Welcome to episode 23! Our guest this week is Revolva, writer, comedian, and hoola hooper who recently took on Oprah Winfrey on her decision to book local talent at her recent "The Life You Want" tour without offering to pay those performers. Before we g

Welcome to episode 22! Our guests this week are Lisa Steindler and Peter Nachtrieb, the artistic director and playwright in residence, respectively, at Z Space. This week we’re talking to Lisa and Peter about The Totalitarians,

Welcome to episode 21! Our guests are Robin Fontaine and Gabriel Montoya, the director and co-star of Theater MadCap's production of Sam Shepard's True West, running through Nov. 30 at Inner Mission. Theater MadCap, started by Eric and Annie Reid this ye

It's our 20th episode! And for this milestone we decided to invade the TBA Awards armed only with our wits and a bottle of whiskey. Podcasting from backstage in the green room, we had the chance to interview finalists, presenters, and award recipients and

Welcome to BORN READY's Los Angeles episode! In this show the guys interview Colin Mitchell, editor-in-chief and founder of Bitter-Lemons.com, the website that is bringing the LA theater community together whether it likes it or not. And we check in with

BORN READY rolls on with episode 18 and our guests, Shamsher Virk and Julie Phelps, the Communications / Engagement Director and Artistic Director respectively of CounterPulse. As CounterPulse builds out its new facility in the Tenderloin at 80 Turk

Thanks for tuning it to what American Theater Magazine calls "The Bay Area's bad boys of theater punditry," BORN READY! In our latest episode we talk shop with Theatre Bay Area Awards Program Manager, Robert Sokol, the man tasked with the frequently thank

UPDATE Asked Rob for a statement on the paper's closing, and true to form, he sent in a thoughtful, well written, moving response. Check it out below. "I know you asked for my thoughts on the paper’s closing and specifically what it might say about jou

This week we chat with Laura Lundy-Paine, the Artistic Director of Virago Theater, about their new show Ransom, Texas by local scribe and friend of PianoFight Bill Bivins. We get into why Virago has staged their shows at Theater Asylum in Los Angeles an

Our guess this week is Performing Arts Workshop Executive Director and Chardonnay producer Jess Mele! In this episode, we turn to our non-profit expert guest to get the scoop on where the sector is at. Jess brings a host of stats that should make any art