Sponsor

wnyc.org / 93.9fm / am 820

Still Waters Run Deep

« previous episode | next episode »

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Legendary theater director Peter Brook just started a month long residency at Columbia University. Last night his play Tierno Bokar made its U.S. premiere. The play centers around a Sufi mystic in 1930s Africa and the rise of religious factionalism. Brook talks about his craft and the importance of tolerance.

Superbowl Sweepstakes

John Cassidy, staff writer at the New Yorker magazine and author, Dot.Con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era (Perennial, 2003)),
- the latest on Mayor Bloomberg's fight to put a football stadium on the West Side of Manhattan
» Q&A with ...

Comment

White Boy Learns Spanish: Tercera Clase

Nelson Antonio Denis, writer/director of "Vote for Me!", and former NYS assemblyman, teaches Brian Spanish and about Latin Cuisine
and
Jorge Ayalla chef and owner of La Fonda Boricua on the food he prepares at his restaurant
» La ...

Comment

More, More, More

Peter C. Whybrow, Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California in Los Angeles and author, American Mania: When More is Not Enough (W.W. Norton & Company, 2005),
- on the biological reasons that too much is not enough for most Americans ...

Comment

Still Waters Run Deep

Peter Brook, pioneering director of theater, opera and film, and founder of the Paris-based company, the International Center for Theatre Creations,
- on bringing his company and their production of "Tierno Bokar" to Columbia University for a month-long residency
»

Comment

Peter Brook

Theater Director Peter Brook (left) and Gregory Mosher (right).

Comment