'Downstate,' 'Tantura,' Puerto Rican Art, José Andrés & Ron Howard
Playwrights Horizons "Downstate," written by Bruce Norris, follows four men convicted of sex crimes sharing a group home in downstate Illinois after a man shows up to confront his childhood abuser. Norris joins us alongside director Pam MacKinnon and actor K. Todd Freeman who plays Dee, a sex offender, to talk about the play. "Downstate" has been extended and is currently showing through December 22.
In the 1990s, an Israeli graduate student conducted research into a massacre of Palestinian civilians in 1948, the year of Israel's establishment as a nation. That research led the student to be discredited, and labeled a traitor. A new documentary from Israeli producer Alon Schwartz, "Tantura," revisits that research, the violence it documented, and the efforts to gloss over some of the darker parts of Israel's fight for independence.
This year is the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Maria. In the first major U.S. museum survey of Puerto Rican art in nearly 50 years, the Whitney is bringing together dozens of pieces by artists whose work responds to the aftermath of the disaster, and provides cultural context for what life was like before the storm hit in 2017. "no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria," is on view until April 23, and the show's curator Marcela Guerrero, alongside artists Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Sofía Córdova, join to discuss the exhibition.
[REBROADCAST FROM May 18, 2022] Director Ron Howard's documentary, "We Feed People," follows the career and humanitarian efforts of chef José Andrés and his non-profit, World Central Kitchen. Howard and Andrés discuss the film and the organization that has brought meals to Haiti, Lebanon, the United States, Ukraine and many other countries amid crises.
