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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 …