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| December 26,2005 |
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"Reflections on Richard Pryor" With his daughter actress/writer Rain Pryor; novelist Cecil Brown, screenwriter on "Which Way Is Up?" currently Professor of Black Studies, Univ. of California; and novelist and poet Al Young, screenwriter on "Bustin' Loose," currently Poet Laureate of California -- two of a handful of African-American writers in the Bay Area who helped Pryor transition from a night club comic into his comedic essence. |
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December 19, 2005
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Actor/Writer Jack Holmes and producer Winship Cook on their theatrical look at Robert F. Kennedy, "RFK"; The Brooklyn Saxophone Quartet; audio anecotalist Dylan Brody. |
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Playwright Jean-Claude von Itallie on his new production of "Fear Itself: Secrets of the White House"; Director Aaron Beall and Yiddish translator Caraid O'Brien on their first English language production of Sholom Asch's "Motke Thief"; Billionaires for Bush on the one-night only "Dick Cheney's Holiday Spectacular." |
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December 5, 2005
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Digital media artist Andrea Polli and other sound artists discuss "Knowing the World Through Sound: A One-Day Symposium and Evening Concert on Music, Sound and Ecology"; director Jim Brown on his film "Wasn't That A Time: A Concert Tribute to Harold Leventhal", with Pete Seeger speaking about the film and The Weavers, Arlo Guthrie, Peter Paul and Mary, Theo Bikel and other folk musicians; actress Brenda Currin on "Sister and Miss Lexie," plays based upon the stories of Eurdora Welty. |
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November 28, 2005
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The Medicine Show's Barbara Vann on a new staged version of "Finnegan's Wake"; David M. Bader reads from his new book "Haiku U.: From Aristotle to Zola, 100 Great Books in 17 Syllables"; bass clarinetist/composer Michael Lowenstern on The Tribeca New Music Festival '05.
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Singer/composer Lenore von Stein, guitarist Bern Nix, and flautist Andrew Bolotowsky on von Stein's latest improvised composition, "The Murder of Maryann Measles"; filmmakers from the Cinema Arts Center's upcoming International Woman's Film Festival; playwright/actor Brian Dykstra talks about his new play "Hiding Behind Comets." |
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Performance artist/writer Deb Margolin and her director Merri Milwe talk about "Index to Idioms," a new solo piece at The Culture Project; artist/feminist Judy Chicago discusses "Kitty City: A Cat Book of Hours"; and a new work of musical theatre, "Woman Exposed." |
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Patricia Bosworth on a new edition of her biography of photographer "Diane Arbus" (with a new Afterward by the author); Robin Hirsch talks about "Kinderszehnen: Scenes from a Childhood," a performance cycle based upon his memoir about coming of age in London as the son of exiled German Jews; Mike Flynn and Peter Kuznick preview "From Zero to Safe Ground" an all-star conference on nuclear proliferation. |
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Author Francine Prose on her new novel "A Changed Man," about a converted skinhead; musicologist Leonard Lehrman on the 100th anniversary of composer Marc Blitzstein; Bob Stein, Director of The Institute for the Future of The Book, talks about recording "The "Collective Memory of Christo's Gates." |
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Director Elizabeth Swados and members of The Flea Theater on their new production of JABU and "Ubu Roi"; director Kathryn Walker and actors Kate Burton and Paul Hecht on their staged reading of a new anti-war translation of "The Iliad"; casting call for new experiential history TV program about settling Texas. |
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Filmmaker/photographer Agnès Varda; writer/translator Joel Agee. |
February 21, 2005 |
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February 14, 2005 |
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February 7, 2005 |
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January 31, 2005 |
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January 24, 2005 |
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January 17, 2005 |
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Featuring the Foundry Theatre's "K.I. From Crime," an adaptation of "Crime and Punishment"; "Gehri Doshi," five short plays about gay and lesbian life from a South Asian perspective; and "Dance on Camera Festival 2005."
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Playwright Wendy Wasserstein discusses her book on "Sloth," from Oxford University's new series on The Seven Deadly Sins;playwright/actor Ron McClarty talks about his new novel "The Memory of Running"; actor/director Rome Neal gives an update on his production of "Monk," a play about the great jazz musician. |
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