The Roundtable

From Los Angeles company Teatro de Facto Fires are Confusing is written and directed by Zach Helm. We speak with Helm and actors Michael Chernus and Griffin Dunne.

We speak with Patricia Phagan, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center’s Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings about Nature in America: Taming the Landscape.

We speak with Catharine Hill, the president of Vassar College.

We learn about the Powerhouse Apprentice Company from Tom Pacio, Emily Mendelsohn, Angela Dumlao (a Vassar student and Powerhouse directing apprentice), and Max Friedlich (a playwrighting apprentice).

We're joined by Johanna Pfaelzer, the Artistic Director of New York Stage and Film and Ed Cheetham, the Producing Director of Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College.

We begin our Powerhouse Theater broadcast from Vassar College by speaking with the Executive Editor of The Poughkeepsie Journal.

Herb Gardner’s A Thousand Clowns will open the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Fitzpatrick Main Stage on July 21 and run through July 28th. Director, Kyle Fabel, joins us along with two actors in the show - Russell Posner and CJ Wilson.

Keeping jobs within U.S. borders has been a rallying cry for many in Washington. In today’s Congressional Corner, Connecticut representative Chris Murphy tells WAMC’s David Guistina, sitting in for Alan Chartock, about his success with a new jobs bill.