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NBN Episodes hosted by Toney:

Performing Arts 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 screenplay for a new …
Performing Arts September 28, 2020

Performing the Unstageable

Success, Imagination, Failure

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, theatre has long been intrigued by …
Performing Arts May 8, 2020

Charles Ludlam Lives!

Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, Taylor Mac and the Queer Legacy of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company

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. Decades after his death, his place in …
Art April 23, 2020

Stages

On Dying, Working, and Feeling

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, loss, and taking the …