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This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Playwright Ed Schmidt imagines a spring day in 1947, when Branch Rickey, the powerful general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, summons heavyweight champion Joe Louis, tap star Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, and actor Paul Robeson to his hotel room in Manha...

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Playwright Ed Schmidt imagines a spring day in 1947, when Branch Rickey, the powerful general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, summons heavyweight champion Joe Louis, tap star Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, and actor Paul Robeson to his hotel room in Manha...

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Playwright Ed Schmidt imagines a spring day in 1947, when Branch Rickey, the powerful general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, summons heavyweight champion Joe Louis, tap star Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, and actor Paul Robeson to his hotel room in Manha...

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. At the height of the Cold War, American democracy was challenged by the anti-Communist atmosphere of the McCarthy era. Peter Goodchild combines dramatic re-enactments based on original trial transcripts, archival material, and the commentaries of...

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. American expatriate Sidney Webb and Sister Margaret, his British colleague, work tirelessly to rehabilitate Cambodian children from the nightmare of prostitution. After a surprise raid on a brothel, an eager young U.S. lawyer places three liberated orp...

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. American expatriate Sidney Webb and Sister Margaret, his British colleague, work tirelessly to rehabilitate Cambodian children from the nightmare of prostitution. After a surprise raid on a brothel, an eager young U.S. lawyer places three liberated orp...

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. American expatriate Sidney Webb and Sister Margaret, his British colleague, work tirelessly to rehabilitate Cambodian children from the nightmare of prostitution. After a surprise raid on a brothel, an eager young U.S. lawyer places three liberated orp...

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. American expatriate Sidney Webb and Sister Margaret, his British colleague, work tirelessly to rehabilitate Cambodian children from the nightmare of prostitution. After a surprise raid on a brothel, an eager young U.S. lawyer places three liberated orp...

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Hear our post-show discussion with director Brian Kite, playwright Matt Pelfrey, and UCLA Professor of Directing and Theater History Michael Hackett See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priv...

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Hear our post-show discussion about the play with journalist Todd Purdum. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Based on John Ball’s novel which inspired the Oscar-winning film and the Emmy-winning television series, "In the Heat of the Night" pits a visiting black detective from California against a small Alabama town simmering with anger over desegregation. A fit...

This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Based on John Ball’s novel which inspired the Oscar-winning film and the Emmy-winning television series, "In the Heat of the Night" pits a visiting black detective from California against a small Alabama town simmering with anger over desegregation. A fit...

This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Based on John Ball’s novel which inspired the Oscar-winning film and the Emmy-winning television series, "In the Heat of the Night" pits a visiting black detective from California against a small Alabama town simmering with anger over desegregation. A fit...

This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Based on John Ball’s novel which inspired the Oscar-winning film and the Emmy-winning television series, "In the Heat of the Night" pits a visiting black detective from California against a small Alabama town simmering with anger over desegregation. A fit...

A Lesson Before Dying is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, Romulus Linney’s adaptation of A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black...

A Lesson Before Dying is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, Romulus Linney’s adaptation of A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsel...

A Lesson Before Dying is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, Romulus Linney’s adaptation of A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsel...

A Lesson Before Dying is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, Romulus Linney’s adaptation of A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsel...

Author Rebecca Ginsburg talks about life in South Africa in the time of the play. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Hear our conversation with the acclaimed author of "Master Harold"...and the Boys, Athol Fugard. Sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

"Master Harold"...and the Boys is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre’s most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950’s South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised...

"Master Harold"...and the Boys is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre’s most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950’s South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised...

"Master Harold"...and the Boys is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre’s most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950’s South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised...

"Master Harold"...and the Boys is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library. Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre’s most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950’s South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised...

Nan and the Lower Body is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world. Hear our interview with playwright Jessica Dickey and LATW Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California...