What's Good Inside with Marga Gomez

The last episode of What’s Good Inside. Thanks to my small but mighty listenership.

Republican Lesbians, Anal Covid Test, Rita Moreno and mucho more Latinx Virtual performance NEWS with Marga and Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Mateo Hurtado and Suni Reyes. Catch their LIVE STREAMS Saturday October 24th. "Love in The Time Of Piñatas" (PCS.ORG) and "Disco" on Mateo's Facebook page. If you like the show please subscribe and give me some stars por favor.

Be amazed and spooked by Christian during our most holy month of October. "Sortilegios" his critically acclaimed magic show has info @ChristianCagigal.com and/or his award winning "SF Ghost Hunt / Virtual Fireside Chats" can be joined at sfghosthunt.com. 15 minutes was not long enough but he vanished like the unfortunates in his eerie stories.  Marga ponders the GOODNESS of Umami Fries, the CRAPNESS of The Bachelorette Season Premiere. And because this is sometimes a geeky show about live streaming stage performance, Marga shares the process of adapting  her solo play "Latin Standards" for a fully loaded audience experience. 

Marga goes all over the map with actor/writer Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe,  Artistic Director of Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience Artistic and her live-streaming partner, actor/writer Rotimi Agbabiaka on their new virtual and international  "So Soul: Black Arts Salon"  Also Marga plays an excerpt from her solo play "Spanking Machine" and recalls a sketchy proposition in Houston.  More info to watch live-streams of "Spanking Machine" and "So Soul: Black Arts Salon"  at www.brava.org

Marga gets virtual with  Jen Gapay of Thirsty Girl Productions, co-producer of "The 18th Annual (virtual) New York Burlesque Festival" running October 1st thru October 4th info at www.thenewyorkburlesquefestival.com  And Marga learns a big lesson about phone-banking for 2020.  Voice messages welcome hit the link. 

Got a hot live streaming tip for Marga?  leave a voice message https://anchor.fm/marga-gomez/message  for  the podcast listeners! You get 60 seconds and anonymous or not.  Stand-Up comedy is booming on zoom as comedians, producers and audiences go all-inside. Marga geeks out with  Ronn Vigh and Drew Harmon, comedians/ producers, successful cultivators of the form and comedy audience experience. What's their secret? CATS! Episode includes acknowledgements to the innovations of zoom producer/ comedian Sammy Obeid, and Zoom webinar razzler dazzler Bawdy Storytelling's Dixie De La Tour. Check out Ron and Drew's Sunday and Wednesday live-streams (8pm Pacific)  featuring national stars and cats! At zoomlivecomedy.com.   Drama fans?  I got you! My critically acclaimed solo play Spanking Machine is running for 3 more Sundays 5pm Pacific.  ends Oct 11th see my livestream like a boss - tickets Sundays 5pm Pacific Time at www.brava.org 

My Cubana performance art queer cohort, she is the winner of the Obie Award a recipient of the Guggenheim but still the Queen of Loisaida. 

Marga, plays her listener's call-in comments and discusses being a famous 'Internet MEME.' She gives us the scoop on opening Spanking Machine (the zoom edition) on Sept 13th (five Sundays) thru Oct 11th for Brava Theater (brava.org).  All's going well for Marga except for ongoing tension with Mercy, her elderly laptop.  Then Marga talks to Marcello Javier, co-founder of SFBATCO (San Francisco Bay Area Theater Co) about the fabulous virtual variety Twitch series "SFBATCO Live with Rod and Marce"  Marcello explains how the team of singers musicians and crew POD-UP and promote safety while belting out show tunes and spilling tea.  Marcello and Marga talk about their connection to Brava theater and their love for it's resident lighting designer Cathie Anderson and her upcoming benefit performance of Spanking Machine September 13th. Speaking of spanking, an ex calls in sparking some tender memories. https://anchor.fm/marga-gomez/episodes/Spanking-Mercy-ejbnmq

Live-streaming picks include "2020 Latinx New Plays Festival"  OakLASH Drag Festival and "Art Is Easy" Virtually representing San Diego, Oakland CA and New York City. 30 minutes. Want to suggest a live-stream show or event write to margagomez.com/contact