Podcasts about Lisner Auditorium

Today, we're talking to Jordan Campbell, an independent filmmaker and director of the new documentary Ukraine Under Fire, which premiered in George Washington University’s renowned Lisner Auditorium, on February 24, and be available in Colorado soon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

10:01 PM | Gumshoes | The Real Thing 10:05 PM | Al Matcott | O My Darling 10:09 PM | Janita | In Your Sunshine10:15 PM | Little Feat | All That You Dream (Live at Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC, 8/10/1977) 10:19 PM | Cage the Elephant | Neon Pill 10:22 PM | Drahla | Default Parody 10:28 PM | Yes | Yours Is No Disgrace 10:37 PM | Pearl Jam | Better Man 10:42 PM | TORRES | Forever home 10:46 PM | Aimee Mann | Choice in the Matter 10:49 PM | Teenage Dads | Tale of a Man 10:53 PM | Earth, Wind & Fire | Getaway

In 1981 John Boorman directed the greatest Arthurian myths set to film: Excalibur! The iOtians chat about one of their favorite movies on its 40th anniversary.  You'll learn about interesting casting prospects (Sean Connery as Arthur) and hear other behind-the-scenes tales from the making of the film. Before you go hunting for the Grail, listen to this podcast!Excalibur (1981) directed by John Boormanhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082348/Excalibur: Behind the Movie (2013)https://pbsinternational.org/programs/excalibur_behind-the-movie/The Sword in the Stone (1963)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057546/Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Maloryhttps://bookshop.org/books/le-morte-d-arthur-9780375753220/9780375753220The Once and Future King by T. H. Whitehttps://bookshop.org/books/the-once-and-future-king/9780441627400The Death of King Arthur retold by Peter Ackroydhttps://bookshop.org/books/the-death-of-king-arthur-the-immortal-legend-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition/9780143106951Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennysonhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/261147/idylls-of-the-king-by-alfred-tennyson/The Wrath of the iOtiansEmail: thewrathoftheiotians@gmail.comInstagram: thewrathoftheiotiansTwitter:  @OfiOtiansWebsite: https://thewrathoftheiotians.buzzsprout.com/MusicSiegfried's Funeral March and Finale composed by Richard WagnerPerformed by the United States Marine Corps Band, recorded December 8–11, 1981 at w:Lisner Auditorium, w:George Washington University, w:Washington, DC, funeral march transcribed by Howard Bowlin and finale transcribed by John Bourgeois, who was the Band Director.The music was obtained from WikiMedia Commons and is under public domain.The Lowest DeepA supernatural horror fiction series.Listen on: Spotify

Sam revisits his chat with best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell about his book, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know. The book explores examples such as the arrest of Sandra Bland and the Stanford rape case as to why interactions with strangers often go so wrong. This episode was taped in front of a live studio audience at The George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium in September 2019.You can follow us on Twitter @NPRItsBeenAMin and email us at samsanders@npr.org.

Soprano Lisette Oropesa was recently named as the winner of the 2019 Richard Tucker Award. She stars in  major productions around the world and has garnered acclaim in several prestigious debuts including in the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Real Madrid and Royal Opera House.  Past winners include such luminaries as Stephanie Blythe, Lawrence Brownlee, Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming, Christine Goerke, Matthew Polenzani, and Deborah Voigt. Oropesa was inducted into this who’s who of American opera at the foundation’s annual gala on Sunday, October 27, at Carnegie Hall.  She chats with host Patrick D. McCoy about her career, winning the award and her upcoming appearance in DC with Washington Concert Opera in their performance of "Hamlet" by Ambroise Thomas on Sunday, November 24 at George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium.

Amanda Knox takes the stage for an in-depth and personal conversation with Lorena (Bobbitt) Gallo, a woman who survived and transcended an abusive husband, tabloid exploitation and the casual cruelty of an entire nation. Recorded LIVE at the Death Becomes Us true-crime festival, Lisner Auditorium in Washington, D.C. on November 10, 2019. This episode is nominated for a 2020 Webby Awards for Best Live Podcast Recording. Vote now for it to win the People's Voice Award at vote.webbyawards.com.

On November 4th 2018 the Small Town Dicks team appeared in their first ever live show at the Death Becomes Us true crime festival. While Detectives Dan and Dave remained concealed off-stage on mics, Yeardley and Zibby sat down with investigator Paul Holes to interview him on his 24 yearlong investigation into the Golden State Killer case. The Golden State Killer was one of the most prolific predators in U.S. history. He was a serial killer, rapist, and burglar who committed at least 13 murders, more than 50 rapes, and over 100 burglaries in California from 1974 to 1986. This is a recording of that live show which was produced by D.C.’s Brightest Young Things and held at the Lisner Auditorium in Washington D.C.  

BYT's inaugural true crime fest, Death Becomes Us, is this weekend at the Lisner Auditorium. Solid State Books is our bookseller for the fest. We chat with bookstore co-owner Jake Cumsky-Whitlock about the popularity of the bloody genre.

Born an anchor baby in London, Mehran single-handedly rescued his Iranian family from the Ayatollah Khomeini. Ever gracious, teenage Mehran evened the score in the United States by dropping out of college and taking up homosexuality. Honing his sharp sense of the absurd while working at Harvard University, Mehran's early experience navigating regime change came in handy when he personally escorted deposed president Larry Summers off the property. He would later go on to produce several successful shows with the University-affiliated Oberon Theater. A quick riser in the Boston comedy scene, Mehran was named Best Comedian in Boston by the Boston Phoenix, and was a two time finalist in the International Boston Comedy Festival. At Emerson College's Semel Theater, Mehran recorded a half hour of comedy for Die Laughing, produced by Friends co-creator, Kevin Bright. Mehran has opened for such acts as Maz Jobrani, Tom Green and Eugene Mirman. He works regularly with some of the hottest up-and-comers in comedy and has been in the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival for the last four years. He has played to crowds of thousands at leading venues, like the Wilbur Theater, the Berklee Performance Center, and the Lisner Auditorium and has toured extensively at colleges and universities. A leading MC in the emerging neo-burlesque scene, Mehran plays to an audience of 30,000 each December at the historic Somerville Theater. He recently moved to Manhattan, where he lives with his husband and his tiny idiot dog. We discuss his time working at Beth Israel and Harvard (Larry fucking Summers), his experience with the Iranian revolution, dogs, why medical science is bullshit (http://acsh.org/2015/05/science-publication-is-hopelessly-compromised-say-journal-editors/), marijuana dispensaries, transracial, being a gay iranian, Amanda Palmer, and magic. Enjoy. Please donate to https://www.gofundme.com/mandylives For more: http://philoofhealth.org/2015/10/sorcery-with-mehran.html

Jonathan Wei, the founder and director of The Telling Project, is a playwright, writer and producer. Jonathan’s dramatic work has been staged at the Guthrie Theater, Library of Congress, Maryland Center for the Performing Arts, Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC and Portland Center Stage in Portland, OR among others. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Village Voice, Iowa Review, and the North American Review and Glimmer Train, and his work featured by the New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Inside Higher Ed, the Associated Press, and NPR. He has received support from the Bob Woodruff Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Smithsonian Institute, the Library of Congress, Metabolic Studios, Minnesota Humanities Center, Humanities Iowa, Oregon Humanities Center and others. Jonathan lives with his family in Austin, TX. The Purpose The Telling Project is a performing arts non-profit that employs theater to deepen our understanding of the military and veterans’ experience. Greater understanding fosters receptivity, easing veterans’ transitions back to civil society, and allowing communities to benefit from the skills and experience they bring with them. Through this understanding, a community deepens its connection to its veterans, itself, and its place in the nation and the world. The Work The most direct path to understanding veterans’ experience is person-to-person contact.  With the dramatic decline in the numbers serving in the military – less than one percent of the population over the last eleven years of war – this contact will not happen through day-to-day life. It must be created and supported.  Through performance, The Telling Project puts veterans and military family members in front of their communities to share their stories.  We give veterans and military family members the opportunity to speak, and their communities the opportunity to listen. Show Notes:  http://VeteranPodcast.com/011

It's been a year since we went national with the Swish Edition! And on this special episode, we welcome actress & activist MICHELLE CLUNIE to the show. You guys know her best as Melanie from Showtime's ground breaking show Queer as Folk, and she shares with us tales about how often people call her Melanie; her new movie with Matthew McConaughey; whether she thinks they should ever revisit the world of Queer as Folk; her friend Leisha Hailey's Southwest Airlines fiasco; her participation in GLAAD's Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen: A Generation of Queer Film, panel discussion at Washington, DC's George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium at 6pm on Wednesday, October 12; and, much more.  We LOVED our chat with Michelle...one of our best, most heart-felt conversations to date. And to balance out the girl...we have to have a boy and our old friend RONNIE KROELL fits the bill! He's best known from the reality competition Make Me a Supermodel, he's been a Playgirl cover model, and he's been acting is such films as Eating Out: Drama Camp. He sits down with Justin in the New York City studio just before making a big move from the Big Apple to L.A. He talks angel cards, transitioning to feature films, his time on reality shows and posing naked for a major magazine, and much more. And, he'll be joining Michelle at the GLAAD event we mentioned above, too! And to make an exciting episode even more so, our favorite lesbians join us in studio again! Eboné Bell & Angell Lynn in the house for all the fun including telling us about the event they hosted recently for author Aaron Anson's new book, Mind Your Own Life. As we count down to our big gay cruise with Atlantis next January, we ask our listeners to let us know what they like best about gay cruises and how they differ from the more traditional lines. Let us know what you think by email, by calling us at 202-596-7769, or leaving comments on our Facebook or Twitter pages. All that, plus Dale goes searching for military boys; Eboné and Angell do the Renaissance Festival; Madonna to perform at the next SuperBowl half-time show; Steve throws up in his wine glass at the HRC National Dinner after party; Dale breaks the golden rule and dances at J.R.'s; Scott can't last much more than six hours of drinking vodka; Poison frontman Bret Michaels to design clothes for dogs and cats; Ricky Martin suffers homophobia in Central America; Steve can't move his eyebrows anymore; Hank Williams Jr. gets pulled from ESPN's Monday Night Football for an Obama comment; Enrique has a hot new video; and much, much more. Episode 154 is called, "One Year Down," in honor of our one year anniversary of doing the Swish Edition.

On September 24, 2010 at 7 p.m., Politics & Prose hosted Jonathan Franzen at G.W. University Lisner Auditorium. Nine years after his National Book Award-winning The Corrections, Franzen presents Freedom, which chronicles the ups and downs--mainly the downs--of the Berglunds. Patty, once a promising basketball player, is now a depressed suburban wife and mother, battling neighbors and her own demons. Her husband talks green but does business with the coal industry, while their old friend Richard has descended from would-be rock stardom to building decks. Click here to hear the podcast of this event. Click below to buy the book. Freedom (Hardcover) By Jonathan Franzen $28.00ISBN-13: 9780374158460Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 08/01/2010

1500 people packed the hall on Feb. 4 when the Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus spoke at the Lisner Auditorium on the campus of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He inspired everyone with his impressive thoughts on the importance of microfinance and ideas from his book, “Creating a World Without Poverty” (Appeared on the New York Times Best Seller List). Watch the whole event in the coming series of episodes.