Wednesday 3/9: Passages On The Lake presents a lineup that includes a rare featured reading by John Panzer, a gay man with AIDS whose painfully honest memoir and poetry detailing his experience with crystal meth-amphetamine and crack addiction have won him the respect and admiration of many in the booming East Bay scene. Other featured readers include: Jan Steckel, homohop artist Juba Kalamka, Alison Moncrieff, musician Steve Arntson, and Jeff Chon. This is an exceptional lineup. Free, 7:45 p.m., The Terrace Room.
Thursday 3/10: Oakland writer Brandon Brown and visiting New Yorker Jenny Zhang, whose collection of short stories will soon be published by Random House, read at E. M. Wolfman. Free, 7 p.m., E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore.
Saturday 3/12: Writers With Drinks features Helene Wecker (The Golem and the Jinni), Peter Tieryas (United States of Japan), Noah Smith (Noahpinion/Bloomberg View), and Charlotte Shane (Prostitute Laundry). $5-$20 (no one turned away and proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture), 7:30 p.m., The Make Out Room.
Sunday 3/13: The Gears Turning Poetry Series presents Cesar Love, Jabez Churchill, and Richard Michael Levine. Free, 4 p.m., Modern Times Bookstore Collective.
Monday 3/14: Poetry Express presents Julia Vinograd, the “unofficial Poet Laureate of Telegraph Avenue,” plus an open mic. And at an Indian restaurant. This one’s a treat. Free, 7 p.m., Himalayan Flavors.
Tuesday 3/15: Physical theatre expert, actor, and author Leonard Pitt (My Brain on Fire: Paris and Other Obsessions) reads in North Beach. Free, 7 p.m. City Lights Bookstore.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is Ubuntu Theatre Project’s production of I Am My Own Wife. Doug Wright’s Pulitzer prize-winning play features a single actor playing multiple characters to tell the life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, whose life as a transvestite cabaret owner in East Berlin spanned the years from the Weimar Republic to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Ubuntu Theatre Company has been characterized, by critic Barry David Horwitz, as, “theater designed to make a difference.” To read a review of I Am My Own Wife, click here. For ticket information, click here.
For more extensive coverage of the Bay Area theatre scene, visit TheatreStorm.
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Evan Karp presents video of this week’s featured local author, Li Miao Lovett. Read an interview here.
And here’s video of SF Notable Matthew Zapruder, to whom congratulations are in order for being recently named poetry column editor for the New York Times Magazine.
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