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American expatriate Sidney Webb and Sister Margaret, his British colleague, work tirelessly to rehabilitate Cambodian children from the nightmare of prostitution. After a surprise raid on a brothel, an eager young U.S. lawyer places three liberated orphans under Sidney and the Sister's care. The girls begin the inspirational process of recovery under the loving watch of their new protectors.

Original music by Dengue Fever. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in April 2008.

Directed by Michael Dixon

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

William Mapother as Ted Thompson

Gregory Itzin as Sidney Webb

Jenny O'Hara as Sister Margaret

John Cabrera as Jonathon Black

Elizabeth Pan as Yen

Jane Le as Lida

Michelle Ongkingco as Kolab

Keo Woolford as Max

Emily Liu as Tam Webb

Samantha Abrigo as Cambodian Girl

Amy Sara Lim as Cambodian Girl

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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.

American expatriate Sidney Webb and Sister Margaret, his British colleague, work tirelessly to rehabilitate Cambodian children from the nightmare of prostitution. After a surprise raid on a brothel, an eager young U.S. lawyer places three liberated orphans under Sidney and the Sister's care. The girls begin the inspirational process of recovery under the loving watch of their new protectors.

Original music by Dengue Fever. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in April 2008.

Directed by Michael Dixon

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

William Mapother as Ted Thompson

Gregory Itzin as Sidney Webb

Jenny O'Hara as Sister Margaret

John Cabrera as Jonathon Black

Elizabeth Pan as Yen

Jane Le as Lida

Michelle Ongkingco as Kolab

Keo Woolford as Max

Emily Liu as Tam Webb

Samantha Abrigo as Cambodian Girl

Amy Sara Lim as Cambodian Girl

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

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

American expatriate Sidney Webb and Sister Margaret, his British colleague, work tirelessly to rehabilitate Cambodian children from the nightmare of prostitution. After a surprise raid on a brothel, an eager young U.S. lawyer places three liberated orphans under Sidney and the Sister's care. The girls begin the inspirational process of recovery under the loving watch of their new protectors.

Original music by Dengue Fever. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in April 2008.

Directed by Michael Dixon

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

William Mapother as Ted Thompson

Gregory Itzin as Sidney Webb

Jenny O'Hara as Sister Margaret

John Cabrera as Jonathon Black

Elizabeth Pan as Yen

Jane Le as Lida

Michelle Ongkingco as Kolab

Keo Woolford as Max

Emily Liu as Tam Webb

Samantha Abrigo as Cambodian Girl

Amy Sara Lim as Cambodian Girl

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

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

American expatriate Sidney Webb and Sister Margaret, his British colleague, work tirelessly to rehabilitate Cambodian children from the nightmare of prostitution. After a surprise raid on a brothel, an eager young U.S. lawyer places three liberated orphans under Sidney and the Sister's care. The girls begin the inspirational process of recovery under the loving watch of their new protectors.

Original music by Dengue Fever. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in April 2008.

Directed by Michael Dixon

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

William Mapother as Ted Thompson

Gregory Itzin as Sidney Webb

Jenny O'Hara as Sister Margaret

John Cabrera as Jonathon Black

Elizabeth Pan as Yen

Jane Le as Lida

Michelle Ongkingco as Kolab

Keo Woolford as Max

Emily Liu as Tam Webb

Samantha Abrigo as Cambodian Girl

Amy Sara Lim as Cambodian Girl

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

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

Hear our post-show discussion with director Brian Kite, playwright Matt Pelfrey, and UCLA Professor of Directing and Theater History Michael Hackett

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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.

Hear our post-show discussion about the play with journalist Todd Purdum.

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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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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A Lesson Before Dying is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, Romulus Linney’s adaptation of A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his home town after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jefferson’s.

Recorded before a live audience at Voice of America, Washington D.C. in July of 2001.

Directed by Nick Olcott

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Rick Foucheux as Paul Bonin

Keith Glover as Grant Wiggins

Jamahl Marsh as Jefferson

Linda Powell as Vivian Baptiste

Jefferson A. Russell as Reverend Moses Ambrose

Jerry Whiddon as Sam Guidry

Beatrice Winde as Emma Glenn

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A Lesson Before Dying is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, Romulus Linney’s adaptation of A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his home town after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jefferson’s.

Recorded before a live audience at Voice of America, Washington D.C. in July of 2001.

Directed by Nick Olcott

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Rick Foucheux as Paul Bonin

Keith Glover as Grant Wiggins

Jamahl Marsh as Jefferson

Linda Powell as Vivian Baptiste

Jefferson A. Russell as Reverend Moses Ambrose

Jerry Whiddon as Sam Guidry

Beatrice Winde as Emma Glenn

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

A Lesson Before Dying is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, Romulus Linney’s adaptation of A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his home town after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jefferson’s.

Recorded before a live audience at Voice of America, Washington D.C. in July of 2001.

Directed by Nick Olcott

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Rick Foucheux as Paul Bonin

Keith Glover as Grant Wiggins

Jamahl Marsh as Jefferson

Linda Powell as Vivian Baptiste

Jefferson A. Russell as Reverend Moses Ambrose

Jerry Whiddon as Sam Guidry

Beatrice Winde as Emma Glenn

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

A Lesson Before Dying is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Based on Ernest J. Gaines’ National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, Romulus Linney’s adaptation of A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his home town after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jefferson’s.

Recorded before a live audience at Voice of America, Washington D.C. in July of 2001.

Directed by Nick Olcott

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Rick Foucheux as Paul Bonin

Keith Glover as Grant Wiggins

Jamahl Marsh as Jefferson

Linda Powell as Vivian Baptiste

Jefferson A. Russell as Reverend Moses Ambrose

Jerry Whiddon as Sam Guidry

Beatrice Winde as Emma Glenn

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Author Rebecca Ginsburg talks about life in South Africa in the time of the play.

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Hear our conversation with the acclaimed author of "Master Harold"...and the Boys, Athol Fugard.

Sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

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"Master Harold"...and the Boys is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre’s most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950’s South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold’s childhood and friendships in this absorbing and affecting coming of age play. The play, initially banned from production in South Africa, is a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding New Play.

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in May of 2004.

Directed by Stuart K. Robinson

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Leon Addison Brown as Willie

Keith David as Sam

Bobby Steggert as Hally

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"Master Harold"...and the Boys is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre’s most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950’s South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold’s childhood and friendships in this absorbing and affecting coming of age play. The play, initially banned from production in South Africa, is a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding New Play.

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in May of 2004.

Directed by Stuart K. Robinson

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Leon Addison Brown as Willie

Keith David as Sam

Bobby Steggert as Hally

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

"Master Harold"...and the Boys is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre’s most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950’s South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold’s childhood and friendships in this absorbing and affecting coming of age play. The play, initially banned from production in South Africa, is a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding New Play.

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in May of 2004.

Directed by Stuart K. Robinson

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Leon Addison Brown as Willie

Keith David as Sam

Bobby Steggert as Hally

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

"Master Harold"...and the Boys is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre’s most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950’s South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold’s childhood and friendships in this absorbing and affecting coming of age play. The play, initially banned from production in South Africa, is a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding New Play.

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in May of 2004.

Directed by Stuart K. Robinson

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Leon Addison Brown as Willie

Keith David as Sam

Bobby Steggert as Hally

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