Listening to Lake Song
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LAKE SONG makes its debut today on the Tribeca Audio Premieres podcast! Listen . Starting on October 13, listen to LAKE SONG on its own podcast feed. Available everywhere, including , , , and on the web at . Follow or subscribe to LAKE SONG to hear new episodes as they appear each week.
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Trailer 2: Chicago Poets--Past, Present, Future
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co-creator Nate Marshall talks about what Chicago poets have always done. . . and what they're *going* to do. Lake Song, the epic new audio-drama series from , will debut October 12 as an official selection of . For more, visit .
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Trailer: Lake Song
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OFFICIAL SELECTION - Tribeca Festival Audio Premieres. It's 2098 and the Republic of Chicago has what the world needs: fresh water. But with new opportunities come new threats, especially for a pair of siblings on the South Side. Can the people come together to save their city--and each other? LAKE SONG is the joint creation of seven multidisciplinary Chicagoans. Combining sci-fi and music, politics and poetry, it's a collective response to our times, and a shared dream of our future. Go to the new LAKE SONG feed to subscribe. Coming in mid-October.
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Our Decameron: Shakespeare in Utopia
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Following the cancellation of Shakespeare in the Park, Oskar Eustis talks about a utopian story in one of Shakespeare's plays. A practical guide to what a vision of the future can do--and what it can't.
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Our Decameron: Lorraine Hansberry at the End of the World
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Can a new society arise from a cataclysm? Does humanity deserve a second chance? Chicago author and journalist Natalie Moore joins a virtual audience to explore utopia, dystopia, and the radical imagination while discussing the great Chicago dramatist's "What Use Are Flowers?".
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Our Decameron: The Tortoise, the Hare, and Will Leitch
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To tide us over until baseball returns, sportswriter Will Leitch breaks down the most famous athletic contest of all time, and a lively virtual audience debates its moral today.
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Our Decameron: Chicken Little
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The sky might or might not be falling, but the story that gave rise to that phrase is everywhere. In episode two of our series inspired by Boccaccio, Stephanie Ybarra and fascinating people from all over the country reconsider the tale of the moment.
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Our Decameron: Zen in Seattle
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Inspired by Boccaccio, a new series of conversations in which we share a story and invite a fascinating person to talk about what it means. In episode one, Martin Edlund of Malaria No More talks about the Zen fable about the tiger and the strawberry.
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City on Fire: Chicago Race Riot 1919
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A docudrama about the summer that ravaged a city--and remade it. Co-produced with WBEZ.
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Lost Books of the Odyssey
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Odysseus, the "man of twists and turns", goes on five new adventures, portrayed by five amazing actors. Performed and recorded live in Chicago, plus audience conversation.
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CITY ON FIRE: CHICAGO RACE RIOT 1919
A co-production of WBEZ Chicago and Make-Believe Association
Written by Natalie Moore and Jeremy McCarter
Original music and sound design by Mikhail Fiksel
Executive produced by Cate Cahan for WBEZ and Jeremy McCarter for Make-Believe
Recorded at WBEZ Studios and The Revival, Chicago
CAST
Ayanna Bria Bakari - Mrs. Ellis, Witness
Brenda Barrie - Wife
Terry Bell - Ensemble
Eduardo Curley-Carrillo - Ensemble
Charles Andrew Gardner - Oscar Dozier, Eugene's Friend
Lawrence Grimm - Officer, Alderman, Minister
Francis Guinan - Motorman, The Chief
Sam Hubbard - George Stauber, Alderman
C. Anthony Jackson - The Reverend
Timothy Edward Kane - Eugene Temple, Dispatcher
Ryan Kitley - Homeowner, Husband, Minister
Tevion Lanier - Eugene Williams, Civic Leader
Al’Jaleel McGhee - Migrant, Son
Marcus D. Moore - Ensemble
A.C. Smith - Migrant, Father
Andre Teamer - Witness, Husband
Anji White - Migrant, Mother
Jacqueline Williams - Ida B. Wells
PRODUCTION STAFF
Casting director - Laura Alcalá Baker
Production manager - Madeleine Borg
Production coordinator - Erisa Apantaku
Stage manager - Heather Sparling
SOUND TEAM
Recording engineers - Adam Yoffe, DeShun Smith, Shelly Steffens, and J. Kyle White-Sullivan
Editing by Mikhail Fiksel
Mastering by Adam Yoffe and Shelly Steffens
Credits voiced by Melba Lara
Equipment provided by TechMagic Designs
Graphic design by Carly Pearlman
“St. Louis Blues” composed by W. C. Handy
SPECIAL THANKS
Adam Green; Liesl Olson; Cindy Abbott, Betsy Berger, Steve Edwards, Janet Gould, Alden Loury, Tracy Brown, Jennifer Bell and the staff of WBEZ; the Make-Believe Writers’ Room (Sydney Charles, Nancy García Loza, Nate Marshall, and Kristina Valada-Viars); Carolyn Casselman and Rima Pancholi of Paul Weiss; Catherine Allen of The Den Theatre; John Stoops of The Revival; Giselle Castro; and Robert Hornbostel
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