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The latest episode of Celia Keenan-Bolger’s podcast Sunday Pancakes, featuring Tony winner Kelli O’Hara, drops April 4. In “Having A Hard Conversation (And The Healing That Accompanies It),” the pair talk about their friendship since The Light in the Piazza and how they were able to move through complicated and vulnerable feelings of the show.
Keenan-Bolger developed the role of Clara in the Adam Guettel musical’s pre-Broadway engagements alongside O’Hara as Franca. When the show made the leap to Broadway, O’Hara had been shifted into the role of Clara while Keenan-Bolger was released from the production. Keenan-Bolger would go on to receive a Tony nomination for her performance in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee the same year, nominated alongside O’Hara for her performance in Piazza.
In addition to the one-on-one discussion, Keenan-Bolger continues her weekly round-up of what she’s reading, watching, and listening to as well as any specific works that help enhance and contextualize the listening experience.
This week, the Tony winner suggests reading Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman; the Vanity Fair piece, “Roxanne Gay on How to Write About Trauma” by Monica Lewinsky; and the Bon Appétit article, “How Writing a Cookbook Helped Me Break Free From Diet Culture” by Julia Turshen. In addition, she recommends listening to the On Being podcast episode, “The Soul in Depression” with Andrew Solomon.
New episodes of Sunday Pancakes are released Sundays at 9 AM ET. You can listen and subscribe at Playbill.com/SundayPancakes and everywhere podcasts are available. The podcast is produced by Plate Spinner Productions, edited and mixed by Apples and Oranges Arts, and distributed by Playbill.
You can sing along to every lyric when you listen to the cast album—but out of context, do you know what shows these songs belong to? Test your knowledge with the quiz below.
Join Quiara Alegria Hudes as she presents her newest bookMy Broken Language. Joining Quiara in conversation is SAG award winning actress Dascha Polanco. This event will be held on Crowdcast.io and will be live streamed to The Strand’s Facebook Page.
An all-star lineup of predominantly LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC artists will appear in a virtual presentation of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart. The event will take place May 8 as a benefit for ONE Archives Foundation and Invisible Histories Project, which both honor the legacies of HIV/AIDS activists through education and outreach resources.
The cast will include Tony nominee Jeremy Pope (Ain’t Too Proud), Laverne Cox (Promising Young Woman), Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us), Jake Borelli (Grey’s Anatomy), Vincent Rodriguez III (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Guillermo Díaz (Scandal), Ryan O’Connell (Special), Daniel Newman (The Walking Dead), Jay Hayden (Station 19), and Danielle Savre (Station 19).
Station 19 EP Paris Barclay, a longtime TV director who’s helmed episodes of Scandal, Smash, and more, will direct the presentation, which will also include a special introduction by Martin Sheen.
The play, in large part autobiographical, chronicles a man’s slow response to the AIDS epidemic as he struggles to create support for himself and his illness. After premiering Off-Broadway at the Public Theater in 1985, the play returned to the venue in 2004 before making its official Broadway debut in 2011. A film adaptation premiered on HBO in 2014.
Kramer woke many to the very real thread of AIDS through his fierce activism, often at the expense of his relationship with those in the queer community. He died at the age of 84 last May.
For tickets (on sale April 8) and more information, visit OneArchives.org.
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