Podcasts about national themes

This book gave me an understanding of the queer community that I hadn't found anywhere else.Today we meet David Reddish and we're talking about the queer book that saved his life: Angels in America by Tony Kushner.Self proclaimed uber-geek David Reddish is the award-winning author of Sex, Drugs & Superheroes trilogy. The third novel in the series, The Wrath of Comic-Con, came out earlier in 2024. His novel The Passion of St. Sergius & St. Bacchus celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. David is also a noted entertainment journalist having written for such publications as MovieWeb, ScreenRant, Queerty, and Playboy.One of the most honored American plays in history, Angels in America was awarded two Tony Awards for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was made into an Emmy Award-winning HBO film directed by Mike Nichols. This two-part epic, subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," has received hundreds of performances worldwide in more than twenty-six languages.Connect with Davidmuck rack: muckrack.com/david-reddish-5instagram: @thegaymagnetoBuy David's books here and at your local bookstores.Our BookshopVisit our Bookshop for  new releases, current bestsellers, banned books, critically acclaimed LGBTQ books, or peruse the books featured on our podcasts: bookshop.org/shop/thisqueerbookBuy your own copy of Angels in America here: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9781559363846Become an Associate Producer!Become an Associate Producer of our podcast through a $20/month sponsorship on Patreon! A professionally recognized credit, you can gain access to Associate Producer meetings to help guide our podcast into the future! Get started today: patreon.com/thisqueerbookCreditsHost/Founder: J.P. Der BoghossianExecutive Producer: Jim PoundsAssociate Producers: Archie Arnold, K Jason Bryan and David Rephan, Bob Bush, Natalie Cruz, Jonathan Fried, Paul Kaefer, Joe Perazzo, Bill Shay, and Sean SmithPatreon Subscribers: Stephen D., Terry D., Stephen Flamm, Ida Göteburg, Thomas Michna, and Gary Nygaard.Creative and Accounting support provided by: Gordy EricksonQuatrefoil LibraryQuatrefoil has created a curated lending library made up of the books featured on our podcast! If you can't buy these books, then borrow them! Link: https://libbyapp.com/library/quatrefoil/curated-1404336/page-1Find out how to vote at vote.orgHelp get out the vote by going to swingleft.org, voteforward.org, and with the National LGBTQ Taskforce: thetaskforce.orgSupport the show

Lapidus Pour Homme by Ted Lapidus (1987) + Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner (1991) with Paul Suda 3/18/24 S6E24

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Alison Herman hands it over to guest moderator Judd Apatow for a live conversation with Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner about their latest collaboration, THE FABELMANS. Steven Spielberg a screenwriter, director, producer, and studio executive. In a career spanning over four decades, Spielberg has directed nearly three dozen feature films and written or cowritten the screenplays for four. His directorial work has covered many themes and genres–from science-fiction and adventure films to subjects like the Holocaust, the Transatlantic slave trade, war, and terrorism. He has been the subject of widespread critical acclaim, and numerous awards and accolades including 19 nominations and 3 wins at the Academy Awards, multiple Golden Globe and Emmy nominations and wins, and the 2015 United States Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others. Tony Kushner is a celebrated playwright, author, and screenwriter who is perhaps best known for writing the acclaimed play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes—and its TV miniseries adaptation—as well as for his collaborations with Steven Spielberg as screenwriter of MUNICH, LINCOLN—both of which earned him Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay—and the 2022 adaptation of WEST SIDE STORY. Angels in America earned Tony both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in 1993, and he received Emmy and Writers Guild Awards for its onscreen adaptation. He also received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013. Together, Steven and Tony cowrote the screenplay for THE FABELMANS, which Steven also directed. The semi-autobiographical story of Spielberg's own adolescence follows a young Sammy Fabelman as he falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see "The Greatest Show on Earth." Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his own films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother - and discovers how the power of films can help him see the truth about his dysfunctional family and those around him. The Oscar- and Writers Guild Award-nominated film was released in November 2022 and is now available on most major SVOD platforms. Moderator Judd Apatow is a writer, director, comedian, and producer known for his work writing and directing films such as THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, KNOCKED UP, and FUNNY PEOPLE, among many others. In 2012, he received the Writers Guild of America, East's Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence. --- Before it was a podcast, OnWriting was a print publication. Check out OnWriting: The Print Archives. Read shownotes, transcripts, and other member interviews: www.onwriting.org/ Follow the Guild on social media: Twitter: @OnWritingWGAE | @WGAEast Facebook: /WGAEast Instagram: @WGAEast  

Can we contain all of Tony Kushner's award-winning Angels in America, a Gay Fantasia on National Themes in one podcast? Probably! First we'll talk about Part I: Millennium Approaches, then we'll talk about Part II: Perestroika. And along the way we'll cover Roy Cohn, how to stage an angel, and the Kushner-to-Spielberg Pipeline. Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Advertise on Overdue See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

안녕하세요, 청취자 여러분. 오늘은 제94회 아카데미상 시상식에서 12개 부문 후보에 오른 제인 캠피온 감독의 "파워 오브 도그" (The Power of the Dog)에 대해 이야기 해 보았습니다. 이번 에피소드는 아카데미상 후보작 발표 이전에 녹음을 했기 때문에 내용 중 후보작 발표에 대한 내용은 포함하지 않은 것 참조하시기 바랍니다. 이 작품은 현재 넷플릭스에서 시청할 수 있습니다. 이번 에피소드 역시 스포일러 경고를 드립니다. 에피소드 내 "파워 오브 도그"와 함께 관람하시면 좋은 작품을 소개해 드렸는데, 이 작품 및 추가 작품들의 제목도 알려드립니다. "Outrage"(2009), "J. Edgar"(2011), "Citizen Cohn"(1992), "Where's My Roy Cohn?"(2019), "Tony Kushner's Angels in American: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes"(1991), "Angels in America (HBO Mini-Series)"(2003), "Bully, Coward, Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn"(2019), "The Talented Mr. Ripley"(1999), "Purple Noon"(1960), "Ripley's Game"(2002). 모든 청취자 분들의 건강을 기원합니다. 의견, 질문, 응원 메시지는 jjpopcorntalk@gmail.com 또는 인스타 계정 (@jj_popcorn_talk), Twitter 계정 (@jjpopcorntalk) 으로 보내주세요. Be a Patron! (www.patreon.com/jjpopcorntalk) 모든 에피소드는 페이트리온 사이트와 유튜브 채널 'JJ Popcorn Talk'에서 먼저 들으실 수 있습니다. 네이버 오디오 클립의 채널 'JJ 팝콘토크', Anchor, Spotify 등에서도 청취 가능합니다. Music: Ambient-M (2003) by Antony Raijekov from Free music Archive (freemusicarchive.org)

Host Geri Cole kicks off a new year, and a new season of OnWriting, in conversation with celebrated screenwriter, playwright, and author Tony Kushner—the screenwriter behind the recent adaptation of WEST SIDE STORY. Geri and Tony discuss the process of adapting one of the most famous musicals of all time, how in-depth research about New York's West Side added historical context and deeper meaning to the script, and how even the likes Tony Kushner get anxious looking at a blank page. Tony Kushner is a celebrated playwright, author, and screenwriter who is perhaps best known for writing the acclaimed play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes—and its TV miniseries adaptation—as well as for his collaborations with Steven Spielberg as screenwriter for MUNICH and LINCOLN, both of which earned him Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay. Angels in America earned Tony both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in 1993, and he received Emmy and Writers Guild Awards for its onscreen adaptation. He also received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013. His latest screenplay (and most recent collaboration with Spielberg) is the musical romantic period drama WEST SIDE STORY. The film—based on the 1957 stage musical and a follow-up of the acclaimed 1961 film adaptation—explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds, as they explore the ever-shifting (and never-changing) landscape of New York. WEST SIDE STORY was released in December 2021 and is now showing in theaters. --- Before it was a podcast, OnWriting was a print publication. Check out OnWriting: The Print Archives. Read shownotes, transcripts, and other member interviews: www.onwriting.org/ Follow the Guild on social media: Twitter: @OnWritingWGAE | @WGAEast Facebook: /WGAEast Instagram: @WGAEast

Welcome back to the 52nd episode of The Cup which is our a weekly (give or take, TBD, these are unprecedented times) performing arts talk show presented by Cup of Hemlock Theatre. The theatres may be closed, but art finds a way to survive! For the time being on this podcast we are rereleasing our past reviews, interviews, roundtables, and duet reviews in remastered audio only versions so you can take your CoH content on the go! For our 52nd episode we continue to branch out our review series beyond the Stratford Festival and onto other productions. In this episode we discussed the National Theatre's 2017 production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part Two: Perestroika, directed by Marianne Elliott, starring Andrew Garfield in the role of Prior Walter and Nathan Lane as Roy Cohn. Watch the play on NTatHome (subscription needed): https://www.ntathome.com/angels-in-america-part-one-millenium-approaches Cup of Hemlock Theatre is a Toronto-based performing arts collective dedicated to staging works that examine the moral quandaries of the human experience. With an inquisitive compass, we aim to provide audiences the space to retrace their personal stories and navigate their individual ideologies. Follow us on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter: cohtheatre Follow our panelists: Mackenzie Horner (Before the Downbeat: A Musical Podcast) – Instagram/Facebook: BeforetheDownbeat Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3aYbBeN Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sAbjAu Kel MacDonald – https://kel-macdonald.ca/ Dana Tanner-Kennedy – You can't find her online but send us a message and we can pass it along to Dana Ryan Borochovitz – [Just send all that love to CoH instead; he won't mind!] --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cup-of-hemlock-theatre/support

"7 hours of gay f*ckery" Welcome to the first episode of our podcast! This week we're talking about the Tony Kushner play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Specifically, The National Theatre's version which you can watch at https://www.ntathome.com/ Thanks for listening! x Twitter: @gaytozpod Instagram: @gaytozpod

Welcome back to the 51st episode of The Cup which is our a weekly (give or take, TBD, these are unprecedented times) performing arts talk show presented by Cup of Hemlock Theatre. The theatres may be closed, but art finds a way to survive! For the time being on this podcast we are rereleasing our past reviews, interviews, roundtables, and duet reviews in remastered audio only versions so you can take your CoH content on the go! For our 51st episode we continue to branch out our review series beyond the Stratford Festival and onto other productions. In this episode we discussed the National Theatre's 2017 production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One: Millennium Approaches, directed by Marianne Elliott, starring Andrew Garfield in the role of Prior Walter and Nathan Lane as Roy Cohn. Watch the play on NTatHome (subscription needed): https://www.ntathome.com/angels-in-america-part-one-millenium-approaches Cup of Hemlock Theatre is a Toronto-based performing arts collective dedicated to staging works that examine the moral quandaries of the human experience. With an inquisitive compass, we aim to provide audiences the space to retrace their personal stories and navigate their individual ideologies. Follow us on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter: cohtheatre Follow our panelists: Mackenzie Horner (Before the Downbeat: A Musical Podcast) – Instagram/Facebook: BeforetheDownbeat Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3aYbBeN Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sAbjAu Graeme McClelland – Instagram: instagraeme999 // Facebook: Graeme McClelland // Email: graememcclelland@outlook.com Alicia Plummer – Instagram: itisaliciaplummer // TikTok: hialiciabyealicia // YouTube: Alicia Onlineee: https://bit.ly/3vMCDO5 Autumn Smith – Instagram: autumndmsmith // Facebook: Autumn Smith // Instagram/Facebook: littlewoodsmith // http://www.littlewoodsmith.com/Instagram/Facebook: timberbeastproductions --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cup-of-hemlock-theatre/support

First Draft Episode #307: John Green John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of many young adult novels, including The Fault in Our Stars and Printz-winning Looking For Alaska, joins to discuss his new essay collection, The Anthropocene Reviewed. He is also one half of the vlogbrothers on YouTube and co-creator of educational series Crash Course. Today’s episode is brought to you by JAY’S GAY AGENDA, a moving and hilarious sex-positive queer teen rom-com from debut novelist Jason June, out from HarperCollins now. Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode: Hank Green’s First Draft interview discussing A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, the sequel to his #1 New York Times bestselling debut, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. Hank is, along with his brother John Green, the CEO of Complexly, co-host of the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel and the Dear Hank and John podcast, and is also co-founder of VidCon, DFTBA Records, and Crash Course. Listen to his First Draft interview here. The Babysitter’s Club by Anne M. Martin Fallen Angels and Monster by Walter Dean Myers Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt Where the Red Fern Goes by Wilson Rawls Sula and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five and Cat’s Cradle The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak, Chains, and memoir Shout Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Locomotion, Another Brooklyn, and many many more. Harvey (movie) Booklist The Looking For Alaska mini-series in Hulu “The Anthropocene Reviewed Reviewed,” an episode of John’s podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed “On Being Ill” by Virginia Woolf Turtles All the Way Down by John Green “Hank Reviews Everything” video on the Vlogbrothers channel Katrina Vandenberg, poet Claude Glass Superleague (official website, woof) explained so well in this New York Times review and this podcast episode of The Daily, as well as the three-episode breakdown of Men In Jackets (ep 1, ep 2, ep 3)  

Recorded on October 25th, Kate and Carl speak into the post-election future as they break down the 2003 miniseries adaptation of Tony Kushner's American epic. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a story about everything, and we couldn't think of a more perfect piece to discuss to capture this moment in American history.

Twelve years ago when I was a member of the English Department at Deerfield High School on Chicago's North Shore working full-time in the writing center, teachers Elliot Hurtig and Jeff Berger-White were teaching the repugnant play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and Hurtig also taught the historically inaccurate Laramie Project, both plays of which espoused politically “progressive,” morally regressive views of homosexuality. Setting aside the egregious obscenity in Angels in America, I discussed with a purportedly Catholic writing center colleague the ethical problem of teachers presenting resources from only one side of the debate on this most controversial cultural issue. I made the case that in an educational environment, teachers have a pedagogical obligation to present resources from opposing voices as well. She responded that because she was absolutely sure opposing voices—that is, conservative voices—were wrong, they shouldn't be allowed to be presented to students. read more

Twelve years ago when I was a member of the English Department at Deerfield High School on Chicago’s North Shore working full-time in the writing center, teachers Elliot Hurtig and Jeff Berger-White were teaching the repugnant play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and Hurtig also taught the historically inaccurate Laramie Project, both plays of which espoused politically “progressive,” morally regressive views of homosexuality. Setting aside the egregious obscenity in Angels in America, I discussed with a purportedly Catholic writing center colleague the ethical problem of teachers presenting resources from only one side of …

Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Michele Cobb talk about the 2020 Audie Awards, one of the biggest events of the year in the audiobook world. Tonight, March 2, is the 25th annual Audie Awards gala, where the big winners will be announced. Today Jo and Michele are discussing the finalists in the Audiobook of the Year category, titles with high-quality content and production values that are recognized as benchmarks of excellence for the industry and serve as worthy ambassadors to new and current listeners.  The finalists for the 2020 Audie Awards Audiobook of the Year are: ANGELS IN AMERICA: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner, read by Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Susan Brown, Denise Gough, and a Full Cast, published by Penguin Random House Audio BECOMING by Michelle Obama, read by Michelle Obama, published by Penguin Random House Audio CHARLOTTE'S WEB by E.B. White, read by Meryl Streep, January LaVoy, Kirby Heyborne, MacLeod Andrews, and a Full Cast, published by Penguin Random House Audio THE DUTCH HOUSE by Ann Patchett, read by Tom Hanks, published by HarperAudio THE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKY: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff, read by Holter Graham and a Full 45-Person Cast, published by Simon & Schuster Audio THE TESTAMENTS by Margaret Atwood, read by Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mae Whitman, Derek Jacobi, Tantoo Cardinal, Margaret Atwood, published by Penguin Random House Audio Find a full list of 2020 Audie Award finalists and winners at theaudies.com Support for Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine comes from Oasis Audio, publisher of Jolina Petersheim’s How the Light Gets In — a 2020 Audie Awards finalist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the 1980s a plague struck America, and because of who it hit hardest, America was happy to let it run its course and let them die. The arts are how we make sense of that, and point toward what comes next. Alaina takes us through the conception and reception of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, perhaps the most highly-regarded play of the 20th Century. We also learn more about the real person depicted in it, and share our personal connections to the work. Is it possible to separate the personal from the political, or the path of history from faith? Can a work revitalize its medium, or should credit go to the historical moment that produced it? Can something still be too long even if every part of it is brilliant? Links! Angels in America HBO Miniseries Angels in America: The Complete Oral History Behind the Scenes on a Two-Play Day Avert.org New York Times review of the opera adaptation Vanity Fair article on Roy Cohn's mentorship of Donald Trump The Purple Pamphlet Gextra Life donation page Gextra Life YouTube playlist Please help our show succeed by sharing it. Send a link to someone you know and tell them what you enjoy about History Honeys. Rate and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, or whatever other platform you use to hear us. It helps so very much and we do appreciate it. You can connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or by emailing us at historyhoneyspodcast at gmail.    Logo by Marah Music by Thylacinus Censor beep by Frank West of The FPlus

For the second time on Close Talking, Connor and Jack consider an excerpt from a play. In a wide-ranging discussion of Harper's Monologue from Tony Kushner's eight hour masterwork "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," they discuss modes of writing, lyricism, echoes within the sprawling play, and how the work draws out, smashes together, and interrogates seemingly disconnected aspects of American history. Angels in America Oral History Long Read: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cover_story/2016/06/oral_history_of_tony_kushner_s_play_angels_in_america.html Find us on facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking Find us on twitter at: twitter.com/closetalking You can always send us an e-mail with thoughts on this or any of our previous podcasts, as well as suggestions for future shows, at closetalkingpoetry@gmail.com. Harper’s Monologue from Angels in America By: Tony Kushner Night flight to San Francisco. Chase the moon across America. God! It’s been years since I was on a plane! When we hit thirty-five thousand feet, we’ll have reached the tropopause. The great belt of calm air. As close as I’ll ever get to the ozone. I dreamed we were there. The plane leapt the tropopause, the safe air, and attained the outer rim, the ozone, which was ragged and torn, patches of it threadbare as old cheesecloth, and that was frightening… But I saw something only I could see, because of my astonishing ability to see such things: Souls were rising, from the earth far below, souls of the dead, of people who had perished, from famine, from war, from the plague, and they floated up, like skydivers in reverse, limbs all akimbo, wheeling and spinning. And the souls of these departed joined hands, clasped ankles, and formed a web, a great net of souls, and the souls were three-atom oxygen molecules, of the stuff of ozone, and the outer rim absorbed them and was repaired. Nothing’s lost forever. In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we have left behind, and dreaming ahead. At least I think that’s so.

In this week's LGBTQ headlines: • Oklahoma and Kansas state legislatures pass anti-LGBTQ adoption laws • A new survey of over 40,000 Americans shows acceptance for same-sex marriage has hit 61% • Ireland moves to ban so-called "conversion therapy" • Major League Baseball teams have scheduled special LGBT Pride Nights this season (head to https://www.outsports.com/2018/5/3/17228268/mlb-lgbt-pride-nights-2018-list for a complete list of MLB Pride Nights) • Drag queen Ada Vox exits American Idol with her head held high • Tony Kushner's “Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes” became the most Tony-nominated play in history as the 2018 Tony Award nominations were announced • Adam Rippon came to slay on the premiere of the all-athletes season of Dancing with the Stars All that and more on this episode of The Randy Report

In this week's LGBTQ headlines: • Oklahoma and Kansas state legislatures pass anti-LGBTQ adoption laws • A new survey of over 40,000 Americans shows acceptance for same-sex marriage has hit 61% • Ireland moves to ban so-called "conversion therapy" • Major League Baseball teams have scheduled special LGBT Pride Nights this season (head to https://www.outsports.com/2018/5/3/17228268/mlb-lgbt-pride-nights-2018-list for a complete list of MLB Pride Nights) • Drag queen Ada Vox exits American Idol with her head held high • Tony Kushner's “Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes” became the most Tony-nominated play in history as the 2018 Tony Award nominations were announced • Adam Rippon came to slay on the premiere of the all-athletes season of Dancing with the Stars All that and more on this episode of The Randy Report

This week on 'State of Wonder,' the writer behind 'Angels in America' and the movies 'Lincoln' and 'Munich' on writing for today, the head of Portland Center Stage on the hit musical 'Fun Home' and more.Tony Kushner Finds the Humanity in the Epic - 1:05Playwright Tony Kushner is a fearless explorer of spaces where the personal meets the political. His two-part masterpiece, "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," kicked down the door to a discussion of the AIDS epidemic, and his screenwriting work on films like "Lincoln" and "Munich" manage to find the most internal, human stories in mammoth historical events. Kushner is headed to Oregon to deliver the keynote speech at the Oregon Arts Summit on Oct. 6, and we got him on the phone to talk about what he's working on now, including a play about President Trump (maybe) and a new take on "West Side Story" with his regular collaborator, Steven Spielberg.Painter Arvie Smith Wins the Governor's Art Award for Lifetime Achievement - 8:53To celebrate the Oregon Arts Summit and the 50th anniversary of the Oregon Arts Commission, Governor Kate Brown has resurrected the Governor’s Art Awards after a 10-year hiatus. The big winners of the Lifetime Achievement Awards are Portland painter Arvie Smith and the Kalapuya and Coos storyteller Esther Stutzman. Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, Portland Opera and The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation are also taking home awards. We sat down with Smith last year before his solo show at the Portland Art Museum to discuss his vivid, explosive paintings rich with political overtones, humor, and heartbreak.opbmusic Session in the Woods with Folk Singer Joan Shelley - 16:07This year, folk singer Joan Shelley released her fifth solo album with some big-name help. Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy produced and recorded the album in his Chicago studio. With those massive resources at her fingertips, Shelley could have gone big with a fuller sound and plenty of bells and whistles; instead, she doubled down on a minimalist sound that has made her stand out in an increasingly grandiose music industry. Recently, Shelley and guitarist Nathan Salsburg performed two songs for OPB on a hiking trail in Portland’s Marquam Nature Park. You can find videos at opbmusic. Chris Coleman on Directing the Tony-Winning Musical 'Fun Home' and Portland Center Stage's Upcoming Season - 24:15Portland Center State, the city’s biggest theater company, opened its 30th season this month with a most unlikely musical: the Tony-award-winning, coming-of-age story “Fun Home,” based on the graphic novel by cartoonist Alison Bechdel. It's the story of Bechdel's own coming out in contrast to the closeted, repressed life her father lived, and the title refers to a nickname she and her siblings had for the family house, which also happened to be the town's funeral home. You will never laugh so hard at kids making up a musical commercial about embalming. We talk with artistic director Chris Coleman about the production, which is the first by a local theater on the West Coast, as well as the rest of the season.

Plot Time! (00:02:30) Kurt Blurt! (01:17:00) The Meat! (01:31:15) Recurring Characters Update! (01:42:10) Kurt Cameo! (01:45:50) VonneWHAT! (01:46:50) Vonnegrades! (01:56:20) Movie Time! (2:00:50) Music Time! (2:15:50) Related Reading! (02:24:30) Related Reading: Short Story: Guy De Maupassant: The Necklace: https://goo.gl/Upnq Book: Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man: https://goo.gl/GHHXQs Play: Tony Kushner: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: https://goo.gl/vLVKdn Short Story: George Saunders: Escape from Spiderhead: https://goo.gl/I0ek3q Graphic Novel: Alan Moore, David Lloyd: V for Vendetta: https://goo.gl/E1FRQ3 Book: Neil Gaiman: American Gods: https://goo.gl/Wx2GiC

Can a socialist choose Hillary over Bernie? Playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner discusses Socialism, Zionism, Hollywood, and the 2016 elections. Tony Kushner has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, two Academy Award nominations, and President Obama presented him with the National Medal of Arts in 2013. Last fall he was entered into the National Theater Hall of Fame - and no wonder; among his plays are Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes; and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. His many screenplays include Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and Munich. He has also written or edited several books, including Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict. Later in the program, Laura visits with a Roma Gallery in Hungary that embraces Hip Hop and bell hooks. All that and a few words from Laura on recent political upheavals in Hungary.

Ronnie sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner in this episode. Mr. Kushner is best known for his two-part epic “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” He discusses political activism and an artist’s voice in politics