I’m looking forward to speaking virtually at @wpunj this evening, and I hope you’ll join us. Tickets available at the link in my bio.
If you missed #TwilightLosAngeles last night, or if it didn’t air on your local @PBS station, you can watch it now on demand – for free! Download the PBS app, or visit the link in my bio to watch online.
This Tuesday, June 30th, beginning at 7pm ET, I’ll be speaking at the 2020 @AspenIdeas Festival with @yuvalsharonla and Kate D. Levin. For the first time ever, the Festival is digital and completely free to attend. Sign up at the link in my bio. #AspenIdeas
This Tuesday, June 30th, beginning at 7pm ET, I’ll be speaking at the 2020 @AspenIdeas Festival with @yuvalsharonla and Kate D. Levin. For the first time ever, the Festival is digital and completely free to attend. Sign up at the link in my bio. #AspenIdeas
“I’m a prisoner of hope.” –Cornel West. Tonight, in the wake of nationwide protest of the murder of #GeorgeFlloyd, we revisit the Los Angeles riots of 1992 in a special rebroadcast of #TwilightLosAngeles. Join us on PBS at 10pm, or online at any time, at PBS.org. Photo: Gage Skidmore
“I’m a prisoner of hope.” –Cornel West. Tonight, in the wake of nationwide protest of the murder of #GeorgeFlloyd, we revisit the Los Angeles riots of 1992 in a special rebroadcast of #TwilightLosAngeles. Join us on PBS at 10pm, or online at any time, at PBS.org. Photo: Gage Skidmore
In case you missed it, my conversation with Oskar Eustis of the Public Theater is now available to stream on Youtube. We talked in depth about the many changes American theater needs to make in order to become more equitable. Link in bio. Thank you to the Aspen Institute for hosting the conversation.
“Alvin [Ailey] wanted to be as broadly based as possible, because he thought already, with him just setting foot on stage, that was a political statement.” HYMN, Judith Jamison’s stunning tribute to Alvin Ailey, including interviews I conducted with Ailey dancers, is available to stream on Youtube for the next week. Link in bio.
“Ever yours, Vincent.” Join me tonight at 8PM EST for a reading of Van Gogh’s letters to his brother Theo, as part of @themuseumofmodernart’s #MoMAVirtualViews. Link in bio. Image credit: Vincent van Gogh. “The Starry Night.” Saint Rémy, June 1889. Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/4″ (73.7 x 92.1 cm). Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange). Conservation was made possible by the Bank of America Art Conservation Project. Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
This Monday at 7pm, I’ll be talking to Sarah Rodman of Entertainment Weekly about race and some of my work, which is now streaming online, along with works by other playwrights of color. Check out this list (linked below) of plays from The New York Times on the subject of black lives and racism, and join me tomorrow for the conversation at the link in my bio. http://ow.ly/ON4A50A7hP0
A great teacher of artists, Kristin Linklater, has died. She gave us so much including the following thought, so pertinent to now: “…the purpose of growing as a human being must be to look at and listen to the whole human condition with increased understanding and compassion, and, in the case of the artist, to shed an ever brighter light on the causes of humanity’s more egregious errors.” ~ Kristin Linklater, “Thoughts on Theatre, Therapy, and the Art of Voice”
Tonight, we revisit America in the aftermath of the L.A. riots of 1992 in the film of my play #TwilightLosAngeles. Airs 10pm on PBS and online at PBS.org. Do you remember where you were when Los Angeles erupted in 1992?
“It was like a storm! Like the eye of a storm!” –Henry Keith Watson. Revisit the aftermath of the Rodney King riots with us tomorrow (6/8) in our rebroadcast of #TwilightLosAngeles at 10pm on PBS, and streaming online for free at PBS.org.
Atlanta is burning again after the death of #RayshardBrooks. I will be talking to Sarah Rodman of @EW as part of @92Y’s series on confronting hate, streaming online tomorrow, (Monday, 6/15) at 7pm ET. Link in bio.
At 5pm this evening, I’ll be talking to Oskar Eustis of the Public Theater in a conversation on the future of live theatre and it’s audience. The virtual event, hosted by the Aspen Institute, is free, but registration is required. Link in bio.
Years after his pivotal role in the truce between the bloods and crips in Los Angeles, Twilight Bey works to end gang violence in London. Hear his story in #TwilightLosAngeles TOMORROW, Monday June 8th, in a rebroadcast at 10pm, as well as online at PBS.org, where the rebrocast can be streamed for free. Photo: Jeremy Selwyn
Years after his pivotal role in the truce between the bloods and crips in Los Angeles, Twilight Bey works to end gang violence in London. Hear his story in #TwilightLosAngeles TOMORROW, Monday June 8th, in a rebroadcast at 10pm, as well as online at PBS.org, where the rebrocast can be streamed for free. Photo: Jeremy Selwyn
This week, @AlvinAiley All Access is streaming “A Hymn for Alvin Ailey.” To make the piece “Hymn,” back in 1993, I interviewed members of the Ailey Company about Mr. Ailey’s life and work. The words they shared with me were woven into a dance, choreographed by Judith Jamison. Orlando Bagwell’s documentary film takes you behind the scenes of Mr. Ailey’s life and the making of the ballet. Watch it this evening, Thursday, June 25th beginning at 7pm – on Ailey’s Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube pages: AlvinAiley.org/AileyAllAccess. The film will be available to stream for the next week. Photo: Nan Melville
I’ll be speaking about what’s at stake in this election on Instagram this afternoon with @reneeflemingmusic as part of #TeamJoeTalks. Join us!
Tonight (6/30), at 7pm ET I’ll be speaking with @yuvalsharonla and Kate D. Levin at the 2020 @aspenideas Festival, which is digital and completely free to attend. Sign up at the link in my bio. #AspenIdeas
Join me this Sunday at 5pm ET for a conversation with @eschmidt and host @tphealy on the intersection of education, technology, and contemporary activism. Link in bio. @thebassmoa @knightfdn
What will it take for people to embody democracy? How is identity politics misunderstood? Earlier this evening, I spoke with @blackfutureslab Principal and #BlackLivesMatter Co-Creator @chasinggarza at #UnfinishedLive, an online show of 4 episodes that explores key questions of our time. Where is the hope?What are the stories you’re going to tell about this year? What is the character of our civic participation moving forward? Check out the episode at the link in my bio.
How do we respond to the profound economic and cultural disruptions that are unfolding during this global pandemic? What actions are being taken in the dismantling of systemic racism amid protests and outrage over police brutality? Join me today at 5pm ET as I discuss these questions and more with Eric Schmidt and @tphealy of @thebassmoa. Link in bio.
“That’s what art can do — give you the empathy of alternative perspectives.” My talk with @OskarEustis of the @PublicTheaterNY on Radical Scene Change in Theatre is now available in podcast form. @AspenInstitute Link in bio.
