Mar 25, 2018

A face transplant is disturbing in a way that a kidney or heart transplant is not. Is it because our face is so key to our identity? Nobody has thought more about this than surgeon Eduardo Rodriguez, an authority on the procedure. Plus music from Solange Prat and Gregorio Uribe. Surgery and song.

Mar 18, 2018

He is the founder of Theatre for a New Audience where she has directed many plays including the current Winter’s Tale. They both assert that much of the meaning of a text resides in the very sound of the words. Thus a Swedish translation of Shakespeare conveys meaning even to a non-Swedish speaker. I’m skeptical...

Mar 10, 2018

When he was an acting student at NYU, “I didn’t hear word one about faith,” he says, but he and his fellow students found an almost religious meaning in theater. Making a spiritual life through work, religion, and political engagement - a conversation at the NY Baha’i Center. With music from Kevin Nathaniel Hylton.

Mar 4, 2018

Beloved as Dwight Schrute in The Office, he was raised a Baha’i but abandoned those teachings at a moment of spiritual crisis. “The main reason I left the Baha’i faith,” he says “ was ‘cause I wanted to have sex with my girlfriend and not feel guilty about it.” Eventually the prodigal son returned. A...