Over 500 great shows in Spectacular Yet Intimate venues from San Francisco to London, the Yukon to Yosemite! Most often in the Bay Area....
We'd love thave you attend our broadcasts, and we think you'd love being there.. Our schedule is on the "schedule" page and at our reservations line: 415-664-9500, or Ticketweb
Doors usually open at 9:30AM, the show finishes its set-up as you arrive, then we broadcast live 10am - 11:59am coast-to-coast. Watch director Ron Childress try to keep Sedge on time. Watch Sedge tango with Mike Greensill. Watch solemn authors break into risible chuckles. Watch musicians jam. Watch Kathi Goldmark, producer, beam with delight. Watch Larry Gay make wry comments about the show. Watch our lead engineer, Mitchell Holman, look as relaxed as when he played in "It's A Beautiful Day." Watch Jack Gelman snap pictures. Chat up Cassie the cassier at the box office. Watch yourself and your friends have a perhaps unexpectedly fantastic two hours. Participate in games for gifts to the theater audience -- books, tickets, harmonica lessons, manicures .... who knows what we'll find to make the morning filled with extra treats. We quickly record promos for the following week then adjourn to the lobby. Booksmith of San Francisco brings in books of the authors who are show guests that day so you can buy a copy and get it signed then and there. Most musicians bring their CDs to sell after the show, too. Along the way, we interview guests, throw a bagel, make music, laughter, tears and friends. We hope to see you there.
Best, Sedge and all of us at WCL
Our regular venues include:
The Freight and Salvage Coffee House (the Performing Arts Center of the American West, we sometimes call it) at the fabulous new location 1/2 block from Berkeley downtown bart on the Richmond Line, next to a parking garage, across from Berkeley Rep, at 2020 Addison, off, a 1/2 block south of Shattuck in Berkeley. A great morning cup of coffee or tea can be ordered from the friendly pastry bar in the Freight.
Ahh, alas, defunct: The Empire Plush Room, 940 Sutter between Leavenworth and Hyde, in the York Hotel in San Francisco. A buffet breakfast is available in the lobby for a nominal $5 price, which you can purchase there. The EPR has both banquette and chair seating, with small tables. Parking, public transport, and post-show restaurants readily at hand.
The Ferry Building, San Francisco. An intimate space, refreshments available, with take-out in the building and from many kiosks, overlooking the waterfront, the Bay Bridge, and Yerba Buena. Bart at Embarcadero, muni, bicycles, and various parking options abound. We're in the Port Commission Chambers, 2nd floor, central staircase (and elevators).
The SFMOMA - A periodic venue. When there, your show admission includes admission to the museum all day. Our next broadcast there is in 2005.
Sometimes restaurants, including Chez Panisse, BayWolf, Green's, Cafe Trieste, Enrico's, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Malaspina Alaska Ferry host our show and the chefs' creations are part of the show for you at those shows.
Volunteering for Aquaphone duties is one of the great Bay Area traditions. Are you ready? Also, tell us about something that happened on the way to the show on an Audience True Story Card. Two rules: legibility and plausibility. Some accounts have gone back decades, others just minutes. You'll be given a 4x6 card to write your tale.
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