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Jul 23, 2024 | 
broadwayworld.com | Nicole Rosky |Joshua Sharpe |Bruce Glikas |Josh Sharpe
Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is July 23, 2024 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: But first...
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May 6, 2024 | 
josh-sharpe.com | Joshua Sharpe
As a genre, documentaries are one of the most limitless and wide-ranging kinds of film. They can center on just about anything, of course, and how they are told can also vary considerably. The Girl Who Wore Freedom is an example of a documentary that leads with its heart. Or, more specifically, the heart of director and narrator Christian Taylor.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
broadwayworld.com | Joshua Sharpe
Enter Your Email to Unlock This ArticlePlus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email:Existing user? Just click login. Disney's Aladdin on Broadway will celebrate 10 years of performing the show at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Good Morning America this week. On Friday, March 29, the cast of the Broadway musical will join GMA for a celebration and to discuss the show as it celebrates its 10th anniversary.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
josh-sharpe.com | Joshua Sharpe
Greetings, and Happy New Year! I wanted to take a few minutes to provide a short update as to what I have been doing this past month. Firstly, I wrote a piece (published on Christmas Day) for TheaterMania about the theatrical history of Wonka to tie in with the release of the new film with Timothée Chalamet.
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Nov 12, 2023 | 
josh-sharpe.com | Joshua Sharpe
Earlier this month, The New York Times published an article proposing this question: “Are ‘Elf’ and ‘Love Actually’ the Last Holiday Classics We’ll Ever Get?”It’s an apt one, considering we get a plethora of new Christmas content yearly and most of it disappears from memory faster than a wet snow does on the ground. In the piece, author Esther Zuckerman argues that some of this has to do with the changing medium and how our content is delivered now via streaming than anything else.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
joshuasharpe.substack.com | Joshua Sharpe
Joaquin Ciria called me some weeks back with devastating news. His mother, 81, had died in Cuba. They hadn’t seen each other since 1980, when 17-year-old Joaquin fled to the U.S. to escape a conscripted position in the Army. The refugee ended up in San Francisco, then was held 32 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Ciria, at age 61, was released in April 2022 and cried on the phone with his mom.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Joshua Sharpe
In July, Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes brought you the story of a man named Joaquin Ciria who was wrongfully convicted of murder in San Francisco in 1991. His friend stayed silent about the truth for decades. The friend, Roberto Socorro, did finally open up about Ciria’s innocence — and last year, Ciria was exonerated. Ever since, Socorro has been yearning for Ciria’s forgiveness.
Joshua Sharpe has followed the friends’ journey for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Oct 15, 2023 | 
josh-sharpe.com | Joshua Sharpe
During the end of September and into October, I notice a funny feeling in my tummy. This happens yearly and remains ever-present throughout the season, regardless of the distractions of my everyday life. It usually presents itself alongside another feeling, one which is harder to describe. It could be characterized as desperation, as a hollow void that demands to be filled. This is strange. Autumn represents a change. Not just of seasons and weather, but also of life.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
sfchronicle.com | Joshua Sharpe
After three decades in prison, Joaquin Ciria emerged from the San Francisco jail in April 2022 – free, exonerated and with a very important phone call to make. His mother was ailing back in Cuba. Ciria hadn’t seen her since he was 17 in 1980, when he fled his conscripted position in the Army. He had told her that he’d find a better life in the U.S., and ended up with a life sentence for a murder he didn’t commit.
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Sep 24, 2023 | 
joshuasharpe.substack.com | Joshua Sharpe
Hey y’all,I wanted to share my latest story, which is my last for the San Francisco Chronicle for a while. This one took 18-months of reporting (while doing other stories). I’m on leave until next year while I’m at the University of Michigan for the Knight-Wallace fellowship. In the Michigan Innocence Clinic, I’m helping student attorneys investigate potential wrongful convictions. Many insights are to come from the depths of some of the worst cases I’ve ever seen. Back to this story.
