Podcast Categories: Performing Arts

Where Are We Now? is a podcast diving deep into the elusive world of child stardom, hosted by actor, comedian, and writer Rivkah Reyes (who you might know from the iconic film School of Rock and Netflix’s Easy.) Where Are We Now? provides a platform for former child stars slash current adults living their dang lives to tell their own stories authentically so that Buzzfeed doesn’t have to.

Lincoln Center Theater’s Spotlight Series is expanding its programming to include audio presentations of largely forgotten plays that are deserving of a contemporary audience.

Set in Philadelphia circa 1936, THE FORBIDDEN CITY examines how the bonds of a middle-class Black family are tested by the specter of a tragedy that occurred many years prior in the Jim Crow South.

By Bill Gunn and directed by Seret Scott.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a writer in LCT’s Beaumont New Play Commission Program, chose THE FORBIDDEN CITY to include in the Spotlight Series. A bonus episode featuring a conversation between Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins and director Seret Scott discussing THE FORBIDDEN CITY and playwright Bill Gunn, is also available.

The podcast will be available for on-demand listening through Sunday, May 23, 2021.

Full transcripts of the audio play and bonus interview are available at www.LCT.org

SHADOW/LAND: An Audio Play

WORLD PREMIERE AUDIO PLAY
SHADOW/LAND

Written by Erika Dickerson-Despenza
Directed by Candis C. Jones
Produced by The Public Theater

Featuring Te’Era Coleman (9-1-1 Caller), Lizan Mitchell (Magalee), Lance E. Nichols (9-1-1 Dispatcher and Caller), Lori Elizabeth Parquet (9-1-1 Dispatcher and Caller), Sunni Patterson (Griot), and Michelle Wilson (Ruth).

Tow Playwright-in-Residence and Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award winner Erika Dickerson-Despenza joins The Public’s digital stage with an audio production of SHADOW/LAND, a harrowing new drama set amid the ongoing devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Ruth coaxes her mother, Magalee, to sell Shadowland, the family business and New Orleans’s first air-conditioned dancehall and hotel for Black people. But as Hurricane Katrina begins her ruin, Ruth is forced to wrestle with all that she’s ready to let go. Directed by Lilly Award winner Candis C. Jones, SHADOW/LAND is the first installment of a 10-play cycle traversing the Katrina diaspora in an examination of the ongoing effects of disaster, evacuation, displacement, and urban renewal rippling in and beyond New Orleans.

Three-part discussion series “The Clearing” will accompany the audio play and be hosted by Soyica Colbert and feature Sheila Foster, Shana M. Griffin, Jack Moore, Cara Page, Imani Perry, and Lauren A. Whitehead.

Play On Podcasts are epic audio adventures reimagining timeless tales, featuring original music composition and the voices of extraordinarily gifted artists. This is where Theatre meets Podcast, combining the modern-day audio phenomenon with the power of live performance.