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This week I have the wonderful opportunity to talk with my friend, playwright and TV writer, Franky D. Gonzalez. Follow Franky on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/phattheddproductions/ Franky D. Gonzalez is a playwright and TV writer of Colombian descent splitting time between Dallas and Los Angeles. Nationally, his work has appeared with The Lark, the Sundance Institute, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Ground Floor, the NNPN National Showcase of New Plays, the Latinx Playwrights Circle, the Texas State University's Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration, The Sol Project (SolFest 2022), Urbanite Theatre, Visión Latino Theatre Company, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, the Goodman Theatre (Live @ Five Series), Launch Pad at UC Santa Barbara, The New Harmony Project, Bishop Arts Theatre Center, Repertorio Español, LAByrinth Theater Company, Ars Nova (ANT Fest 2021), Dallas Theater Center, the William Inge Theatre Festival, Austin Latinx New Play Festival, Stages Repertory Theatre's Sin Muros Latinx Theatre Festival, the Latino Theatre Company's RE:Encuentro 2021: National Virtual Latina/o/x Theatre Festival, the Latinx Theatre Commons 2022 Comedy Carnaval, Seven Devils New Play Foundry, the HBMG Foundation National Winter Playwrights Retreat, Tofte Lake Center, Ignition Arts, Play4Keeps Podcast, the Antaeus Playwrights Lab, Clamour Theatre Company, Ammunition Theater Company, Greenway Court Theatre, the Cloud Factory, The Mid-America Theatre Conference, The Midwest Dramatists Conference, and the One-Minute Play Festival. Franky was a recipient of the Charles Rowan Beye New Play Commission, an MTC/Sloan Commission, the Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Prize, co-recipient of the MetLife Nuestras Voces Latino Playwriting Award, won the Crossroads Project Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative Award, the Judith Royer Award for Excellence in Playwriting, the Short+Sweet Theatre Festival Manila Best Overall Production Prize, and was a staff writer for the fourth season of 13 Reasons Why. The 2023 Chicago Production of his play That Must Be the Entrance to Heaven garnered two Non-Equity Jeff Awards (for Short Run Production and Director). Previously Franky was named the 4 Seasons Resident Playwright, a Sony Pictures Television Diverse Writers Program Fellow, and a Core Writer with the Playwrights Center. Currently Franky serves as the Bishop Arts Theatre Center Playwright-in-Residence, is writing on a Sony/Amazon show, and is developing a series with Sony Pictures Television. He is proudly represented by Valor Entertainment, the Gersh Agency, and the law firm Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano Bonn & Dang.  Full Play Reading of Even Flowers Bloom in Hell, Sometimes By Franky D. Gonzalez  -  https://open.spotify.com/episode/5qHu05Z8Wzw6lkAVoR6KmE?si=_yyuEjKCRzeD3zNcPQ2AEw Andy's Past Interview with Franky on the Ashland New Plays Festival Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/episode/2M9TDqe7B2hCh9DCBZN81c?si=Ul5g2-g_QSmND2Hxa1U0MQ Music is licensed from Musicbed.com.   Subscribe to my YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@andyfilmsandhikes⁠⁠⁠ Follow Host Andy Neal on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.instagram.com/andyfilmsandhikes⁠⁠⁠⁠  Check out my TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠www.tiktok.com/@andyfilmsandhikes ⁠⁠ Buy Andy a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andyfilmsandhikes  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adventureisoutthere/message

Show notes: The incredible Robin D. G. Kelley schools us on what true reparations could look like - and how to use our collective power to envision a better future. Recorded in Los Angeles with a live audience. See the video HERE! Guest: Robin D. G. Kelley Robin Kelley is a leading historian, author, and thinker of our time - or any time. His groundbreaking book Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination offers inspiring visions for a bold Black future. He breaks down why we need to imagine a radically different world in the fight for reparations. Filmed with a live audience at the Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles. Check out the VIDEO of this episode!Highlights of Episode:[7:59] Freedom Dreams is invitation to engage in struggle, make mistakes, learn from past movements[10:10] The global nature of racism and oppression, seeing reparations more broadly[13:12] Role of artists as truth-tellers[24:39] Robin's bold possibilities for reparations[26:20] Why we need to transform society; link between Black and Indigenous reparations[32:42] Tony's tribute to our mothers[45:42] Why we can't ever get equality under capitalism Some key reparations movements and pioneers from the past:The Black ManifestoN'COBRAProvisional Government Of The Republic Of New Afrika"Queen Mother" Audley MooreCallie HouseSelected books by Robin Kelley:Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (20th anniv. edition)Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary TimesThelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American OriginalYo' Mama's DisFunktional: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban AmericaRace Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working ClassHammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great DepressionRobin highlights the critical role of artists in the struggle for Black liberation:Aja Monet - Dynamic young poet who wrote the new foreword to Freedom Dreams"Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul" by Gil Scott-Heron - Groundbreaking musician, poet, author, and activistSekou Sindiata - Brilliant poet who made profound impact on Freedom DreamsContact Tony & AdamSubscribe

Socks, Joseph and Steven discuss Vanessa Stewart's "Caligari's Cabinet of Curiosities" at the city of LA's downtown performing arts high school; "Abbale" at Stomping Ground; "Bronwell and the Bontes" at Loft Ensemble; "A Little Night Music," at Greenway Court Theatre; and "Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Solo Flight" at Atwater Village Theatre

Dennis connects via Zoom with theater director-actor & writer Ryan O'Connor to discuss Ryan's production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, which is currently playing at the Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles. He talks about the production's long journey to opening night, his casting of trans and non binary actors in major roles, reckoning with the play's period gender dynamics and bring croquet into the mix. Ryan and Dennis also bond over not loving the scripted show's so-called happy ending. Ryan also recalls how his mother and musical theater saved him from relentless bullying when he was an adolescent. He recalls being part of a reality competition Your Own Show: Oprah's Search for the Next TV Star in 2011 and the heartbreak he felt when the show didn't hit and the fame he thought would happen, didn't. Other topics include: that time he was in the same room with Sondheim, spending quality time with Oprah, getting sober, being part of the "rain cover" scenes on Big Little Lies and watching Nicole Kidman have a bite of donut at craft services, working the the late director Jean-Marc Vallee, stumbling out of Lindsay Lohan's SUV and why he loves musicals. And after the interview, Dennis does about five minutes on Jennifer Lopez's fim Marry Me and why too much J Lo is never enough.

Will and Lara are talking Artists at Play and Greenway Arts Alliance's LOS ANGELES PREMIERE OFThe Chinese Lady with one of the stars Trieu Tran. September 7-29, 2019 | Greenway Court Theatre The Los Angeles premiere is directed by Rebecca Wear (Lauren Yee’s Samsara – Coeurage Theatre) and features Amy Shu (Susan Soon’s He Stanton’s We, the Invisibles – Cal State L.A.) as “Afong Moy” and Trieu Tran (LADCC Nominated for “Alan Strang” in Equus – East West Players) as “Atung.” THE CHINESE LADY is playing now through September 29, 2019 at Greenway Court Theatre (544 N. Fairfax Avenue) in Los Angeles. Inspired by the true story of America’s first female Chinese immigrant, The Chinese Lady is a dark, poetic, yet whimsical portrait of America through the eyes of a young Chinese woman. Afong Moy (Shu) is 14 years old when she’s brought to the United States from Canton in 1834. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. soil, she has been bought and put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” For the next half a century, she performs for curious museum-goers, showing them how she eats, what she wears, and the highlight of the event: how she walks with bound feet. As the decades wear on, her celebrated sideshow comes to define and challenge her very sense of identity. The Chinese Lady blurs the line between the observed and the observer, and gives us new eyes on the history of American entitlement and immigration. Named a New York Times Critic’s Pick in November 2018, the Times said of The Chinese Lady, “Extraordinary play...piercing...heart-rending...” and “...gently comical drama...” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Marlene Forte, Aubrey Hicks, Oliver Mayer, and John Sonego take a look at one of the more influential Spanish playwrights of the early 20th century: Federico García Lorca. We discuss theatre and politics, the staying power of Lorca's work, and a new adaptation of Yerma coming to LA theatre near you. Listen to a conversation about Latinas and the strength of female characters, sexuality, the politics of theatre, and why you should put your phone down and go see Yerma in the Desert today. Urban Theatre Movement in Residency at Greenway Court Theatre presents: Yerma in the Desert 11/17 – 12/16 By Oliver Mayer Based on YERMA by Federico García Lorca Directed by Edgar Landa & Marlene Forte For links and more check out the showpage.

FROM THE BEST OF STATE OF THE ARTS - Originally Broadcast NOVEMBER 28, 2011 - Hold your hats and hallelujah... the holiday season shifts into full gear with crooner Erich Bergen (Jersey Boys) and television and stage star Paolo Andino (LOGO’s Big Gay Sketch Show) as they discuss their respective holiday projects (Erich Bergen’s Holiday Party at The Coteri in Hollywood, and A Snow White Christmas at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood; and Andino’s solo starring role in the Blank Theatre Company’s annual production of The Santaland Diaries at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood. The Live Arts Calendar highlights Sister Bernie’s Bingo Bash at the Greenway Court Theatre in Hollywood. Sterling reviews the Glendale Centre Theatre’s 47th annual production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and singer Lyn Stanley’s headlining debut at Sterling’s Upstairs at Vitello’s in Studio City, CA. Andino shares an embarrassing moment during a performance. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)

TV’s James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Angel) talks about his starring role in The Bells of 87th Street at the Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles. Danielle Wade, winner of the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s Over the Rainbow 2012 reality vocal talent competition, and Broadway’s Mike Jackson... discuss their respectively starring roles as 'Dorothy" and the "Tin Man" in the U.S. National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Wizard of Oz at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. Sterling reviews Clifford Odets’ Awake & Sing at the Group Rep Theatre in North Hollywood. Wade and Jackson share awkward moments during performances.

TV’s James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Angel) talks about his starring role in The Bells of 87th Street at the Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles. Danielle Wade, winner of the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s Over the Rainbow 2012 reality vocal talent competition, and Broadway’s Mike Jackson... discuss their respectively starring roles as 'Dorothy" and the "Tin Man" in the U.S. National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Wizard of Oz at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. Sterling reviews Clifford Odets’ Awake & Sing at the Group Rep Theatre in North Hollywood. Wade and Jackson share awkward moments during performances.

Figure Skating icon and Olympic Champion Scott Hamilton calls Sterling and Stroili to remind listeners about his annual cancer fundraising event Scott Hamilton & Friends, this year featuring 9-time Grammy winner Sheryl Crow and Olympic Champs Dorothy Hamill and Kristi Yamaguchi. Sirena Irwin and Bill Mendieta are interviewed about their roles as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo in the smash LA hit, world premiere comedy (with music) I Love Lucy Live on Stage at the Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles. “…Lucy…” Producer Stephen Kahn also calls in to discuss the project. The weekly live arts calendar features Four Foot Productions’ Seascape with Sharks and Dancer at the Sherry Theatre in North Hollywood; and the west coast premiere of Dolly West’s Kitchen at Theatre Banshee in Burbank, CA. Irwin and Mendieta reveal embarrassing moments while performing. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)

Four-time Emmy Award winning actress Ms. Michael Learned (The Waltons) and critically acclaimed Southland theatre director Robert Marra (Seven Brides…A Chorus Line, Chess, Oklahoma) share the hour with Sterling and Stroili who open the show with banter about the correct pronunciation of Italian food dishes and the hazards of driving in the rain. Learned discusses her co-starring role in the romantic comedy Southern Comforts on stage at the Falcon Theatre in Toluca Lake, CA; while Marra talks about a fresh, “more edgy” revival of Sweet Charity at the Knightsbridge Theatre in Los Angeles. The Live Arts Calendar highlights I Love Lucy … Live on Stage at the Greenway Court Theatre in LA, and the world premiere comedy of Centre Theatre Group’s Poor Behavior at the Mark Taper Forum in downtown Los Angeles. An embarrassing tongue-twisting, on-stage story is revealed by one of the guests. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)