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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
Anna Diop and Nikyatu Jusu talk rage, accents, and navigating the tightrope.
- Added: Dec 30, 2022
- Length: 13:30
Julian Higgins talks repeating tropes, legitimate anger, and true tragedy.
- Added: Sep 15, 2022
- Length: 16:22
Patrick Gilles talks disclaimers, the meta inside the meta, and his job as an historian.
- Added: Jun 10, 2022
- Length: 14:02
San Francisco Silent Film Festival Artistic Director Anita Monga talks exorcising the evil of BIRTH OF A NATION with DJ Spooky, why Buster Keaton i...
- Added: May 01, 2022
- Length: 23:35
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
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
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
On today’s show we partnered with a young artist named Summer Blake, studying film & television at Drexel University.
Summer had the opportunity ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2021
- Length: 19:43
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
Andrew Heckler and Robbie Brenner talk metaphors, obligation, and looking for the hole.
- Added: Mar 06, 2020
- Length: 19:21
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal talk compassion, snap judgments, and the Michael Bay button.
- Added: Jul 17, 2018
- Length: 14:08
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
Director Kyle Donnelly sees theater as interpretive history.
- Added: Jan 31, 2018
- Length: 26:59
Bowman Wright on the transformative power of theater and his two portrayals of MLK.
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 27:08
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
Anita Monga talks color, tattoos, and Rene Clair.
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 22:47
Melody William's spent the first 18 months of her life sentence in lock-down.
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 03:55
Don Cheadle talks commitment, new connections, and being real.
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 16:32
On the next all-NEW Snap, "Perfect Match." You've seen them around, holding hands, stars in their eyes...and you wonder how they do it. Do they kno...
- Added: Feb 11, 2016
- Length: 53:57
Sam White saw potential in the drama of a struggling city — a perfect setting for Shakespeare's plays.
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 19:51
Maya Forbes talks understanding social cues, having honest conversations, and being a sloppy dynamic team.
- Added: Jun 19, 2015
- Length: 09:18
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
We revisit up-and-coming playwright, Christina Anderson. A native of Kansas City, Kansas, her plays have been produced around the country--from Ne...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-R...
- Added: Dec 11, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
