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Public Square
by The Public Theater
We're back! Join us for Public Square 2.0, the re-launch of The Public Theater’s Podcast, “Public Square.” For our second season, Host Garlia Cornelia Jones, The Public’s new and first ever Director of Innovation and New Media, will continue to guide you through a behind the scenes look as we connect with artists and staff. Welcome home, to Public Square—we can’t wait to have you back! Stay Tuned for Episodes, wherever you find your podcasts.
Episodes
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Public Square 2.0 - "Season Finale: Legacy Meets Reinvention"
In this ninth Episode of Public Square 2.0, the re-launch of The Public Theater's podcast, Public Square, host Garlia Cornelia Jones speaks to leaders in the industry about the future of theater and digital spaces. For our Season Finale, Garlia sits down with Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of…
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Public Square 2.0 - Shakespeare Live: Hamlet in Conversation
In this eighth Episode of Public Square 2.0, the re-launch of The Public Theater's podcast, Public Square, we share a recording of the May 1, 2023 Public Shakespeare Initiative's Shakespeare Talks event, Let's Talk About Hamlet. Recorded live in Joe's Pub, this was a conversation with Saheem Ali,...
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Public Square 2.0 - "FAT HAM: Food for my Soul"
In this seventh Episode of Public Square 2.0, the re-launch of The Public Theater's podcast, Public Square, we take a look at James Ijames' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, FAT HAM. After its wildly successful onstage premiere at The Public Theater in 2022, Fat Ham transferred to Broadway with its...
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Public Square 2.0 - Bonus Episode 7 "SHADOW/LAND - The Clearing, Part 3: Healing
In 2021, The Public Theater released an audio-only version of Erika Dickerson-Despenza's play, shadow/land. Alongside that audio play were several podcast episodes of a series called "The Clearing," that added additional context to the audio production. Now in 2023, shadow/land has come to the...
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Public Square 2.0 - "Mobile Unit: Sound of the Community"
In this sixth Episode of Public Square 2.0, the re-launch of The Public Theater's podcast, Public Square, we take a look at Mobile Unit's bilingual production of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. Host Garlia Cornelia Jones speaks with Praycious Wilson-Gay (Interim Director, Mobile Unit), Freedome...
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Public Square 2.0 - Bonus Episode 6 "SHADOW/LAND - The Clearing, Part 2: Imagining and Building New Structures"
In 2021, The Public Theater released an audio-only version of Erika Dickerson-Despenza's play, shadow/land. Alongside that audio play were several podcast episodes of a series called "The Clearing," that added additional context to the audio production. Now in 2023, shadow/land has come to the...
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Public Square 2.0 - Bonus Episode 5 "SHADOW/LAND - The Clearing, Part 1: A Useable Past"
In 2021, The Public Theater released an audio-only version of Erika Dickerson-Despenza's play, shadow/land. Alongside that audio play were several podcast episodes of a series called "The Clearing," that added additional context to the audio production. Now in 2023, shadow/land has come to the...
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Public Square 2.0 - "shadow/land: Reflections of Home"
Description: In this fifth Episode of Public Square 2.0, the re-launch of The Public Theater's podcast, Public Square, we take a look at SHADOW/LAND by Erika Dickerson-Despenza. Host Garlia Cornelia Jones speaks with Jill M. Vallery (Movement Director), Delfeayo Marsalis (Composer), and Jeanette...
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Public Square 2.0 - Bonus Episode 4 "What Do You Know? Part 2"
In this fourth Bonus Episode of Public Square 2.0, the re-launch of The Public Theater's podcast, Public Square, we drop in on the "What Do You Know: Reflections from Indigenous Artists" event, held in connection with The Public and Woolly Mammoth's production of Where We Belong by Madeline…
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Public Square 2.0 - Bonus Episode 3 "What Do You Know? Part 1"
In this third Bonus Episode of Public Square 2.0, the re-launch of The Public Theater's podcast, Public Square, we drop in on the "What Do You Know: Reflections from Indigenous Artists" event, held in connection with The Public and Woolly Mammoth's production of Where We Belong by Madeline Sayet....
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Public Square 2.0 - Bonus Episode 2 "Hansberry & Baldwin in the Building"
Public Square 2.0 - Bonus Episode 2 "Hansberry & Baldwin in the Building" Description: In this 2nd Bonus Episode of the Public Square 2.0, the re-launch of The Public Theater's Podcast, "Public Square." We give you a front row seat to a conversation from one of our Fall Productions, Baldwin and...
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Public Square 2.0 - "Abundance: Black History Month"
In our 3rd consecutive episode of the month, we honor Black History Month with a look at the Unsung Stars of The Public Theater community. This episode had support from members of the Black History Month committee. This episode contains two feature interviews with two Public Theater Unsung Stars,...
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Public Square 2.0 - "The Harder They Come: A Radical Retelling"
Perry Henzell's breakthrough film, THE HARDER THEY COME premiered in 1972, showing a side of Jamaican culture never seen before on the screen by Jamaicans or around the world. Over 50 years later, this groundbreaking film is a new musical adaptation with a book by Suzan-Lori Parks (Pulitzer...
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Public Square 2.0 - "Lorraine: All Things at Once"
During the fall of 2022, The Public Theater mounted an American classic, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun directed by Tony Award nominee, Robert O'Hara and featuring Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins as Lena Younger. In our second full episode this season, Host Garlia Cornelia Jones,...
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Public Square 2.0 - Bonus Episode 1 "Her Father was a Republican: The Politics of Lorraine Hansberry"
In this 1st Episode Bonus Episode of the Public Square 2.0, the re-launch of The Public Theater's Podcast, "Public Square." We give you a front row seat to a conversation from one of our Fall Productions, Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun". On Friday, October 21, 2022, Dr. Imani Perry and...
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Public Square 2.0 - "… Maybe I can be a Lighthouse."
In this 1st Episode of the Public Square 2.0, the re-launch of The Public Theater's Podcast, "Public Square." Host Garlia Cornelia Jones, The Public's new and first ever Director of Innovation and New Media, introduces us to the new format, and sits down with long-time Writer in Residence,...
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Public Square 2.0 - Welcome Home.
Join us for Public Square 2.0, the re-launch of The Public Theater's Podcast, "Public Square." For our second season, Host Garlia Cornelia Jones, The Public's new and first ever Director of Innovation and New Media, will continue to guide you through a behind the scenes look as we connect with...
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Decolonizing Shakespeare
From open air to on the air - RICHARD II comes to the radio courtesy of WNYC! Multi-hyphenate artist Alec Stephens III sits down with RICHARD II director Saheem Ali and Shakespeare scholar Ayanna Thompson to interrogate the relevance of the Bard's work amidst a pandemic and the surge of the Black...
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Take Up Space
May is Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, so we sat down with Francis Jue, Kendyl Ito, and Jaygee Macapugay to reflect on their experiences in Soft Power, Wild Goose Dreams, and what it means to be an artist in a time that is uniquely difficult for theater, and especially for…
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A Love Story
In this episode, we sit down with Pentagram partner and world-renowned designer Paula Scher to dive into her 25+ year long love affair with The Public and hurdles that identity designers must face in an ever changing landscape.
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What Keeps You Up At Night
In this episode, we chat with Company Dramaturg Jesse Cameron Alick and Director of New Artists Jack Phillips Moore about what it means to develop new work for the theater, their advice for aspiring artists, and why dramaturgy, like love, is an action. Hosted by Reynaldi Lindner Lolong and…
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Connection, Community, and Conversation
Bryan Joseph Lee, head of our Public Forum program, talks with us about all the ways that we create space for conversation and engagement around the work on our stages, ranging from our free monthly Civic Salon series to a mobile tour around the city. We also explore what it means to make these...
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Dancing With The Play
This month we're putting the spotlight on roles that happen behind the scenes to make the work possible. Stage Managers Alyssa Howard (For Colored Girls...) and Buzz Cohen (A Bright Room Called Day) tell us why being a stage manager is like "dancing with the play", and Operations Associate…
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Grit and Edge
It's November, which means it's time to announce the 16th annual Under The Radar Festival! We sit down with Under The Radar Artistic Director Mark Russell to talk about what it means to curate a festival of experimental, innovative, and international theater. We also share a song by Joe's Pub…
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Democracy
David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori join us to discuss all things SOFT POWER: from its unique structure and unexpectedly timely genesis, to what the show means for Asian narratives in musical theater. We'll also flashback to some prescient words about art and activism, courtesy of Lisa Kron, and...
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A Safe Space, A Dangerous Space
In 1998, Joe's Pub opened as part of The Public Theater, and quickly become a fixture of the downtown live performance scene. We sat down with Director of Joe's Pub Alex Knowlton and Programming Manager Isabel Kim to learn what it takes to curate 800 performances a year, and also learn about the...
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Raccoons Are Very Intelligent Creatures
Summer in New York means Free Shakespeare in the Park, The Public's founding tradition. We spoke with a trio of production managers at The Public who gave us all the scoop about what it takes to make theater outside in the summer, how to handle visits by raccoons and rain, and what makes the...
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Make Your Own Party
June is Pride Month and, this year, World Pride is landing in New York City. To celebrate, this episode is all about The Public's rich history of queer artistry -- featuring a sneak peek at a new song from Jomama Jones; an intergenerational conversation between Reynaldi, Heidi Griffiths (Director...
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The Radical Idea
In 1954, Joseph Papp founded the New York Shakespeare Festival with touring productions of Shakespeare, presented for free to the people of New York City. 65 years later, The Public Theater is still touring Shakespeare with our Mobile Unit to the five boroughs and beyond. This episode is all…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We're back! Join us for Public Square 2.0, the re-launch of The Public Theater’s Podcast, “Public Square.” For our second season, Host Garlia Cornelia Jones, The Public’s new and first ever Director of Innovation and New Media, will continue to guide you through a behind the scenes look as we connect with artists and staff. Welcome home, to Public Square—we can’t wait to have you back! Stay Tuned for Episodes, wherever you find your podcasts.
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