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LISTEN NOW: In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, LATW presents Kindertransport by Diane Samuels. Sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.
Kindertransport
By: Diane Samuels
Directed by: Jeanie Hackett
Starring: Jane Kaczmarek, Hugo Armstrong, Shannon Lee Clair, Angela Paton, Molly C. Quinn, Susan Sullivan
Diane Samuels’ play about families, secrets and survival takes us to the days of the impending Holocaust. As conditions deteriorated in Germany in the 1930s, many tried in vain to escape. But thanks to a British humanitarian effort, about 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and neighboring countries were relocated to live with families in the United Kingdom, while their parents stayed behind. This passage to freedom became known as 'Kindertransport'.
Original sound and scoring by Peter Salem.
Includes a conversation with Kindertransport survivor, Hilda Fogelson.
Air Date: January 27, 2023
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The Night Watcher
Written by and Starring: Charlayne Woodard
Directed by: Stuart K. Robinson
LATW honors Black History Month. Playwright and performer Charlayne Woodard is a force of nature, and in "The Night Watcher" she finds a new way to explore her "mother" nature. Woodard describes her life as half of a childless couple, finding herself mysteriously drawn to second-hand parenting.
Air Date: February 3, 2023
John Ball’s In the Heat of the Night
By: John Ball
Directed by: Brian Kite
Starring: Ryan Vincent Anderson, James Morrison
LATW honors Black History Month. Based on John Ball’s novel, which inspired the Oscar winning film and the Emmy-winning television series, ‘In the Heat of the Night’ pits a visiting black detective from California against a small Alabama town simmering with anger over desegregation.
Air Date: February 10, 2023
The Whipping Man
By: Matthew Lopez
Directed by: Judyann Elder
Starring: Aaron Jennings, Charlie Robinson, Mark Jude Sullivan
LATW honors Black History Month. Tensions run high as Caleb de Leon, a young Jewish Confederate soldier, celebrates Passover with his family's newly-freed slaves in the de Leons' crumbling antebellum mansion. This gripping drama explores a little-known aspect of the Civil War, unearthing dark family secrets on the way to a shocking climax.
Air Date: February 17, 2023
An Enemy of the People
By: Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Rebecca Lenkewicz
Directed by: Martin Jarvis
Starring: Richard Kind, Gregory Harrison, Emily Swallow, Josh Stamberg
When a small town relies on tourists flocking to its baths, will a report of dangerously polluted waters be enough to shut them down? Henrik Ibsen weighs the cost of public health versus a town's livelihood and skewers the complicity of the masses in his classic and still timely play. An Enemy of the People is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.
Air Date: February 24, 2023
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