Latest Places everyone Podcast Episodes
Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, and the Cast of Harmony, Live at The Streicker Center
Places, Everyone - January 25, 2024 21:56 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis episode was recorded live at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center on January 8, 2024. It is an interview with Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman whose 50+ year collaboration has produced hit songs as well as the Broadway musical, Harmony. This episode also includes an expanded conversation w...
The Broadway Musical "Harmony" - A Live Interview at JCC Manhattan
Places, Everyone - October 30, 2023 23:24 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis episode was recorded live at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan on October 9, 2023. It is a conversation with creative and cast members of the Broadway musical, Harmony. They include book writer and lyricist Bruce Sussman, and performers Chip Zien, Julie Benko, Sierra Boggess, and Danny Kor...
A Conversation Between Co-Directors of Exploring Black Narratives
Places, Everyone - September 12, 2023 16:16 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThree years ago, I founded a curricular theater program called Exploring Black Narratives, situated in Jewish schools and grounded in the work of acclaimed Black playwrights. One of the most exciting facets of the program has been helping students develop their interview skills in preparation to ...
Conversations on A Strange Loop - Continuing with Jason Veasey and Nemuna Ceesay
Places, Everyone - November 26, 2022 18:25 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPart II of an extended interview with Jason Veasey and Nemuna Ceesay about their formative roles in developing the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop for its Broadway production where it won a Tony Award for Best Musical. Picking up on our live interview event at JCC Harlem, Jason – a...
Conversations on A Strange Loop - Live at JCC Harlem
Places, Everyone - November 26, 2022 18:25 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsAt a live interview event at JCC Harlem on October 24, 2022, I spoke with two artists who were integral to the Broadway production of A Strange Loop, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical by Michael R. Jackson. These artists – Associate Director Nemuna Ceesay and original cast member Jason Veasey –...
Ma Rainey - Interview with Michael Potts
Places, Everyone - May 14, 2021 18:28 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis is the second of two episodes focusing on August Wilson’s play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and its recent film adaptation on Netflix. Today’s interview is with actor Michael Potts who starred in the Netflix film as Slow Drag, the bass player in Ma Rainey’s blues band. When I watched Michael P...
Ma Rainey - History, Play, & Netflix Film
Places, Everyone - May 14, 2021 17:46 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn April, I had the pleasure of leading an evening event about August Wilson, specifically his play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. This event was hosted by the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Maryland, where the program I co-direct, Exploring Black Narratives, first took off. This conversation ...
"Pipeline" - Nya
Places, Everyone - April 15, 2021 19:17 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis episode is one of two classroom interviews with 11th grade students at Shalhevet high school in Los Angeles, CA. As part of the Exploring Black Narratives program, we studied Dominique Morisseau's play "Pipeline" and interviewed actors who starred in productions around the US. Today's inter...
"Pipeline" - Jasmine
Places, Everyone - April 15, 2021 18:47 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis episode is one of two classroom interviews with 11th grade students at Shalhevet high school in Los Angeles, CA. As part of the Exploring Black Narratives program, we studied Dominique Morisseau's play "Pipeline" and interviewed actors who starred in productions around the US. Today's inter...
The Power of Speech
Places, Everyone - January 13, 2021 03:56 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn Will Arbery’s play Heroes of the Fourth Turning, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize last year, a group of 20-something friends, all of whom are Catholic and politically conservative, gather for a party to toast their college professor who has become the president of their Catholic uni...
Classix
Places, Everyone - December 22, 2020 19:15 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsClassix is a team of theatermakers and scholars who provide universities, theater companies, publishers, and readers with resources to expand their exploration of classic Black playwrights. As founder Awoye Timpo says, the intention is "creating access to the plays for the widest possible audie...
School Girls Series: The New Girl Who Seems to Have it All
Places, Everyone - December 15, 2020 16:45 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsI'm excited to share a series of conversations with actresses who starred in Jocelyn Bioh's play, School Girls: Or the African Mean Girls Play. These interviews were recorded with students at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Maryland. This fall, I developed a program for Jewish high scho...
School Girls Series: Embodying the Queen Bee
Places, Everyone - November 25, 2020 02:06 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsI'm excited to share a series of conversations with actresses who starred in Jocelyn Bioh's play, School Girls: Or the African Mean Girls Play. These interviews were recorded with students at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Maryland. This fall, I developed a program for Jewish high scho...
School Girls Series: Delivering Laughs Amid Dramatic Themes
Places, Everyone - November 09, 2020 16:34 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsI'm excited to share a series of conversations with actresses who starred in Jocelyn Bioh's play, School Girls: Or the African Mean Girls Play. These interviews were recorded with students at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Maryland. This fall, I developed a program for Jewish high scho...
Musical Videos in Quarantine
Places, Everyone - June 18, 2020 12:56 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsSince theaters shut down this spring, a certain type of performance has gained traction online – the compilation video, in which multiple performers, each in their own space, record their part of a musical number that is compiled into one cohesive performance. One of those compilation videos tha...
Eradicating Racism in the Theater
Places, Everyone - June 11, 2020 13:42 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsKelley Girod, a playwright and the founder of The Fire This Time festival, spoke with me about racism in the American Theater. We talked about the statements that many theater companies put out as protests began around the country. To Kelley and many Black artists and other artists of color, the...
Mother’s Day Episode: Strength of Character
Places, Everyone - May 15, 2020 15:10 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsOn Mother's Day, I spent the evening speaking with the very talented actress Karen Pittman. Every time I watch Karen perform, I notice her strength first and foremost. In this interview, we discuss three of Karen’s roles on TV and on stage that exemplify strength of character: a determined produ...
How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance?
Places, Everyone - May 12, 2020 12:45 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsReed Luplau is a veteran dancer who has performed in Broadway shows and prominent dance companies including Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and the Sydney Dance Company. Trained in multiple forms of dance including classical ballet, modern dance, acrobatics, tap, and jazz, Reed is most interested in...
Artists + Money (in a time of crisis)
Places, Everyone - April 27, 2020 06:37 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsFinancial Advisor Bailie Slevin is a great success story. When a car accident disrupted her career as a stage manager for the theater, Bailie found her way to the financial sector and has been a champion for artists’ careers ever since. Bailie transformed a set back into a prosperous career, and...
Am I Supposed to Row the Boat or Rock the Boat?
Places, Everyone - April 08, 2020 12:49 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPirronne Yousefzadeh is a director of all sorts. She directs plays and she has a dual position at Geva Theatre Center as the Associate Artistic Director and the Director of Engagement. She’s also a co-founder of Maia Directors, a consulting and advocacy group for artists of Middle Eastern, North...
Directing is Architectural
Places, Everyone - February 05, 2020 19:45 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsSam Gold, the Tony-Award winning director of Fun Home, wants to eliminate all barriers between the audience and the story. To that end, he removes any element that actors might use as a crutch in their performance, like an unnecessary set piece, and he utilizes the physical theater space to bring...
Disrupting Nostalgia
Places, Everyone - December 24, 2019 03:52 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis episode is all about nostalgia and how we experience it through art. Any art form can have nostalgic effects, but I think there’s something unique and specific about music: the way hearing an old song you love transports you back in time to a younger version of yourself. Tony award-winning ...
Making The Audience Work For It
Places, Everyone - December 12, 2019 04:19 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsBranden Jacobs-Jenkins writes some of the most challenging plays I’ve read and seen. That’s partially due to the fact that his plays are each distinct in form, namely the way each play is delivered is as important as the story itself. Branden is a writer who is fascinated by the history of story...
How Church and Gospel Shape an Artist
Places, Everyone - October 29, 2019 11:34 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this episode, I look at the ways in which church and gospel music can shape an artist like my guest, Ephraim Sykes, a veritable triple threat of acting, singing, and dancing. As a kid and teenager, Ephraim had a natural affinity for dance and music, and his outlet was Sunday worship. Joining ...
The Meaning of Accents
Places, Everyone - October 10, 2019 03:27 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsTV and stage actress Kristen Sieh loves languages and has developed a talent for creating her characters’ voices. When Kristen nails a character’s voice, she fully inhabits her – or him as is sometimes the case. She has played Teddy Roosevelt in the play RoosevElvis, an Israeli in the musical Th...
Citizenship
Places, Everyone - August 30, 2019 11:20 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn this episode, I explore citizenship in the arts. Is citizenship simply about having rights and membership, or is it a more active stance that incorporates voting, advocacy, and protest? I discussed that question with director Saheem Ali, a dual-citizen himself who addresses issues of citizens...
The Artist as Activist
Places, Everyone - August 07, 2019 15:38 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsAdam Kantor, the Broadway actor known for his roles in Rent, Avenue Q, The Last Five Years, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Band’s Visit spends his time offstage tending to his other passions – food, travel, and community service. Throughout his career, Adam’s dedication to philanthropy and activis...
A Full Picture of Detroit
Places, Everyone - July 26, 2019 14:03 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsDominique Morisseau, a MacArthur “Genius”, Kennedy Prize Winner, and Tony Nominee, loved growing up in Detroit. Good friends, close relatives, and formative teachers made the city feel like a close-knit family. But as a young adult, she realized that the outside perspective was altogether differe...
An Actor’s Physicality
Places, Everyone - June 05, 2019 11:52 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsHow does physicality shape an actor’s work? Noah Robbins can speak to that. He was a child dancer who performed at the Kennedy Center in annual dance productions led by choreographer Debbie Allen. From there he went straight to Broadway and has been busy in theater and TV ever since. Throughout h...
African Comedy Sounds Like This
Places, Everyone - May 23, 2019 16:32 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWriter and actress Jocelyn Bioh gets excited about African comedy. Not "The Book of Mormon" kind where Africa is the punchline, but the insider first-person kind that draws on memory, nostalgia and referential humor. As the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants, Jocelyn craved stories about West Africa...
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