LA Theatre Works: Oedipus the King by Sophocles on Saturday February 28, 2008 from 10:00pm to midnight February 28, 2009
Posted by William Spear in >> News, >> Radio Drama.Tags: Adam Arkin, Anna Gunn, Donald Margulies, Harry Lennix, Jordan Baker, KPCC, L. A. Theatre Works, Nicholas Rudall, Oedipus the King, Randy Ogelsby, Sight Unseen, Sophocles, the play's the thing
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The Play’s The Thing
This Saturday, February 28 from 10 pm – midnight on 89.3 KPCC, L.A. Theatre Works’ The Play’s the Thing will air Oedipus the King by Sophocles. Harry Lennix stars as Oedipus, the king who unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother, in this vivid new translation by Greek scholar and director Nicholas Rudall. The broadcast includes a Q & A session with translator and director Nicholas Rudall.
Next Saturday, March 7 from 10 pm – midnight on 89.3 KPCC, L.A. Theatre Works’ The Play’s the Thing will air Sight Unseen by Donald Margulies, starring Adam Arkin, Jordan Baker, Randy Ogelsby and Anna Gunn (Gunn currently stars in the world premiere of Margulies’s Time Stands Still at the Geffen Playhouse). In Sight Unseen, Jonathan Waxman is a hugely successful artist who receives exorbitant prices for his works – sight unseen. But a rendezvous with his original muse and lover causes him to re-evaluate the success that now controls him. This Obie Award-winning drama explores the artist’s role in society, the commerce of art, and the complications of love and memory. The broadcast includes an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies.
L.A. Theatre Works’ radio theater series, The Play’s the Thing, airs locally every Saturday night from 10 pm to midnight on 89.3 FM KPCC Southern California Public Radio, and is streamed at www.kpcc.org for one week following each broadcast.
To get a full schedule, go to the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org and follow the link through the “Radio Theatre Series” heading and then “Episode Guide” or go directly to www.scpr.org for KPCC.
The series can also be heard on 89.7 WGBH in Boston; 91.5 FM WBEZ in Chicago; 94.9 KUOW in Seattle; 93.5 FM KRTS “Marfa Public Radio” in Texas; 90.5 FM KUT in Austin; 88.9 FM KUNM in Albuquerque; 91.5 FM, Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan; 94.1 KPFA in Northern California; 91.1 FM KRCB in Sonoma County; 89.1 KUOR in Redlands; as well as on many other public radio stations nationwide. Selected programs from LATW are also heard internationally over BBC World Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Telefis Eirann (Ireland), Radio Hong Kong, and Radio New Zealand. The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection is available in bookstores, libraries, through their catalog, digitally on itunes, overdrive.com, audible.com, and on the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org.
Additional support for the series is provided by AudioFile Magazine. Listeners can visit their website at www.audiofilemagazine.com to view 65 reviews of LATW plays and hear sound clips from them.
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Radio Riel: Thursday on Riel Theatre February 26, 2009
Posted by William Spear in >> News, >> Radio Drama.Tags: >> Radio Drama, audio theatre, Caledon Penzance, Edward Pearse, Radio Riel, Radio Riel HQ, radio theatre
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This week’s broadcast of Riel Theatre at Radio Riel:
When: Today, Thursday, from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Where: Radio Riel HQ, Caledon Penzance
Presenter: Edward Pearse
Stream: http://music2.radioriel.org
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Radio Riel – Real Radio, Your Reality
Second Life
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WFHB: Sunday between 8:00-10:00 p.m. February 22, 2009
Posted by William Spear in >> News, >> Radio Drama.Tags: Firehouse Theater, Richard Fish, WFHB
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Host Richard Fish and the Firehouse Theatre present the best in audio theatre, old and new, on Sundays from 8:00-10:00 p.m.
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WFHB Community Radio for South Central Indiana
91.3 FM | 98.1 Bloomington | 100.7 Nashville | 106.3 Ellettsville
Streaming on the Web at http://www.wfhb.org
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LA Theatre Works: The Member of the Wedding on Saturday February 21 from 10:00pm – midnight February 21, 2009
Posted by William Spear in >> News, >> Radio Drama.Tags: Carson McCullers, Jena Malone, KPCC, L. A. Theatre Works, Lawrence Pressman, Ruby Dee, Tegan West
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The Play’s The Thing
Set in the American South of the 1940s, this coming-of-age story about a lonely, over-imaginative twelve-year old girl and the black cook to whom she pours out her heart is one of the most poignant plays ever written about loneliness, longing and love. Winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Prize for Best American Play of 1950.
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Author: Carson McCullers
Cast: Ruby Dee, Jena Malone, Lawrence Pressman, Tegan West
L. A. Theatre Works
L.A. Theatre Works’ radio theater series, The Play’s the Thing, airs locally every Saturday night from 10 pm to midnight on 89.3 FM KPCC Southern California Public Radio, and is streamed on the KPCC website for one week following each broadcast. The series can also be heard on 89.7 WGBH in Boston; 91.5 FM WBEZ in Chicago; 94.9 KUOW in Seattle; 93.5 FM KRTS “Marfa Public Radio” in Texas; 90.5 FM KUT in Austin; 88.9 FM KUNM in Albuquerque; 91.5 FM, Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan; 94.1 KPFA in Northern California; 91.1 FM KRCB in Sonoma County; 89.1 KUOR in Redlands; as well as on many other public radio stations nationwide. Selected programs from LATW are also heard internationally over BBC World Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Telefis Eirann (Ireland), Radio Hong Kong, and Radio New Zealand. The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection is available in bookstores, libraries, through their catalog, digitally on itunes, overdrive.com, audible.com, and on the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org.
To get a full schedule, go to the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org and follow the link through the “Radio Theatre Series” heading and then “Episode Guide” or go directly to www.scpr.org for KPCC.
Additional support for the series is provided by AudioFile Magazine. Listeners can visit their website at www.audiofilemagazine.com to view 65 reviews of LATW plays and hear sound clips from them.
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On Writing: So that’s why people look at me differently February 18, 2009
Posted by William Spear in >> Out Basket, >> Playwriting.Tags: dramatist, lit between the ears, William E. Spear
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Writing defies many descriptions; its elusive nature is also a large part of its pleasure. From an inside perspective, writing is as natural as breathing or eating.
However, from the outside looking in, writing is akin to an evil alchemy which consumes its practitioners and forces them into loathsome habits and characteristics. Alcoholism, melancholia, and paranoia seem to be the most oft-quoted sterotypes.
Even the New York Times chimes in on an artist’s perception from the community in its Edvard Munch article titled “So Typecast You Could Scream” (By Roberta Smith on February 12, 2009):
Society tends to prefer creative types who neatly fit the pigeonhole labeled Other. The artist as solitary, tormented, possibly insane genius is among the most durable staples of the modern imagination.”
That explains a lot of things.
What else other than insanity might drive us to re-write a play a dozen times just to make one sentence stronger? What rational explanation might a dramatist offer to share insight on pairing a movie star staging a comeback with an assistant manager of a tailoring shop? What logic might be the backdrop for continuing to write during weeks in which more rejections are recieved than hours slept?
Different, possibly. Off center, probably. Not so sure about insane, though. Unless you count the time . . .
William E. Spear
Publisher and Producer
Lit Between the Ears
http://Lit.TwoPlusPlus.com/
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