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Please join us on May 7th at 7 PM for the fourth installment of Theater of War Productions' new long-form journalism series at WNYC. The acclaimed actors Debra Winger (Terms of Endearment, An Officer and a Gentleman, Urban Cowboy), Josh Hamilton (Eighth Grade, The Walking Dead), Daphne Rubin-Vega (In the Heights, Only Murders in the Building), and Bill Irwin (Interstellar, Rachel Getting Married) will perform "In Rural Tennessee, Domestic Violence Victims Face Barriers to Getting Justice. One County Has Transformed Its Approach ," written by Paige Pfleger for WPLN and ProPublica, as a catalyst for a guided audience discussion about domestic violence, gun violence, and innovative approaches to preventing both. The event will be recorded with a live studio audience and broadcast two weeks later on WNYC.

Co-Presented by Theater of War Productions and WNYC , with special thanks to WPLN and ProPublica.

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Please join us on May 28th at 7 PM for the fifth installment of Theater of War Productions’ new long-form journalism series at WNYC . The acclaimed actors Gary Farmer ( Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Smoke Signals), Irma-Estel Laguerre ( Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Blue Bloods, The Undoing), Tanis Parenteau ( Billions, House of Cards, Sweet Summer Pow-Wow), and Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, Stand and Deliver, Prodigal Son) will perform “ Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care ,” written by Rebecca Nagle for The Atlantic, as a catalyst for a guided audience discussion about the lasting impact of long COVID on individuals and communities nationwide. Rebecca, a prominent Native American/Cherokee activist and journalist, writes movingly about her own struggle with long COVID and the challenges she, her community, and 1 in 20 Americans have faced accessing treatment and care for the disease. The event will be recorded with a live studio audience and broadcast several weeks later on WNYC.Co-Presented by Theater of War Productions and WNYC, with special thanks to The Atlantic.Supported by a generous grant from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.Directed and facilitated by Bryan Doerries.

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Join us on June 11th at 7 PM for a conversation between OTM host Micah Loewinger and journalist Katie Thornton as they discuss their Peabody-winning series, new season of “The Divided Dial.” The first season, released in late 2022, examined how the right came to dominate talk radio in the US — and how one company was launching an ultra-conservative media empire from the airwaves. The second season, released May 2025, explores the world of shortwave radio: the lesser-known cousin of AM and FM radio that travels thousands of miles across rough terrain and geopolitical borders. This once-ubiquitous medium went from a utopian experiment in global communication to a propaganda tool for governments at war — and then became a vehicle for American right-wing extremists and cults. Katie visits a very strange station in Northern Maine. And explains what a little-known battle playing out on the shortwaves right now — between radio fanatics and Wall Street — can tell us about how we value our public airwaves.

Micah goes behind the scenes with Katie — to hear about her reporting process, how she found these stories and audio recordings (some of which had never been digitized), and the talk radio and shortwave gems that were left on the cutting room floor.