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Dexter J. Singleton, director of new play development and co-producer of the Arkansas New Play Festival at TheatreSquared, and Jonathan Norton, the playwright who wrote the script “Malcolm X and Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack in Harlem,” came to the Carver Center for Public Radio to talk about this weekend’s presentations of new work. The 2024 Arkansas New Play Festival continues tomorrow night, June 20, through Sunday, June 23.
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We go back into the Ozarks at Large archives to remember what the show covered and who we were talking to during May 2006, like Monty Python’s Flying Circus founding member Terry Jones, the SEC Outdoor Track and Field Championships, and Theatresquared's first production.
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After their rehearsal yesterday afternoon, the cast of Cambodian Rock Band sat down on the T2 stage to discuss the play and the music.
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"Cambodian Rock Band" is a stage play that requires plenty from the cast and crew. The material covers heavy subjects- from family dynamics to the genocide perpetrated under the dictatorship of Pol Pot. The director of the TheatreSquared production, Nelson Eusebio, and one of the actors, Greg Watanabe, came to the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to give Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams a peek behind the rehearsal process and discuss the show.
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On today's show, "Cambodian Rock Band" presents a story of music, trauma, comedy and family, with the Khmer Rouge as a backdrop. Also, decades of academic scholarships for Latino students in Arkansas. Plus, talking business and politics with Michael Tilley, looking forward to the weekend with Becca Martin Brown, and discussing "Dune: Part Two" with Courtney Lanning.
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TheatreSquared’s “What the Constitution Means to Me” production began last night and lasted through the beginning of March. Heidi Schreck's work examines the author’s relationship with the Constitution as a 15-year-old high school debater and as an adult. Yesterday, Kelsey Venter, the actor portraying Heidi, and Amy Herzberg, the production’s director, visited Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams to discuss the show.
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On today's show, the problem and unique solution for affordable housing in Bentonville. Also, a conversation with the new dean of the Walton College of Business. Plus, the latest production at TheatreSquared is pretty timely.
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In this week’s excerpt of "I Am Northwest Arkansas," host Randy Wilburn talks with Theatresquared's executive director Shannon Jones about what goes on at T2 when the lights shut off and the curtain drops.
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TheatreSquared’s “A Christmas Carol” is back on stage at T2 tonight through Christmas Eve. This is the fourth time T2 has staged a full-cast version of the production, which is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ work by T2’s artistic director Bob Ford and associate artistic director Amy Herzberg. Last week, they came to the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio, and Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams asked them why they think the story has thrived since its publication.
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On today's show, how much authority does the Arkansas State Library Board have? Also, Scrooge, Marley and Cratchit are back on stage. Plus, radio theater in Eureka Springs.