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MAY 2006
BATS, BATS, MORE BATS ... The Bay Area’s largest improvisational theater company, and school, BATS Improv, has two new regular performers — Amos Glick, who plays “Dubya” in The Dick & Dubya Show, and Kimberly MacLean, director and cast member of her own improv troupe, the Super Dupers. Also, Jim Cranna, who taught improv at Fort Mason Center for years, was a guest artist at BATS recently.
ON THE WATERFRONT ... In addition to its circulation on campus, the Fort Mason Center Monthly is now distributed to more than 350 locations in the Bay Area — libraries, hotels, coffee shops, bookstores, and the like. The additional circulation is a result of more drops along the waterfront and in North Beach.
THE MONTHLY READER ... Whether you want a cheap mystery or a rare book, Book Bay Bookstore is a great and often very inexpensive source for readers and collectors. There are also many signed editions of popular books. As of press time, signed copies of Ethan Hawke’s Ash Wednesday, Richard Rodriguez’s Brown: the Last Discovery of America, and Amy Tan’s Saving Fish From Drowning were available.
KNOWING THE WAY FROM SAN JOSE ... David Jobin, Managing Director of the San Jose Rep is moving to Fort Mason Center’s Magic Theatre. “We went looking for the best,” said Magic’s Artistic Director Chris Smith, “and we found him in our own backyard.”
TIME MACHINE ... 20 years ago this month at Fort Mason Center, Young Performers Theatre, in their fourth season, presented Dr. Dolittle. The world’s only horse-drawn theater, Caravan, returned to campus with a musical, Manifest Destiny. A wine-tasting celebration of “enhanced poetry,” called “Under the Influence,” entertained guests. And a quarter of a century ago the Center offered, among other things, the “Young People’s Super 8 Film Festival” and a cruise aboard the Jeremiah O’Brien liberty ship.
– Ronald Tierney
Image: "Fort Mason Center" by Michael Schwab
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