Podcasts about Independent Theatre

Doug Kingsman now retired (or resting), has navigated an exciting career as a theatre actor, designer and director. Following a lengthy stint in showbiz, he subsequently carved a career as an Interior designer for 25 years on the Gold Coast, Queensland.Known as an all-round entertainer in the true sense, he could turn his hand to many crafts, whether it be singing, dancing, acting or designing sets and costumes. Born and educated in Sydney, he was studying singing and dancing at 14 and sought early experience at The Independent Theatre. He made many appearances on Channel 7 programmes. Later work in television included The Mavis Bramston Show and a lengthy stint responsible for the sets on The Mike Walsh Show.For the Tivoli Circuit he toured in variety shows, played juvenile leads in Fade Out, Fade In and Instant Marriage, and the title role in the Tivoli Pantomime, Robin Hood. For The Phillip Theatre he played Tony in a celebrated production of The Boyfriend.At Menzies Theatre Restaurant he played lead roles in many of their musical productions while too, designing sets and costumes. For The Independent Theatre, The Ensemble and Marian Street Theatre he designed and built countless sets including Halloran's Little Boat, Scent of Flowers, The Promise, Blithe Spirit, Private Lives, The Rainmaker, I Do! I Do!, and Cowardy Custard.The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au

Great performers, writers and directors emerge from the smallest of theatres — venues where new talent is nurtured and writers and performers are free to learn the ropes and take risks. Liz Jones AO has been making that kind of theatre happen at La Mama for over 50 years. Now she is passing the torch.Also, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning masterpiece Into the Woods returns to the Australian stage and we learn all about the legendary French actress Sarah Bernhardt who is being portrayed on the Melbourne Theatre Company stage by Kate Mulvany in the new play Bernhardt/Hamlet directed by Anne-Louise Sarks.

Great performers, writers and directors emerge from the smallest of theatres — venues where new talent is nurtured and writers and performers are free to learn the ropes and take risks. Liz Jones AO has been making that kind of theatre happen at La Mama for over 50 years. Now she is passing the torch. Also, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning masterpiece Into the Woods returns to the Australian stage and we learn all about the legendary French actress Sarah Bernhardt who is being portrayed on the Melbourne Theatre Company stage by Kate Mulvany in the new play Bernhardt/Hamlet directed by Anne-Louise Sarks.

Christine Dunstan was awarded an OAM in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours for Services to the Performing Arts as a Producer and as a Mentor. In 2016 Christine Dunstan was the recipient of the Sydney Theatre Critics ‘Lifetime Achievement Award'. Christine has spent 50 + years working continuously in the Australian theatre industry and is one of Australia's most experienced independent theatre producers. Commencing in 1966 as an Assistant Stage Manager at Sydney's Independent Theatre, Christine moved on to Canberra Repertory Society and then Melbourne Theatre Company, where she was the first ever female stage manager. Christine's other 'female firsts' include Stage Director at Sydney's Marian Street Theatre, Production Manager at Nimrod Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company. In 1975 she was awarded an International Theatre Institute Scholarship to observe staging techniques in Europe and North America and on her return to Australia in 1976 she founded the Stagewright Group of Companies, comprising Stagewright Constructions, Stagewright Scenery, Anthony Phillips Costumes, Donn Byrnes Lighting, Stagewright Productions and Stagewright Designs. The group was a unique concept at the time and provided entertainment and production services to the theatre, advertising and corporate industries. Stagewright quickly became the 'go to' company for technical services and Christine was engaged as Production Manager on some of the country's major productions, including the original Australian productions of 42nd Street, Anything Goes; AIDA at the Montreal Olympic and Sydney Football Stadiums, the NSW Bicentennial Royal Command Concert, the EXPO Australia Week Concerts in Japan (1985) and Brisbane (1988), as well as many others. During this time Christine was Production Manager for the Sydney Theatre Company, from 1980 until 1984. In 1990 she sold Stagewright and moved to Alice Springs to be Director and CEO of the Araluen Centre for Arts and Entertainment in Alice Springs. Returning to Sydney in 1993 she joined Barry Humphries for two years as his Production Director, and formed Christine Dunstan Productions. As a producer, Christine always strives to deliver the highest quality work which is true to the concept and which has a broad appeal to the audience. Her work includes drama, contemporary music, comedy, and family entertainment. Her productions have been seen in literally hundreds of regional centres throughout Australia as well as in every capital city. Christine's productions have also toured to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, London International Theatre Festival and to New Zealand. Christine's practical theatre knowledge was utilised by then Nimrod Theatre Company in 1976 when the former tomato sauce factory was converted to what is now the Belvoir Street Theatre. She was the Design Project Manager for the construction of the Showroom at Jupiters Casino at Queensland's Gold Coast and for the ABC TV Australian Information Media Studios in Sydney. Christine was General Manager of the annual National Performance Conferences (1999-2002) and Executive Director for the Australian Performing Arts Centres Association (2003-2008). She has sat on a number of boards, and has Chaired the Australian Theatre for Young People, Belvoir Street Theatre and the Arts Industry Training Council. The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Recipient of Best New Podcast at 2019 Australian Podcast Awards. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages). www.stagespodcast.com.au

Joining us for an in-depth discussion on Independent Theatre are theatre makers Carly Fisher, Sonya Kerr and Dino Dimitriadis.  Content Warning - please be advised that this episode contains references to violence,prostitution, mental health and suicide. On this episode, we sit down in a special two part discussion, to focus on the many facets of Indpendent Theatre through two new productions, The Sweet Science of Bruising and Cleansed by Sarah Kane. Carly is the director and producer of The Sweet Science of Bruising, with Sonya being one of the main performers in the 20th production by Theatre Travels. London 1869. Four very different Victorian women are drawn into the dark underground world of female boxing by the eccentric Professor Sharp. Controlled by men and constrained by corsets, each finds an unexpected freedom in the boxing ring. A place where their lives, decisions, futures are in their own hands for the first time. They may each get in the ring in pursuit of the title of Lady Boxing Champion of the World but what each stands to gain from every bout far exceeds any title. The women punch for recognition, they jab for education, they spar for a future, they fight for survival. The Sweet Science of Bruising plays at the Flight Path Theatre from 15th June to 2nd July and tickets can be booked at flightpaththeatre.org Dino Dimitriadis is an award-winning director and producer who is currently directing Sarah Kane's lesser performed play Cleansed. Somewhere, someplace. Six abandoned souls try to save themselves through love. But an ominous observer puts their declarations to the ultimate test. Director, Dino Dimitriadis (Angels in America, Metamorphoses, Doubt), and their team, will set the Old Fitz alight with Sarah Kane's iconic masterpiece. Uncompromising and visionary, a rarely-staged and savage portrait of the human heart. Cleansed by Sarah Kane plays at the Old Fitz from the 9th to the 25th June and tickets can be booked by searching redlineproductions.com.au/cleansed Be sure to subscribe to our podcast to get all of this month's juicy new episodes! TO KEEP UP WITH ALL THE LATEST REVIEWS, NEWS AND EXCLUSIVES, SIGN UP TO OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER NOW. FOLLOW THE LINK HERE. Mental Health Support Services Beyond Blue Lifeline Kids Helpline Suicide Callback Service Everybody is Deadly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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HesterKatherine Dowling is a writer-poet fine art screen printer painter actor. She has been on Vera as a Support Artist as well as The Dumping Ground. She also belongs to an Independent Theatre group that has started back up again. She did the voice over acting in a student short 5-minute audio Drama about Dementia which Lewis Harrower had entered for his MA work .which was played on BBC Radio 4 ‘Living With Dementia' Then was invited to work on a collaboration project at the University of Sunderland Media Department. Hester has has quite a creative career and it was lovely to listen to her story. hesterdow2 Instagram Katherinedowli2 Twitter hester.dowling.1 Facebook --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gemma-louise-hirst/message

Abby Marcus is a producer, teacher, and consultant. Current projects: producer for The One You Feed, an immersive dance theater production with Witness Relocation; consulting producer for BigBlackOctoberSurprise by Paul Outlaw at REDCAT. Abby was the Managing Director/Lead Producer for the OBIE Award winning “geek theatre” company, Vampire Cowboys where she produced The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G; Alice in Slasherland; Soul Samurai (GLAAD Media Award nominee); Fight Girl Battle World (NY InnovativeTheater Award nominee); and more. She has served as the Managing Director for the Orchard Project, General Manager/Interim Managing Director for the Playwrights' Center, the Managing Director for the Dramatists' Guild of America, General Manager for HERE Arts Center, Company Manager for LAByrinth Theater Company, and the Director of Finance for Baryshnikov Arts Center and St. Ann's Warehouse. She served as Chair for the Honorary Awards Committee for the NY Innovative Theater Awards and was a founding Board Member for the League of Independent Theatre, New York and re-envisioned the MFA Producing program for California Institute of the Arts.

Hosted by Coni Koepfinger and Brandy ChapmanJoan Kane (director/producer/dramaturg/writer/actor) is the founding Artistic Director of Ego Actus.Selected workJoan Kane directed Sycorax at HERE, Play Nice! at 59e59 theaters, I Know What Boys Want at Theatre Row, Six Characters in Search of an Author in Oslo, Norway and Kafka’s Belinda in Prague. She also directed both Safe and what do you mean at 59e59 theaters and in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, getting four star reviews for each.Awards and honorsJoan was awarded Best Director in the 2016 United Solo Festival where she has directed six pieces. Joan was named lone of the 2011 People of the Year in honor of her contributions to the NY theatre scene and inducted to the Indie Theatre Hall of Fame by nytheatre.com. Her shows have been nominated for 61 awards, winning 21Selected other workJoan has also directed plays and readings at the Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Urban Stages, Workshop Theater, Nylon Fusion, Articulate Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, Oberon Theatre, the Samuel French Short Play Festival, the Actors Studio, T. Schreiber Studio, the Broadway Bound festival and many others.EducationJoan graduated from the High School of Performing Arts, studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse and has an MFA in Directing from The New School and an MS in Museum Education from Bank Street College. Career ArcEarly in her career she was an Equity, AFTRA and SAG actress. She later became a teaching artist for Henry St Settlement, Young Playwrights and Theatre for a New Audience. Joan went on to teach in New York City Public Schools where she was also a staff developer and at Fordham University as an adjunct professor for both under graduate and graduate classes.MembershipsJoan is a member of The New York Madness Company, Rising Sun Performance Company, The Episcopal Actors’ Guild, the League of Independent Theatre, the Dramatists Guild, New York Women In Film and Television and the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers. She is a voting member for the New York Innovative Theatre Awards Artistic Achievement committee and a Nominator for the Kilroys List. Joan is also an ex-officio Vice President for Programming on the Executive Board of Directors of the League of Professional Theatre Women.

Ever wondered about what it takes to start your own theatre company and take a show to the Edinburg Fringe festival? Or how to look after your mental health while life is hectic and you're doing a million things? Today's episode is with Holly Barnard, a British director, theatre maker and performer who divides her time working between London and Berlin. She is the director of two theatre companies, both of which explore feminist themes - Cold Dinner in London and Thesmophoria in Berlin. With Cold Dinner, she has taken performances to festivals across the UK, including the Edinburgh Fringe, and Thesmophoria recently performed their first show in public spaces across the city of Berlin. In this episode we discuss Holly’s various projects, what it’s like to work with renowned director Katie Mitchell, and how we need to prioritise our mental health while balancing multiple projects. Be sure to check out Holly and her theatre companies: Holly's Instagram: @hafbarnard Cold Dinner Website: https://www.colddinnertheatre.co.uk/ Instagram: @colddinnertheatre Thesmophoria Instagram: @thesmophoria20 Join the Art-Work Community Facebook Group to connect with other creatives, share your art, and continue the conversation about the joys and challenges of living an artistic life! https://www.facebook.com/groups/370788747316965 Thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of Art-Work. Please share this episode with anyone you think would enjoy it too! You can follow us on the socials... Art-Work Podcast Instagram: @art.workconversation Facebook: @art.workconversation Brea Robertson Instagram: @brearobertsonmusic / @florafallsmusic Facebook: www.facebook.com/brearobertsonmusic/ Website: www.brearobertson.com Spotify: tinyurl.com/y8alatg2 Poppy Rose Instagram: @poppyrosemusic / @poppyrosecreates Facebook: www.facebook.com/poppyrosemusic/ Website: www.poppyrosemusic.com Spotify: spoti.fi/2tJmYRb

Carla Donnelly is the creator and co-host of podcasts Across the Aisle, Club Soderbergh and re:Discovery. She is a judge for the Green Room Awards on the Independent Theatre panel and has written about theatre for Milkbar Magazine and Theatre Alive/Broadsheet.After several years of navigating ‘beat style’ theatre review for online mediums, she became frustrated with the 24-hour review cycle as it didn’t allow time to adequately consider the performances. Across the Aisle was born from a desire for performing arts long-form criticism, with the podcast providing the perfect platform.Donnelly is a queer history buff and was a volunteer and committee member at the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives for many years. During this time she produced and directed two events for ALGA in conjunction with Melbourne Queer Film Festival.She has been the recipient of awards for the Best Arts & Entertainment program (2018) and Best Audiogram (2019) at the Australian Podcast Awards.It was at this year’s ceremony that Stages met Across the Aisle, so it only made sense that Peter and Carla should meet up and chat all things podcasting, in this very enlightening episode of Stages.Learn more at www.carladonnelly.comSTAGES available in iTunes, Spotify and Whooshkaa.

Reg Livermore is one of our greatest showmen. A trailblazer whose career has encompassed roles as Playwright, Performer, Presenter and one of the country’s finest actors. His artistry is iconic and his pioneer performances in a succession of one-man masterpieces birthed brilliant characters such as Betty Blokk Buster, Vaseline Amilnitrate, Irene, Beryl and Leonard. Such personas perfectly entwined risqué and social sensibilities; and cheekily unsettled, and aroused, an awakening Australian audience.Reg Livermore is a theatrical beast, a mischief, a maverick and a larrikin clown - he is a chameleon who has rightly earned the accolade of Legend. He is a composite super-talent informed by burlesque, vaudeville, music hall, weimar cabaret, the ballet, the opera, the classics and Gilbert & Sullivan - all forms have contributed to a most unique and vital talent.Reviewing the seductive and thrilling content of his 1979 production of Sacred Cow, playwright Dorothy Hewett described Livermore as “everyone’s nightmare and everyone’s dream”. Reviews don’t come more thrilling than that.He grew up in conservative 1950s Sydney when boys who danced or acted were ‘not like other boys’. His individuality would stand him apart on many stages and celebrate him as one of our best.Livermore revolutionised the Australian theatre industry in a pair of high-heels in the original Rocky Horror Show production; he developed a small cameo in Jesus Christ Superstar, into a 9-minute showstopping star-turn and found profound empathy in the seminal musical Hair. In recent turns on the Musical stage he has given us his P. T. Barnum, The Wizard of Oz, Max Biallystock, Dr Pangloss, Henry Higgins and Alfred P. Doolittle.Livermore has lived a full and fascinating life, bigger than any stage. He’s had a restaurant. He’s graced our television screens and he’s studied at the Ensemble Studios with Hayes Gordon and at the Independent Theatre with Doris Fitton. It’s a career of peaks and troughs, thrills and spills. The performer has not only seized opportunities but created them.Our rich theatre heritage is just that, because of his countless contributions on stage and off. He has offered us a chance to laugh at ourselves, embrace the mischievous and be changed by reverberant and authentic performances.Available in iTunes, Spotify and Whooshkaa.

With candor and vulnerability, Artistic Director Brook North describes what it’s like to run a small local independent theatre company — not just logistically and administratively, but… Read more "077: Producing independent theatre. Artistic Director Brook North on the work, the traps, and joy of making “what we want to do.”" The post 077: Producing independent theatre. Artistic Director Brook North on the work, the traps, and joy of making “what we want to do.” appeared first on Artist Soapbox.

Thomas Gough was first on stage at the age of five, but clearly remembers acting before that. He works frequently in the Independent Theatre in Toronto, having appeared in the last few years with the Alumnæ Theatre, Safeword, Single Thread, the Storefront, Thought For Food, Theatre Lab, Plain Stage, and Unspoken Theatre, as well as Theatre By The Bay (Barrie) and the Kick And Push Festival (Kingston). Most recently he appeared in the Toronto Fringe Festival (2018) as Lionel Percy in Bakersfield Mist, and as The Reporter in Teatron Toronto Jewish Theatre's production of The Story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.Thomas appears in The Three Ships Collective and Soup Can Theatre's new and immersive adaptation of Dickens’ timeless holiday classic set in the historic Campbell House Museum! Soup Can Theatre: www.soupcantheatre.com Twitter: @soupcantheatre Instagram: soupcantheatre Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/soupcantheatre/ Tickets: https://christmascarolto.brownpapertickets.com/

In this episode, Pecci sits down with Mark Anastasio the program manager at the famous Coolidge Corner Theatre. They talk about cult horror films, independent movie houses; 35mm print collectors and midnight screenings. Are you a film buff? Ever wondered how theatres get 35mm prints of old films? Have you ever been to a midnight screening? Are you looking for a must watch cult film list? If any of those answers are yes, then prepare yourself for one hell of an episode! Sponsored by Puget Systems www.pugetsystems.com/solutions/cont…th_the_process Rule Boston Camera rule.com/

7:01 am introduction to program, acknowledgement of country7:03 am discussion of headline news stories - Dutton and au-pair, new PMs first lie "we are on your side", Chelsea manning threatened with being denied a visa to enter Australia 7:16 am recording of Decolonising stories a free event that was held on August 26th at the Arts Centre  featuring Samah Sabawi who is an award-winning playwright, author and poet. Her critically acclaimed play Tales of a City by the Sea was selected for the 2016 Victorian Certificate of Education Drama Playlist, won two Drama Victoria awards for best new Australian publication and best performance for VCE and was nominated for Best Independent Production at the Green Room Awards. 7:33 am news from Green Left Weekly corporate tax cuts defeated for now  7:37 am some more headline news such as the hypocrisy of Theresa May , the dark legacy of John McCain  and student anger over university speaker who thinks rape crisis is fake 7:50 am a discussion about Daniel Andrews new Railway Loop proposal and it's limitations.  8:00 am activist calendar8:10 am second recording from Decolonising stories featuring Candy Bowers who is a speaker, writer, actor, theatre maker and filmmaker. The Artistic Director of Black Honey Company, Candy has pioneered a fierce sub-genre of contemporary performance which earned her the 2018 Geoffrey Milne- Green Room Association Award for outstanding contribution to Independent Theatre.    8:24 am news article from Green Left Weekly a protest organised by Transport Rider workers  8:27 am closing of program

We've got a sampling for you this episode, a show on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Independent Theatre. First, Q. Smith and Geno Carr are giving their all eight times a week in Come From Away, and have been at it through the musical's development. They walk us through the excitement of this exhilarating show. Then, Jersey Boys is returning to New World Stages, and book writer Rick Elice stops by to let us know about that and walk us through his early history in NYC up to the fateful call to write one of the most popular musicals of this century. Finally, Frankenstein comes alive every Monday night in New York, and this time the mad creator is Eric Sirota, writing book, music and lyrics. He tells us about the show, and the unique challenges of doing a long run essentially in a festival format.

Hosts Erin and Michaela had the chance to chat to designer and visual artist, CALLUM MORTON from Ranters Theatre Company to discuss Come Away with Me to the End of the World. Come Away with Me to the End of the World is being performed at Malthouse Theatre – the Beckett Theatre from the 5th – 24th July.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosts Erin and Michaela had the chance to chat to designer and visual artist, CALLUM MORTON from Ranters Theatre Company to discuss Come Away with Me to the End of the World. Come Away with Me to the End of the World is being performed at Malthouse Theatre – the Beckett Theatre from the 5th – 24th July.

In our first episode we discuss Melbourne Theatre Company's Neon Season - the "Festival of Independent Theatre". We cover Gary Abrahams/Dirty Pretty Things "The Lonely Wolf", Patricia Cornelius' "SHIT" and Elbow Rooms "We Get It".

How, in our globalised world, is a piece of theatre defined – by the origin of its makers, where it was made, content, or place of premiere? Are we restricted creatively by a preoccupation with a dated idea of ‘Australian’ content? Are contemporary Australian artists even concerned with their identity? Chair Daniel Schlusser – Director Panel Patricia Cornelius – Playwright Nakkiah Lui – Writer Sam Strong – Associate Artistic Director, MTC Lyn Wallis – Director, Theatre, Australia Council for the Arts Please note: This recording includes some coarse language.

Coming off the back of his triumphant second season at Komische Oper Berlin, Barrie Kosky returns to Melbourne for NEON Festival's inaugural keynote conversation. A recording of the conversation from 20 July 2014 at Southbank Theatre.

What can other art forms offer our stages? A recording from the second instalment in the Neon Conversations series. Martyn Coutts (Interdisciplinary Arts Practitioner), Wesley Enoch (Queensland Theatre Company), Xani Kolac (The Twoks), Alkinos Tsilimidos (Film and Theatre Director) and Anouk Van Dijk (Chunky Move) discuss what other art forms can offer our stages. Which art form reflects the world in which we live in most effectively? Chaired by Fiona Gruber (Journalist).

Independent Theatre and the Mainstage: friends or foes? A recording from the first instalment in MTC's Neon Conversations series. Stephen Armstrong (Producer), Alison Croggon (ABC Arts Online Theatre Critic at Large), Matthew Lutton (Malthouse Theatre), Anne-Louise Sarks (The Hayloft Project) and Brett Sheehy (Melbourne Theatre Company) discuss a range of issues, including whether mainstage companies should be opening their doors to the independent sector, where artists are being developed, and who is bridging the gap. Chaired by Daniel Clarke (TheatreWorks).

Is adapting the easy way out? Adena Jacobs (Fraught Outfit), Joanna Murray-Smith (Playwright), Simon Stone (Writer/Director), Andrew Upton (Sydney Theatre Company) and Cameron Woodhead (Theatre Critic) tackle the tough questions around adaptation and defend their positions – should we demolish, renovate or heritage-list the great plays? Chaired by Dr Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Head of Theatre and Performance, Monash University).

On this day in 1891, Henrik Ibsen’s play “Ghosts” opened for one night only at The Independent Theatre in London. The play had run into trouble with the Lord Chamberlain’s […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #17 for March 13: Henrik Ibsen, Norman Mailer and William Styron, and Kitty Genovese appeared first on Bill Peschel.

The 6th annual NY IT awards for excellence in Independent Theatre was hel on Monday, September 20th, and for the third year in a row, I was backstage to interviews the winners and presenters as the came offstage. We've got a lot of great interviews, including the legendary Debra Monk as two-time Tony award winning costume designer, Martin Pakledinaz

In this episode: Taren Sterry has been performing her one woman show, 180 DAYS, as a tool to help raise awareness and volunteers for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. Here she tells us how that all came to be! In the wake of air travel's recent headaches, Alex Lyras' show, THE COMMON AIR, certainly feels timely. Alex and director Robert McCaskill stop by to discuss the show. Actors Alysia Reiner and Jack Gwaltney tell us about MODOTTI, and discuss the period and history that inspired the show. Clubbed Thumb launches it's three-show summer "festival" with DOT, and Playwright Kate E. Ryan and composer Mike Iveson tell us about the show and the producing organization. More from Planet Connections Festivity, this time, with the "sequel" to a Midsummer Night's Dream, THE THYME OF THE SEASON, and playwright Duncan Pflaster and co-conceiver/actor Clara Barton Green tell us about it. UNCLE SHELBY'S WUNDERPANTRY OF POSSIBILITIES will also grace the stages at Planet Connections Festivity, and writers Dan Moyer, Ben Forster and Producer Nathaniel Kent discuss their hunt for a vanished theme park.

We continue our celebration of National Poetry Month with more Recorded Live Readings. This two-part episode features poetry recorded at the Spoken Word Event sponsored by the Independent Theatre Collective in Wheeling, WV, as part of the Oglebay Institute's Imagination Celebration 2010. In Part 1 we feature John E. Reilly reading from Diane Gillian Fisher's Kettle Bottom, and some original poetry by Wheeling poet Duncan Kinder. 4/25/10 THIS SEGMENT NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE KETTLEBOTTOM SECTION. DOWNLOAD (Right click and Save Link Target As) West Virginia Writers Podcast Episode 30 Part 1 LINKS FOR THIS PODCAST * Independent Theatre Collective * Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher * Mark Twain's The War Prayer

We continue our celebration of National Poetry Month with more Recorded Live Readings. This two-part episode features poetry recorded at the Spoken Word Event sponsored by the Independent Theatre Collective in Wheeling, WV, as part of the Oglebay Institute's Imagination Celebration 2010. In Part 2 we feature Independent Theatre Collective president and co-founder Jeremy Richter reading Mark Twain's posthumously published The War Prayer. We also have a recording of a moving poem by a young Wheeling poet named Creighton Hill. DOWNLOAD (Right click and Save Link Target As) West Virginia Writers Podcast Episode 30 Part 2 LINKS FOR THIS PODCAST * Independent Theatre Collective * Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher * Mark Twain's The War Prayer