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NBN Episodes hosted by Toney:

Andy Boyd, "The Trade Federation or Let's Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels" (NoPassport, 2020)

January 12, 2021

The Trade Federation or Let's Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels

Andy Boyd
Hosted by Toney Brown

New Books in Performing Arts own Andy Boyd has written a new play about a young experimental playwright named Andy Boyd who pitches Georges Lucas his …

Karen Quigley, "Performing the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure" (Methuen Drama, 2020)

September 28, 2020

Performing the Unstageable

Karen Quigley
Hosted by Toney Brown

From the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare's King Lear or Sarah Kane's Cleansed, to the adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, th…

Sean F. Edgecomb, "Charles Ludlam Lives!" (U Michigan, 2017)

May 8, 2020

Charles Ludlam Lives!

Sean F. Edgecomb
Hosted by Toney Brown

Playwright, actor, and director Charles Ludlam (1943-87) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s. D…

Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, "Stages: On Dying, Working, and Feeling" (Thick Press, 2020)

April 23, 2020

Stages

Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
Hosted by Toney Brown

Can care be enacted through art? Inside a cathedral, staff members from a nursing home work with an artist to perform a poetic text about caregiving, …