'Appropriate' on Broadway, Family Secrets Podcast Host Dani Shapiro, BAM Presents 'Angel Island,' Actor Jeffrey Wright on 'American Fiction'
In the Broadway staging of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Obie-winning play "Appropriate," Sarah Paulson stars as Toni, a woman dealing with the fallout from a gruesome discovery among her late father's things. Toni and her brothers, who are cleaning out the old family plantation home, must decide what to do with this explosive artifact. Jacobs-Jenkins, Paulson, and director Lila Neugebauer join us to discuss the show, which is running at the Hayes Theater through March 3.
For nearly 5 years, writer Dani Shapiro has hosted a podcast called Family Secrets inspired by her best selling memoir, Inheritance, in which she found out a huge secret about her family in midlife. She and her guests discuss family secrets, both life altering and truly mysterious. She joins to take listener calls about their own family secrets.
Angel Island is located in San Francisco Bay, and from 1910 to 1940, it served as the West Coast's primary immigration facility. It also functioned as a detention center, where hundreds of thousands of people, primarily Chinese, were held in often brutal and dehumanizing conditions. The new opera, "Angel Island," expands on the story, and is running at BAM from Jan. 11-13. The show's composer, Huang Ruo, and director, Matthew Ozawa, join us for a preview.
Jeffrey Wright stars in Cord Jefferson's new film, "American Fiction," as a well-respected but commercially unsuccessful novelist who decides to write a book full of stereotypical tropes. Wright joins to discuss his role, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. "American Fiction" is in theaters now.
