{"id":393,"date":"2009-11-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqed2.wsmtechs.net\/spark\/jonathan-moscone-2\/"},"modified":"2015-08-07T15:04:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T22:04:48","slug":"jonathan-moscone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/spark\/jonathan-moscone-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Moscone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"kqed-jwplayer\"> <\/div>\n<p><script>\njwplayer(\"kqed-jwplayer\").setup({\nfile: \"http:\/\/od1.kqed.org\/anon.kqed\/spark\/jonathanmo.m4v\",\nimage: \"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/spark\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/06\/jonathanmo-248x140.jpg\",\naspectratio: \"16:9\",\nwidth: \"100%\",\nprimary: \"flash\",\ntracks: [{ file: \"http:\/\/od1.kqed.org\/anon.kqed\/spark\/jonathanmo.vtt\", label: \"English\", kind: \"captions\", \"default\": false }]\n});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<style>\n.single-post .entry-content > #kqed-jwplayer_wrapper, .single-post .entry-content > #kqed-jwplayer  {\n    margin-left: 8.33333% !important;\n    padding-left: 0.625rem;\n    padding-right: 0.625rem;\n    width: 56% !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<aside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">&#8220;&#8230; I just want to explore what it means to lose somebody and have to try and remember them.&#8221;<cite>&#8212; Jonathan Moscone<\/cite><\/aside>\n<p><strong>Spark<\/strong> visits California Shakespeare Theater&#8217;s Jonathan Moscone and Berkeley Repertory Theatre&#8217;s Tony Taccone at the first read-through of their play at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Their collaboration on <em>American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle<\/em> is inspired by the turbulent 1970s, brought into focus by the assassination of Moscone&#8217;s father, George Moscone, the San Francisco mayor who was shot, along with gay rights activist City Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978. Aiming less to put George Moscone&#8217;s story into historical perspective, than to investigate what it means to be father and son, the play is scheduled to debut in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>A New York native and graduate of Boston College, Tony Taccone arrived at Berkeley Rep in 1988, after directing San Francisco&#8217;s Eureka Theater for six years. As one of the leading directors in American regional theater, Taccone has developed a reputation for finding and nurturing unusual new works that have gone on to critical acclaim, including <em>The Convict&#8217;s Return<\/em>, <em>Culture Clash in AmeriCCa<\/em>, <em>The First 100 Years<\/em>, <em>Geni(us)<\/em>, <em>Ravenshead<\/em>, and <em>Virgin Molly<\/em>. For some productions &#8212; like Tony Kushner&#8217;s <em>Angels in America<\/em>, Stew&#8217;s <em>Passing Strange<\/em>, Carrie Fisher&#8217;s <em>Wishful Drinking<\/em> and Sarah Jones&#8217;s <em>Bridge and Tunnel<\/em> &#8212; Taccone has shaped and honed them before they made successful moves to off-Broadway and Broadway. Others have successfully gone on to different arenas, such as David Edgar&#8217;s <em>Continental Divide<\/em>, which transferred to London&#8217;s Barbican Theater and garnered international praise.<\/p>\n<p>Taccone and Jonathan Moscone worked with each other during Moscone&#8217;s directorial internship at Berkeley Rep in 1989 before he left to pursue an M.F.A at Yale School of Drama. In 2000, Moscone assumed the directorship of Orinda&#8217;s California Shakespeare Festival, expanding the repertoire of the company to include award-winning productions of works by George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov, and Tom Stoppard. Critical accolades have also greeted his productions of <em>Man and Superman<\/em>, <em>Nicholas Nickleby<\/em>, <em>Twelfth Night<\/em>, and <em>The Seagull<\/em> as well as his production of Henrik Ibsen&#8217;s <em>Ghosts<\/em> for Berkeley Rep.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2008 interview with the <em>Bay Area Reporter<\/em>, the younger Moscone, who was 14 years old at the time of the shooting, noted that his father &#8220;changed City Hall. He made a Harvey Milk possible. He helped Harvey succeed. 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