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Join your hosts Bryan Frye, Nathan Lutz, and Russell Guest for the Retro Movie Roundtable as they revisit The International (2009) [R] Genre: Mystery, Action, Spy, Thriller Starring: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen, Brían F. O'Byrne, Michel Voletti, Patrick Baladi, Jay Villiers, Fabrice Scott, Haluk Bilginer, Luca Barbareschi, Alessandro Fabrizi, Felix Solis, Jack McGee, Nilaja Sun, Steven Randazzo, Tibor Feldman, James Rebhorn Director: Tom Tykwer Recoded on 2021-09-22
Part 2: Tonya welcomes Ron Russell, award-winning Director and renown educator to YOU CAN'T SAY THAT! Ron is co-founder of four theaters that still produce today. He is the Executive Director of Epic Theatre Ensemble. With Epic, he has directed 16 award-winning Off-Broadway productions, including Premieres of Kate Fodor’s Hannah and Martin, Vern Thiessen’s Einstein’s Gift, Shakespeare’s Richard III, Born with Teeth, and Nilaja Sun’s Pike St., which he is currently touring across the nation and world, where it has won Helen Hayes and FringeFirst Awards. He has won an OBIE Award for Epic’s adaptation of Antigone and the International Ibsen Award for Pillars of Society. He has also designed sound for award-winning productions of Nilaja Sun’s No Child… (OBIE Award) and Judith Thompson’s Palace of The End. His teaching experience includes over 50 public schools, reaching over 18,000 youth, and his work as an educator in NYC has been recognized by citations from the Municipal Arts Society and Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg. Produced by Dori Berinstein, edited by Alan Seales, music by Anthony Norman. A proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network.
Part 1: Tonya welcomes Ron Russell, award-winning Director and renown educator to YOU CAN'T SAY THAT! Ron is co-founder of four theaters that still produce today. He is the Executive Director of Epic Theatre Ensemble. With Epic, he has directed 16 award-winning Off-Broadway productions, including Premieres of Kate Fodor’s Hannah and Martin, Vern Thiessen’s Einstein’s Gift, Shakespeare’s Richard III, Born with Teeth, and Nilaja Sun’s Pike St., which he is currently touring across the nation and world, where it has won Helen Hayes and FringeFirst Awards. He has won an OBIE Award for Epic’s adaptation of Antigone and the International Ibsen Award for Pillars of Society. He has also designed sound for award-winning productions of Nilaja Sun’s No Child… (OBIE Award) and Judith Thompson’s Palace of The End. His teaching experience includes over 50 public schools, reaching over 18,000 youth, and his work as an educator in NYC has been recognized by citations from the Municipal Arts Society and Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg. Produced by Dori Berinstein, edited by Alan Seales, music by Anthony Norman. A proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network.
Conversations about theater, life, and politics with the playwright and solo performer Nilaja Sun; Tom Ross, artistic director of Aurora Theatre Company; actors Emily Jeanne Brown and Jackie Chung; San Francisco Mime Troupe veteran Michael Gene Sullivan; theatre arts professor and director Darryl V. Jones; Gregory Dawson, artistic director of dawsondancesf; and L. Peter Callender, artistic director of African-American Shakespeare Company. KPFA's Bay Area Theater podcast The post The Play's the Thing appeared first on KPFA.
Nilaja Sun, in conversation with KPFA associate theater critic C.S. Soong. Nilaja Sun portrays a dozen people living on New York's Lower East Side in her one-woman show “Pike St.,” now at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. In “Pike St.” three generations of a Puerto Rican family await, along with neighbors and friends, the arrival of a hurricane. The play, directed by Ron Russell, runs through December 9. Berkeley Repertory Theatre is located at 2025 Addison Street in Berkeley. The post Interview: Nilaja Sun about “Pike St.” at Berkeley Rep appeared first on KPFA.
Black Beat Bay Area’s very own Flo Wiley interviews Nilaja Sun who has just begun her run at the Berkley Rep Theater of the one woman play Pike St.. More Info: Virtuoso performer Nilaja Sun’s award-winning hit No Child…captivated Berkeley Rep audiences in 2008. Now she brings us a new critically acclaimed solo show about Evelyn, a single mother who fights for the survival of her family in the face of a threatening hurricane. In an astonishing 90 minutes, Sun portrays three generations of a Puerto Rican family and the vibrant characters of New York’s Lower East Side in a story of tribulation, perseverance, and redemption that also “glows with humor” (New York Times). Don’t miss this incredible, transformative trip to Pike St.
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Pike St,” written and performed by Nilaja Sun, at Berkeley Rep's Peets Theatre through December 9, 2018. Berkeley Rep website The post Review: Pike St., at Berkeley Rep appeared first on KPFA.
Welcome to the fourth Repisode of our "In Conversation" series for Berkeley Rep's 50th Anniversary Season. In this part of the series, we talk to members of the creative team to learn more about their process and the world of the play. An abridged version of the conversation is included in print as part of the show's written program. Here, we talked with virtuoso solo performer Nilaja Sun about creating PIKE ST, now running November 17–December 16, 2018. Tickets are available at berkeleyrep.org! Follow Berkeley Rep on SoundCloud to keep up with the whole series. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. Music credit to James Dinneen.
Nilaja Sun came in to talk about her new show Pike St, a new theatre work about the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in New York, now showing at Arts Centre Melbourne. Anne Edmonds talked about her new show on ABC The Edge Of The Bush, and Lachlan Carter reviewed the CSIRO Australian Bird Guide. They also talked about words and sayings that you hate to hear, and the worst people to sit next to on public transport and planes. With Sarah Smith, Jeff Sparrow, and Geraldine Hickey.
Bob Wilcox and Gerry Kowarsky review (1) THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, by William Shakespeare, at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, (2) NO CHILD . . ., by Nilaja Sun, at The Black Rep, (3) THE INVISIBLE HAND, by Ayad Akhtar, at the Repertory Theatre Studio Theatre, (4) THE GLASS MENAGERIE, by Tennessee Williams, at Insight Theatre Co., (5) THE VALUE OF NAMES, by Jeffrey Sweet, at the New Jewish Theatre, (6) THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, by Mary Zimmerman, at St. Louis Shakespeare, (7) BUG, by Tracy Letts, at Muddy Waters Theatre Co., (8) NANA'S NAUGHTY KNICKERS, by Katherine DiSavino, at Kirkwood Theatre Guild, and (9) PUSS IN BOOTS, by Brian Hohlfeld, at the Imaginary Theatre Co.