Michael Sokolove

Author Michael Sokolove talks about what made the theater program at a high school in Levittown, Pennsylvania, so extraordinary. He’s joined by Lou Volpe, former theater director there. Solkolov is a former student, and his book Drama High chronicles the drama director’s last school years and follows a group of student actors as they work through dramas both on and off the stage.

On Sunday, Spain's soccer team will go mano a mano against the Netherlands, in what should be one of the most exciting World Cup finals in recent history. Neither team has ever won the World Cup, and members of both the Spanish and Dutch teams attended the exclusive Ajax soccer training academy before the age of ten. That training led to very similar impulses on the field, explains our guest, The New York Times Magazine contributor Michael Sokolove. 

 

Philadelphia may soon be without a single daily newspaper, but the last paper standing in Seattle finally posted a profit following the death of its main competitor. We’ll talk about the state of the American newspaper with executive editor of the Seattle Times David Boardman and with Michael Sokolove, contributing ...