaMeasureE":{"id":"SonomaMeasureE","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure E","raceDescription":"Petaluma City (Elementary) School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":11133,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7622},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3511}]},"SonomaMeasureG":{"id":"SonomaMeasureG","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure G","raceDescription":"Rincon Valley Union School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":14577,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8668},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5909}]},"SonomaMeasureH":{"id":"SonomaMeasureH","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure H","raceDescription":"Sonoma County. Sales tax. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sonoma/measure-h","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":145261,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":89646},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":55615}]}},"radioSchedulesReducer":{},"listsReducer":{"posts/arts?tag=shotgun-players":{"isFetching":false,"latestQuery":{"from":0,"postsToRender":9},"tag":null,"vitalsOnly":true,"totalRequested":9,"isLoading":false,"isLoadingMore":true,"total":23,"items":["arts_13929225","arts_13926293","arts_13921567","arts_13895195","arts_13879316","arts_13871091","arts_13865965","arts_13864721","arts_13864671"]}},"recallGuideReducer":{"intros":{},"policy":{},"candidates":{}},"savedPostsReducer":{},"pfsSessionReducer":{},"siteSettingsReducer":{},"subscriptionsReducer":{},"termsReducer":{"about":{"name":"About","type":"terms","id":"about","slug":"about","link":"/about","taxonomy":"site"},"arts":{"name":"Arts & Culture","grouping":["arts","pop","trulyca"],"description":"KQED Arts provides daily in-depth coverage of the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature and arts news, as well as cultural commentary and criticism.","type":"terms","id":"arts","slug":"arts","link":"/arts","taxonomy":"site"},"artschool":{"name":"Art School","parent":"arts","type":"terms","id":"artschool","slug":"artschool","link":"/artschool","taxonomy":"site"},"bayareabites":{"name":"KQED food","grouping":["food","bayareabites","checkplease"],"parent":"food","type":"terms","id":"bayareabites","slug":"bayareabites","link":"/food","taxonomy":"site"},"bayareahiphop":{"name":"Bay Area Hiphop","type":"terms","id":"bayareahiphop","slug":"bayareahiphop","link":"/bayareahiphop","taxonomy":"site"},"campaign21":{"name":"Campaign 21","type":"terms","id":"campaign21","slug":"campaign21","link":"/campaign21","taxonomy":"site"},"checkplease":{"name":"KQED food","grouping":["food","bayareabites","checkplease"],"parent":"food","type":"terms","id":"checkplease","slug":"checkplease","link":"/food","taxonomy":"site"},"education":{"name":"Education","grouping":["education"],"type":"terms","id":"education","slug":"education","link":"/education","taxonomy":"site"},"elections":{"name":"Elections","type":"terms","id":"elections","slug":"elections","link":"/elections","taxonomy":"site"},"events":{"name":"Events","type":"terms","id":"events","slug":"events","link":"/events","taxonomy":"site"},"event":{"name":"Event","alias":"events","type":"terms","id":"event","slug":"event","link":"/event","taxonomy":"site"},"filmschoolshorts":{"name":"Film School Shorts","type":"terms","id":"filmschoolshorts","slug":"filmschoolshorts","link":"/filmschoolshorts","taxonomy":"site"},"food":{"name":"KQED food","grouping":["food","bayareabites","checkplease"],"type":"terms","id":"food","slug":"food","link":"/food","taxonomy":"site"},"forum":{"name":"Forum","relatedContentQuery":"posts/forum?","parent":"news","type":"terms","id":"forum","slug":"forum","link":"/forum","taxonomy":"site"},"futureofyou":{"name":"Future of You","grouping":["science","futureofyou"],"parent":"science","type":"terms","id":"futureofyou","slug":"futureofyou","link":"/futureofyou","taxonomy":"site"},"jpepinheart":{"name":"KQED food","relatedContentQuery":"trending/food,bayareabites,checkplease","parent":"food","type":"terms","id":"jpepinheart","slug":"jpepinheart","link":"/food","taxonomy":"site"},"liveblog":{"name":"Live Blog","type":"terms","id":"liveblog","slug":"liveblog","link":"/liveblog","taxonomy":"site"},"livetv":{"name":"Live TV","parent":"tv","type":"terms","id":"livetv","slug":"livetv","link":"/livetv","taxonomy":"site"},"lowdown":{"name":"The Lowdown","relatedContentQuery":"posts/lowdown?","parent":"news","type":"terms","id":"lowdown","slug":"lowdown","link":"/lowdown","taxonomy":"site"},"mindshift":{"name":"Mindshift","parent":"news","description":"MindShift explores the future of education by highlighting the innovative – and sometimes counterintuitive – ways educators and parents are helping all children succeed.","type":"terms","id":"mindshift","slug":"mindshift","link":"/mindshift","taxonomy":"site"},"news":{"name":"News","grouping":["news","forum"],"type":"terms","id":"news","slug":"news","link":"/news","taxonomy":"site"},"perspectives":{"name":"Perspectives","parent":"radio","type":"terms","id":"perspectives","slug":"perspectives","link":"/perspectives","taxonomy":"site"},"podcasts":{"name":"Podcasts","type":"terms","id":"podcasts","slug":"podcasts","link":"/podcasts","taxonomy":"site"},"pop":{"name":"Pop","parent":"arts","type":"terms","id":"pop","slug":"pop","link":"/pop","taxonomy":"site"},"pressroom":{"name":"Pressroom","type":"terms","id":"pressroom","slug":"pressroom","link":"/pressroom","taxonomy":"site"},"quest":{"name":"Quest","parent":"science","type":"terms","id":"quest","slug":"quest","link":"/quest","taxonomy":"site"},"radio":{"name":"Radio","grouping":["forum","perspectives"],"description":"Listen to KQED Public Radio – home of Forum and The California Report – on 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento, 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez.","type":"terms","id":"radio","slug":"radio","link":"/radio","taxonomy":"site"},"root":{"name":"KQED","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","imageWidth":1200,"imageHeight":630,"headData":{"title":"KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California","description":"KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California."},"type":"terms","id":"root","slug":"root","link":"/root","taxonomy":"site"},"science":{"name":"Science","grouping":["science","futureofyou"],"description":"KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.","type":"terms","id":"science","slug":"science","link":"/science","taxonomy":"site"},"stateofhealth":{"name":"State of Health","parent":"science","type":"terms","id":"stateofhealth","slug":"stateofhealth","link":"/stateofhealth","taxonomy":"site"},"support":{"name":"Support","type":"terms","id":"support","slug":"support","link":"/support","taxonomy":"site"},"thedolist":{"name":"The Do List","parent":"arts","type":"terms","id":"thedolist","slug":"thedolist","link":"/thedolist","taxonomy":"site"},"trulyca":{"name":"Truly CA","grouping":["arts","pop","trulyca"],"parent":"arts","type":"terms","id":"trulyca","slug":"trulyca","link":"/trulyca","taxonomy":"site"},"tv":{"name":"TV","type":"terms","id":"tv","slug":"tv","link":"/tv","taxonomy":"site"},"voterguide":{"name":"Voter Guide","parent":"elections","alias":"elections","type":"terms","id":"voterguide","slug":"voterguide","link":"/voterguide","taxonomy":"site"},"arts_2360":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_2360","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"2360","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Shotgun Players","slug":"shotgun-players","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Experience Raw & Daring Theatre: Shotgun Players, Berkeley's Gem","description":"Dive into the electrifying world of Shotgun Players, Berkeley's acclaimed theatre company. Discover immersive productions & intimate experiences.","ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null,"socialTitle":"Experience Raw & Daring Theatre: Shotgun Players, Berkeley's Gem","metaRobotsNoIndex":"index","imageData":{"ogImageSize":{"file":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","width":1200,"height":630},"twImageSize":{"file":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"},"twitterCard":"summary_large_image"}},"ttid":2372,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/shotgun-players"},"source_arts_13929225":{"type":"terms","id":"source_arts_13929225","meta":{"override":true},"name":"Hot Summer Guide 2023","link":"/summerguide2023","isLoading":false},"arts_1":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_1","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"1","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Arts","slug":"arts","taxonomy":"category","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Arts Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":1,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/category/arts"},"arts_235":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_235","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"235","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"News","slug":"news","taxonomy":"category","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"News Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":236,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/category/news"},"arts_967":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_967","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"967","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Theater","slug":"theater","taxonomy":"category","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Theater Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":985,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/category/theater"},"arts_1237":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_1237","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"1237","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Berkeley Rep","slug":"berkeley-rep","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Berkeley Rep Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":1249,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/berkeley-rep"},"arts_10278":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_10278","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"10278","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"featured-arts","slug":"featured-arts","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"featured-arts Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":10290,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/featured-arts"},"arts_1321":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_1321","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"1321","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"San Francisco Playhouse","slug":"san-francisco-playhouse","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"San Francisco Playhouse Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":1333,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/san-francisco-playhouse"},"arts_20565":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_20565","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"20565","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"summerguide2023","slug":"summerguide2023","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"summerguide2023 Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":20577,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/summerguide2023"},"arts_1072":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_1072","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"1072","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"theater","slug":"theater","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"theater Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":1089,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/theater"},"arts_1815":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_1815","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"1815","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"theatreworks silicon valley","slug":"theatreworks-silicon-valley","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"theatreworks silicon valley Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":1827,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/theatreworks-silicon-valley"},"arts_585":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_585","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"585","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"thedolist","slug":"thedolist","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"thedolist Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":590,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/thedolist"},"arts_835":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_835","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"835","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Culture","slug":"culture","taxonomy":"category","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Culture Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":853,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/category/culture"},"arts_7005":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_7005","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"7005","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Indigenous","slug":"indigenous","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Indigenous Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":7017,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/indigenous"},"arts_3178":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_3178","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"3178","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"native american","slug":"native-american","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"native american Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":3190,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/native-american"},"arts_137":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_137","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"137","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"NPR","slug":"npr","taxonomy":"affiliate","description":null,"featImg":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/logo-npr-lg1.png","headData":{"title":"NPR Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":138,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/affiliate/npr"},"arts_140":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_140","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"140","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"The Do List","slug":"the-do-list","taxonomy":"program","description":null,"featImg":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/The-Do-LIst-logo-2014-horizontal-015.png","headData":{"title":"The Do List Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":141,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/program/the-do-list"},"arts_1270":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_1270","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"1270","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Berkeley","slug":"berkeley","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Berkeley Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":1282,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/berkeley"},"arts_10478":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_10478","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"10478","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"zoom","slug":"zoom","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"zoom Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":10490,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/zoom"},"arts_10126":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_10126","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"10126","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"coronavirus","slug":"coronavirus","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"coronavirus Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":10138,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/coronavirus"},"arts_10318":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_10318","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"10318","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"livestreaming","slug":"livestreaming","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"livestreaming Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":10330,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/livestreaming"},"arts_6427":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_6427","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"6427","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"streaming","slug":"streaming","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"streaming Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":6439,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/streaming"},"arts_2323":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_2323","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"2323","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Theatreworks","slug":"theatreworks","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Theatreworks Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":2335,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/theatreworks"},"arts_3388":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_3388","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"3388","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"christmas","slug":"christmas","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"christmas Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":3400,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/christmas"},"arts_1118":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_1118","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"1118","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"featured","slug":"featured","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"featured Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":1135,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/featured"},"arts_3247":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_3247","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"3247","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"holidays","slug":"holidays","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"holidays Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":3259,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/holidays"},"arts_74":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_74","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"74","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Movies","slug":"movies","taxonomy":"category","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Movies Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":75,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/category/movies"},"arts_769":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_769","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"769","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"review","slug":"review","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"review Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":787,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/review"},"arts_1334":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_1334","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"1334","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"the do list","slug":"the-do-list","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"the do list Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":1346,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/the-do-list"},"arts_1238":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_1238","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"1238","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"ACT","slug":"act","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"ACT Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":1250,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/act"},"arts_2372":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_2372","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"2372","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"curran theatre","slug":"curran-theatre","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"curran theatre Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":2384,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/curran-theatre"},"arts_1376":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_1376","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"1376","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Harry Potter","slug":"harry-potter","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Harry Potter Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":1388,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/harry-potter"},"arts_2020":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_2020","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"2020","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"magic theatre","slug":"magic-theatre","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"magic theatre Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":2032,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/magic-theatre"},"arts_69":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_69","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"69","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Music","slug":"music","taxonomy":"category","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Music Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":70,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/category/music"},"arts_70":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_70","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"70","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Visual Arts","slug":"visualarts","taxonomy":"category","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Visual Arts Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":71,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/category/visualarts"},"arts_2309":{"type":"terms","id":"arts_2309","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"arts","id":"2309","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Stanford","slug":"stanford","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Stanford Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":2321,"isLoading":false,"link":"/arts/tag/stanford"}},"userAgentReducer":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isBot":true},"userPermissionsReducer":{"wpLoggedIn":false},"localStorageReducer":{},"browserHistoryReducer":[],"eventsReducer":{},"fssReducer":{},"tvDailyScheduleReducer":{},"tvWeeklyScheduleReducer":{},"tvPrimetimeScheduleReducer":{},"tvMonthlyScheduleReducer":{},"userAccountReducer":{"routeTo":"","showDeleteConfirmModal":false,"user":{"userId":"","isFound":false,"firstName":"","lastName":"","phoneNumber":"","email":"","articles":[]}},"youthMediaReducer":{},"checkPleaseReducer":{"filterData":{},"restaurantData":[]},"reframeReducer":{"attendee":null},"location":{"pathname":"/arts/tag/shotgun-players","previousPathname":"/"}}
