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Fresh off the success of her groundbreaking first play, A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window tells the tragicomic story of a young bohemian couple in New York's Greenwich Village, struggling to do what's right in a world that rewards everything that's wrong. Sidney is a dreamer who wants his own Walden Pond; Iris is a budding actress whose own backstory is a performance. They're caught in a moment where, "the world is about to crack right down the middle," as the play tackles racism, sexism, antisemitism, homophobia, liberal complacency, and more.

Amanda Hale and Tom Burke star in a brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, adapted by Rachel Joyce. Orphan Jane learns at an early age that self-control is the surest means of retaining self-respect in adversity. It is a lesson that serves her...

An Original Audio‑Theatre Experience by CTicking clocks. Shattering alarms. A machine that dares to break the rules of time itself.Step into a world where past, present, and future collide in this original musical adaptation inspired by H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine.Follow the Time Traveller as he launches himself across the ages — through war‑torn London, through the rise and fall of civilisation, and into a distant future where the gentle Eloi live under the shadow of the monstrous Morlocks. Along the way he forms an unexpected bond with Weena, a friendship that becomes the emotional ...

Evie moved to London to follow her dream of being a screenwriter. But on becoming the assistant to William Jonathan 'call me Monty' Montgomery III at his film and TV agency, she shelved her dreams so she could help others achieve theirs instead. For the past seven years, she's put everything...

Some Dorian Gray songs written by Dorian Gray Fan and author Rachel Lawson made with Suno AI Based on The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

COMEDIAN RACHEL PARRIS WAS ASKED TO GIVE AN INSPIRING GRADUATION SPEECH. WHO DID SHE ASK FOR ADVICE? TOTAL STRANGERS... Over the course of a year award-winning comedian Rachel Parris asked members of her live audience for advice. Here she takes those random bits of wisdom - such as 'Be Kind' or...

In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Live star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mother when she least expected it-at the age of forty-four. Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch...

The '90s was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music interwoven into a blooming of national self-confidence. It was the decade of Lad Culture and Girl Power, of Blur vs Oasis. When fashion runways shone with British talent, Young British Artists became household names, football was 'coming home' and British film went worldwide.

Diary of an Actress explores the life of Rachel Bailit who was the creator of the popular column “Diary of an Actress” for The Los Angeles Independent Newspaper. Diary of an Actress was subsequently turned into a YouTube series as well as a popular Blog. This podcast will dive into the stories that her diary holds.

Did your Nan have Gran Designs? Or was she more of a Nandoes? Stand By Your Nan is a limited series of 8 episodes with interviews, stand up stories around me and my gran and stories from the listening community. A virtual hug, cup of tea and poignant discussion on redefining our elders from writer/comedian Rachel Sambrooks. Funded by Arts Council England, co producer Steve Keyworth and with music from Lewis Barfoot.

This comprehensive biography draws from previously unreleased photographs and documents from the Grimaldi family archive and, for the first time, access to the letters between Kelly and Hitchcock. It is also based on interviews with Kelly’s companions and relatives, including an exclusive interview with Prince Albert II of Monaco.

Join two roomies from college who can’t stop talking about Dancing with the Stars! Every week we share our unfiltered thoughts, from the glitzy highs to the awkward missteps, with plenty of laughs and college memories along the way.

Broadway besties and professional anxiety-havers Barrett Wilbert Weed (Mean Girls, Heathers) and Rachel Schur (Chicago, Jersey Boys) are here to answer all of your burning questions about acting, theatre, life, and everything in between. Like, what happens if your dreams start to lowkey become a nightmare? How do you actually make it on Broadway...and then do eight shows a week while on your period? And, also, like, please be honest: am I cringe? New episodes come out every Saturday.

The official behind-the-scenes look at the powerful new musical based on Alanis Morissette's cult classic album Jagged Little Pill. Celebrating its 25-year anniversary in 2020, singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette's Grammy-Award winning album Jagged Little Pill has come to define a generation. In...

Steve and Rachel love singing songs and talking about Buddhism, among other things. You might be surprised by some of the things we say- or not! We're in this for the glory.

People Best New Book The inside story of the making of Mean Girls – and our enduring 20-year obsession with it Released in 2004, iconic teen comedy Mean Girls remains as relevant now as ever. But what made an adaptation of a parenting guide by SNL writer Tina Fey so successful? And why, two...

A once-aspiring actress who never quite got over her dreams of Broadway stardom, Shukert lovingly sunk her teeth into analyzing (and often, inventing) every detail of NBC's embattled little-musical-that-couldn't, and before long, found herself at the center of the backstage drama behind the backstage drama that captivated America (or at least, the part of it that spends a lot of time handing out their head shots in Times Square).

Songs dedicated to the ancestors of author and poet Rachel Lawson and the ancestors of us all.Some songs are about the regent and knight William Marshal, Rollo, and others. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What would Jonathan Agnew do if he wasn't a cricket commentator? Who would play Romesh Ranganathan in a film of his life? What's the naughtiest thing Sara Pascoe did as a child? It's not what you know, but who you know that matters... and indeed, how well you know them. The show is a bit like...

During a winter storm a busload of weary travelers are forced to shack up at a roadside diner until morning. Inge was renowned for his in-depth character studies, Bus Stop is no exception and offers a warm play about the intersecting lives of eight ordinary people.