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Caption: Psalmayene 24, Credit: Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library
Playwright and director Psalmayene 24 discusses directing the world premiere of Kia Corthron's Tempestuous Elements at Arena Stage and preparing fo...

Bought by WMPG, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 6
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Five films from British director Steve McQueen, depicting the experiences of West Indian British families in London from the late 1960s through the...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 05:14
Caption: Sade Lythcott, Credit: Courtesy of National Black Theatre
CEO of National Black Theatre Sade Lythcott discusses how authentic storytelling heals communities.

Bought by WDCB, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 3
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A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants he...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:19
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For Black History Month, NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR revisits this program with the late August Wilson. FENCES, his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winnin...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WDCB, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Meta Golding as Rosa Parks in Behind the Movement, Credit: Courtesy of TVOne
Actress Meta Golding takes on the role of a lifetime: Rosa Parks in Behind the Movement

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNJR, and KVNF


  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 27:18
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Kyle Donnelly
Director Kyle Donnelly sees theater as interpretive history.

  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 26:59
Caption: Bowman Wright as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in The Mountaintop , Credit: Mark Garvin
Bowman Wright on the transformative power of theater and his two portrayals of MLK.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 27:08
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Dramatist Anna Deavere Smith discusses her technique of interviewing real people to use their stories on stage. She talks about the School to Priso...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" Playbill., Credit: Photofest, Inc.
Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks about his new documentary August Wilson: The Ground on which I Stand

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
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We revisit up-and-coming playwright, Christina Anderson. A native of Kansas City, Kansas, her plays have been produced around the country--from Ne...

Bought by WNJR and WJCU


  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Moriamo Akibu  in COLLIDESCOPE  , Credit: Stan Barouh
Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-R...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jefferson Pinder, Invisible Man, Credit: Jefferson Pinder
In Chicago, Cathy meets video performance artist Jefferson Pinder to learn about how his fascination with Houdini and street theater led to his liv...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 15:23