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FAQs about Affirmative (Re)Action:How many episodes does Affirmative (Re)Action have?The podcast currently has 27 episodes available.
July 19, 2021The Band’s Visit - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 18The Band's Visit is a stage musical with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Itamar Moses, based on the 2007 Israeli film of the same name....more46minPlay
July 12, 2021Once On This Island - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 17Once on This Island is a one-act musical with a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. Based on the 1985 novel My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy, it is set in the French Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. It concerns a peasant girl on a tropical island, who uses the power of love to bring people together of different social classes....more43minPlay
June 28, 2021A Strange Loop - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 16The musical is about Usher, coincidentally named the same as his day-job as an usher for The Lion King on Broadway, a fat, Black, gay writer who tries to navigate the heteronormative white world. He is backed by a six-person all-black-queer ensemble who voice his inner thoughts as he begrudgingly ghost writes a new Tyler Perry stage play.Venmo’s: @jacob-santos-22 ; @rda956 ; @annika-pk...more1h 9minPlay
June 21, 2021RENT - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 15Rent is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera La Bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village in the thriving days of bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.Venmo’s: @jacob-santos-22 ; @rda956 ; @annika-pk...more1h 4minPlay
June 14, 2021In The Heights - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 14In the Heights is a musical with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegría Hudes. The story is set over the course of three days, involving characters in the largely Dominican Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City.Venmo’s: @jacob-santos-22 ; @rda956 ; @annika-pk...more1h 5minPlay
June 07, 2021The Music Man - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 13The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naïve Midwestern townsfolk, promising to train the members of the new band. Harold is no musician, however, and plans to skip town without giving any music lessons. Prim librarian and piano teacher Marian sees through him, but when Harold helps her younger brother overcome his lisp and social awkwardness, Marian begins to fall in love with him. He risks being caught to win her heart.Venmo’s: @jacob-santos-22 ; @rda956 ; @annika-pk...more43minPlay
May 31, 2021Dear Evan Hansen - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 12Dear Evan Hansen tells the story of a young man with social anxiety disorder who so yearns to make a connection with his peers that he fabricates a relationship with a deceased student to become closer to the boy’s family.Venmo’s: @jacob-santos-22 ; @rda956 ; @annika-pk...more1h 7minPlay
May 03, 2021Richard II by William Shakespeare - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 10It’s the first play of Shakespeare’s history plays! ...more52minPlay
April 26, 2021Is God Is by Aleshea Harris - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 9Blending epic tragedy, the Spaghetti Western, hip-hop and Afropunk, Is God Is is a revenge tale about twin sisters. In this award-winning work by playwright Aleshea Harris, emotions are laid bare through dialogue and visual gaps in language....more38minPlay
April 19, 2021Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 8Les Blancs ("The Whites") is an English-language play by American playwright Lorraine Hansberry. It debuted on Broadway on November 15, 1970 and ran until December 19, 1970. The play was Lorraine Hansberry’s final work and she considered it her most important, as it depicts the plights of colonialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is her only play that takes place in Africa, and it uses both dance and music as signifiers of black and African cultures, a concept called the Black Aesthetic.Venmo’s: @jacob-santos-22 ; @rda956 ; @annika-pk...more57minPlay
FAQs about Affirmative (Re)Action:How many episodes does Affirmative (Re)Action have?The podcast currently has 27 episodes available.