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MONDAY, DECEMBER 28 — 2-3 PM
Choreographer Sally Silvers and Artistic Director Stacy Szymaszek on the 36th Annual New Year's Day Marathon Benefit Reading at the St. Marks Poetry Project

Poets Bill Zavatsky, Joanna Joseph, Len Belzer and Angelo Verga on an upcoming performance of the Stand-Up Poets Quartet;

Part 3 of an interview with painter and conceptual artist Lucio Pozzi.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, DECEMBER 21 — 2-3 PM
Satirist/author/editor Tony Hendra on his newly published collaboration with George Carlin on "Last Words", Carlin's "sortautobiography"

The Father of American Improvisational Theater, David Shepherd, reports on the 50th Anniversary of The Second City

Comedienne and economic analyst Reno on her upcoming show, "Money Talks with Citizen Reno".

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, DECEMBER 14 — 2-3 PM

Poet Marilyn Hacker on her new collection of poems, "Names"

Playwrights Thomas Bradshaw and Erin McCourtney on "The Great Recession", six short plays on the effects of the recession

Juliette Fairlie on "Making of a Mulatto", her one-woman show.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7 — 2-3 PM
•Monologist Mike Daisey on "The Last Cargo Cult," his new tale of a South Pacific culture whose belief system is based on abandoned World War II American artifacts

•Performance artist Lian Amaris on revisiting Spalding Gray's turf in Richard Schechner's production of "Swimming to Spalding"

•Part 2 of an interview with painter and conceptual artist Lucio Pozzi

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 — 2-3 PM

Actor/singer Theodore Bikel on appearing off-Broadway in "Sholem Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears"

Playwright Sara Ruhl on her new comedy "In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play"

And poets Harvey Shapiro, Bill Zavatsky and Jim Pignetti on the Brevitas Festival of the Short Poem.  

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23 — 2-3 PM

Historian Linda Gordon on her biography of photographer "Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits";

Poet Marilyn Hacker on her newly published collection "Names";

Part 1 of a conversation with painter and conceptual artist Lucio Pozzi.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.


  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16 — 2-3 PM

Pre-empted for the Pacifica Radio Archives Special

   

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9 — 2-3 PM
Playwright Terrell Alvin McCheney on the world premiere of his Bayou trilogy “The Brother/Sister Plays”; actress Ellen Crawford on performing “The Misunderstanding,” a rarely produced play by Albert Camus first performed in  1943 when Paris was still under Nazi occupation; and artist Lucio Pozzi on his upcoming exhibit at the Creon Gallery as well as “The Next 475 Years of My Art and Life,” both a lecture at the School of Visual Arts and a work of art.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 — 2-3 PM
Theaters Against War (THAW) members including playwright/actor/essayist Wallace Shawn, playwright Betty Shamieh ctress/filmmaker Suzanne Hayes and actress Kathleen Chalfant talk about "Radio Free Hashmi," their vigils in support of Muslim-American detainee Fahad Hashmi;
Founder Mia Katigbak and playwright Lloyd Suh on the 2nd Annual Asian-American Theater Festival;
And actor/activist Mike Farrell on an upcoming New York reading from his new memoir "Of Mule and Man."

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 — 2-3 PM
Author Francine Prose on her new book "ANNE FRANK: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife"

Graphic artists Rand Huebsch and Meredith Mayer on the Manhattan Graphics Center, the non-profit artist-run exhibit and work space in operation since 1986;

Beat scholar Regina Weinreich on presenting a series of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of William S. Burroughs "Naked Lunch."

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 — 2-3 PM
•Yoko Ono and other sound artists and musical explorers on "Ear to the Earth 2009", a weekend of concerts and sound installations investigating bio-diversity and the sounds of a healthy eco-system;
•Curator Jeff Rosenheim on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's major exhibition of master photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank's groundbreaking photographs marking the 50th Anniversary of his book 'The Americans";
Jason Butler Harner, David Cromer's replacement as the Stage Manager in "Our Town."

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 — 2-3 PM
•Poet and editor David Lehman and poets Tina Kelley and Mark Bibbin on "The Best American Poetry 2009";
•Playwright Lucy Thurber, director Catriona McLaughlin and Artistic Director David van Asselt on the Rattlestick Theater's 15th Anniversary re-imagining of Thurber's provocative play, "Killers and Other Family";
•An update of David Cromer's production of "Our Town" with Jason Butler Hornor, the new actor playing the Stage Manager.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 — 2-3 PM
Sondra Lee
on her new book "I've Slept With Everybody: A Memoir"

Filmmaker Michelle Esrick on her new documentary, "Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie";

Choreographer Sue Hogan on Union Fetish and the Cupcake Cadet Corps' upcoming ritual street performances regarding the transformation of Bleecker Street into a luxury shopping mall.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 — 2-3 PM

Special
Labor
Day
Programming

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, AUGUST 31 — 2-3 PM

Provocateur playwright Thomas Bradshaw and artistic director Chad Beckim on Bradshaw's latest play, "The Bereaved",

Actors Joel de la Fuente and Orville Mendoza on acting in an all-Asian version of Terence McNally's "Love! Valor! Compassion!";

and Carnegie Mellon Voice Teacher Janet Madelle Feindell on her new book, "The Thought Propels the Sound."

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, AUGUST 24 — 2-3 PM
Showstoppers from the New York International Fringe Festival, including NY Fringe co-founder John Clancy (on his Edinburgh Fringe First Award winner "The Event"), Mac Rogers (playwright/director of "Viral") and Adam Blanshay (producer of "His Greatness," the latest from Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor)

Musical group Moogy and the Peaceniks (Moogy Klingman and Barry Gruber) with American Idol star Sanjaya on their upcoming appearance at B.B. King's.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, AUGUST 17 — 2-3 PM

Filmmaker/novelist/playwright Melvin van Peebles on the graphic novel that inspired his new film, "Confessions of a Doofus Itchy Footed Mutha," and fundraising for WBAI.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, JULY 27 — 2-3 PM

Paul Krassner, satirist, author, stand-up comedian, co-founder of the Yippies and editor of the legendary freethought magazine The Realist, talks about his latest collection of essays, "Who's to Say What's Obscene?"

Artistic Director Abdelfattah Abusrour and young Palestinian members of the al Rowwad Children's Theatre of Bethlehem (and of the West Bank's Aida Refugee Camp) on their upcoming performance of "Blame the Wolf" at the Atlantic Theater Company.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, JULY 20 — 2-3 PM

Actors Buck Henry, Holland Taylor and Lisa Ebersole on acting in Ebersole's play "Mother";

Playwright/actress Lisa Ramirez on a newly revised production of "Art of Memory," her theater piece about librarians and forbidden knowledge

Satirist Ken Waldman ("Alaska's Fiddling Poet") on the publication of "As the World Burns: The Sonnets of George W. Bush and other Poems of the 43rd Presidency."

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, JULY 6 — 2-3 PM

Filmmaker Jill Godmilow on "With Jerzy Grotowski: Nienadowka, 1980", her documentary (with Mercedes Gregory) about the great Polish theater artist

Author and journalist Yori Yanover on his upcoming unscripted performance of "Biodegradable Hero" at the Broadway Comedy Club

WBAI Election Supervisor Ethan Young on becoming a Local Station Board Member of WBAI.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, JUNE 29 — 2-3 PM

Artist Lynn Umlauf on "Eidola", an exhibition of her recent work at the 210 Gallery

Author Samantha Peale on her satirical novel "The American Painter Emma Dial"

English poet Graham Buchan on his new collection, "There is Violence in These Vapours"

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, JUNE 22 — 2-3 PM
Theater artist Elizabeth Swados and Hanging Loose Press publisher and poet Bob Hershon on Swados's first published volume of poetry, "The One and Only Human Galaxy"

Author Danzy Senna on "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" a memoir of her tumultuous bi-racial family history

Courtroom artist Elizabeth Williams on preparing to capture Bernie Madoff at his sentencing.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, JUNE 15 — 2-3 PM
Paul Browde and Murray Nossel on performing "Two Men Talking" at the South African school that inspired this unscripted tale of a friendship;

Journalist Walter Pincus on "Newspaper Narcissism", his essay in the June issue of the Columbia Journalism Review;

Subway diva Rosateresa Castro-Vargas on "Tornando Cafe (drinking coffee): A One Woman Experimental Musical in Seventeen Gulps".

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, JUNE 8 — 2-3 PM
Playwright Susan Yankowitz and actress Jordan Baker on the condition of aphasia and "Night Sky," a play about a brilliant astronomer who loses her ability to speak

Actors Patrick Breen and Patrick Heisinger who play a gay couple in the Naked Angels' production of "Next Fall", Geoffrey Nauffts' play about the fault lines between religion and homosexual love.

Poet April Bernard on her new collection, "Romanticism".

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, JUNE 1 — 2-3 PM
Author and gastronome Mark Kurlansky on "The Food of a Younger Land," based on an abandoned New Deal project called "America Eats".

Playwright Zakiyyah Alexander on "10 Things to Do Before I Die," about a re-connection between two alienated sisters.

Co-founder Marina Kovalyov and a balalaika virtuoso on the 7th Annual Russian Heritage Festival in New York City.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, MAY 11 — 2-3 PM
A "Farenheit 451" Fundraising Special with the American Place Theatre's founder Wynn Handman, Executive Director David Kener and actor Rich Orlow on Project 451, a feature of their Literature to Life campaign to record professionally staged adaptations of significant American literary works and thus reverse the trend of declining reading among young Americans. Our premiums include tickets to the Project 451 Gala, honoring "Farenheit 451" author Ray Bradbury on May 17 and 18 at the Theatre at St. Clement's and copies of the book. (The Gala will feature a reading of the text as well as guest readings by such celebrities as Willie Perdomo, Marian Seldes, John Hockenberry, followed by cocktails and recordings by members of the audience.) Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

  January 5, 2009

MONDAY, MAY 4 — 2-3 PM

Actress Kristine Nielson on Christopher Durang's hilarious political satire, "Why Torture Is Wrong, And the People Who Love Them".

Artistic Director Elena K. Holy on the New York Fringe Festival 2009. A fundraising special with theater tickets.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

 
January 5, 2009

MONDAY, APRIL 27 — 2-3 PM

A preview of the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature with Festival Director Caro Llewelyn,
authors Sergio Ramirez and Russell Shorto, poet Bill Zavatsky and jazz critic Gary Giddens; and playwright Lisa Ramirez and director Colman Domingo on "Exit Cuckoo," a play about New York nannies.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

 
January 5, 2009

MONDAY, APRIL 20 — 2-3 PM

Director David Cromer on his new view of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town".

Poet, memoirist and editor Honor Moore on newly collected "Poems from the Women's Movement".

In celebration of upcoming Earth Day, climate scientist Gavin Schmidt and photographer Joshua Wolfe on "Climate Change: Picturing the Science".
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

 
January 5, 2009

MONDAY, APRIL 13 — 2-3 PM

Playwright Eisa Davis and Director Liesl Tommy on "Angela’s Mixtape," based on memories of the playwright’s aunt, Angela Davis.

New York Observer restaurant critic Moira Hodgson on her new book, " It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: My Adventures in Life and Food".

Artist Brookie Maxwell on "Rwanda Mon Amour", a mixed media exhibit commemorating the 15th year since the Rwanda genocide.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

 
January 5, 2009

MONDAY, APRIL 6 — 2-3 PM
Actress Kate Valk on The Wooster Group's new production of "La Didone" based on Francesco Cavalli's Baroque opera.

Pre-moon landing sci-fi; artist and playwright Charles Mingus III and curator Thomas Jaeckel on Mingus's current show at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel.

Author Mary Roach on "Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex".

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

 
January 5, 2009

MONDAY, MARCH 30 — 2-3 PM
Director Diane Paulus on her new production of "Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical";

Poet Robert Pinsky (U.S. Poet Laureate1997-2000) on editing "Essential Pleasures," a new anthology of poems to read aloud; and

Filmmaker Roland Tec on "We Pedal Uphill: Stories from the States: 2001-2008," thirteen vignettes about acts of bravery during the Bush years.

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

 
January 5, 2009

MONDAY, MARCH 23 — 2-3PM
Biographer Blake Bailey on his just-published "Cheever: A Life";

Director Scott Alan Evans on the Actors Company Theatre's presentation of Arthur Miller's 1964 drama, "Incident at Vichy", about men awaiting interrogation during World War II;

Playwright Richard Maxwell, director Brian Mendes, and actor Jim Fletcher on the New York City Players' production of "People Without History".

Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

 
January 5, 2009

MONDAY, MARCH 16 — 2-3PM
Playwright Murray Schisgal and actor/now director Bob Dishy on "Shpiel, Shpiel, Shpiel", three comic one-acts performed in Yiddish and English under the auspices of the National Yiddish Theater/Folksbiene; vocalist Barb Jungr now performing at the Cafe Carlyle; and filmmaker Michael Patrick Kelly and actress/activist Suzanne Hayes on a commemorative screening of "Operation Lysistrata", the film documentary on the l.049 worldwide grass roots productions of Aristophanes' anti-war comedy that took place in March 2003 in protest of the Iraq War.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

 
January 5, 2009

MONDAY, MARCH 9 — 2-3PM
South African director Lied Tommy on “The Good Negro,” Tracey Scott Wilson’s new play about civil rights leadership in Birmingham Alabama in 1963; some words on "Chatauqua," the National Theater of the United States of America's reconstruction of the historical Chatauqua lecture assemblies; and brainiac comedienne Emily Levine on “Five Easy Steps to Metaphysical Fitness,” her new one-woman show on the paradigm shift from a predictable to an improvisational universe.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

 
January 5, 2009

MONDAY, MARCH 2 — 2-3PM
Elizabeth Swados, director/lyricist and co-author (with Erin Courtney) of "Kaspar Hauser," a musical play about a boy found living in a German dungeon in 1828; playwright Sheila Callahan on "That Pretty, Pretty; or The Rape Play," about media treatment of violence towards women; three non-actors picked as models for an ad campaign about Neil LaBute's Broadway-bound "Reasons to Be Pretty," a play about America's obsession with physical beauty; and musical excerpts from Marco Benevento's new CD, "Me Not Me."

 
January 5, 2009
 

Sunday, FEBRUARY 1, 11 AM - 12 Noon
Janet Coleman and David Dozer host a special fundraising program about a new documentary film on the flowering of "Operation Lysistrata," the theatrical anti-war action of March 3, 2003, when, on the inspired idea of two New York actresses, Kathryn Blume and Sharron Bowen, the international theater world took to the stage to protest the threatened war on Iraq, using the ancient feminist anti-war play of Aristophanes as a common text. Word of the action spread through the internet and resulted in 1,029 readings and performances that took place in all 50 states and 59 countries, including China and Singapore. The film tracks the burgeoning theatrical and political excitement, the thrill of participation, as well as the disappointment of failing to stop the war. Guests on the radio program include filmmaker Michael Patrick Kelly, actors F. Murray Abraham, Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon, and Kathleen Chalfant, all of whom participated in both the "Operation Lysistrata" action and the film. The filmmaker and WBAI will offer the DVD of "O.L." as a premium for $75.

 
January 5, 2009
 

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 11 AM - 12 Noon
A Round Table Report on the Chelsea Hotel: producer and current resident Scott Griffin, producer and former tenant Jen Gatien (of the Abel Ferrara documentary "Chelsea on the Rocks), journalist Chris Shott (of The New York Observer), author Cherill Tippins (now writing the definitive history of The Chelsea), and legenday New York actress Marian Seldes talk about the long history of The Chelsea and its current landlord-tenant crisis.
Hosted by Janet Coleman.

 
January 5, 2009

JANUARY 26
Playwright William M. Hoffman and actor David Greenspan on the premiere of "Cornbury: The Queen's Governor," Hoffman's satirical collaboration with the late Anthony Holland about a cross-dressing New York governor; Artistic Director Scott Morfee on "Fortnight," a festival of new and improvised works at The Barrow Street Theatre; and producer Scott Griffin on the landlord-tenant crisis at The Chelsea, "the hotel where Dylan Thomas drank and Arthur Miller wrote.
Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

 
January 5, 2009

JANUARY 19
Continuing WBAI's all-day annual Martin Luther King Day celebration and fundraiser. Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

 
January 5, 2009

JANUARY 12
Producer and Artistic Director Mark Russell on "Under the Radar," a spectacular international theatre festival now in its 5th season; author/artist Wafaa Bilal on "Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun," his book about an interactive performance piece; and pianist/composer Andrew Shapiro on upcoming performances and his new recording of "Numbers, Colors and People," works for solo piano merging classical and pop sensibilities. Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

 
January 5, 2009

JANUARY 5
Author Edmund White on his play "Terre Haute," based on imagined conversations between literary lion Gore Vidal and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy Mc Veigh; playwright Andrea James and actors from "Yanagai! Yanagai!" a protest play from aboriginal Australia; and actor/director Roger Hendricks Simon on his award-winning independent film "The Sublet." Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.

 
January 5, 2009
 
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