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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 falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his home town after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jefferson’s.Recorded before a live audience at Voice of America, Washington D.C. in July of 2001.Directed by Nick OlcottProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergRick Foucheux as Paul BoninKeith Glover as Grant WigginsJamahl Marsh as JeffersonLinda Powell as Vivian BaptisteJefferson A. Russell

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 him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold’s childhood and friendships in this absorbing and affecting coming of age play. The play, initially banned from production in South Africa, is a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding New Play.Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in May of 2004.Directed by Stuart K. RobinsonProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergLeon Addison Brown as WillieKeith David as SamBobby Steggert as HallySee 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 him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold’s childhood and friendships in this absorbing and affecting coming of age play. The play, initially banned from production in South Africa, is a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding New Play.Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in May of 2004.Directed by Stuart K. RobinsonProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergLeon Addison Brown as WillieKeith David as SamBobby Steggert as HallySee 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 him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold’s childhood and friendships in this absorbing and affecting coming of age play. The play, initially banned from production in South Africa, is a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding New Play.Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in May of 2004.Directed by Stuart K. RobinsonProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergLeon Addison Brown as WillieKeith David as SamBobby Steggert as HallySee 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 him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold’s childhood and friendships in this absorbing and affecting coming of age play. The play, initially banned from production in South Africa, is a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding New Play.Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in May of 2004.Directed by Stuart K. RobinsonProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergLeon Addison Brown as WillieKeith David as SamBobby Steggert as HallySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This play 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.Nan takes a prestigious research position working for Dr. George Papanicolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear. The doctor worries Nan's new husband might distract from their important work, but Nan has a secret that could upend everyone's plans for her.Includes an interview with playwright Jessica Dickey.Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in November 2023.  Directed by Anna Lyse EriksonProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergAn L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:Shannon Cochran as Mache PapanicolaouJosh Dallas as Ted DayGinnifer Goodwin as Nan DayRichard Schiff as Dr. George PapanicoloaouSenior Producer: Anna Lyse EriksonPrepared for Audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West HollywoodRecorded, edited, designed, and mixed by Charles Carroll

This play 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.Nan takes a prestigious research position working for Dr. George Papanicolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear. The doctor worries Nan's new husband might distract from their important work, but Nan has a secret that could upend everyone's plans for her.Includes an interview with playwright Jessica Dickey.Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in November 2023.  Directed by Anna Lyse EriksonProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergAn L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:Shannon Cochran as Mache PapanicolaouJosh Dallas as Ted DayGinnifer Goodwin as Nan DayRichard Schiff as Dr. George PapanicoloaouSenior Producer: Anna Lyse EriksonPrepared for Audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West HollywoodRecorded, edited, designed, and mixed by Charles Carroll

This play 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.Nan takes a prestigious research position working for Dr. George Papanicolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear. The doctor worries Nan's new husband might distract from their important work, but Nan has a secret that could upend everyone's plans for her.Includes an interview with playwright Jessica Dickey.Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in November 2023.  Directed by Anna Lyse EriksonProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergAn L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:Shannon Cochran as Mache PapanicolaouJosh Dallas as Ted DayGinnifer Goodwin as Nan DayRichard Schiff as Dr. George PapanicoloaouSenior Producer: Anna Lyse EriksonPrepared for Audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West HollywoodRecorded, edited, designed, and mixed by Charles Car

This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.In Vichy, France, in 1942, nine men are detained under a shadowy pretext. As the tension builds, the men are questioned – are they the sort of people whom the new Nazi regime considers "inferior?"Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in February 2002.Directed by Richard MasurProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergAn L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:Ben Diskin as A BoyArye Gross as Bayard, An ElectricianJamie Hanes as Rom/Police CaptainAndrew Hawkes as A MajorGregory Itzin as Monceau, An ActorRobert Lesser as Police Guard/Marchand, A Businessman/Ferrand, A Café ProprietorJon Matthews as Lebeau, A PainterLawrence Pressman as Von Berg, A PrinceRaphael Sbarge as Leduc, A DoctorArmin Shimerman as First Detective/Professor HoffmanShahar Sorek as A Waiter/Second DetectiveSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/priv

This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 on the evening of April 3rd is the subject of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. Hours after King’s final speech, punctuated by his immortal line, “I’ve been to the mountaintop,” the celebrated Reverend forms an unlikely friendship with a motel maid as they talk into the early hours of what will be his final day.Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in May 2016.Directed by Roger Guenveur SmithAja Naomi King as CamaeLarry Powell as Dr. Martin Luther KingSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hear our interview with Kindertransport survivor Hilda Fogelson, recorded in 2013.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.

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.Diane Samuels’ play about families, secrets and survival takes us to the days of the impending Holocaust. As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families in the United Kingdom, while their parents stayed behind. This passage to freedom became known as Kindertransport.Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in June 2013.Directed by Jeanie HackettProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergJane Kaczmarek as HelgaHugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/OthersShannon Lee Clair as EvaAngela Paton as LilMolly C. Quinn as FaithSusan Sullivan as EvelynSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.Diane Samuels’ play about families, secrets and survival takes us to the days of the impending Holocaust. As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families in the United Kingdom, while their parents stayed behind. This passage to freedom became known as Kindertransport.Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in June 2013.Directed by Jeanie HackettProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergJane Kaczmarek as HelgaHugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/OthersShannon Lee Clair as EvaAngela Paton as LilMolly C. Quinn as FaithSusan Sullivan as EvelynSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.Diane Samuels’ play about families, secrets and survival takes us to the days of the impending Holocaust. As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families in the United Kingdom, while their parents stayed behind. This passage to freedom became known as Kindertransport.Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in June 2013.Directed by Jeanie HackettProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergJane Kaczmarek as HelgaHugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/OthersShannon Lee Clair as EvaAngela Paton as LilMolly C. Quinn as FaithSusan Sullivan as EvelynSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.Diane Samuels’ play about families, secrets and survival takes us to the days of the impending Holocaust. As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families in the United Kingdom, while their parents stayed behind. This passage to freedom became known as Kindertransport.Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in June 2013.Directed by Jeanie HackettProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergJane Kaczmarek as HelgaHugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/OthersShannon Lee Clair as EvaAngela Paton as LilMolly C. Quinn as FaithSusan Sullivan as EvelynSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.Based on Natasha Trethewey’s collection of poems, The Alliance Theatre’s production of Native Guard is both an elegy to her mother and a journey into Mississippi’s Civil War history. Trethewey’s work was the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This recording was produced with the generous support of The Poetry Foundation.Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in July 2018.Directed by Rosalind AyresProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergNeal A. Ghant as The Native GuardJanuary LaVoy as The PoetNicole Banks Long as VocalistTyrone Jackson as Keyboard/Composer/Music DirectorAssociate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse EriksonAssociate Producer, Studio Production Coordinator, and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West HollywoodSenior Radio Producer: Ronn LipkinProduction Assistant: Amanda AllenRecording Engineer: Erick CifuentesSe

This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.Based on Natasha Trethewey’s collection of poems, The Alliance Theatre’s production of Native Guard is both an elegy to her mother and a journey into Mississippi’s Civil War history. Trethewey’s work was the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This recording was produced with the generous support of The Poetry Foundation.Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in July 2018.Directed by Rosalind AyresProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergNeal A. Ghant as The Native GuardJanuary LaVoy as The PoetNicole Banks Long as VocalistTyrone Jackson as Keyboard/Composer/Music DirectorAssociate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse EriksonAssociate Producer, Studio Production Coordinator, and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West HollywoodSenior Radio Producer: Ronn LipkinProduction Assistant: Amanda AllenRecording Engineer: Erick CifuentesSe