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Places, Everyone
by Lonnie Firestone
Through interviews with theater and screen artists (producers, directors, actors, and writers), host Lonnie Firestone explores how creativity and industry intersect. Each episode examines a theme in the life and career of a working artist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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The Cast and Creative Team of 'The Outsiders' on Crafting it into a Musical: Live from the Books That Changed My Life Festival
Join host Lonnie Firestone as she interviews the creative and cast members behind the Tony Award-winning musical, The Outsiders. This special live episode from the Books That Changed My Life Festival at JCC Manhattan features insightful conversations with lead producer Matthew Rego and cast…
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Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, and the Cast of Harmony, Live at The Streicker Center
This episode was recorded live at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center on January 8, 2024. It is an interview with Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman whose 50+ year collaboration has produced hit songs as well as the Broadway musical, Harmony. This episode also includes an expanded conversation with...
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The Broadway Musical "Harmony" - A Live Interview at JCC Manhattan
This episode was recorded live at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan on October 9, 2023. It is a conversation with creative and cast members of the Broadway musical, Harmony. They include book writer and lyricist Bruce Sussman, and performers Chip Zien, Julie Benko, Sierra Boggess, and Danny...
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A Conversation Between Co-Directors of Exploring Black Narratives
Three years ago, I founded a curricular theater program called Exploring Black Narratives, situated in Jewish schools and grounded in the work of acclaimed Black playwrights. One of the most exciting facets of the program has been helping students develop their interview skills in preparation to...
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Conversations on A Strange Loop - Continuing with Jason Veasey and Nemuna Ceesay
Part II of an extended interview with Jason Veasey and Nemuna Ceesay about their formative roles in developing the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop for its Broadway production where it won a Tony Award for Best Musical. Picking up on our live interview event at JCC Harlem, Jason – an...
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Conversations on A Strange Loop - Live at JCC Harlem
At a live interview event at JCC Harlem on October 24, 2022, I spoke with two artists who were integral to the Broadway production of A Strange Loop, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical by Michael R. Jackson. These artists – Associate Director Nemuna Ceesay and original cast member Jason Veasey –...
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Ma Rainey - Interview with Michael Potts
This is the second of two episodes focusing on August Wilson’s play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and its recent film adaptation on Netflix. Today’s interview is with actor Michael Potts who starred in the Netflix film as Slow Drag, the bass player in Ma Rainey’s blues band. When I watched Michael…
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Ma Rainey - History, Play, & Netflix Film
In April, I had the pleasure of leading an evening event about August Wilson, specifically his play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. This event was hosted by the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Maryland, where the program I co-direct, Exploring Black Narratives, first took off. This conversation...
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"Pipeline" - Nya
This episode is one of two classroom interviews with 11th grade students at Shalhevet high school in Los Angeles, CA. As part of the Exploring Black Narratives program, we studied Dominique Morisseau's play "Pipeline" and interviewed actors who starred in productions around the US. Today's...
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"Pipeline" - Jasmine
This episode is one of two classroom interviews with 11th grade students at Shalhevet high school in Los Angeles, CA. As part of the Exploring Black Narratives program, we studied Dominique Morisseau's play "Pipeline" and interviewed actors who starred in productions around the US. Today's...
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The Power of Speech
In Will Arbery’s play Heroes of the Fourth Turning, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize last year, a group of 20-something friends, all of whom are Catholic and politically conservative, gather for a party to toast their college professor who has become the president of their Catholic...
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Classix
Classix is a team of theatermakers and scholars who provide universities, theater companies, publishers, and readers with resources to expand their exploration of classic Black playwrights. As founder Awoye Timpo says, the intention is "creating access to the plays for the widest possible…
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School Girls Series: The New Girl Who Seems to Have it All
I'm excited to share a series of conversations with actresses who starred in Jocelyn Bioh's play, School Girls: Or the African Mean Girls Play. These interviews were recorded with students at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Maryland. This fall, I developed a program for Jewish high...
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School Girls Series: Embodying the Queen Bee
I'm excited to share a series of conversations with actresses who starred in Jocelyn Bioh's play, School Girls: Or the African Mean Girls Play. These interviews were recorded with students at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Maryland. This fall, I developed a program for Jewish high...
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School Girls Series: Delivering Laughs Amid Dramatic Themes
I'm excited to share a series of conversations with actresses who starred in Jocelyn Bioh's play, School Girls: Or the African Mean Girls Play. These interviews were recorded with students at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Maryland. This fall, I developed a program for Jewish high...
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Musical Videos in Quarantine
Since theaters shut down this spring, a certain type of performance has gained traction online – the compilation video, in which multiple performers, each in their own space, record their part of a musical number that is compiled into one cohesive performance. One of those compilation videos that...
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Eradicating Racism in the Theater
Kelley Girod, a playwright and the founder of The Fire This Time festival, spoke with me about racism in the American Theater. We talked about the statements that many theater companies put out as protests began around the country. To Kelley and many Black artists and other artists of color…
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Mother’s Day Episode: Strength of Character
On Mother's Day, I spent the evening speaking with the very talented actress Karen Pittman. Every time I watch Karen perform, I notice her strength first and foremost. In this interview, we discuss three of Karen’s roles on TV and on stage that exemplify strength of character: a determined…
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How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance?
Reed Luplau is a veteran dancer who has performed in Broadway shows and prominent dance companies including Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and the Sydney Dance Company. Trained in multiple forms of dance including classical ballet, modern dance, acrobatics, tap, and jazz, Reed is most interested in...
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Artists + Money (in a time of crisis)
Financial Advisor Bailie Slevin is a great success story. When a car accident disrupted her career as a stage manager for the theater, Bailie found her way to the financial sector and has been a champion for artists’ careers ever since. Bailie transformed a set back into a prosperous career, and...
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Am I Supposed to Row the Boat or Rock the Boat?
Pirronne Yousefzadeh is a director of all sorts. She directs plays and she has a dual position at Geva Theatre Center as the Associate Artistic Director and the Director of Engagement. She’s also a co-founder of Maia Directors, a consulting and advocacy group for artists of Middle Eastern, North...
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Directing is Architectural
Sam Gold, the Tony-Award winning director of Fun Home, wants to eliminate all barriers between the audience and the story. To that end, he removes any element that actors might use as a crutch in their performance, like an unnecessary set piece, and he utilizes the physical theater space to bring...
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Disrupting Nostalgia
This episode is all about nostalgia and how we experience it through art. Any art form can have nostalgic effects, but I think there’s something unique and specific about music: the way hearing an old song you love transports you back in time to a younger version of yourself. Tony award-winning...
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Making The Audience Work For It
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins writes some of the most challenging plays I’ve read and seen. That’s partially due to the fact that his plays are each distinct in form, namely the way each play is delivered is as important as the story itself. Branden is a writer who is fascinated by the history of...
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How Church and Gospel Shape an Artist
In this episode, I look at the ways in which church and gospel music can shape an artist like my guest, Ephraim Sykes, a veritable triple threat of acting, singing, and dancing. As a kid and teenager, Ephraim had a natural affinity for dance and music, and his outlet was Sunday worship. Joining…
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The Meaning of Accents
TV and stage actress Kristen Sieh loves languages and has developed a talent for creating her characters’ voices. When Kristen nails a character’s voice, she fully inhabits her – or him as is sometimes the case. She has played Teddy Roosevelt in the play RoosevElvis, an Israeli in the musical The...
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Citizenship
In this episode, I explore citizenship in the arts. Is citizenship simply about having rights and membership, or is it a more active stance that incorporates voting, advocacy, and protest? I discussed that question with director Saheem Ali, a dual-citizen himself who addresses issues of…
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The Artist as Activist
Adam Kantor, the Broadway actor known for his roles in Rent, Avenue Q, The Last Five Years, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Band’s Visit spends his time offstage tending to his other passions – food, travel, and community service. Throughout his career, Adam’s dedication to philanthropy and activism...
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A Full Picture of Detroit
Dominique Morisseau, a MacArthur “Genius”, Kennedy Prize Winner, and Tony Nominee, loved growing up in Detroit. Good friends, close relatives, and formative teachers made the city feel like a close-knit family. But as a young adult, she realized that the outside perspective was altogether…
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An Actor’s Physicality
How does physicality shape an actor’s work? Noah Robbins can speak to that. He was a child dancer who performed at the Kennedy Center in annual dance productions led by choreographer Debbie Allen. From there he went straight to Broadway and has been busy in theater and TV ever since. Throughout…
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African Comedy Sounds Like This
Writer and actress Jocelyn Bioh gets excited about African comedy. Not "The Book of Mormon" kind where Africa is the punchline, but the insider first-person kind that draws on memory, nostalgia and referential humor. As the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants, Jocelyn craved stories about West Africa...
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BAM and the Making of the Big Arts Venue
Brooklyn Academy of Music is the oldest performing arts venue in America that is continually operating. It presents dance, theater, opera, music, and film, and its performances are known for being contemporary, experimental, global, and unusual, much like Brooklyn itself. Across the river in...
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When Personhood is Your Livelihood
Tony Award winner Itamar Moses is a playwright, a book writer for musicals, and a screenwriter on several TV shows. Each of these art forms is rewarding, he says, but playwriting is thus far the medium that allows him full creative control. Perhaps for that reason, it’s also the arena in which he...
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A TV Star Blends New and Familiar
Michael Zegen has acted in dozens of TV series, films, and plays over the past decade and a half, but he has recently hit a new level of celebrity playing Joel Maisel on the hugely successful series, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”. The show offers an exciting challenge for the actor – a…
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How Long-Term Roles Impact an Actor's Career
Actress Sarah Steele knows a thing or two about long-term roles: she's had one on TV (on the CBS drama "The Good Wife" and its spin-off, "The Good Fight") as well as on stage (in the award-winning Broadway play, "The Humans", whose original cast took the production to Los Angeles and London). The...
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How a Black Theater Festival Opens Doors
What makes a theater festival successful? High-quality art, solid ticket sales, and an enthusiastic audience response. Since 2008, Kelley Girod has worked toward that goal with a festival designed to launch black writers in the early phases of their careers. Many of the festival’s alumni have…
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How a Risk-Taker Thinks About Risk
What does risk-taking mean in art? New York Theatre Workshop, a company in downtown Manhattan that's known for taking risks, has an advantage: an enthusiastic audience with an appetite for thought-provoking art. What might be risky at other arts venues is expected here. Which is to say, risk is...
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How a Theater Maker Convinces a Filmmaker
A theater producer falls in love with a foreign film and wants to adapt it as a live musical. Fast forward eight years and he's accepting a Tony Award on live television for Best Musical. For that producer, Orin Wolf, and that show, The Band's Visit, the path appeared smooth but was in fact…
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Welcome to Places, Everyone!
Welcome to Places, Everyone: a podcast about the intersection of art and finance. Through interviews with creative people across stage and screen, this podcast explores how artists work the business side. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Through interviews with theater and screen artists (producers, directors, actors, and writers), host Lonnie Firestone explores how creativity and industry intersect. Each episode examines a theme in the life and career of a working artist.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Through interviews with theater and screen artists (producers, directors, actors, and writers), host Lonnie Firestone explores how creativity and industry intersect. Each episode examines a theme in the life and career of a working artist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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