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This week Amanda reunites with her dear friend, the Broadway and TV star Fred Applegate! A riveting episode about the business, about faith and an in depth look at a decades long journey of storytelling between continents and coasts. Incredible insights on marriage, humility and transformation. We thank Fred for his honesty, vulnerability, kindness and generosity of time and heart. On Broadway, Fred was last seen in the American cast of THE FERRYMAN directed by Sam Mendes, the Wizard in WICKED (twice), and starred in TUCK EVERLASTING, THE LAST SHIP, SISTER ACT, LA CAGE..., YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, THE PRODUCERS (in NYC and London), SOUND OF MUSIC. Fred appeared in New York in FANNY (Encores!); HAPPINESS (Lincoln Center). He premiered THE 2ND MRS. WILSON at the Long Wharf Theater. National Tours: WICKED, ANYTHING GOES, THE PRODUCERS, and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.  He has guest starred in over 150 episodes of television including Seinfeld, Malcom in the Middle, ER, Murphy Brown, Newhart, FM, Life...and Stuff, Woops!, 9to5 and more. Recurring: Cosby, Night Court, Growing Pains, Crashing, Billions, Person of Interest, and many more.  His film credits include Georgia Rule, Stuart Saves His Family (1995), The Producers and many more.Applegate's voice can be recognized as the narrator of documentaries for PBS, National Geographic, Disney, Bravo, and A&E.  Regional theatre: Mark Taper (4 productions), Geffen, Old Globe, St. Louis Rep, The MUNY, Guthrie Theater (13 productions). Married to Cherie Sprosty, a Catholic liturgist; children: Ben, Meredith and Ethan.  www.fredapplegate.com Fred's Henry Kiser Music Recommendation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7byKb8Bwc Produced by On Air with Q

In this episode, we're discussing Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's shocking claims about the Biden family's alleged involvement in human trafficking and her expose of a fellow congress member's extramarital affair with a Chinese spy. But that's not all; we'll also cover the tragic case of a Planned Parenthood Communications Director and the child porn investigation that led to his suicide. And if you're ready for some political bloopers, we have a clip of Senator John Federman stumbling through his words during a committee hearing. Don't miss our discussion on a recent video comparing US Christians to the Taliban. Make sure to hit that subscribe button, leave a five-star review, and join us as we uncover the truth that still exists in the world. Let's jump right into it!   All the links: https://linktr.ee/theaustinjadams Anti-Elite Club Apparel: https://antielite.club   Full Transcription:  The Adams archive.  Hello, you beautiful people and welcome to the Adams Archive. My name is Austin Adams, and thank you so much for listening today. I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. Today we are going to be discussing Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green for a couple reasons. The first one being that she called out the Biden family, along with the President of the United States for being involved in. Trafficking, human trafficking to be exact. And on top of that, she came out and called out another individual during a congressional hearing for having extra marital affairs with a Chinese spy. So we will discuss that. We will also discuss the Planned Parenthood communications Director committing suicide after police launched a child porn investigation into him and raided his apartment building. So, uh, very sad, um, to hear that that is still going on in the world, but obviously, uh, in this case, glad to hear that, you know, at least there was maybe a little bit of justice there, uh, rather that than him still going around the world and conducting the terrible things that he was doing. So, After that, we will watch a quick clip by the Senator John Federman Fu fu fu fumbling over every single word that was an on a sheet of paper in front of him during a committee hearing. Um, after, you know, he came back from, I guess a medical leave for depression or something like that. So we'll talk about that. After that, we will jump into, uh, a recent video that surfaced surrounding the views. Uh, Patty Le Lap, Patty Lape. That sounds like a early character from like a Tom and Jerry film. Um, Patty Lap talking and comparing us Christians to the Taliban.  But first, go ahead and leave a five star review. 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So head over there, uh, check it out. Shop now. Help support your boy and let's jump into it.     The Adams archive. All right, very first on the agenda today. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green called out the Biden Crime family for participating in human trafficking by soliciting prostitutes from the United States and abroad in countries like Russia and Ukraine. So let's go ahead and watch this video by Marjorie Taylor Green and see what she has to say about it. Then I will talk about it because this is something that we have talked about before with the Hunter Biden laptop. I have done a complete deep dive, two separate episodes into the laptop of Hunter Biden. So go back and find those in the archives. But this is wild to hear. Come out of a congresswoman's mouth. So here she is calling out the President of the United States for participating and paying for human trafficking. This is a legitimate. Congresswoman calling out the president of the United States for human trafficking. Now, the world was up in arms about Donald Trump saying something about grabbing her by the pussy. But here we are with substantial evidence that the president of the United States, the current standing president of the United States, participated in human trafficking, including, and, and this is probably what she's alluding here, but something that we talked about with the Hunter Biden laptop is that he asked his father to wire him money Hunter Biden did so that he could pay a rust. A Russian prostitute asked Joe Biden to wire him money. So along the same exact time that he was not able to pay this prostitute, he was texting about the fact that she was asking for this money, how much, it was like a ridiculous amount. He didn't have it. He asked his dad to wire him money so that he could pay this Russian prostitute. And here is Marjorie Taylor Green talking about it. Finally, um,  For after a congressional hearing, and here we go, reviewing the financial records in the Treasury. Uh, what I saw was over 2000 pages of jaw-dropping information. Uh, there's basically an enterprise wrapped around Joe Biden, uh, involving not only multiple family members, more than we thought there were, but other people as well. Uh, just a complete conglomerate of LLC shell companies where money was passing through from foreign countries, China, Ukraine, but many more countries than just those. There's a lot of information the American people deserve to know of the Biden family and the crimes they've been involved in. And the oversight committee has a much bigger investigation to do than we ever thought was possible. Um, I just saw evidence of human trafficking. Uh, this involved prostitutes not only from here in the United States, but foreign countries like Russia and Ukraine. Uh, this is, this is unbelievable that a president and a former vice president, uh, not only his son Hunter Biden, but many more family members extending past Hunter Biden and his immediate family. Uh, we're going to have to really get to work. This is an investigation that needs to be revealed to the American people. And not only do we have questions about Hunter Biden himself, but this is going to extend into developing a web of, uh, corruption, a web of fake companies, uh, that's going to reveal money that came in from many foreign countries and went directly into the personal bank accounts of the Biden family, where they have financially benefited directly from Joe Biden's, uh, seats of power. And we look forward to investigating and exposing for this, this, for the American people. And, um, and we'll see where it goes from there.  All right, so we know what she's talking about, right? At least everything that she talked about there, I'm familiar with from doing these deep dives. And if you aren't familiar, go back and listen to those podcasts surrounding the Hunter Biden laptops. But I'll give you a brief synopsis. So Hunter Biden left his laptop at a laptop repair shop. Very stupid of him, but obviously, uh, that does not pale in comparison to the stupid amount of stuff that he had on that laptop, including all of these pictures with, uh, these prostitutes. I mean, literally, this man did not have sex with a woman ever without documenting it with pictures of him with a crack pipe in his mouth. Um, but what she's talking about here is all, obviously all of the webs from Ukraine, from China, from Barisma, the energy companies that Hunter Biden was on the board of, um, through his shell companies that she's talking about, which she's alluding to there, which is. Uh, I'm trying to remember the name of it. Um, but it was, uh, some something Seneca, um, I forget the name. I, I'm, I'm sure I can look it up here, but, um, Seneca Capital or some shit like that. So he basically had this, these shell companies set up. This is where the 10% to the big man came from, right? All of this money that was being poured into him within the emails that were leaked from Hunter Biden's laptop, we know for sure at least com from the documentation that was shown to us, that he had a relationship with these energy companies, with companies in China, with companies in Ukraine, with companies all over the countries in the, in the worlds that we are both enemies and allies. With, that he was doing business dealings with paddling, the influence of his father. Our current sitting president of the United States, we know this during the time that he was vice President with Barack Obama, there is all of this paper trails. You can go and find every one of these emails that I'm talking about online today. Okay? Now what we'll find out here is if Marjorie Taylor Green is not. Brought to court and brought on by a unbelievable litigation case as a result of this singular tweet that she just made. We know everything that she just said is accurate. Then if Joe Biden does not immediately take her to court and bring her to the cleaners, right, but just wash her out with millions of dollars in a defamation lawsuit, we know 100% that what she said there is true, right? Why would the sitting president allow a congresswoman to come out and say these things without having a rebuttal? Well, the reason that Joe Biden has not come out and said anything about this is because he does not want to draw any more attention to this factual conversation that is going on. Right. We know absolutely based on the emails, we know absolutely. Based on the documentation that came out from Hunter Biden's laptop, that there he was pedaling the influence of his father for money. As long as the big guy means what we believe it means, which obviously why would they have a code word for the person that they're paying if they're doing legitimate business dealings. Right. Does that make any sense to you? Right, so, so the things that she's talking about we're familiar with, but to know now that Congress is having hearings over this, that there's an oversight committee looking through 2000 pages of financial documents, tracing back the payments through the Biden family and tracing it back to companies like Barisma, tracing it back to companies like. Uh, like all of the Chinese Shell corporations that she's alluding to here, all of the, all of the, the things that are going on within the Hunter Biden laptop, we know 100% that these things are true. If she's not brought to court for this, right, you are not going to have a congresswoman who has 3.6 million views on a video calling out the president of the United States for human trafficking without a defamation lawsuit. So if she is not brought to court for this, we know it's, it's obviously something that he is scared of having come out right now. You even go, uh, you even go through the documentation like, and you, and you look at some of the replies that they have here, and it's just like, it's very apparent that Twitter is obviously, uh, very. Overwhelmed with l Liberal, uh, accounts or bo accounts that are just like tar and feathering her from the, the replies that she has in here, but 3.6 million views on the congresswoman coming out and saying these things. Um, and, and somebody, the very, very first comment on this, so we'll see if this has any, I haven't read through this yet, but it says something is up. Uh, somebody commented on this from, uh, yesterday and says, uh, what the very top comment says was Jordan's, Jim Jordan is who this is talking about. It says Jordan's team just got exactly what they are looking for. All right. Now this has a, a fair amount of, uh, traction. So let's see what this is about. Um, but it says, house Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan believes that there's a seismic shift regarding allegations against Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. Jordan suggests something is up with the probe because of new interest in the story by many of the same media outlets that initially dismissed reports of corruption evidence stemming from materials and emails taped from a laptop he reportedly abandoned at a computer store in Delaware in 2019. Right, exactly. What's your boys say in here? Well, what happened to that is you have had 51 intelligence officers sign a letter saying that Hunter Biden's story was Russian misinformation when it wasn't. And that changed. I think anyone can make a credible argument that, um, that altered the outcome of the election and we no longer have Donald Trump in the White House because he was doing that. He was pushing back on China for the first time, and now we have Joe Biden there and it's exactly the opposite direction Jordan said. So that's what happened. That's why this is all connected because the influence of big media, big tech, and big government in impacting our election. I think we said this last week. Sean, my colleagues had this in the committee for a few weeks ago, Matt Gaetz. He said, when will the, when will the FBI stay out of elections and let us, the people decide. In 2016, they went after Trump's campaign, 2018. It was a Mueller investigation. 2020, they suppressed the Hunter Biden story. 20 22 91 days before the midterm election, they raid his home, and now just two weeks ago, three days after he announces his 2024 race. They name a special council and it's not just anybody, it's Jack Smith and the record that he has of weaponizing the government to go after the people. Um, so now what I find to be interesting about this is that what he's talking about there is the F B i going to Facebook, right? We were recall this from the Mark Zuckerberg, Joe, or, uh, Joe Rogan interview. Mark Zuckerberg went on Joe Rogan and said that the FBI came to all of the social media outlets and said that they should not run a story about Hunter Biden and that it was Russian misinformation, right? They said they were not gonna give you the specifics, but there's a story that's gonna come out about Hunter Biden and it's Russian disinformation. Now, what we found even more so from a, a different conversation that I don't exactly recall the, the, the source of, but I recall another podcast that came out from somebody that was on the inside that talked about the fact that they ran actual drills with social media. The FBI did. The FBI basically said we're going to have all of these large journalists, a part of these drills that we run. And one of the drills was Russian misinformation surrounding Hunter Biden. So they were priming the journalists, priming the outlets, priming the social media companies to know that when there was something that leaked about Hunter Biden, because they knew it was gonna come out, that it was going to be Russian disinformation. So this goes on to say from Jim Jordan, it sure looks like Joe Biden was involved. Jordan edited. So my, how this history has changed and now we find out these text messages and emails that linked lengthy entire family, not just Hunter and Joe, but also Uncle Joe's, brother James Biden is involved in this. Jordan also spoke over the weekend about how he believes Republican district attorneys will likely seek to prosecute Biden or members of his family after Manhattan. District Attorney Alvin Braggs weaponized prosecution of Donald Trump. One of my Republican cos has indicated that he has had some local das approach him and says that he's trying to do just that. Uh, he went on to say that I didn't wanna see what happened in the Manhattan DA's office, but now that we've crossed that line, that's where we're, it's likely to. Right. When you see these things happen to, to Donald Trump and that, that that's the problem that happens in all of these things, right? That's the problem with censorship online. That's the problem with weaponizing the da. That's the problem with weaponizing the fbi. That's the problem with going into a, a President's home address and searching his home for documents that you don't know whether or not they're there or whether or not it's prosecutable for the documents that he had there, because there was allegedly classified documents in Donald Trump's home, but there was also allegedly documents in Joe Biden's home. So the second that you start to cross these lines, right, the second everything becomes blurred, and the second you weaponize the f b I, now it's the pendulum always goes back, right? So, so as soon as, as soon as you are screaming from the rooftops for censorship against the opposite side of the political spectrum, you have to know eventually it's gonna come for you. Eventually it's going to come for something that you said it doesn't work one way. Right, and, and, and knowing the history of the United States and the way that our, our presidential elections work is that it's never democrat, democrat, democrat, democrat, democrat that gets elected. There's never 20 straight years where Democrat's getting elected. There's never 20 straight years where a Republican gets elected. So you have to know that the political, the, the pendulum is going to swing back the opposite direction. So when you go after Donald Trump, people are gonna go after Joe Biden and his family only. When we're talking about Joe Biden, it seems like there's so much legitimate, factual information that has come out that's prosecutable, that there's very likely that he and his family should actually go to jail compared to Donald Trump when the al they're doing is grasping for straws with the stormy Daniel. So I don't wanna bore you with the rest of this article, but there's just two more statements left. But obviously what he's alluding to and what Marjorie Taylor, Taylor Green is alluding to is that his uncle's involved with this, where he got payouts, hunter Biden got payouts right, all within that laptop situation, which it's unbelievable that it's taken three years for them to sift through that shit because I did it in a single podcast episode and knew exactly what was going on, including Hunter Biden, uh, engaging in some type of gross incestuous relationship, allegedly with his niece. Oh, and also, you know, fornicating with his dead brother's ex-wife. All of that. Right. Um, so Brad came under heavy fire in recent weeks since Trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury. The Manhattan grandeur jury indicted Trump on 34 criminal charges of falsifying business records related to the adult film Star Stormy Daniels. Yeah. Okay. But that's what you have to know. The pendulum always swings back. Right.  So here is the next statement that came from Marjorie Taylor Green. This was in a separate hearing, which I find to be quite hilarious. , but kind of a drop to mic moment from her. It's like if you had to have somebody on your team from politics, right? From, from the political sphere. Right now, I think Marjorie Taylor Green's kind of a boss right now. Uh, I'm sure there's,  , everybody wants to point to the Jewish space space lasers.  I, I've never actually seen that quote. , but every quote or or every video that I've seen of her talking, you know, her, her talking about the elites, her talking about, , all of the craziness that's been happening over the last several years does PR seems to be pretty on point. And this seems to be pretty on point for the mainstream media to, uh, try to deeg legitimize somebody who's in a position to actually change the narrative. So here is Marjorie Taylor Green. Being silenced in the committee after accusing Mayor, mayor, co mayor. Who the hell is this guy? Um, he's honorable mayor cause, um, but uh, of lying and that's the Hill article. So what I've found, I've talked about this already. The Hill has become biased, left wing media for a very long time. The Hill seemed to be straddling the line of center. And now ever since they got rid of their previous anchor who had anything to say that didn't align with their certain beliefs, all of the headlines seem to be pulling punches on the left and pushing and, and throwing haymakers at the right. The hill has been compromised if you used to get your information from the Hill, which, you know, I have. I've been watching videos from them for a, a very long time on this podcast, at least for the last year. There's been a shift in their journalism over the last, I would say, Five months, maybe ever since. Uh, I, I cannot recall the name of the anchor that they got rid of, but ever since that happened, it seems to me that there's been a fairly consistent amount of left wing headlines, um, on their part. So, uh, take this, the positioning of this article with a grain of salt, but know that it does come from the hill. All right. All right, so here is the article and it's titled Marjorie Taylor Green Silenced, um, during a hearing, um, after accusing mayors of lying, and she didn't accuse him of lying, Marjorie Taylor, Marjorie Taylor Green came out, and after this man tried to throw mud, she threw an entire, uh, hill of dirt on this man. She, she went after him. Um, so let's, let's watch this video and, and see what happened.   I gentleman yields, uh, I now recognize Mr. Swalwell from California for his five minutes Question Congress. Mr. Checker, do you wanna respond to the, can I take 20 seconds? Yep. To say that, okay. So it was actually with, uh, Swalwell. And what she does is Eric Swalwell and he thinks he's calling out Marjorie Taylor Green, Donald Trump and Jim Jordan over remarks about the F FBI saying, defund the F B I, which after what we've seen and the persecution of Donald Trump over what is seemingly a misdemeanor crime at best, even if he's guilty, which we're still yet to be seen, which is just silly to go after a former president for. But we've seen the weaponization of the F fbi, which led them to have some campaigning and some, you know, Marjorie Taylor Green, uh, talks about, you know, has this apparel where it's hats and t-shirts that is defund the F B I. So he brings up this big poster board, like he's in fifth grade with these, this hat and this shirt from Marjorie Taylor Green talking about defund the fbi. And here we go. They're doing nothing is an absolute falsehood. We are taking it to the cartels. Do I think that nearly 58,000 fentanyl overdose deaths in 2020 are quote unquote justifiable? This department has worked to stop the trafficking of narcotics since its very inception, and we both know very well that the drug problem in this country requires a two-pronged approach to address the supply and to address the demand. And this fight continues and we are taking it to the cartels in an unprecedented way. An operation Blue Lotus that we launch in the middle of March is one powerful example of what we are doing to only increase our effort to address this scourge that is killing so many Americans. But to say that we are doing nothing is unequivocally false. Uh, law enforcement officers are under tremendous invited, the author of this tweet, well, the gentleman yield, well, the gentleman yield. Well concerned about all here. He's people on this committee and their own anti-police rhetoric. This is a defund, the FBI campaign effort. Again, thousands of FBI agents who work hard every day to take bad guys off the streets. In fact, after the FBI rated Mar-a-Lago, someone armed the teeth, went to an FBI field office to try and kill FBI agents. I'm also concerned that the chairman of the Judiciary Committee invited a witness when you could have any person who walks this earth as a chairman of a committee to come in and testify. The chairman of the judiciary committee invited the author of this tweet. Well, the gentleman yield. Will the gentleman yield? Will the gentleman yield? Mr. Chairman? Mr. Chairman personal inquiry is interrupting. He's not yielding. The gentleman is rec recognized. So it concerns me that there is this anti-police rhetoric that's happening among some in the MAGA Republican party because. They vote against police funding that was included in the Covid relief package. They vote against police reform efforts that would put millions of dollars in community police officers on our street. They vote and are against the union protections that allow them to collectively bargain. And as we honor the hundreds of January 6th officers who, all right, so we're gonna have to find something different here because they only wanted to show one side of that conversation and not her response. So it's comical how difficult it is to navigate fucking YouTube to find basic Senate hearings. Um, let's see here. This is the Gentle Lady from Georgia, Ms. Green. That was quite entertaining from someone that had a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy, and everyone knows it, but thanks for I move to take our words down. Completely inappropriate. Yeah. Stand by just a second while we research the rule. Um, gimme just a second. Okay. All right, so let's go back. So, so we heard his remarks. Now let's hear her remarks because obviously they don't want you to hear this in secession. So here is Marjorie Taylor Green responding to Eric Sowell's res, uh, comments about the F B I situation. And here we. That was quite entertaining from someone that had a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy, and everyone knows it. But thanks for I move to take our words down. No, no. This how this man does not defend himself. He does not say that's not true. He doesn't say that he never did that. He says, I move to take her words down. That's inappropriate. Don't bring up my sexual relationship with a Chinese spy when I'm calling you out about your silly hats. I don't appreciate that was his response there. So let's, let's let this clip play on, but here we go. Completely inappropriate. Yes. Stand by just a second while we research the rule. Um, gimme just a second. Uh, gimme a second while I search the rule, um, whether or not we're going to allow Chinese spy sexual relationships within the committee here at this congressional hearing. Hold on one second. Let me check that rule. I, I wonder if there is a rule. Section four, uh, subsection three says that when somebody brings up a sexual relationship with the Chinese spy, that we must strike that from the record. Sir, I need to reclaim my, make sure I have my full five minutes. They're like, Hey, don't, don't, don't let her talk about me. In that Chinese spy. We had a great sexual relationship, but we don't need everybody talking about it. Everybody's just dead silent after her remark. That's hilarious. She just shut this whole place down. A motion has been made. The gentleman will, uh, the committee will suspend and the gentleman will state the words that he wishes, taken down everything that the gentle lady from Georgia has said, no, you need to be more specific Accusations of an affair with a Chinese spy. Those are engaging in personalities, and they sh those words should be taken down and the gentle lady should not be able to speak anymore in this hearing. That is, that is not an, the latter part of that is not an appropriate motion, but we will evaluate the striking of those words. So they, this man had to repeat the fact that he had a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy so that they would strike it. They needed him. I, I hope they didn't even need him to, to, to repeat that. And they just did it out of like sheer appreciation for what Marjorie Taylor Green just did there. Excuse me, sir, could you tell me one more time what you would like us to strike from the record? Is it the fact that you had sex with a Chinese spy? Because if it is, you need to say it out of your own mouth. You dirty man. Gimme just a second. No, I will not. Let's see, let's see. So Georgia, and asks if she would like to retract those words. No, I will not. Again, notice how this man doesn't argue against it, but he just wants them to strike it from the record as inappropriate. Well, maybe your relationship with the Chinese spy was inappropriate, sir. Not just the statement that came out of her mouth. Maybe it was just the action itself. Man, this is silent for a very long time. Nobody's talking at all. Uh, from day one, the gentleman, the gentleman from Mississippi is recognized. Um, I don't think there's any question. Uh, what the young lady said. I've been on this committee, uh, from day one. Uh, we've never had an accusation, uh, made of any member like that, and I'm appalled at it. We all ought to be embarrassed at it. We are better committed than, than what the general lady is trying to make of this committee. So I appeal the ruling of the chair. The ruling of the chair has been appealed. We will now gentleman moves.  Okay, there's the statement. She came out and called this man out for the things that he actually did, and sh they were mad about it. Um, so there you have it. Marjorie Taylor Green is an absolute boss. Um, this man was just mad that he got caught red handed having sex with a Chinese spy. Um, and during his marriage, Now there was an entire recorded hearing about it on a congressional committee where it was, you know, recorded for all to hear. So there is that. All right, now the next thing that we're gonna discuss, let's, let's go ahead and move on from that, that took a while. Um, but Planned Parenthood Communications Director committed suicide after police launched an investigation into him for participating in child pornography. Right? So they raided his apartment building, they'd launched an investigation into this communications director of Planned Parenthood, and as a result, this man took his own life. So, obviously it's sad, it's tragic when anybody takes their own life, but not generally when it's on the same day that somebody rates your house for child pornography. So this goes on to say that the former director of strategic communications at the Southern New England Branch of Planned Parenthood took his own life amid a child pornography investigation in Connecticut last week. Police have not named abortion advocate, Tim Yuu, 36 years old as the sub subject in the pro, but confirmed that the man who committed suicide in his apartment building was a subject, um, Juu, 36 years old, took his own life five days after an apparent botched attempt by police to take him into custody. Investigators broke down the door of his neighbor in New Haven, Connecticut and handcuffed her before realizing they had rated the wrong apartment. The person who died was definitely the suspect in the child pornography investigation and the person who committed SU suicide. New Haven Police Chief Carl Jacobson told. The New Haven Register was this man Urgo appeared to post regularly on social media until December of 2022. Pictures of his godchildren, family, friends, and work events lay bear his life in the months prior to his death. Now, what a coincidence that the very same man who delegitimizes the life of infants and babies and children within the womb of mothers also seemed to devalue that life later when they were actually children by taking advantage of them sexually through child pornography. Interesting how that subsection between far left liberalism, trans ideology, LGBTQ plus sae, whatever, however many letters you wanna put behind that. Always followed within the realm of what we're seeing with a high probability it when there's news articles coming out about, you know, these types of things that maybe they lie on that side of it. And here he is holding a pride flag, um, which again, there's no correlation to me between gay people, lesbians, and, uh, the ad taking advantage of children, but it seems to be a correlation between some of the other movements. Now, uh, ergo has been working as the marketing and communications director for the Long Wharf Theater and previously worked for Planned Parenthood.  That's all I'm gonna go into on that. But pretty wild. The police raid this apartment building and got the wrong house, put this woman in handcuffs, and just, a short period after that, this man ends up committing suicide. So, I'm sure he was very concerned about them getting the actual right building and, you know, We'll go from there. So, um, let's move on after that. Pretty terrible story overall, but she said that they literally came up the third to the third floor. If they had been watching him, they would have seen my son and I coming and going. She said, um, she had filed a complaint and said police tried to connect her with a mental health services, but she declined. I was planning on going down there and talking to him, talking about her neighbor before realizing he'd taken his own life. I just thought that maybe a small act of compassion might help. Yeah. Little did you know, right? Uh, safe to say that this man went to hell, some would say. Right. Took his own life. You know, hell is a good place. Somebody else said, thanks for saving us time and money.  So next up is John Federman, the Senator. And he is now coming back from a short time period where he was away for medical leave, for depression, and now here he is at his very first committee hearing seemingly, uh, losing his ability to read at a first grade level. Uh, when it comes to words that are sitting in front of. All right, so next up is John Federman, the senator who had his very first committee hearing, uh, after a short period of medical leave for depression. And here he is stumbling over a piece of paper in front of him that obviously somebody else wrote. What's a, what's, what I find to be more frustrating than almost anything about politics in politicians is that they don't even fake it anymore. They don't even pretend to be saying the words that they're speaking, right? That to have come up with these words that they're, they're, they're talking about, right? They don't even pretend to have written them themselves. They, even if they wanna put it on a piece of paper and write out your statements, that's fine, but this man. Write any of this either. Does Joe Biden when it comes to his speeches, none of it, all of it's a facade. All of it is puppeteering, all of it is somebody else writing these speeches and in these men and women of politics, just saying whatever is in front of them instead of what they actually feel. Which is more frustrating than anything. I don't, I don't know how a single person could back somebody like that, let alone somebody who can't even read the words that somebody else wrote for them. So that's what we see from John Federman here and Nutrition Specialty Crops, organics and Research to order Chairwoman Stephenk and Ranking Member Boozman. Thank you so much for coming. I thank you for your leadership on this committee and I look forward to working with you to pass a farm. A farm bill that works for small farm farmers, rural communities, and hungry Americans. I would also like to thank my raking member, Senator Braun, and I look forward to working closely with you. Snap is one of the most effective programs to fight hunger and pirate in the country. In my time and effort in iis as the mayor in I to lieutenant, this man couldn't even say in office in iis, and you hear the tonality coming out of his voice, right? He couldn't even say farm correctly. It's, it's almo. It's, it's so embarrassing that this man is representing our country, that is representing an entire state, an entire state, that this man is sitting here fumbling over his words that couldn't pass a first grade spelling bee. And he's sitting here insulting these people's ears by not even being able to read the words that are in front of him, like office and farm. Hey, governor, to now I have heard from Pennsylvanians about their support for a snap. Hunger is not a Republican or a Democrat issue. It's all of our issue that we have to take it on. We need to come together and stop playing political games with American. We need to come together and stop playing political games. Hunger is not an issue that is Republican or Democrat. It is an issue for all of us humans to tackle, to gather that the food Americans like Chair about glory. J from the now, the town of Northeast in Pennsylvania tells me that his victim was skimming, which was was somebody what? Fuck. Just came out of your mouth, sir. What? You cannot tell me that that was English. I wanna listen to that one more time. You can absolutely not tell me that. That right there was the English language to come together and stop playing political games. Listen to this, Americans access to food. Americans like Chair about Glory. J. From the now to the town of Northeast in Pennsylvania, Americans about town. AJ from the American Northeast about the pen. Pen. Pennsylvania tells me that his victim was skimming, which was when somebody stole money and he relied from its Snap, E b T. Mr. Joy is not the first Pennsylvanian I have heard this from. I fear he won't be the last. And I will work in this farm Bill to modernize snap to work to recipients in the 21st century. I look forward to from hearing from you your witness on this estrogen for assistance on the farm Bill and I will now turn to Senator Bra for any opening comments that he would like to make. Oh my God. Thank you Mr. Chairman. Thanks to our witnesses for being here today. Uh, this is the second Congress that I'm serving as a ranking member on this subcommittee. I'm excited to return to the subcommittee and I'm looking forward to working with Chairman Federer defined bipartisan solutions. Yeah, you are. We're meeting today as part of the committee's consideration of the 2023 Farm Bill, and the bill will cost us more than it ever has in history, and I wanna make. That if we're spending more, we do it efficiently. Earlier this year when Secretary Vilsack testified before the committee, this is like one of those situations where everybody knows what's going on. Like where you have the high school basketball team and they like all, let the kid with a mental handicap come out and pretend like he's playing against them and makes the basket, and then everybody runs into the court. Only it's politics and this man can't read. That's, that's exactly what's going on here. Right? Like you've seen the clips and, and obviously great that children do that in high school, but maybe we shouldn't have somebody.  Oh, he has depression. Oh, whatever. Right? But maybe you shouldn't be representing an entire state if you can't read basic first grade English. Maybe that's the case, right? If you can't sit in front of you and have a piece of paper and read off of it properly and convincingly, maybe I don't want you taking my tax hours and giving it to some stupid thing that you want to give it to, right? And you see just the, the, the vast difference between him and the person that follows up with him. Ready? I asked him as a former governor if he was concerned with runaway spending, and let's see what else we can get from this man. Bipartisan support, including betterman. Where you at with me really highlights ACEs are not incentivized to invest in the thank. Thank you Mr. Woodford. Chairman Federman, ranking member Braun and subcommittee members. Thank you for allowing me to testify today. Independent Senator, Senator Gillibrand for. Right. Emergency food assistance to low income individuals. And these individuals may not qualify for snap, but they might need additional support. Food banks like Phillip residents, and knowing personally they're the kind of quality of the work that you do. In my own state, they distribute 85% of TFA foods nationwide. As Americans struggle with high food costs, how have you been able to allow you to continue to provide food support? Yeah. Um, thank you for the question. Um, and the reality is that food banks like Phil Abundance our partners across the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and really across the country, um, we, okay. Again, how embarrassing that we have somebody in a position of power in, in that was. Voted into office, right? And, and some people talked about the fact that this man basically got put into office because somebody else who was elected was actually dead when they were elected, which it wouldn't surprise me at this point because they probably would've still done a better job of reading this document in front of this man, even if they were incapacitated completely than what this man just tried to read off and insult our ears with. So again, I don't know when we got shifted from our timeline from a true reality into a comedy, but this is an exact example of what I'm talking about there, right there. There's no reason that anybody should be allowed in office if you cannot read a physical document in front of you. It's, it's, it's so silly to me that this is even has to become a conversation that maybe, maybe you should have to take a second grade reading test if you are put into a position of power in Congress, in Senate as a president. I dunno, maybe you should be able to read to the second grade level, but apparently that's not the case. All right, so let's go ahead and watch this clip here from The View. This is Patty Luon, um, comparing us Christians to the Taliban. But before we watch that, I need you to do one thing. Go head over to austin adams.ck.com, Austin adams.ck.com, and subscribe to the ck. So every single week we put out content. About the podcast companion is all of the links, all of the articles, all of the videos from this week's podcast directly to your email every single week. So head over there right now, put in your email and get that directly to your inbox and hit that subscribe button. Leave a five star review. I appreciate you and here's the clip. This before, and I'm gonna get in trouble, but I have said this before and it's been in print. I don't know what the difference between our Christian right and the Taliban is. I have no idea what the difference is. You're not the only person who's said that. I don't, I just don't know what the difference is. Yeah. What's happening in this country right now in the name of religion is so dangerous. So let's address that this woman. Just said she doesn't know what the difference is be between Christianity and the Taliban. Well, let's make some comparisons here. The Taliban reduces femininity down to the point where they're incapable of doing anything on their own. The conservative Christians just don't even identify what A can't even tell you what a woman is, right? Not only that, but they diminish the value of, of what a human life is to where, you know, just like the Taliban, they can kill you at ease. The, the, the Christian right doesn't even want you to survive as un until you're born as a human. Right? Oh, wait, that's not the Christian, right? That is the Democrats. This woman just came out and said that the Christian right is the same as the Taliban. Well, if that's the case, I would appreciate my 80 billion of military equipment because I think almost every Christian conservative would want that too. But it, it would only come from somebody with this type of haircut where they would make such a stupid statement like that. So this Karen in overalls and a collared dress shirt decided to call anybody who's a Christian conservative. Anybody who believes that, I don't know, maybe we shouldn't have abortion, maybe religion should, should be acceptable in de general public is now a part of the Taliban because we shouldn't end human life. From my experience, the Taliban. Definitely about ending human life, right? The, the, the Taliban is definitely all about, it's, it's okay to stop women from having rights. It's okay to stop women from, I don't know, going to school, having jobs, showing their face, showing their hair, right? The, the liberal left doesn't even want to give a definition to what women are, let alone actually give them rights. So, you know, I think this woman is a little, a little misguided in her perception of what it actually means, um, of, of what she's even saying. And Whoopy Goldberg coming in and saying, you know, you're not the first person to say that. You're not the first person to say that. Mm. I haven't heard any other clips like this one. So maybe you are the first person stupid enough to say those words out of your mouth on public television. Um, and Whoopy Goldberg just propping her up and giving her backup on this statement should, should be all of the, the leverage, uh, that you need to know that everything that's come out of this woman's mouth ever is just full of shit and just divisive and wants to further divide the left and the right from any type of community. This before, and I'm gonna get in trouble, but I have said this before and it's been imprint. I don't know what the difference between our Christian right and the Taliban is. I have no idea what the difference is. You're not the only person who has said that. I don't. And the award for the most ridiculous thing ever goes to her. All right, so that is all I have for you guys today. Thank you so much for listening. I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart so much. All right, and that is all I have for you today. Thank you so much for listening. I appreciate it. From the bottom of my heart. Have a wonderful week. I love ya. Leave a five star review, subscribe, anti elite.club Austin Adams dot.com. And that's all I got. Thank you.    

Paul Selig is a writer, teacher, and intuitive living in New York City. He is the director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College and serves on the playwriting faculty of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. His work for the theater has been performed internationally at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, the Joyce Theater, En Garde Arts, The Long Wharf Theater, Teatro Plastico and the Ensemble Studio Theater. His plays include the one woman show Mystery School (performed by Tyne Daly), the stage adaptation of War Letters (with Treat Williams and Mario van Peebles), additional material for the national tour of Tallulah (with Kathleen Turner), Terminal Bar, the Pompeii Traveling Show (NY Drama League Award), Moon City and Body Parts. His operas include the trilogy 3 Visitations. He collaborated with Shapiro and Smith Dance Company on Notes From a Séance and Never Enough. He recently completed a credited rewrite of Truth in Translation, commissioned by South Africa's Market Theater and the Colonnades Theater Lab. His work is published in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Short Plays of 1996-97; Gay Plays 3 and The Best Short Plays of 1988. He received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Paul had a spiritual experience in 1987 that left him clairvoyant. As a way to gain a context for what he was beginning to experience, he studied a form of energy healing, working at Marianne Williamson's Manhattan Center for Living and in private practice. He began to "hear" for his clients, and much of Paul's work now is as a clairaudient, clairvoyant, channel, and empath. Paul has led channeled energy groups for 15 years. Paul was invited to channel at the Esalen institute's 2009 invitational Superpowers and the Supernormal symposium and is featured in the upcoming documentary film Authors of the Impossible. - www.TacherBooks.com******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

In this episode we discuss his career as an Actor, Director, Choreographer and how those different artistic expressions helped him navigate the world. We also talk in depth about what it was like to travel with a deaf theatre company without knowing any sign language goin in. Professor Stephen Buescher is an actor, director, and teaching artist who has designed and led movement training curriculum for various master's programs including Brown University/Trinity Repertory Consortium and the American Conservatory Theater. He has also taught physical theater in the master's programs at the Yale School of Drama, University of Missouri Kansas City, and the University of Connecticut. He has choreographed Hamlet, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Orphan of Zhao, Stuck Elevator, Monstress, Let There Be Love, and Underneath the Lintel at the American Conservatory Theater; The Imaginary Invalid at the Old Globe Theater (Fiasco); A Midsummer Night's Dream and Private Lives at Long Wharf Theater; A Christmas Carol at Trinity Repertory Company; Love's Labour's Lost at Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Blues for an Alabama Sky at the Lorraine Hansberry Theater; and Black Maria at The Providence Black Repertory Theater. He has directed numerous productions in the MFA Conservatory including The Bacchae Communion Rite, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Galileo, The House of Bernarda Alba (Moscow Art Theater), Hotel Paradiso, Black Orpheus, and Crazy for the Country. Professor Buescher has been a long time company member with Dell' Arte International where he has performed both nationally and internationally. International Festivals include the International Small Scene Theater Festival (Croatia), The Festival of New Adaptations (Hungary), and The Festival International de Teatro Caribe (Colombia). He has also performed with the National Theater of Greece, Oktana Dance, and Tanz Theater Heidelberg. Nationally he has performed with Dell' Arte International, American Conservatory Theater, Smith Wymore Disappearing Acts, Scott Wells and Dancers, Shotgun Players, and Deborah Slater Dance. He is a first round recipient of TCG's New Generations Grant, a member of SDC, and the Network of Ensemble Theaters. Professor Buescher is a graduate of the Dell' Arte International School of Physical Theater and California Institute of the Arts.EducationDell'Arte International School of Physical TheaterCalifornia Institute of the Arts

Find out how a two-week vacation to Los Angeles turned into a long-term acting career for TV, Broadway and London actor, Fred Applegate in this interview with Phil Cooke. If you're hoping to make it in LA or hit Broadway, you'll gain insight into successful auditions, understanding your role on set, and keeping the role alive when doing theatre. After hearing the story of how Fred sustained such a long and successful career on stage and in front of the camera, you'll learn principles that will help you create an entertainment career for life.   Please like, rate and share this episode!   Get my new book: “Ideas on a Deadline: How to Be Creative When the Clock is Ticking” Order today and get bonus resource materials to instantly elevate your creativity. https://www.philcooke.com/ideasonadeadline/   Subscribe to My Podcast for more good advice for leaders and creatives: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/phil-cooke-podcast/id1439369056 Prefer video? Subscribe to My YouTube Channel and Get More Great Advice https://www.youtube.com/c/philcookeofficial?sub_confirmation=1 New episodes are uploaded every other Wednesday. Make sure to Subscribe and hit the Notification bell to be notified when they go live.   *Helping leaders navigate their calling and career in today's distracted media-driven culture* Do you have a message or story the world needs to hear? As a Hollywood producer and media consultant, I offer advice for leaders and creatives each week on creative leadership, digital media, branding and marketing strategies, film and TV production – and the faith to take you from where you are to where you want to be in your career. Sign up for my blog and get a free eBook https://www.philcooke.com   Follow me: Twitter https://twitter.com/philcooke Facebook https://www.facebook.com/philcookepage/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/philcooke/ Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/philcookes-podcast/id1439369056  Find out about Cooke Media Group here: https://www.cookemediagroup.com   *More About This Episode* Interview: Fred Applegate, Actor – TV, Broadway and London Fred Applegate has worked TV shows like Malcolm in the Middle with Bryan Cranston, The Producers with Mel Gibson and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with Rachel Brosnahan. His Broadway credits include Wicked, Beauty and the Beast and The Ferryman directed by Sam Mendes.   Quick Acting Tips from this interview: About acting: “Bring everything you have to the role.” About guest starring: “You have to know who you are, what you're doing, and why you're there. You have to honor why you're there.” About auditions: “You're not there to get the job. You're there to show that you're a good actor. And to show that you're a good person in the room.” About creativity: “Always have something that you're doing. Create something.” About faith: “My Christianity tells me to welcome you.” About a long-term career: “Always be doing something. There's nothing to wait for. If you're waiting, that's what you've chosen to do: nothing... You've got to keep doing things!”   Fred Applegate Bio: Fred Applegate's television credits include guest-starring and recurring roles on Newhart, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Malcolm in the Middle (featuring Bryan Cranston), Will and Grace, Hill Street Blues, Seinfeld, Northern Exposure, ER, Crashing!, Billions, Cosby, Night Court, Growing Pains, and many more...   On Broadway, Fred was part of the American cast of The Ferryman (directed by Sam Mendes), played the Wizard in Wicked (twice), and appeared in Tuck Everlasting, The Last Ship, Sister Act, La Cage aux Folles, Young Frankenstein, The Producers (in NYC and London) and the Sound of Music. He also appeared in New York in Fanny (Encores!) and Happiness (Lincoln Center), and premiered The 2nd Mrs. Wilson at the Long Wharf Theater.   Applegate's national tours include: Anything Goes, The Producers, and Beauty and the Beast. Regional tours include Mark Taper (4 productions), Geffen, Old Globe, St. Louis Rep, The MUNY, Guthrie Theater (13 productions). Find Fred Applegate on IMDb here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0032395/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Find out more at https://www.fredapplegate.com

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Richard Poe was born in Portola, California, and later moved to his "hometown" of Pittsburg, California. He attended high school there, and then graduated from the University of San Francisco in 1967. After a stint in the army during the Vietnam War, he got his first theater job with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, appearing in productions of St Joan, Hadrian VII, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead, and Oedipus Rex. He toured the country with Dame Judith Anderson, who played Hamlet at the age of 73 to Richard's Rosencrantz. Tour stops included Carnegie Hall and all of America's major cities. He played major roles at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, at Houston's Alley Theater, Syracuse Stage, Hartford Stage Company, Center Stage Baltimore, Goodman Theatre, Long Wharf Theater, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Huntington Theater. He played Henry Higgins in Pygmalion opposite Roma Downey as Eliza Dolittle; George Antrobus in The Skin of Our teeth opposite Marcia Gay Harden as Sabina; with John Lithgow on Broadway in M. Butterfly; and with Kevin Dobson in ART at Chicago's Royal George Theater. He has appeared in twelve Broadway productions in his twenty years in New York City. https://richardpoenyc.com/

And lastly on today's edition of Midday on the Arts, our theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins Tom for another of her weekly reviews of the region's thespian offerings. This week, she has reviews of two plays now running concurrently at Baltimore Center Stage. The first is ArtsCentric's ambitious production of Dreamgirls, the 1980s hit Broadway musical about a trio of young female singers aspiring to success. The sprawling cast is directed by Artscentric's founder and artistic director, Kevin S. McAllister. Musical Supervision is by Cedric D. Lyles, with choreograophy by Shalyce Hemby. The second play is the Center Stage production of Fires in the Mirror, playwright Anna Deavere Smith's powerful, one-woman evocation of the strife between Black and Jewish communities that erupted in New York City in the summer of 1991. The Center Stage production is directed by Nicole Brewer. (Tom Hall spoke about Fireswith Nicole Brewer, Center Stage Artistic Director Stephanie Ybarra and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, along with two scholars, here onMiddayearlier this month). The play is being presented in partnership with the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut. Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins us today on Zoom. Both productions are running at Center Stage until December 19. For ticketing information for Dreamgirls, click here. For Fires in the Mirror, click here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

JAMES CALLERI along with his partners Paul Davis and Erica Jensen own Calleri Jensen Davis, a creative casting partnership. They have been awarded 16 Artios Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Casting. James proudly served on the Board of the Casting Society of America for many years. He is an Associate Professor of Theater at Columbia University School of the Arts where he co-heads the Graduate MFA Acting Program. He is the co-author with Robert Cohen of ACTING PROFESSIONALLY: RAW FACTS ABOUT CAREERS IN ACTING published by Palgrave MacMillan, in it's eighth edition it is one of the leading books in the country for young actors. He also runs his studio www.calleristudio.com where he coaches and explores the craft with professional actors. He resides in New York City and Saugerties, New York. Broadway Theater: Broadway credits include the current running Thoughts of a Colored Man and his office will cast the upcoming revival of For Colored Girls…this Spring. Other credits include Burn This starring Adam Driver and Keri Russell, Fool for Love starring Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell, and Hughie starring Forest Whitaker, The Visit starring Chita Rivera and Roger Rees, Renee Fleming in Living on Love, the Tony winning revival Hedwig & The Angry Inch starring Neil Patrick Harris and Lena Hall, the revival of The Elephant Man starring Bradley Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola which traveled to London's West End as well and Of Mice and Men with James Franco, Chris O'Dowd and Leighton Meester.  Other Favorite Broadway credits include: Venus in Fur with Tony-winner Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy, 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda, A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Combs, Audra MacDonald, Phylicia Rashad, Chicago with Usher, and James Joyce's The Dead starring Christopher Walken. Off-Broadway includes Ives Lives of Saints and his revival of All in the Timing, Buyer & Cellar, Murder for Two, The Hilltown Plays, Satchmo at the Waldorf, My Name is Asher Lev, the long-running Fuerza Bruta and The Revisionist with Vanessa Redgrave and Jesse Eisenberg.   Most proud of long terms collaborations with : Playwrights Horizons (10 seasons) including such premieres as Betty's Summer Vacation, Lobby Hero, Small Tragedy, Goodnight Children Everywhere, Violet to name a few. Over 10 years with Classic Stage Company- including A Month in the Country with Peter Dinklage & Taylor Schilling, Peter Sarsgaard as Hamlet, Passion, New Jerusalem, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya with Maggie Gyllenhaal & Peter Sarsgaard and The Seagull with Dianne Wiest & Alan Cumming. and was Resident Casting Director ... for CSC, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Long Wharf Theater, The Flea, Keen Company, Williamstown Theater Festival, and Playwrights Realm. Other: City Theater, Berkeley Rep, Oregon Shakes, Naked Angels, New Georges, stageFARM, Epic Theater Ensemble and many seasons of SPF (Summer Play Festival) and NY Stage & Film Company. Some long running past productions... include Fuerza Bruta, Lobby Hero, The Guys, Fully Committed, Dinah Was, and The Vagina Monologues Nat'l Tour. TV: Love Life for HBO, Dickinson for Apple+, Queens for ABC , NY casting for When They See Us for Netflix, The Path for Hulu, Army Wives, Lipstick Jungle, Z Rock on IFC, the critically acclaimed A Raisin in the Sun on ABC also the hit series Ed, Hope & Faith, and Monk. Film: Beautiful Darkness, I Origins, Emoticon ;), Saint Janet, Another Earth, Refuge, Merchant Ivory's The City of Your Final Destination, Heights, and The White Countess, Yearbook, Lisa Picard is Famous, The Jimmy Show, Ready? OK!, Trouble Every Day, Peter & Vandy and Armless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Slowly and surely, live theater has come back to life but that doesn't mean theater is completely back to normal. Today, we check in with theaters in Connecticut and hear about what's coming to the stage this fall, all while keeping actors and theater patrons safe. We learn how the types of performances that you see might have changed as well. Are you going to see a show?  GUESTS: Jacqui Hubbard - Executive artistic director at Ivoryton Playhouse in Ivoryton, Connecticut Kit Ingui - Managing Director of Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut Melia Bensussen - Artistic Director at Hartford Stage Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paul Selig is a writer, teacher, and intuitive living in New York City. He is the director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College and serves on the playwriting faculty of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. His work for the theater has been performed internationally at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, the Joyce Theater, En Garde Arts, The Long Wharf Theater, Teatro Plastico and the Ensemble Studio Theater. His plays include the one woman show Mystery School (performed by Tyne Daly), the stage adaptation of War Letters (with Treat Williams and Mario van Peebles), additional material for the national tour of Tallulah (with Kathleen Turner), Terminal Bar, the Pompeii Traveling Show (NY Drama League Award), Moon City and Body Parts. His operas include the trilogy 3 Visitations. He collaborated with Shapiro and Smith Dance Company on Notes From a Séance and Never Enough. He recently completed a credited rewrite of Truth in Translation, commissioned by South Africa's Market Theater and the Colonnades Theater Lab. His work is published in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Short Plays of 1996-97; Gay Plays 3 and The Best Short Plays of 1988. He received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Paul had a spiritual experience in 1987 that left him clairvoyant. As a way to gain a context for what he was beginning to experience, he studied a form of energy healing, working at Marianne Williamson's Manhattan Center for Living and in private practice. He began to "hear" for his clients, and much of Paul's work now is as a clairaudient, clairvoyant, channel, and empath. Paul has led channeled energy groups for 15 years. Paul was invited to channel at the Esalen institute's 2009 invitational Superpowers and the Supernormal symposium and is featured in the upcoming documentary film Authors of the Impossible. - www.TacherBooks.com******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com ******************************************************************

Happy Pride! “The type of multi-hyphenate I am is I need to really clearly be able to compartmentalize what version of myself is being put into what thing. In terms of photography, if I have not been doing freeform things - I feel like I'm being worked to the bone.”  L Morgan Lee (A Strange Loop) is an artist who sees herself through her photography. And if anyone wants to know anything about her, all you have to do is look at one of her images. As we celebrate Pride month in 2021, this episode is an enjoyable and honest slice of life for two LGBTQIA+ multi-hyphenates in the theatre industry, both of who happen to be photographers. L Morgan's first priority is being an actress. She keeps in mind that perception is so much a part of the business, so it's in her best interest to be as specific as possible in terms of being an actress. “The group of ladies that I would love to be with in terms of acting,'' she says, “You can't just go on a website and book them for headshots.” Being a multi-hyphenate also welcomes different communities. “I think community is number-one a life line to me,” she says. “I need to have people that I feel close to. I have a community of trans women who are over fifty. There's two or three girls who have taught me so much without even knowing they are teaching me.” And of course, there's some photographer dishing - so are you ready for the tea to be spilled? Between L and Michael, the stories from behind the lens are endless. For one, they view the headshot as a survival job, while the other views the headshot as a way to express themselves. So, if each photographer has their own view of the art form - is there contention? Is there jealousy? Is it territorial? What are the boundaries we enforce to protect our heart?  Plus, if you're a business owner, like a photographer, L Morgan and Michael go deep into the practices of owning a business and finding the sweet spot of how to stay accessible, but also charging rates where the business owner can survive.  Enjoy this episode as Michael and L Morgan dive into knowing one's worth, money management, trans identity, joining the circles of our inspirations, a photographer's boundaries, and what it means to take charge of how the industry perceives an artist.  L MORGAN LEE (she/her) is an Obie award-winning actress, theatre maker, and photographer. She is most known for her performance in the Pulitzer Prize winning musical, A Strange Loop which garnered her a Lucille Lortel nomination and the distinction of being the first openly transgender actress to originate a role in a Pulitzer Prize winning piece of theatre. Most recently, L Morgan was cast to portray artist Lili Elbe in a British musical adaptation of the novel, The Danish Girl being workshopped in the UK. She is also developing a new play entitled, The Women (2021) which was seen in Ars Nova's 2021 Vision Residency. Other credits include new works with Long Wharf Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, 5th Avenue Theater, Musical Theatre Factory and more. L Morgan is dedicated to being a part of work centering underrepresented voices on both stage and screen. "She needed a hero, so that's what she became." For more: lmorganlee.com Connect with Michael: @themichaelkushner (IG and TikTok) @dearmultihyphenate (IG) www.michaelkushneronline.com Produced by Alan Seales and the Broadway Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LoveBabz LoveTalk with Babz Rawls-Ivy: Betty Monz & Aleta Staton, Long Wharf Theater by WNHH Community Radio

On this week's episode of The Beats, Kelly Kennedy sits down with Ariel Mayer who is a client at The True Wellness Center. Ariel has been on a health journey from quite some time, yet the growth that Ariel has made over the last couple of years is extremely impressive and truly exemplifies what Kelly wants to bring to the world through NOTMEDS Global. At her core, Ariel Mayer is a creator. As an actor, writer, dancer, and activist Ariel is passionate about creating performance art pieces that reflect to its audience the state our our world, while then further building upon and exploring the possibilities for our collective future. Ariel was featured in Connecticut's 40 under 40 2019 list, has been on the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Making Caring Common Youth Advisory Board (2019), was a founding member of Long Wharf Theater's Youth Advisory Board (2020), and has now founded the Youth of Elm Shakespeare Advisory Council which holds intergenerational conversations about the intersection of theater – especially Shakespeare's work– and social justice. We hope you enjoy Ariel - her eloquence and this episode as much we did! Topics Discussed|| 0:00 | Introduction 4:50 | Ariel's Story 11:50 | What was Ariel's experience working with Ian & Kelly? 14:13| Ariel's thought's on Naso's 16:00 | Where is Ariel now physically? 20:40 | Is Ariel still compensating? 25:20 | What is Ariel's message for the world? Connect with Ariel|| arielmayer.com instagram @arielbmayer If you are interested in visiting us at The True Wellness Center please contact us as info@biologicalhealth.com | 267-308-0777 | thetruewellnesscenter.com If you have not already make sure to SUBSCRIBE to never miss a BEAT! The Beats Podcast with Kelly Kennedy is now available on apple, spotify, google, Youtube, and of course our home notmedsglobal.com Thank you for joining us for this episode! We would love to hear what you thought in the comments below!

Brian talks with Jacob Padrón, an artistic director working to create a more inclusive American theater. In this episode, Jacob praises the merits of values-based leadership and a practice-what-you-preach organizational culture. You'll also hear why Jacob admires leaders who can ask for help -- a strategy he tries to employ in his role as artistic director of the Tony-award-winning Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, CT.

LoveBabz LoveTalk with Babz Rawls-Ivy: Azaria Samuels, Long Wharf Theater by WNHH Community Radio

An episode for Sondheim fans! This week, we turn our focus to Sondheim Unplugged, one of the most popular and long-running series presented at Feinstein's/54 Below. A celebrated New York event since 2010 (It's a Hit!), the show features some of Broadway and cabaret's most dynamic voices, accompanied by piano only, delving into the musical world of Broadway's master composer. In December 2020, Sondheim Unplugged was recorded and streamed as part of 54 Below Premieres, the club's new streaming series. God, That's Good! We are joined by creator and host Phil Geoffrey Bond and performer Lucia Spina.   Phil Geoffrey Bond created Sondheim Unplugged, the long-running, award-winning monthly series, in 2010 and has served as its producer and host ever since. His novel, The Last Year at Low Tide, is currently available on Amazon from Chess Books as are his other titles — My Queer Youth, Small Town Confessions, The Fall of Mrs. Parsons, The Disney Diaries, and All the Sad Young Men. Phil has served as Director of Programming for The Duplex Cabaret Theatre, The Laurie Beechman Theatre as well as Feinstein's/54 Below, where he later became Director of Original Programming. He is the recipient of seven Manhattan Association of Clubs and Cabarets (MAC) Awards, two Backstage Bistro Awards, a Broadway World Award, and a Nightlife Award. Lucia Spina made her Broadway debut with The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Rona Lisa Peretti) in 2006. Her Broadway credits include Kinky Boots (original cast), South Pacific, Legally Blonde (Enid), and Les Miserables. Off-Broadway, she originated roles in Silence! The Musical (Catherine/Senator Martin) and Fugitive Songs. She toured the country with Legally Blonde, and her regional work includes credits at Goodspeed Opera House, Long Wharf Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, Barrington Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and The Hangar Theater, as well as Sunday in the Park With George (Nurse/Mrs./Harriett) and Anyone Can Whistle (Osgood) at the Ravinia Festival (Lonny Price, director; Paul Gemignani, musical director). She has sung with the acclaimed American Pops Orchestra and has graced cabaret stages all over New York City garnering her Best Female Vocalist for BroadwayWorld's 2015 Cabaret Awards. www.luciaspina.com Sondheim Unplugged premiered online Saturday, December 26, 2020, and is available on-demand through January 23, 2021. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at www.54below.com/Sondheim.  View clips from the show: Natalie Douglas sings “Losing My Mind” https://youtu.be/j9FLx8Z4Qfg Telly Leung sings “Being Alive” https://youtu.be/viXRnxui0Uc All music clips in this episode are from Sondheim Unplugged at Feinstein's/54 Below, filmed on December 5, 2020: “Being Alive” from Company, music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, featuring Joe Goodrich on piano “The Ladies Who Lunch” from Company, music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, performed by Lucia Spina “Marry Me a Little” cut from Company, music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, performed by Nicholas Rodriguez  “Move On” from Sunday in the Park with George, music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, performed by Lucia Spina & Nicholas Rodriguez  “Something's Coming” from West Side Story, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, performed by Darius de Haas  “Losing My Mind” from Follies, music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, performed by Natalie Douglas  “Being Alive” from Company, music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, performed by Telly Leung  “Anyone Can Whistle” from Anyone Can Whistle, music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, performed by T. Oliver Reid Instrumental from “Beautiful Girls” from Follies, music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, featuring Joe Goodrich on piano   Credits This podcast is hosted by Nella Vera and produced by Grace Benigni, with support from the Feinstein's/54 Below marketing staff. Original artwork by Philip Romano. Follow Nella on Twitter at @spinstripes  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 137, I join four-time Oscar nominee, Tony Award winner and Theatre Hall-of-Famer, Jane Alexander. Jane and I discuss making of the Bookkeeper scene, how this is the only movie of hers that she'll rewatch and a Pakula directed Eleanor Roosevelt movie that might have been. *About Jane Alexander (* *via Broadway Buzz* ( https://www.broadway.com/buzz/stars/jane-alexander/profile/ ) *)* Jane Alexander has a distinguished stage career. She has performed in more than 100 plays, been honoured with numerous awards including her Tony Award for The Great White Hope , and Obie, Drama League, Drama Desk and Theatre World awards, and was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1994. Jane last starred at Long Wharf Theater in the world premiere of Matthew Barber's play Fireflies. A four-time Oscar nominee for Testament, Kramer vs. Kramer, All the President's Men, and The Great White Hope , Ms. Alexander has appeared in over 75 screen and television roles. On television, Jane won Emmy Awards for Playing for Time, and Warm Spring s, and a Television Critics Circle Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in "Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years." Jane has been seen most recently in recurring roles on The Blacklist, Elementary, The Good Wife , and The Good Fight. Jane stars in the final episode of the new Amazon series Modern Love , and shot a recurring role on the new Fox 21/Amazon series Tales From the Loop. In 1993, President Clinton appointed Ms. Alexander Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a position she served for 4 years. Her book Command Performance: An Actress in the Theatre of Politics documents her tenure. Jane has been active as a wildlife conservationist for many years and sits on the national board of the Audubon Society, the BirdLife International Advisory Group, and co-chairs the Conservation Council of Panthera with Glenn Close. In 2012, she received the inaugural Jane Alexander Global Wildlife Ambassador Award from the Indianapolis Prize honoring her work in conservation. Her book Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth was published by Knopf in 2016. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this episode, I discuss topics ranging from the Hardy Boys to beatboxing to "Kindness is my Superpower" workshops with the Artist, Educator, Activist and Superhero, Chesney Snow. Drama Desk winner and 3x Artist in Residence at Harvard University as well as a 2020 guest artist of theatre at Princeton University. Most recently appeared in Two River Theater’s production of Oo Bla Dee written by Regina Taylor and directed by Ruben Santiago Hudson. Composer/lyricist for the McCarter Theatre and Long Wharf Theater's 2018  Crowns.  A pioneering figure in American beatbox culture he originated the role of Boxman off-Broadway at Primary Stages and on Broadway in In Transit at Circle In The Square. Snow headlined Carnegie Hall twice. He created, produced, and starred in the feature music documentary American Beatboxer which was placed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and numerous other archives throughout the United States. His upcoming original work Soil Beneath: An Empirical Decay will premiere for the 2020 fall season for Primary Stages. Snow is also a teaching artist with New Victory Theater and an activist who frequently teaches in schools, hospitals, prisons, and universities.  He also toured with the US State Department as a performer and teaching artist in southeast Asia. More about this artist on his website: http://www.chesneysnow.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/antoinette-lavecchia/support

Originally from Maine, Tony Award winning lighting designer Tyler Micoleau has lived in Brooklyn for the last 24 years. He has designed extensively throughout New York as well as regionally and internationally, for world premiere plays, musicals and operas as well as outdoor spaces and touring pieces.His work can currently be seen on Broadway in The Band’s Visit at the Barrymore Theater and Be More Chill at the Lyceum Theater.Other New York designs for Lincoln Center Theater, the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theater Club, Atlantic Theater, Signature, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Vineyard Theatre, New Georges, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Page 73, Rattlestick, Barrow Street Theater, Foundry Theatre, The Play Company, Soho Rep and many others.Regional designs for the Huntington Theater, Alley Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, the Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theater, Kansas City Rep, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Wilma Theater, Pig Iron Theatre, the Folger, Long Wharf Theater and many others.Opera designs for palm beach Opera, Dallas Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, PORTopera, Curtis Opera, Manhattan School of Music, and Connecticut Grand Opera.Dance design for Eliot Feld’s Mandance Project at The Joyce Theater, Neil Greenberg and The Chase Brock Experience.Fine art installation projects include 2×4 Tree (PIFA Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts), Åhus Sommaren 1974 (Bellwether Galleries, Chelsea NYC), Beneath the Floorboards (Ohio Theater Gallery, Soho NYC).Tyler has served on the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College and has been a visiting artist at Dartmouth College, Yale University, Bates College and his alma matter, Bowdoin College.

Episode Seventy Three Show Notes CW = Chris WolakEF = Emily FinePurchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! AND at Bookclub Bookstore & More.If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email bookcougars@gmail.com for instructions.Join our Goodreads Group! Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.– Currently Reading –Transcription – Kate Atkinson (CW)Fascism: A Warning – Madeline Albright (CW)The Shortest Way Home – Miriam Parker (EF)– Just Read –The Trial of Lizzie Borden – Cara Robertson (CW)Good Riddance – Elinor Lippman (EF)The Invited – Jennifer McMahon (CW) (release date April 30, 2019)The Wartime Sisters – Lynda Cohen Loigman (EF)Passing – Nella Larsen (EF)Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens (EF)The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief – Nora McInerny– Biblio Adventures –We went on a joint jaunt to see a panel discussing Writing Trauma at Yale University.Panelists included: Roxane Gay, Aubrey Hirsch, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Saaed Jones, Terese Marie Mailhot, Melanie BoydEmily went to Long Wharf Theater to see a play based on the book Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl StrayedChris went to Playhouse on Park to see The Revolutionists by playwright Lauren GundersonCheck out the NYPL Library Talks Podcast Episode 248: Debut of A Velocity of Being edited by Maria PopovaChris visited Stepping Stones, the home of Bill and Lois Wilson, co-founders of Alcoholics AnonymousChris discovered a new bookstore in New Haven, CT: Grey Matter BooksChris and Emily went to see the Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City– Upcoming Jaunts –Chris and Emily are heading to the 92nd St Y to see Barbara Kingsolver and Richard Powers discuss their books Unsheltered and The OverstoryApril 26-27, 2019 – The Newburyport Literary FestivalMay 3-4 , 2019 – Booktopia at Northshire BookstoreApril 6th – Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon– 10th Readalong –True Grit – Charles PortisThe Goodreads discussion page can be found HERE.– Upcoming Readalong –We are hosting co-reads in June 2019 with Jenny Colvin of the Reading Envy Podcast. More details are forthcoming, but the books are: Gone with the Wind – Margaret MitchellSapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather– Also Mentioned –Russell – Ink and Paper BlogSeward Park New York Public LibraryAlison Law – Literary Atlanta Podcast – Episode 45Terrible Thanks for Asking PodcastIt’s Okay To Laugh – Nora McInernyA Student of History – Nina RevoyrThe River – Peter HellerThe Last Woman in the Forest – Diane Les BecquetsJabberwocky BookshopTrue Grit movie adaptations:John Wayne versionCoen Brothers versionUpcoming 50th anniversary of John Wayne version look for information hereDonna Tartt – The Secret History and The GoldfinchAt the Edge of the Orchard – Tracy ChevalierGirl with the Pearl Earring – Tracy ChevalierThe Great Alone - Kristin HannahTo Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Episode Seventy One Show Notes CW = Chris WolakEF = Emily FinePurchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! AND at Bookclub Bookstore & More.If you’d like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email bookcougars@gmail.com for instructions.Join our Goodreads Group! Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.– 10th Readalong –True Grit – Charles Portis Send in questions or comments by March 28, 2019 – we will discuss on April 2nd episode.The Goodreads discussion page can be found HERE.– Currently Reading –Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill (CW)Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy – edited by Nicole A. Seitz, Jonathan Haupt (CW)A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader – edited by Maria Popova & Claudia Zoe Bedrick (EF)Good Riddance – Elinor Lippman (EF)– Just Read –The Flatshare – Beth O’Leary (EF) (release date 5/28/19)The Street – Ann Petry (CW)The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls – Anissa Gray (EF)The Last Woman in the Forest – Diane Les Becquets (CW)Willa Cather Selected Stories: Flavia and Her Artists – Willa Cather (CW) part of the Willa Cather Short Story Project on WildmooBooks– Biblio Adventures –Chris and Emily caught up with Min Jin Lee at Yale University on 2/18/19Chris and Emily went on a joint jaunt to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in BostonOn the way home we stopped at Riff Raff Bookstore in Providence, RI. We both bought books: Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck (CW) and Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli (EF)Emily went to Infinity Hall on Hartford on 2/23/19 to see a SpeakUp Storytelling event– Upcoming Jaunts –We will head on a joint jaunt on 3/5/19 to see a panel including Roxane Gay discussing Writing Trauma at Yale UniversityEmily will go to Long Wharf Theater to see a play based on the book Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl StrayedEmily is heading to Fort Lauderdale for work and will go on the hunt for bookstores!On 3/7/19 Chris is heading to the Guilford Library for an historical event, The Witness Stones Project and Harriet Beecher Stowe Center present: Guilford, Slavery, and the West Indian Trade– Upcoming Reads –The Necessary Hunger – Nina Revoyr (CW)Women in the Literary Landscape – edited by Doris Weatherford, Rosalind Reisner, and Nancy Rubin Stuart (CW)Heavy: An American Memoir – Kiese Laymon (EF)The Wartime Sisters – Lynda Cohen Loigman (EF)The Quintland Sisters – Shelley Wood (EF)– Also Mentioned –Alison Law – Literary Atlanta PodcastMaria Popova – brainpickingsMarie KondoCaroline Leavitt – Check out her blog with great author interviewsJonah’s Gourd Vine – Zora Neale HurstonNevada Barr and The Track of the CatDiane Les Becquets EventsMin Jin Lee: On Selling Your First Novel After 11 YearsBook by John F Kennedy: Profiles in CourageA Student of History – Nina RevoyrThe Masterpiece – Fiona DavisA Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True – Brigid Pasulka

Sol Project Artistic Director Jacob G. Padrón interviews playwright Charise Castro Smith and director Laurie Woolery about their Fall 2018 Sol Project production of El Huracán at Yale Repertory Theater, their artistic and professional journeys as Latinx women in the performing arts, and the power of artistry for community. Charise Castro Smith is a playwright, television writer, and actor originally from Miami. She is a recipient of a Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists and is an alumna of Ars Nova’s Play Group and The New Georges Jam. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama. Laurie Woolery is a director, playwright, educator, facilitator, producer and is currently the Director of Public Works at The Public Theater, an initiative that seeks to engage the people of New York by making them creators and not just spectators. Learn more about Laurie and her work at www.lauriewoolery.com. Jacob G. Padrón is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Sol Project and Artistic Director of Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut. He has previously worked on the artistic staff at The Public Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He is also on faculty at Yale School of Drama where he teaches artistic producing in the graduate theater management program.Originally from Gilroy, California, Padrón is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University (BA) and Yale School of Drama (MFA). Follow us on Facebook at The Sol Project and Instagram and Twitter at @solprojectnyc! // Music by Megumi Katayama, recording by Laura Cornwall, editing by Daniela Hart.  

1-8-18 Interview 6/25/18 Beverly and Bob Bartner had long and successful careers. They were interested in all kinds of performances, but it wasn't until they were captivated by a production of Wit at the Long Wharf Theater in Connecticut that they decided to actively participate in producing for the theater. Since then they have produced […]

Today I talk about Tom Brady (don't worry, non-sports fans, it'll be quick), the folly of New Year's resolutions (I'm not a fan) and two current creepy creepos - Barry Lubin, aka Grandma, from the Big Apple Circus, and Gordon Edelstein from the Long Wharf Theater. Also, the creepiest creep of them all - Larry Nassar, the vile USA Gymnastics doctor. Plus a few words about the soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful" (it fits!) and whatever else is on my mind.

Elaine Kuzmeskus Director of the New England School of Metaphysics, is a nationally known Spiritualist medium. She has conducted many well-publicized séances including the 1997 Official Houdini Séance at the Good Speed Opera House in Haddam, CT and a séance for the cast of the play Blythe Spirit at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, CT. She is the author of Soul Cycles, Connecticut Ghosts, Séance 101, and The Making of a Medium, The Art of Mediumship, & The Medium Who Baffled Houdini. Recently, Elaine was appeared in the PBS Special "Things That Go Bump in the Night. She has also been featured on Better Connecticut, the Mark Twain House Theater, The Paranormal View, Lily Dale Assembly, and Fate Magazine and Coast to Coast Radio

Elaine Kuzmeskus Director of the New England School of Metaphysics, is a nationally known Spiritualist medium. She has conducted many well-publicized séances including the 1997 Official Houdini Séance at the Good Speed Opera House in Haddam, CT and a séance for the cast of the play Blythe Spirit at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, CT. She is the author of Soul Cycles, Connecticut Ghosts, Séance 101, and The Making of a Medium, The Art of Mediumship, & The Medium Who Baffled Houdini. Recently, Elaine was appeared in the PBS Special "Things That Go Bump in the Night. She has also been featured on Better Connecticut, the Mark Twain House Theater, The Paranormal View, Lily Dale Assembly, and Fate Magazine and Coast to Coast Radio

Elaine Kuzmeskus Director of the New England School of Metaphysics, is a nationally known Spiritualist medium. She has conducted many well-publicized séances including the 1997 Official Houdini Séance at the Good Speed Opera House in Haddam, CT and a séance for the cast of the play Blythe Spirit at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, CT. She is the author of Soul Cycles, Connecticut Ghosts, Séance 101, and The Making of a Medium, The Art of Mediumship, & The Medium Who Baffled Houdini. Recently, Elaine was appeared in the PBS Special "Things That Go Bump in the Night. She has also been featured on Better Connecticut, the Mark Twain House Theater, The Paranormal View, Lily Dale Assembly, and Fate Magazine and Coast to Coast Radio

Two of the major regional theaters in New Haven, Conn., have mounted new productions recently, one a premiere and the other a revival. The new play, seen at the Yale Repertory Theater, weaves together true-life material from what is now a near-extinct form of communication: letters. The correspondence between American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell is the basis for Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl. The revival is a play that was controversial at its premiere 48 years ago and is now best-known in its 1968 film version of The Killing of Sister George. The Long Wharf Theater brought in Kathleen Turner as director of the new production and performer of the title role. New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood took the train to New Haven to see both and offers his review.

Paul Selig is a writer, teacher and intuitive living in New York City.He is the director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College and serves on the playwriting faculty of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.His work for the theater has been performed internationally at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, the Joyce Theater, En Garde Arts, The Long Wharf Theater, Teatro Plastico and the Ensemble Studio Theater.Paul had a spiritual experience in 1987 that left him clairvoyant. As a way to gain a context for what he was beginning to experience, he studied a form of energy healing, working at Marianne Williamson’s Manhattan Center for Living and in private practice.  He began to “hear” for his clients, and much of Paul’s work now is as a clairaudient, clairvoyant, channel, and empath. Paul has led channeled energy groups for 15 years.Paul was invited to channel at the Esalen institute’s 2009 invitational Superpowers and the Supernormal symposium and is featured in the upcoming documentary film Authors of the Impossible.Download G&D 06-20-10

America's leading practitioner of "documentary theatre," Anna Deavere Smith, discusses her newest work, "Let Me Down Easy", and how it developed from its original commission by the Yale Medical School, through productions at Long Wharf Theater and American Repertory Theater, to its current Off-Broadway run at Second Stage. She also talks about making a career choice between being a social activist or theatre artist while in graduate school; how she began to create her unique works under the banner of "On The Road" in the early 80s and the process she has used to develop her plays; how she came to the decision to play all the roles in her multi-character works; whether she feels other performers can or should endeavor to mimic the original voices in her plays; why after tackling the Crown Heights riots in her breakthrough work "Fires in the Mirror" she next took up a thematically similar topic in "Twilight: Los Angeles"; what her role has been as an artist within think-tanks including Harvard's Institute for Arts and Civic Dialogue and Washington DC's Center for American Progress; why she felt compelled to write the book "Letters to a Young Artist: Straight Up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts"; and the reason she considers being called a "clown" the highest form of compliment. Original air date - November 30, 2009.

America's leading practitioner of "documentary theatre," Anna Deavere Smith, discusses her newest work, "Let Me Down Easy", and how it developed from its original commission by the Yale Medical School, through productions at Long Wharf Theater and American Repertory Theater, to its current Off-Broadway run at Second Stage. She also talks about making a career choice between being a social activist or theatre artist while in graduate school; how she began to create her unique works under the banner of "On The Road" in the early 80s and the process she has used to develop her plays; how she came to the decision to play all the roles in her multi-character works; whether she feels other performers can or should endeavor to mimic the original voices in her plays; why after tackling the Crown Heights riots in her breakthrough work "Fires in the Mirror" she next took up a thematically similar topic in "Twilight: Los Angeles"; what her role has been as an artist within think-tanks including Harvard's Institute for Arts and Civic Dialogue and Washington DC's Center for American Progress; why she felt compelled to write the book "Letters to a Young Artist: Straight Up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts"; and the reason she considers being called a "clown" the highest form of compliment. Original air date - November 30, 2009.