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    This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

    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.

    Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in June 2013.

    Directed by Jeanie Hackett

    Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

    Jane Kaczmarek as Helga

    Hugo Armstrong as Ratcatcher/Others

    Shannon Lee Clair as Eva

    Angela Paton as Lil

    Molly C. Quinn as Faith

    Susan Sullivan as Evelyn

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    This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

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    This podcast is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

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    Keo Woolford as Max

    Emily Liu as Tam Webb

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    John Ball's In the Heat of the Night Bonus: Journalist Todd Purdum

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    John Ball's In the Heat of the Night (Part 3)

    This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

    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. A fitting reflection of America in the 1960s, this Off-Broadway hit is provocative, timely, and uncomfortably relevant. Adapted by Matt Pelfrey.

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    Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

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    Travis Johns as Pete/Man In Shadows/Klansman 1

    James Morrison as Chief Gillespie

    Darren Richardson as Charles Tatum/Endicott/Al Jennings

    Tom Virtue as Harvey Oberst/Purdy/Klansman

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    This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

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    Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

    Ryan Vincent Anderson as Virgil Tibbs

    Michael Hammond as Sam Wood

    Kalen Harriman as Melanie Purdy/Noreen Tatum

    Travis Johns as Pete/Man In Shadows/Klansman 1

    James Morrison as Chief Gillespie

    Darren Richardson as Charles Tatum/Endicott/Al Jennings

    Tom Virtue as Harvey Oberst/Purdy/Klansman

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    John Ball's In the Heat of the Night (Part 1)

    This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

    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. A fitting reflection of America in the 1960s, this Off-Broadway hit is provocative, timely, and uncomfortably relevant. Adapted by Matt Pelfrey.

    Original music composed by Mark Holden and Michael Lopez. Includes audience Q&A sessions with director Brian Kite and playwright Matt Pelfrey, as well as political journalist Todd Purdum. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in October of 2014.

    Directed by Brian Kite

    Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

    Ryan Vincent Anderson as Virgil Tibbs

    Michael Hammond as Sam Wood

    Kalen Harriman as Melanie Purdy/Noreen Tatum

    Travis Johns as Pete/Man In Shadows/Klansman 1

    James Morrison as Chief Gillespie

    Darren Richardson as Charles Tatum/Endicott/Al Jennings

    Tom Virtue as Harvey Oberst/Purdy/Klansman


    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.