Act One Radio Drama – September 28, 2008 at 7:30pm
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We continue to celebrate our raza heritage by bringing you the classic “Zoot Suit.” Chicano playwright Luis Valdez masterfully uses the Sleepy Lagoon murder case to examine the Chicano Zoot Suit Culture of the 40’s. Passionate and provocative, ZOOT SUIT pulses with the beat of Big Band Music and traditional Latin songs. Starring Spencer Garrett, … Continued
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We celebrate raza culture in presenting: Anna In the Tropics by Nilo Cruz. This poignant and poetic 2003 Pulitzer Prize winning play captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for … Continued
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"Fired"Created by Annabelle Gurwitch; written by and starring Annabelle Gurwitch, Hilary Carlip, Carl Capotorto, Paul Feig, Jason Kravitz, Sandra Tsing Loh, Taylor Negron, Paul F. Tompkins, Jim Turner, Elizabeth Warner, Charlayne Woodard, and Roy Zimmerman. Rejection has never been so hilarious! After her role in a Woody Allen play was rethought, actress Annabelle Gurwitch (TBS’s … Continued
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Present Laughter by Noel Coward A gallery of friends, lovers, relatives and theatre acolytes sparkle around stage star Garry Essendine like bubbles in fine champagne. While Garry struggles to plan his upcoming trip to Africa, his elegant London flat is invaded by a love struck ingénue, an adulterous producer and a married seductress–not to mention … Continued
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Sight UnseenBy Donald Margulies, starring Adam Arkin, Anna Gunn, Jordan Baker, and Randy Ogelsby. Jonathan Waxman is a hugely successful artist. He receives exorbitant prices for his works, sight unseen. But a visit with his original muse and lover causes him to re-evaluate the success that now controls him. This Obie-Award-winning drama explores the artist’s … Continued
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Aliens in America by Sandra Tsing Loh. Contemporary satirist Sandra Tsing Loh spins a darkly comic, autobiographical tale of growing up middle class Chinese-German in Southern California. This witty monologue is for sons and daughters everywhere who feel that their parents must have been beamed to earth from another planet.
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BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY by Mark Harris and Eric Simonson A new dramatization of one of the greatest baseball stories of all time. A poignant, touching, and often comic tale of a baseball team’s friendship and loyalty to a dying teammate. Starring Ed Begley Jr. David Schwimmer, Harry Shearer and Jonathan Silverman
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Ruby McCullum A trail of lies, secrets and racial prejudice is uncovered when a pair of journalists, Zora Neale Hurston and William Bradford Huie, investigate the murder of a white doctor by an affluent African-American woman. Based on a true case in South Florida in 1952, this suspenseful drama has powerful implications to this day, posing … Continued