Monday, August 7, 2017: Cherrie Moraga

Cherrie Moraga’s play THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE takes off from the story of La Malinche, a Native woman who in myth became the collaborator of the colonizers of Mexico.

Playwright and poet Cherrie Moraga, co-editor of the class feminist of color book, This Bridge Called My Back, discusses her new play, THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE, with Lisa Dettmer.  In a time-traveling re-encounter with a 16th century female slave-turned-slaveholder, a Mexican woman in the early stages of Alzheimers is forced to concede a radically revised ledger on her life; its loves and losses, in this play which opens at San Francisco's Brava Theater on August 10.  The Stanford Daily says the play has "the power to render its audience speechless – to wrench us from our academic stupor, remind us of the importance of good art, and make us feel a little more awake because of it."

The Mathematics of Love

Thursday, August 10, 2017 7:00 PM PT  
Sunday, August 27, 2017 3:00 PM PT
Brava Theater Center
2781 24th Street San Francisco, CA, 94110

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Click here to listen to the entire show. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Diana Paul and Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

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Monday, December 5, 2016: Wanna Have Fun? AJ Baker and ENTANGLEMENT

Women's Magazine this Monday, December 5 is just going to be super-fun. No heavy stuff. 

Sharon Sobotta talks with playwright AJ Baker about ENTANGLEMENT, a play about a play about the quantum mechanics of love. It’s been twenty years since actors Emma and Luke were a couple, but they’re still connected by a net of loose ends and secrets. When Emma writes a thinly veiled roman-a-clef of a play and asks Luke to direct her in it, the struggle over who controls the story of their break-up –and its far-ranging results — becomes just as important as the script itself.  Aided and abetted by Luke’s daughter and Emma’s husband, the former lovers turn Emma’s play into a backdrop for grappling with how their long-ago choices entangle them in each other’s lives forever.

Only 12-18% of new plays produced by the American mainstream theatre establishment in any year are written by women — an incredible statistic made even more so by the fact that this low percentage is roughly the same today as it was a century ago.  3Girls Theatre Company is proud to be one of  the very few theater companies in the nation that produce only plays by women playwrights.

From November 18- December 17, 2016 at Z-Below. For tickets visit 3girlstheatre.org

Evenings at 8 pm

Thursdays:   Dec 1, 8 & 15

Fridays:  Nov 18 (preview),  Nov 25, Dec 2, 9 & 16

Saturdays:  Nov 19 (opening night),  Nov 26, Dec 3, 10 & 17

Matinees at 2 pm

Saturdays:  Dec 17

Sunday:  Nov 20 & 27, Dec 4  & 11 

How's that for a double-bill? Plus find out whether it's really darkest before the dawn and hear some upbeat music.

No more doldrums! Time to pick it up.

Click here to listen to the entire show. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Bonnie Burton and Crafting with Feminism

Monday, July 11, 2016: Homeless women veteran stories take the stage‏

Robin Bradford discusses her play, Low Hanging Fruit, about four women veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, who are living in a homeless encampment on LA's Skid Row. It's playing now through July 30 at Z Below at 470 Florida Street in San Francisco.

Listen now or Get MP3. 15:28 min







Production company 3Girls Theatre is partnering with North Beach Citizens, Compass Family Services, San Francisco Suicide Prevention and SF Coalition on Homelessness. Each Thursday night, 3GT will sponsor a community night at the theater before the show and host a discussion with these local organizations about their work and the issues facing homeless women and veterans.

Click here to listen to entire show. 59:50 min.

Also on today's show:
A lesbian ex-Hasid's story
Women's Calendar