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We at Mad Men Men know a little something about being the rejected podcast. That's right, we're talking about Season 4 Episode 4 this week, directed by the one and only John Slattery A.K.A. Roger Sterling! If you have any criticisms, be sure to write half a sentence on your typewriter and then throw the paper out. In case this is your first time digging into our podcast, we recap Mad Men from the perspective of a first-time watcher, someone who only watched the show once while it was airing, and a superfan who watches excessively instead of having a functional social life. Extra credits: Our intro music is “Mad Men Men” by Tom Davidson, which is an original remix of the show's opening theme “A Beautiful Mine” by RJD2. Podcast illustration is by Jon Negroni. Our podcast hosts include Jon Negroni (Podcast Editor of InBetweenDrafts), Will Ashton (cohost of the Cinemaholics podcast), and Michael Overhulse (a guy who's addicted to working at startups).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode 378"Yellowstone"Actor: Katherine CunninghamYou can currently find Katherine in "Yellowstone" as Christina. I had a wonderful time speaking with Katie about family, acting, Star Wars, Yellowstone and so much more. Fun interview. Fun person.Katherine Cunningham was born and raised in Elk Grove Village IL. As a child she joined her parents and siblings on stage, entertaining audiences in a variety of local theatrical productions. After studying acting and biology at Illinois State University she began an acting career in theatre. She has worked on various productions including but not limited to Picnic (Writers' Theatre), Honest (Steppenwolf Theatre), The Taming of the Shrew (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre) and the world premier Big Lake Big City (Lookingglass Theatre) written by Keith Huff, directed by David Schwimmer.She made her television debut in "Detroit 1-8-7" (ABC) where she played a black jack dealing confidant to a womanizing police officer. Other television credits include guest spots on "Shameless" (Showtime), "The Playboy Club" (NBC), "The Mob Doctor" (FOX), "Underemployed" (MTV), "Chicago Fire" (NBC) and "Mind Games"(ABC)Welcome, Katherine Cunningham.Monday Morning Critic: Instagram, TiKTok, YouTube and Facebook.Twitter:@mdmcriticwww.imdb.com/title/tt12597724/www.mmcpodcast.comThe Fourtress of...The Fourtress of... brings together FOUR friends every week, most weeks, to...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
Polo Ramírez revisó las principales tendencias del día junto a Mariajosé Soto y conversó con Raimundo Vives, geógrafo y director ejecutivo interino de Futaleufú Riverkeeper, quien entregó detalles sobre la campaña que están realizando, llamada “Por las aguas del Futaleufú“. En el segundo bloque Willy Semler, actor de Lluvia Constante, entregó detalles sobre esta obra que protagoniza junto César Sepúlveda y que fue escrita por el dramaturgo estadounidense Keith Huff, guionista de House of Cards y de Mad Men.
Sarah Misch is a Las Vegas native turned New York City based performer and educator. She graduated from NYU Steinhardt in 2012 with a B.S. in Educational Theatre and a minor in Dramatic Literature and was a loud and proud Third North RA from 2010-2012 (shout out to floor 5N!). Since leaving NYU, Sarah has pursued a career in acting with a special focus on devised theatre, new play development, and indie filmmaking. Favorite theatre credits include The Cat in the Hat (Two Bean Productions 1st National Tour), Girls Night: the Musical (Entertainment Events, Inc.), That Which Remains (Improbable Stage), full city+: a site-specific serial comedy (dir. Joe Salvatore & Keith Huff), The Curse of the Babywoman (BiG Theatre Co., NYC Fringe), and Naked Holidays (Endtimes Productions). Sarah has also appeared in several short films and new media projects including the award-winning horror short, Corpse Pose, which she both produced and starred in and is now available to stream on Roku and Amazon Prime. Sarah serves as the Social Media Coordinator for Film Repertory Group, a collective of a emerging indie film artists, and she is a company member with Improbable Stage, a movement-based theatre company. In between gigs, she freelances as a dance/theatre instructor and a life model at various institutions around the city. Sarah is grateful for the collaborative tools and crisis management skills she picked up as a freshman RA, many of which she employs daily with her students and fellow artists. Learn more about Sarah's work at www.sarahmisch.com.
Trip Cullman is a theatrical director who graduated from the Yale School of Drama. His Broadway credits include Six Degrees of Separation, and Significant Other. Other credits include Swimming in the Shallows, Bachelorette, Some Men, Bad Jazz, Arabian Night, Smashing, Dog Sees God, Dark Matters, The Last Sunday in June, and The Wooden Breeks. Regional credits include the World Premiere of Lloyd Suh's American Hwangap, the World Premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Injured Party at South Coast Rep, Keith Huff's A Steady Rain, and Lauren Weedman's Rash. Trip and I talked about how he got to the major leagues as well as . . . Why the first thing he does when he takes a job is make a mixtape! The super-secret, age-old blocking technique that you’ve got to try. What shocked him about directing on Broadway. Who he likes working with the most when he develops a new work (it’s not who you think). Why he reads reviews but doesn’t read chat boards. The Tony Award-winning director of Urinetown returns to Broadway with Gettin’ The Band Back Together, a musical about a recently fired 40 year old man who wants to make it big with his band. Check it out here: gettinthebandbacktogether.com Keep up with me: @KenDavenportBway www.theproducersperspective.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Good cop. Bad cop. It’s a formula so mainstream that it was the basis of a character in the ‘The LEGO Movie,’ where Liam Neeson voiced the dual-personalities of a tiny plastic policeman, named Good Cop-Bad Cop, who was literally two-faced, depending on the situation. Even when kind of disturbing, he was kind of adorable. There is nothing the least bit adorable—but plenty that is disturbing, unsettling, compelling, and creepy—about Keith Huff’s two-character play ‘A Steady Rain,’ running through February 6 at Wells Fargo Center. Presented by Left Edge Theatre, directed with sharp focus and appealing simplicity by Argo Thompson, the propulsive crime drama takes the corny old clichés about good cops and bad cops, and after gleefully indulging in them to a nearly shameless degree, aggressively and thrillingly disassembles those icons of police force pulp-fiction piece by piece. Using minimal furniture on an entirely bare stage, Nick Sholley and Mike Schaeffer play two low-level beat cops—lifelong friends, career partners, and frustrated veterans of the force who’ve watched dozens of others be promoted ahead of them, leaving them to patrol the seedy streets of Chicago with little hope of ever landing a better, less dangerous job. We soon learn why. Joey, played with a weary, tentative sense of collapsing moral decency by Sholley, is the ‘good cop,’ tall, thin and unmarried, always appearing in a suit and tie, rattling off a series of ah-shucks rationalizations, just tenuously on-the-wagon after years attempting to medicate his own loneliness, depression and guilt with alcohol. Schaeffer, as Denny, the ‘bad cop,’ is, on the surface anyway, the exact opposite of his partner. Big and broad, a bit of a bully, proudly racist and perfectly comfortable with beating up drug dealers, accepting bribes and pay-offs from pimps and prostitutes, all while maintaining his firm belief that he is the good guy, the moral superior to the scum and low-lifes he clearly enjoys pushing around. A fiercely protective husband and father—perhaps not quite as committed or faithful as he wants to believe—Denny constantly pushes Joey to find a woman and start a family of his own. Then it starts to rain. And little by little, over the course of a few days, everything Joey and Denny have been building, working for and lying about begins to unravel, beginning with a drive-by shooting that leaves Denny’s son in a coma. What unfolds, not surprisingly given the playwright’s pedigree as a writer for such shows as ‘American Crime,’ ‘Mad Men,’ and ‘House of Cards,’ is at turns frighteningly funny, edge-of-your-seat tense, and increasingly packed with surprises. Choosing to trust the talents of his magnificent duo of actors, director Thompson avoids cluttering the action with extraneous embellishments. Beyond an atmospheric soundscape of rain, thunder and the occasional car crash or gun shot, Thompson makes the most of the two chairs and single wooden table that act as a set, letting the story, and power of the performances, carry the show. The writing is superb, crammed with great lines and complex, sometimes astonishing truths, and the story is, in the end, so much more than the simple good-and-bad dynamic is initially appears to be. By the time the downpour ends, and the thunder stops rumbling, ‘A Steady Rain’ takes its audience on one hell of a ride-along, one sensitive souls might want to miss, but all others will be very glad they took. ‘A Steady Rain’ runs Friday through Sunday through February 6 in the Carston Cabaret at Wells Fargo Center for the Arts. Information can be uncovered at www.leftedgetheatre.org.
Con las tripas interpreta Sergio Peris Mencheta a un policía vapuleado por un caso que hará tambalear su vida y su idea acerca de la lealtad, la amistad, la familia y la justicia. Junto a Roberto Álamo sostiene una historia violenta, brutal, llena de claroscuros, Lluvia constante arrasó en Broadway con Hugh Jackman y Daniel Craig. Escrita por Keith Huff, Steven Spielberg quiere llevarla al cine y David Serrano se ha encargado de adaptar magistralmente al español este escalofriante recorrido por las cloacas del mundo policial que te cala hasta los huesos. Apabullante obra de teatro que te deja noqueado como la serie de Netflix que ha conmocionando el panorama televisivo: Making a murderer es un documental de 10 capítulos que cuenta la historia real de Steven Avery, condenado a 18 años con cargos de violación e intento de homicidio. Cuando una prueba de ADN demostró su inocencia, Avery se convirtió en símbolo de la reforma del código penal en EEUU pero la historia no termina aquí, nos lo contará Aloña Fernández Larrechi en Hablemos en Serie donde rastreamos historias reales de lo que vemos en pantalla y este martes contarnos con J ose Antonio Valdivieso que, por un error policial, pasó 9 años entre rejas, intentó suicidarse 3 veces y consiguió demostrar su inocencia gracias a la investigación que su padre llevó a cabo en la calle. __________________________________________________ Carne Cruda, el programa de radio que tú haces posible. La República Independiente de la Radio. Existimos gracias a las aportaciones de los oyentes. Difunde nuestros contenidos y si puedes: hazte productora o productor de Carne Cruda. Aquí tienes más información: www.carnecruda.es/hazte_productor/
Con las tripas interpreta Sergio Peris Mencheta a un policía vapuleado por un caso que hará tambalear su vida y su idea acerca de la lealtad, la amistad, la familia y la justicia. Junto a Roberto Álamo sostiene una historia violenta, brutal, llena de claroscuros, Lluvia constante arrasó en Broadway con Hugh Jackman y Daniel Craig. Escrita por Keith Huff, Steven Spielberg quiere llevarla al cine y David Serrano se ha encargado de adaptar magistralmente al español este escalofriante recorrido por las cloacas del mundo policial que te cala hasta los huesos. Apabullante obra de teatro que te deja noqueado como la serie de Netflix que ha conmocionando el panorama televisivo: Making a murderer es un documental de 10 capítulos que cuenta la historia real de Steven Avery, condenado a 18 años con cargos de violación e intento de homicidio. Cuando una prueba de ADN demostró su inocencia, Avery se convirtió en símbolo de la reforma del código penal en EEUU pero la historia no termina aquí, nos lo contará Aloña Fernández Larrechi en Hablemos en Serie donde rastreamos historias reales de lo que vemos en pantalla y este martes contarnos con J ose Antonio Valdivieso que, por un error policial, pasó 9 años entre rejas, intentó suicidarse 3 veces y consiguió demostrar su inocencia gracias a la investigación que su padre llevó a cabo en la calle. __________________________________________________ Carne Cruda, el programa de radio que tú haces posible. La República Independiente de la Radio. Existimos gracias a las aportaciones de los oyentes. Difunde nuestros contenidos y si puedes: hazte productora o productor de Carne Cruda. Aquí tienes más información: www.carnecruda.es/hazte_productor/
Kirsty Lang discusses a new film adaptation of John Banville's Man Booker prize winning novel The Sea. With Rachel Cooke. House of Cards writer Keith Huff talks about his play A Steady Rain. A hit on Broadway in 2009 starring Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman, it receives its UK premiere at the Theatre Royal Bath. Is it ok to steal a Banksy? Lawyer Karen Sanig, from Mischon de Reya, offers legal advice. Poet Patience Agbabi on her new collection Telling Tales, an updating of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, with the pilgrims travelling on a Routemaster bus. And TV critic Boyd Hilton reviews Trying Again, the new sitcom from Thick of It duo Chris Addison and Simon Blackwell, about a couple stuggling after an affair. Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Timothy Prosser.
Bob Wilcox and Gerry Kowarsky review (1) A STEADY RAIN, by Keith Huff, at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, (2) DOUBT: A PARABLE, by John Patrick Shanley, at Kirkwood Theatre Guild, (3) OLEANNA, by David Mamet, at HotCity Theatre, (4) BATTLEDRUM, by Doug Cooney & Lee Ahlin, at Metro Theater Co., (5) AVENUE Q, by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, & Jeff Whitty,at [insert name here] theatre company, (6) BLACK COFFEE, by Agatha Christie, at Clayton Community Theatre, and (7) AN EVENING OF MYSTERIES, by Richard LaViolette, at First Run Theatre.