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Shake the Sphere with SidEP9 - Susan CerasanoSid talks with Susan Cerasano, the Edgar W. B. Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University. Now, when Susan “talks” about Shakespeare, or Marlowe--for that matter, the words flow from her like some joyous, fast-moving stream, eager to flood its banks. Wonderfully perceptive parallels are made, insights into the characters rooted in Susan's love of the script. Little wonder that she is so popular with students and her colleagues. This is only half the story. Susan is no less interested in the physical Renaissance theatre, its role in the social and political life of the community, as in a piec...2025-07-1557 minShake the Sphere with SidEP1 - Avra SidiropoulouSid talks with Avra Sidiropoulou, a brilliant director who has staged plays all over the world. A professor at the Open University of Cyprus, she has written extensively about the contemporary theatre—indeed, theatre people have found essential her book Directions for Directors (2018). With a concern both for her actors and audience, she speaks, among many other works, in wonderful detail about her recent recasting of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in light of Stanislavski’s 1889 production for the Moscow Arts Theatre, as well as own adaptation Enter Hamlet.2025-07-0453 minShake the Sphere with SidEP8 - Brian RhinehartSid talks with Brian Rhinehart, Professor of Theatre at the Actors Studio Drama School in New York. Old friends for years now, they have been each other’s actor and director (and had great fun doing so), in everything from improv to the plays of Sam Shepard. Brian directed the award-winning Butoh Medea on Theatre Row in Manhattan, was named “Best Director” for Einstein’s Dream at New York’s International Fringe Festival, and was awarded a Fullbright for his Dispersal: A Gentrification Story. He is most interested these days in Site-Specific, Landscape, Citizen, and Devising theatre, and has giv...2025-07-0445 minShake the Sphere with SidEP7 - David O’DonnellSid talks with David O’Donnell, now adjunct professor at Victoria University in Wellington. While his natural modesty would prevent him for acknowledging the fact, David has perhaps been the person most responsible for the recognition and growth of native New Zealand actors, playwrights, and composers. Himself a fine actor and director, he has staged some twenty productions of New Zealand plays. He was also the editor of the Playmarket New Zealand PlaySeries from 2010 to 2023, and was honored with the Mayoral Award for Significant Contribution to the Theatre. David is especially concerned with marginalized artists and has en...2025-07-0450 minShake the Sphere with SidEP6 - Paul RichardsSid talks with Paul Richards, Professor of Music and Head of Composition at the University of Florida. When I speak of my colleague’s music as being “all over the place,” I mean this as the ultimate compliment. Richards has written orchestral, vocal, chamber, and theatrical works, as well as full-length operas. His music has been praised for its “strong, pure melodic gifts,” and he has had commissions from numerous organizations, orchestras, and university programs. Paul is especially interested in the relation between words and music, their aesthetic differences no less than similarities, how artists in two such diffe...2025-07-0453 minShake the Sphere with SidEP5 - Henry SussmanSid talks with Henry Sussman, one of the country’s most eminent scholars and teachers, who has used his study of literature and culture to put in context his political commentary, as in The Great Dismissal: Memoir of the Cultural Demolition Derby, 2015-2021. October 2023 saw the premier of Henry’s play Soiree at Walter Benjamin’s at the New York Theatre Festival. And if this weren’t enough, his debut collection of poetry “Polaroids of Turbulence” was published by BlazeVOX Books in 2024. One has called his poetry “allusive, ornate, beautiful and complex, and rich as my mother’s vegetable soup2025-07-0454 minShake the Sphere with SidEP4 - Jerry HarpSid talks with Jerry Harp, a teacher much in demand at Lewis and Clark College. His four books of poetry reveal an artist of extraordinary sensitivity, and Jerry uses that sensitivity in his study For Us What Music: The Life and Poetry of Donald Justice. It was his role as the Friar in a production of Romeo and Juliet that led him to examine the complexity of that character, then write about the experience in “Uncertain Text: Student and Teacher Find Their Way Onstage in Romeo and Juliet,” which in turn has led to a full-length study and...2025-07-041h 05Shake the Sphere with SidEP3 - Donna Soto-MorettiniSid talks with Donna Soto-Morettini, who has done just about everything in the business. Rock and Roll singer in California. Director of Drama for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the Royal Central School in London. She is highly sought after as an acting coach and casting director (for Andrew Lloyd Webber, among others). Her books on acting, auditioning, getting into character, and singing are justly popular. Donna confesses that her favorite role was as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd.2025-07-0459 minShake the Sphere with SidEP2 - Mike HillSid talks with Michael Hill about how his work in eighteenth century studies has expanded to his concerns with environmental humanities, the interaction of war and culture, and, most recently, the link between war and climate change. A professor of English at SUNY/Albany, Mike shows how one’s “field” can be the door to wider, emergent contemporary topics, as in his Masses, Class, and the Public Sphere (2000) and After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority (2004).2025-07-0459 min
The Steve Warne Project - The SWP698: Canada and the USA Go for Gold in Olympic Hockey; The Men Will Not; Crosby Scores his 500thWe discuss the quarterfinal demise of Canada and the US in mens hockey at the Winter Olympics. The ladies on the other hand, go for gold Wednesday night. Rachel Homan's twitter post about being bitterly disappointed. We got gold again in speed skating. We discuss athlete families. Sidney Cropsby gets his 500th goal and Claude Giroux is on the trade block, deciding if he wants to leave Philly and which contender he wants to be dealt to.2022-02-1636 min
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Nancy and Dave Chappelle were classmates at Duke Ellington School of the Arts High School. Both were good friends at the ti...2021-12-311h 24
Waco History PodcastWaco's brief world record: tree sittingNo doubt kids back in the 1930s were as bored as kids during COVID-19! Their answer: tree sitting. That's right, kids in the 1930s tried to see how long they could stay up in a tree. One Wacoan, Jack Kellner Jr., briefly held the world record by staying in a tree off Homan Ave for more than 156 hours! Listen as Stephen and Randy take a trip into Waco's past:The Waco History Project has more on this moment in time:At 1 p.m. July 16, 1930, Frank Kellner Jr., 12, climbed the cottonwood tree in the backyard of his home, 2324 Homan...2020-06-1013 min