Gene Kahane Archive

‘Slow Food’ at Altarena Playhouse delights audiences with the hilarity of an ill-fated meal while exploring the beauty and complexity of marriage. Gene Kahane praises...

Tara Pilbrow, a Hong Kong-born and Oxford-educated dancer and the Executive Director of Alameda’s West End Arts District, answers five questions from Gene Kahane about...

Julia Park Tracey is one of Alameda's three-name luminaries—along with Frederica von Stade and Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft, among others—and if like me you dream or...

The New Yorker mag does something quite dear, Someone writes a poem recapping the year, So as your former poet laureate, Here is my attempt...

Encinal High School wows audiences with The Wolves. Encinal’s production of The Wolves, written by Sarah DeLappe, begins before it begins. Like real soccer matches,...

There’s a wonderful meta moment in the Foodbank Players’ production of A Christmas Carol. The Charity Ladies, having sorted out Scrooge and Marley, ask for...

Alameda is famous for the athletes who roamed our fields and courts and then went on to make careers from their skills. Baseball players Willie...

A chat with A Christmas Carol  antihero Ebenezer Scrooge. The Food Bank Players' upcoming production is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, starting December 9...

The Alameda High School (AHS) actors telling the story of the “Radium Girls” were children when Mae Keane died in 2014 at the age of...