Tag: Theater
“Spring Awakenings”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spring-Awakenings.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/21/2007 Spring Awakenings Transcript Spring arrives today and, with it, all sorts of stirrings. One of them is a new production of an 1891 play by the German dramatist, Frank Wedekind. It’s called Spring Awakenings, and it’s about a group of teenagers who are coming […]
Keeping the Magic Lanterns Lit
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/the-Magic-Lantern-Theater-Still-Glowing.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/5/2005 Keeping the Magic Lanterns Lit Transcript Before any of our modern media — movies, television, videos or DVDs — the Magic Lantern show was the most dazzling, multi-sensory public entertainment around. In America in the late 1800s and into the early 20th century, […]
Jacob Grimm Goes to Brooklyn
A fairy tale opened on Broadway in late October and you were just listening to the title character, "Brooklyn," inviting the audience into an urban fable performed by a homeless theater troupe.
Toy Theaters
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Toy-Theaters.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 12/30/2004 Toy Theaters Transcript More than a century before there were video games, there were toy theaters — small stages made from paper where children and adults could act out plays of their own invention, or dramas based on existing plays that were published […]
“Luma”
The "wow" you just heard was made by a young neighbor of mine at a recent performance of a remarkable show called "Luma" -- which takes place in a completely dark theater but that is really all about light.
The Chicago Humanities Festival
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicago-Humanities-Festival-1.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/21/2002 The Chicago Humanities Festival Transcript One of the truly exciting celebrations of the work that is produced for and by children and young people will be taking place in Chicago over the next two weeks. It’s the Children’s Festival which runs in schools […]
Peter Pan Takes His First Bow
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Peter-Pan.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/27/2000 Peter Pan Transcript The play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, opened at the Duke of York’s Theater in London on December 27, 1904. The author, James Barrie, was one of the most popular playwrights of the time, but this play was […]
Federal Theater Project
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Federal-Theater-Project.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/28/2000 Federal Theater Project Transcript The recent film by Tim Robbins, “Cradle Will Rock,” which has been receiving a great deal of attention in the past weeks, is based on a musical by Marc Blitzstein about the workers’ right to strike that was not […]
The Littlest 49ers
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Littlest-49ers.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/24/2000 The Littlest 49ers Transcript Gold was discovered this morning on the American River in California in 1848, on a construction site for a saw mill that was being built for John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant who had become, in the ten years since […]