Tanika Baptiste is our next guest on The Yay – she is the Executive Artistic Director and founder of Speculation Theatre, who is directing The Piano Lesson at Gallo Center for the Arts. We talk about the state of theatre, how she got her start and where she sees herself in the future.
Tanika can be contacted directly via Instagram here: @tanikabaptiste
SHOWS:
Tasha (3 Girls Theatre)
Feb 24 – March 18th
Reg Clay is stage managing the show; Jeunee Simon is the star of the show
https://www.3girlstheatre.org/event-details/tasha-by-cat-brooks
Getting There (National Conservatory Theatre Center)
Jan 20 – Feb 26
Lauren Garcia is in the show
https://www.nctcsf.org/22-23-Season/Getting-There
Gaslit (Cutting Ball Theatre)
Feb 16-18
Sean Owens is a co-creator
https://cuttingball.com
Songs for a New World (Gateway Theater)
A Benefit for SwingLeft, an organization that builds a lasting culture of grassroots participation in winning elections for the Left by making it as easy as possible for anyone to have maximum impact on the elections that determine the balance of power in our country.
March 12 & 13
Jessica Coker Moore is in the show
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/songs-for-a-new-world-in-concert-59723386603
Little Shop of Horrors (Chanticleers Theatre)
Feb 10 – March 5
Curtis Manning and Max Chang are in the show
https://www.chanticleers.org
A Raisin In The Sun (6th Street Playhouse)
March 2 & 19
Terrance Smith is in the show
https://6thstreetplayhouse.com/shows/2022-23/a-raisin-in-the-sun/
Frankenstein Unbound (Pear Theatre)
Feb 3 – 26
Bridgette Dutta-Portman (Episodes 75 and 236) is a co-writer of the show
https://www.thepear.org/whats-playing
Exodus To Eden (Oakland Theatre Project)
Feb 3 – 26
Adrian Deane (Episode 82), Linda Amayo-Hassan (Episode 83) and Dorian Lockett (Episode 230) are in the show
https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/eden
Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry – You Too, August Wilson (Theatre Rhinoceros)
Feb 7
Kimberly Ridgeway will be directing
https://www.therhino.org/free-staged-readings
Slow Food (Altarena Playhouse)
Jan 20 – Feb 19
Kimberly Ridgeway will be in the show
https://www.altarena.org/2023-season-announcement/slow-food
A Guide for the Homesick (Theatre Rhinoceros)
Feb 23 – March 19
Alan Quismorio (Episode 201) is directing the show
https://www.therhino.org/a-guide-for-the-homesick
Brains Like Berkeley (Brava for Women in the Arts Theatre)
Feb 18th
Kehinde Koyejo (Episode 214) directed the show
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brain-like-berkeley-an-evening-of-satire-short-stories-free-trade-tea-tickets-510463198167?fbclid=IwAR1COPRV4f5jDR8_7nV4Qu5-7ddGolvLhHvdqVy_o3bUJR-SkJalQIoln7k
The Piano Lesson (Sankofa Theatre Company)
March 3-5
Tanika Baptiste is directing the show
https://tickets.galloarts.org/9075/9078
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (SF Shakes)
March 1 – May 6 in various locations – see website for details
Alan Coyne (Episode 29) is in the show
https://www.sfshakes.org
Paradise Blue (Aurora Theatre)
Starts Jan 27th (Streams Feb 21-26)
Michael Asberry (Episode 183) is in the show
Dawn Monique Williams (Episode 112) is directing the show
https://auroratheatre.org/paradiseblue?fbclid=IwAR3Ve7t8A4JDvLghx-aLpVdu-0-piW67kzdqmN60P8sdvedNtkOv1Ch0ouc
And Then There Were None (Masquers Playhouse)
Jan 27-Feb 19
Alicia Von Kugelgen (Episode 46 & 101) is in the show
https://www.masquers.org/and-then-there-were-none/
Barry Graves (Episode 104) has a new podcast out!
The Black Man’s Heart
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