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Mon, Mar 30, 2009 -- 10:00 AM

Race to the Theater
"The Story," currently playing at SF Playhouse, raises uncomfortable questions about race without offering any feel-good solutions. We look at how, in the Obama era, theater is tackling touchy racial issues.

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Host: Scott Shafer

Guests:

  • Darryl Chiang, senior corporate counsel at Google and interim executive director of the Asian American Theatre Company
  • Halili Knox, actress currently appearing in "The Story"
  • Jose Rivera, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and OBIE Award-winning playwright
  • Margo Hall, actor, playwright, director of "The Story" and founding member of Campo Santo, the resident theatre company of Intersection for the Arts
  • Stanley Williams, co-founder and artistic director of the Lorraine Hansberry Theater

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