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Title: Bassist Michael Olatuja Live in NYC
Runtime: 0:31
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: London-born, Lagos-raised bassist Michael Olatuja showcases new songs and ones from his album “Lagos Pepper Soup," blending sounds of Afrobeat, jazz, and funk at Bryant Park Picnic Performances in 2024.

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Bassist Michael Olatuja Blends Afrobeat, Jazz, and Funk in Bryant Park | THIRTEEN

Title: Bassist Michael Olatuja Blends Afrobeat, Jazz, and Funk in Bryant Park | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 54:24
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Hear Afrobeat, jazz, and funk performed in the heart of Manhattan by London-born, Lagos-raised bassist Michael Olatuja. Recorded live at Bryant Park Picnic Performances in partnership with Carnegie Hall Citywide in July 2024, this concert features selections from Olatuja's album "Lagos Pepper Soup," as well as new songs.

Olatuja’s bass-playing can be heard everywhere from Broadway orchestra pits to major film scores for directors like Lin-Manuel Miranda. He works with other artists including Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Angelique Kidjo, Shakira, Phil Collins, Hugh Masekela, and Terence Blanchard.

Bryant Park Picnic Performances is a free outdoor concert series showcasing New York City’s legendary arts and culture scene right on the lawn. The 2026 season runs from May 27 through September 16, featuring world-class music, theater, and dance.

Most shows kick off at 7pm . No RSVPs are required and attendees are welcome to bring their own picnics or ...

Title: He's Paid to See Shows Every Night
Runtime: 1:08
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Clive Barnes, former New York Times critic, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the work of a theater reviewer. He calls the way he spends his nights "an unnatural way of life" and in this 1972 interview, says American theater is at it's most lively time. He regrets that he's about to write a bad review for the Broadway show "Dude," from the same team who created the hit musical "Hair."

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Inside the Creative Mind of Hal Prince: From Broadway Flops to Legendary Hits | THIRTEEN

Title: Inside the Creative Mind of Hal Prince: From Broadway Flops to Legendary Hits | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 24:23
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: In this 1979 episode of Skyline, host Beverly Sills sits down with her longtime friend — theater director and producer Harold "Hal" Prince — for a candid discussion about what it takes to get a show onto a Broadway stage. By 1979, Hal Prince was already considered the longest-running hit on Broadway—having produced or directed dozens of legendary shows, earning 14 Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize.

Prince pulls back the curtain on the artistic frustrations and financial gambles that defined his career, including the massive commercial success of hits like "Fiddler on the Roof." He explains why he refused to let investors read scripts or listen to music beforehand, why he completely walked away from standard commercial formulas to pursue producing operas for Broadway, like "Sweeney Todd" and "Evita," and how he manages the tension between being a penny-pinching producer and a boundary-pushing director.

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Title: Poet of the Human Heart
Runtime: 1:21
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Viola Davis and Brian Stokes Mitchell in "King Hedley II" by August Wilson capture how the raw truth of being human fuels his work. Director Marion McClinton, Stokes, and Wilson describe how a play can connect directly to the heart of the audience by tapping into universal themes of survival, reality, and holding onto a dream.

#Shorts #AugustWilson #ViolaDavis #BlackHistory #THIRTEEN #WNET #Playwriting #TheaterHistory #AmericanLiterature #Broadway #BrianStokesMitchell #CreativeWriting #OffBroadway #KingHedleyII

Man Who Could Close a Broadway Show Overnight (1972) | THIRTEEN

Title: Man Who Could Close a Broadway Show Overnight (1972) | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 8:35
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: "In a business where two dozen plays a year fold after one performance... a bad notice from Barnes can deal the death blow."

In 1972, the most powerful man in American theater wasn't a director, a producer, or an actor — it was a 45-year-old Englishman named Clive Barnes. As the chief theater and dance critic for The New York Times, his word carried authority across Broadway and the entire country.

THIRTEEN's "Behind the Lines" correspondent Jeff Wheelwright follows Barnes on a packed day. Barnes gives a morning lecture on critical writing at New York University, records his daily WQXR radio broadcast for the New York Times, and attends opening night of "Dude" on Broadway, a highly anticipated, and ultimately short-lived rock musical.

"Dude" was from the same team who created the hit "Hair" (lyricist Gerome Ragni and composer Galt MacDermot). Following curtain call, "Behind the Lines" watches Barnes as he races against an 11:30pm deadline to fil...

Playwright August Wilson: The Only Character You Can Write is Yourself | THIRTEEN

Title: Playwright August Wilson: The Only Character You Can Write is Yourself | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 6:38
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: "You don't write dialogue. You listen."

Two-time Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright August Wilson reflects on his 10-play cycle, which documents Black lives over the decades throughout the 20th century in America. The 10 plays are also known as the Century Cycle. Nine of them are set in Pittsburgh's Hill District.

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This 2002 episode is from "EGG, the Arts Show," THIRTEEN’s early 2000’s arts and culture series that celebrated art's power to move us, inspire us, and to challenge our perspective on who or what we are.

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Title: Once homeless, now she builds houses.
Runtime: 1:03
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: THIRTEEN celebrates Pride Month with real-world solutions being built from within the LGBTQ+ community. After facing severe housing discrimination and surviving months of homelessness in Memphis, trans activist Kayla Gore took matters into her own hands. She founded My Sistah’s House—a grassroots project building tiny homes to provide home ownership for the trans and gender nonconforming community.

#Pride #PrideMonth #TransJoy #TransVisibility #Memphis #THIRTEEN #Shorts #HousingEquity #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #AmericanProblemsTransSolutions

Navigating Race, Faith, and LGBTQ+ Survival | THIRTEEN

Title: Navigating Race, Faith, and LGBTQ+ Survival | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 26:20
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: "Allow yourself to be...even when the world says no!"

What does it truly mean to step out from behind the mask? Tonilyn A. Sideco (she/he/they), Aaryn Lang (she/her/hers), and Donald Shorter (he/she) of THIRTEEN's First Person host four honest conversations with LGBTQ+ activists, artists, and community builders. Facing the complexities of race, gender, faith, and chronic illness, these leaders candidly share their authentic journeys toward self-acceptance. They actively seek communities that embrace them and tirelessly combat the societal systems that undermine living their lives freely.

Playwright Donja Love (he/him/his) redefines Black masculinity as a gay man through a self-described practice called "radical softness."

Activist Eman Abdelhadi (she/her/hers) navigates her Muslim faith, queer theory, and being authentically true to herself.

Educator Ericka Hart (she/they) confronts institutional racism and a lack of representation du...

Yoko Ono on the Trap of Trying to Fit In

Title: Yoko Ono on the Trap of Trying to Fit In
Runtime: 1:30
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: "All our energy is spent on being something that we are not."

In this clip from THIRTEEN's "Free Time," Yoko Ono talks about the exhausting cycle of trying to be socially acceptable, and how true communication is the only real path to peace.

#Shorts #YokoOno #ConceptualArt #JohnLennon #JonasMemkas #ExperimentalFilm #ArtHistory #NewYorkArt #PublicTelevision #THIRTEEN #WNET #UndergroundArt #1970sArt #Philosophy #Wisdom

Virginia Apuzzo on the Cost of Anti-Gay Rhetoric

Title: Virginia Apuzzo on the Cost of Anti-Gay Rhetoric
Runtime: 1:31
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: "We are not speaking here of a matter of injured self-esteem. We're talking about life-threatening despair."

In this clip from Eleventh Hour, THIRTEEN spotlights legendary activist Virginia Apuzzo as she exposes the direct line between political rhetoric and real-world violence. From her own roots inside a convent in the Bronx to fighting for basic civil rights on the streets of New York, Apuzzo breaks down how denying people their rights gives an unspoken green light to discrimination and hate.

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Virginia Apuzzo: From Bronx Convent to Front Lines of Gay Rights | THIRTEEN

Title: Virginia Apuzzo: From Bronx Convent to Front Lines of Gay Rights | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 25:54
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: "The anger that I saw coming out of the Stonewall riots gave me permission, as it were, to get in touch with my own anger... An explosion of people who were saying, enough is enough."

This 1989 episode of THIRTEEN’s “The Eleventh Hour” commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, featuring a conversation between host Robert Lipsyte and the legendary activist Virginia "Ginny" Apuzzo, an early director of The National LGBTQ Task Force.

Apuzzo recounts milestones of her life journey. She hid her lesbian identity as a child in a society didn't allow LGBTQ+ adults to be out either, let alone role models. She was a teacher at a Mid-Hudson Valley school before becoming a nun at a Bronx convent. News of the 1969 Stonewall riots changed Apuzzo's life. She left the convent, connected with the lesbian feminist liberation movement and became one of the most prominent lesbian leaders in American politics.

She reflects on the casual and s...

Title: Sex: Unlearning What They Were Told
Runtime: 1:24
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: "Sexuality is tied up with power..."

In this 1974 clip from THIRTEEN's "51st State," three women describe breaking free of society's negative and restrictive messages about sex, sexuality, pleasure, and gender roles, particularly regarding what was expected of women.

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Bisexual Identity & The 1970s Women’s Movement | THIRTEEN

Title: Bisexual Identity & The 1970s Women’s Movement | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 17:23
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: "The more sexually free women are getting, the more powerful they feel in their own personhood."

In this 1974 WNET segment from 51st State titled “Three,” filmmaker and correspondent Lisa Feiner explores female sexuality through personal stories of three bisexual women navigating love, independence, and identity in New York City.

From jazz singer Jewell remembering the first woman she loved, to psychology students Jane and Barbara confronting societal guilt, the Women's Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 1970s redefines what it means to be free—even as critics of the era push back.

Over 50 years later, these in-depth conversations stand as a powerful testament to the remarkable progress made in the fight for LGBTQ+ visibility and sex-positivity. They also honor the courageous individuals who dared to defy societal expectations and live authentically, despite facing criticism and opposition.

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Title: Ingrid Bergman's Gravestone Wish
Runtime: 1:14
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: “Here lies a good actress.”

After conquering Hollywood, three-time Oscar winner Ingrid Bergman never lost her enthusiasm for the craft of acting. In this rare interview from 1967, Bergman reflects on what she said early in her American career: she wants to act until her very last day, standing on stage until the very last audience member leaves.

#Ingrid Bergman #HollywoodGoldenAge #ClassicCinema #Casablanca #ClassicHollywood #Shorts #THIRTEEN #Archives #Broadway #Theater

"When art hurts, that is what to remember."

Title: "When art hurts, that is what to remember."
Runtime: 1:31
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Playwright Edward Albee issued an unusual warning to audiences before his experimental 1968 play "Box" premiered: forget everything you know about normal theater, just let it happen.

#EdwardAlbee #TheaterHistory #AvantGarde #Playwright #ExperimentalArt #THIRTEEN #Archives #YouTubeShorts #Shorts #ExperimentalTheater #Broadway

Rare 1967 Ingrid Bergman Interview: A Hollywood Legend Looks Back | THIRTEEN

Title: Rare 1967 Ingrid Bergman Interview: A Hollywood Legend Looks Back | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 58:42
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: In 1967, Hollywood legend and Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman sits down with Los Angeles Times drama critic Cecil Smith in L.A.’s Ahmanson Theatre. This followed her historic return to the American stage after a 21-year absence. Bergman had starred in a six-week run of Eugene O’Neill’s "More Stately Mansions, the inaugural production of the Ahmanson Theatre.

Bergman shares her personal history with the late playwright, pulls back the curtain on her craft, talks about her acting career on film and stage in both Sweden and the U.S., and details the taxing process of working with an unedited script that O'Neill originally intended to be destroyed.

The play was staged posthumously, 25 years after O’Neill’s death, using a nearly-complete script written by O’Neill himself. Director Jose Quintero put the finishing touches on the script and brought the play to life on stage.

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Edward Albee’s "Box": 1968 Experimental Play | THIRTEEN

Title: Edward Albee’s "Box": 1968 Experimental Play | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 17:37
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Watch American playwright Edward Albee's experimental one-act play, "Box," as seen at its debut in 1968, when it challenged the notion of what theater is. Unlike his acclaimed works like "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" or "The Zoo Story," this play has no characters.

A box-like outline fills the stage. The only human performer is a disembodied voice, recorded by the Emmy- and Obie Award-winner Ruth White. She speaks philosophically about art and life.

This production at the Buffalo Arts Festival was filmed by Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker for a historic two-hour special in 1968 by the Public Broadcast Laboratory (PBL), titled "Who's Afraid of the Avant-Garde?" The special documented the exploding 1960s avant-garde movement— a global wave of artists, playwrights, musicians, and filmmakers who sought to break free from the confining standards of art that they believed were dead.

Buffalo Arts Festival, now known as "The Allentown Art Festiv...

Title: "Existing Is a Form of Resistance"
Runtime: 1:30
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: A shared experience everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community navigates in their lives is the journey toward acceptance— whether that comes from within themselves or from the people around them. Four voices from across New York's queer community open up about the moments that shaped them.

#LGBTQIA #Pride #QueerVoices #Acceptance #Identity #Belonging #Bisexual #Bisexuality #Asexual #Asexuality #NonBinary #SexEducation #LGBTQCommunity #THIRTEEN #QueerStories #TransRights #PrideMonth #LGBTQ

Title: Marc Shaiman: Award-Winning Music Man
Runtime: 15:33
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Composer and lyricist Marc Shaiman tells us everything, from what inspired his new book, "Never Mind The Happy," to his iconic call-backs that started the audience participation tradition of Rocky Horror Picture Show. The interview is with WLIW-FM's "Heart of the East End" host, Gianna Volpe.

With a prolific and impactful career on Broadway and in Hollywood, Shaiman is known for Bette Midler's "The Wind Beneath My Wings," and his work in iconic films "Hairspray," "When Harry Met Sally," and "Sleepless in Seattle." He is the winner of two Emmy's, two Grammy's, a Tony, and more awards.

Marc Shaiman will be at Guild Hall on June 21, 2026, for a live talk with Susan Stroman about his memoir, and a special guest will join for a live performance celebrating Shaiman’s remarkable body of work.

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What Do Bisexuality, Asexuality, and Non-Binary Identity Experiences Feel Like? | THIRTEEN

Title: What Do Bisexuality, Asexuality, and Non-Binary Identity Experiences Feel Like? | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 25:54
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Kristin Russo, host of THIRTEEN's First Person, sits down with four people whose stories push back against the erasure happening both inside and outside queer communities — and who are done shrinking themselves to fit the mold that society set for them.

Vivek Shraya, author of "She of the Mountains," opens up about a decade-long relationship with a woman, the biphobia he faced from gay men, and why owning the word "bisexual" became its own act of resistance. At the time of this recording, Vivek identified with he/him pronouns, but now uses she/her.

Tom Bernardin, unofficial historian of Julius Bar in Greenwich Village, takes us back to 1966 — three years before the Stonewall Riots — when a small group of gay men walked into a bar and demanded to be served, quietly igniting a civil rights movement.

Tyler Ford, writer, activist, and performer, speaks about identifying as agender within the non-binary spectrum, what it meant to come out first a...

Title: Yoko Ono: We Are All Just Half a Person
Runtime: 1:31
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Yoko Ono has always believed that nothing is complete on its own — not a person, not a piece of art, not a life. Every film, every performance, every installation has been moving toward the same total picture.

This clip from "Free Time" offers an intimate look into Ono as the philosopher, filmmaker, and boundary-breaking artist she always was.

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Yoko Ono & John Lennon's Most Radical Live Performance | THIRTEEN

Title: Yoko Ono & John Lennon's Most Radical Live Performance | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 1:04:08
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Advisory: This program contains mature content — including nudity and language. Viewer discretion is advised.

She handed out hammers, screened films of body parts, and did a Q&A where every question was answered with a question.

Yoko Ono takes over public television show Free Time for a strange and riveting hour to bring her experimental art and performance pieces to a live studio audience. This is Yoko on her own terms — not as the wife of Beatle John Lennon, but as a conceptual artist, filmmaker, and philosopher who had been pushing art's boundaries since the early 1960s.

Jonas Mekas, an avant-garde filmmaker in New York City, joins Ono and John Lennon for a Q&A and a wide-ranging conversation about the subconscious. We see several of Ono's experimental films — including "No. 4" (also known as "Bottoms"), "Up Your Legs Forever," and "Fly," interstitial excerpts inspired by Yoko’s conceptual book "Grapefruit" — specifically material con...

Title: Broadway Critic on What Matters
Runtime: 1:26
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: In 1989, former New York Times theater critic Frank Rich gives four reasons a show survives on Broadway, and none are about the reviews. Do you agree?

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George C. Wolfe on Creating True American Theater

Title: George C. Wolfe on Creating True American Theater
Runtime: 1:31
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: What does American theater look like? For legendary director and producer George C. Wolfe, it's a collision of people, dialects, ideas, and everyone in the room creating together in the moment. In this clip from THIRTEEN's "Skyline," Wolfe shares his vision for an American theater in its "broadest, most combustible, most uncontrollable" form — while co-creating with tap dance icon Savion Glover, seen here dancing in rehearsal.

#GeorgeCWolfe #SavionGlover #AmericanTheater #TapDance #Broadway #PublicTheater #NewYorkCity #THIRTEEN #Archives #Theater #BlackTheater

Can One Critic Kill a $1 Million Broadway Show Overnight? | THIRTEEN

Title: Can One Critic Kill a $1 Million Broadway Show Overnight? | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 21:41
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Broadway has always been expensive. In 1989, theatergoers were calling $50 tickets outrageous — and warning that a night on Broadway, with dinner, a babysitter, and transportation, could run $500 before the curtain went up. Does this sound familiar?

In 1989, The Eleventh Hour host Robert Lipsyte asked the most prominent critic in the theater world at the time – Frank Rich of the New York Times – the questions Broadway has never stopped arguing about: Who really kills a show? How much power does one review actually have? Can Broadway survive its own price tag?

Then Lipsyte turns to producer Rocco Landesman ("Big River, "Into the Woods," "Angels in America") and Daily News critic Howard Kissel to debate what sells a show, whether critics are a reliable guide for what audiences will enjoy, and why seeing Broadway regularly has become nearly impossible as ticket prices keep climbing.

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Angel That Inspired Tony Kushner's Award-Winning Play

Title: Angel That Inspired Tony Kushner's Award-Winning Play
Runtime: 1:28
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: In the early 1980s, playwright Tony Kushner kept returning to one place – Emma Stebbins' masterpiece: the Angel of the Waters at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park. He realized that the angel provided inspiration to his career when the title "Angels in America" came to him in a dream. The play would be awarded a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony.

From an upcoming episode of Treasures of New York, featuring sculptor Emma Stebbins and premiering on WLIW in Fall 2026.

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Title: No Stage? Build Your Own.
Runtime: 1:25
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: From a bar on Avenue B to makeshift stages made of banquet tables set up in Harlem, New York City's Off-Broadway theater scene of the 1990s was led by artists who built their own sets, performed for a handful of people, and kept going anyway. In this 1996 episode of THIRTEEN's City Arts, playwrights reflect on the extraordinary range of theatrical work happening outside the bright lights of Broadway and across the city's boroughs.

#Shorts #OffBroadway #NewYorkCity #Theater #NYC #CityArts #THIRTEEN #Archives #Broadway #NYCTheater #1990s

Tony Kushner and His Central Park Angel | THIRTEEN

Title: Tony Kushner and His Central Park Angel | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 5:10
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright of "Angels in America," recounts the vibrant moment he fell in love with Central Park's Angel of the Waters sculpture at Bethesda Fountain. It was during the AIDS epidemic and the Reagan administration, and he was young and gay. He didn't know the sculpture was by Emma Stebbins, one of the most important female sculptors of the 19th century, and a lesbian.

Kushner returned to the angel time and again, which guided him through grief and fear and gave him inspiration. When the title for his play "Angels in America" came to him in a dream, he envisioned the Angel of the Waters, which seemed to him "the paradigmatic American angel."

This exclusive interview with Tony Kushner was conducted for an upcoming episode of Treasures of New York on sculptor Emma Stebbins. The episode will premiere on WLIW in Fall 2026.

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Can Sabbath Be Kept in Space? Rabbis Have an Answer

Title: Can Sabbath Be Kept in Space? Rabbis Have an Answer
Runtime: 1:29
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: If the sun never sets above the Arctic Circle, when does the Sabbath begin? Jewish soldiers in World War II asked this question, and rabbis' answer became the blueprint for Jewish astronaut, Ilan Ramon, aboard the Space Shuttle. The solution: follow the closest habitable city on Earth. Watch THIRTEEN's documentary Fiddler on the Moon, to see if Judaism can survive in space.

#FiddlerOnTheMoon #JudaismInSpace #IlanRamon #Sabbath #SpaceExploration #Jewish #THIRTEEN #Documentary #SpaceShuttle #Rabbis

Can Religion Save Us from the Loneliness Epidemic? | THIRTEEN

Title: Can Religion Save Us from the Loneliness Epidemic? | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 48:04
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Loneliness has been recognized as a public health crisis. It exists everywhere and is far more common than many will admit. In this intimate series, host Manya Brachear Pashman, an award-winning religion reporter, explores what it means to feel alone and how faith, religion and spirituality are driving both the science of belonging and the surprising ways that people are forming meaningful bonds. Through candid conversations with medical professionals, community builders, and members of the clergy, the program unpacks isolation from multiple angles and offers solutions to help navigate loneliness, find connection, and help people feel seen again.

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#LonelinessEpidemic #MentalHealth #SocialConnection #Faith #Community #GenZ #AMatterOfFaith #THIRTEEN #Podcast

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Title: Why Do Bison Face Into the Wind?
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Long Island's North Quarter Farm in Riverhead is raising 125 American bison. Once you hear what makes these animals tick, you'll never look at them the same way. Ed Tuccio, a 14th-generation Long Islander, shares an inside look at what makes the American bison one of the most remarkable animals in North America — right here on the East End.

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Catholic Shrine and Quirky Attractions of Long Island's East End | THIRTEEN

Title: Catholic Shrine and Quirky Attractions of Long Island's East End | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 27:22
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Out East with Doug Geed, hosted by NewsdayTV’s Doug Geed, explores Long Island’s East End. Doug begins the episode at the Roman Catholic Shrine of Our Lady of the Island, a place of guidance and solace for more than 50 years. He visits a bison farm, heads to a Riverhead farm for a horseradish harvest, and discovers quirky roadside attractions of the East End.

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0:00 - Intro
1:40 - Shrine of Our Lady of the Island in Manorville
9:45 - Bison on a 14th-Generation Riverhead Farm
12:05 - 1896 Bar Inspired by Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed
14:07 - Harvesting Horseradish at Schmitt's Far...

Movement That Changed NYC's Theater Scene

Title: Movement That Changed NYC's Theater Scene
Runtime: 1:30
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Before Off-Off Broadway became a staple of New York, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club gave artists a place to take risks and reinvent theater. This 1967 clip from NET Playhouse features playwright Paul Foster and La MaMa founder Ellen Stewart discussing experimental performance, artistic freedom, and Foster's play "The Recluse" — filmed inside an abandoned hospital on present-day Roosevelt Island.

#Shorts #LaMaMa #OffOffBroadway #ExperimentalTheater #NYCTheater #TheaterHistory #PaulFoster #EllenStewart #Broadway

1967: An Experimental Play About Self-Destruction | THIRTEEN

Title: 1967: An Experimental Play About Self-Destruction | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 38:07
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: In 1967, Paul Foster’s play “The Recluse,” featuring Ruth White and Bryarly Lee, was filmed in an abandoned hospital on Welfare Island (present-day Roosevelt Island) for a TV episode of NET Playhouse.

African-American theater director and producer Ellen Stewart founded La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in 1961, and the Off-Off Broadway venue remains a hub for experimentation. Playwright Paul Foster was a founding member of La MaMa and its first president.

"The Recluse" stands out as a testament to La MaMa's commitment to pushing the boundaries of theater. It explores the depths of self-destruction and dementia, featuring two women locked in a passionate and intense battle, all governed by rules of a formal dance.

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Creating Urgent, Combustible American Theater | THIRTEEN

Title: Creating Urgent, Combustible American Theater | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 9:33
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: In 1995, stage and screen director, playwright and producer George C. Wolfe was running two New York City theater productions simultaneously and was changing American theater.

By day, the Public Theater's producer was building tap prodigy Savion Glover's "Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk" — a tap/rap examination of African American history from the slave ships to the streets. By night, he was directing Patrick Stewart in Shakespeare's "The Tempest" on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. In both shows, Wolfe is working with rhythms and seeking to create an American theater that is “broad, complicated, combustible, and uncontrollable.”

Wolfe's theater philosophy and studio rehearsal process were captured in a profile on City Arts on THIRTEEN.

Dancer Savion Glover discusses his influences and creative process before the debut of his Off-Broadway show that later moved to Broadway. Actor Patrick Stewart delves into what makes Wolfe’s product...

Deaf Girls Learn Classical Ballet at the Joffrey School

Title: Deaf Girls Learn Classical Ballet at the Joffrey School
Runtime: 1:41
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: When Beverly Sills asks 8-year-old Debbie if she wants to grow up to be a ballerina, the answer is an immediate yes. In this clip from THIRTEEN's Skyline, Sills introduces the Joffrey Ballet's pioneering program for deaf children — weekly ballet classes for girls ages 8 to 11, built around body language, creative teaching accommodations, and the belief that every child deserves to pursue her dream.

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Title: “Power Doesn’t Come From a Job!”
Runtime: 1:24
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: In this climactic scene from the Off-Broadway play N/A, Emmy winner Holland Taylor ("N") and Broadway’s Ana Villafañe ("A") confront the true cost of leadership, compromise, and political ambition. Inspired by real people and events, N/A is a battle between generations, governing styles, and visions for America’s future.

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Title: Jerusalem, We Have a Problem | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 30:11
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: With a dose of humor, the documentary, Fiddler on the Moon, investigates how religion would adapt to spaceflight and environments where tradition-setting natural events like sunsets and moon phases become inaccessible. Neil deGrasse Tyson, astronauts Jeffrey Hoffman and Jessica Meir, and a quorum of rabbis and researchers grapple with the question: will Judaism survive in space?

#SpaceExploration #IlanRamon #JessicaMeir #JeffreyHoffman#NeildeGrasseTyson #FaithAndScience #Shabbat #ZeroGravity #Documentary #JewishHistory #NASAHistory #SpaceDocumentary #ColumbiaShuttle #MarsColonization #WNET#PublicTelevision #THIRTEEN

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Nassau Police Didn't Arrest Her Stalker. Then He Killed Her.

Title: Nassau Police Didn't Arrest Her Stalker. Then He Killed Her.
Runtime: 1:02
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Jo'Anna Bird's ex-boyfriend was convicted of her murder. The questions that followed were devastating: Why did Nassau police repeatedly fail to arrest Leonardo Valdez Cruz when he violated her order of protection — not once, but at least six times? Civil rights attorney Frederick Brewington says there's no question her death could have been prevented.

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She Begged for Help. 12 Cops Failed Her. Then She Was Killed. | THIRTEEN

Title: She Begged for Help. 12 Cops Failed Her. Then She Was Killed. | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 23:49
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: A 24-year-old mother of two, Jo’Anna Bird feared her violent ex would kill her. She sought help, but a secret 781-page file reveals how Nassau County police failed her. This documentary reconstructs the warnings, missed chances, and systemic breakdowns that led to her 2009 murder.

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Inside NYC’s Off-Broadway Theater Scene | THIRTEEN

Title: Inside NYC’s Off-Broadway Theater Scene | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 25:56
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Look back at the Off and Off-Off Broadway theater scene of the 1990s. This 1996 City Arts episode explores the extraordinary range of playwrights, directors, and performers whose theatrical works appeared across New York City’s boroughs in venues that are not big Broadway theaters.

Off and Off-Off Broadway artists who share their insights on their creativity include Jon Robin Baitz, Amiri Baraka, Eric Bogosian, Lee Breuer, Tony Kushner, Romulus Linney, Arthur Miller, Suzan-Lori Parks, Richard Schechner, and Nicky Silver.

Go behind the scenes of Richard Foreman’s rehearsal process. Discover Dixon Place’s living-room theater experiments and Ensemble Studio Theatre’s influential playwright development program.

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Title: Broadway's Secret Weapon: The Costumer
Runtime: 1:31
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Barbara Matera spent five decades constructing the costumes behind Broadway's most iconic shows — Wicked, The Lion King, A Chorus Line, Cabaret, Dreamgirls. In this clip from a 1996 episode of THIRTEEN's City Arts, Matera shares her philosophy of no shortcuts and jokes with Nathan Lane about his costume.

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The System is "Boiling and it's Killing Us"

Title: The System is "Boiling and it's Killing Us"
Runtime: 1:31
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Two women in the United States House of Representatives clash over power, compromise, activism, and political change in this scene from the Off-Broadway play, N/A. Inspired by real people and events, N/A explores the battle between generations, governing styles, and visions for America’s future.

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Woman Behind Broadway's Most Iconic Costumes | THIRTEEN

Title: Woman Behind Broadway's Most Iconic Costumes | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 7:13
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: You've seen her work. You just might not know her name. For five decades, dressmaker Barbara Matera constructed the costumes for Broadway's biggest stars, in Broadway's biggest shows. Matera's workshop created costumes for over 100 shows, including Cabaret, Wicked, The Lion King, Dreamgirls, A Chorus Line, Mamma Mia!, Aida, and Follies. Millions of theatergoers, opera fans, and film audiences have seen Matera's artistry without knowing the expert dressmaker that executed the costume designer's vision.

In this 1996 episode of THIRTEEN's City Arts, step inside Matera's legendary New York costume shop for a behind-the-scenes look at a typical day — which includes fittings with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Faye Dunaway, and Elaine Paige, and with Nathan Lane during his Tony-winning turn in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

From Broadway to Hollywood, Matera's shop created costumes for theater, television, and film, executing designs for some of the most ce...

Raising a Deaf Child in a Hearing Family

Title: Raising a Deaf Child in a Hearing Family
Runtime: 1:31
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: A group of hearing parents share their experiences raising deaf and hard-of-hearing children. It's a daily challenge to make sure no one gets left out of conversations, including at the dinner table. Skyline host Beverly Sills opens up about raising a deaf child alongside hearing siblings and reflects on how it brought her family closer together.

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Joffrey Ballet's Groundbreaking Program for Deaf Children | THIRTEEN

Title: Joffrey Ballet's Groundbreaking Program for Deaf Children | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 28:07
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: In 1979, the Joffrey Ballet School created a classical ballet program designed specifically for deaf and hard of hearing children ages 8 to 11, with the goal to eventually integrate them into hearing classes — and to give every child access to the dream she deserves.

Meredith Baylis, a ballet teacher and former ballerina with the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo, developed the program. She solved communication challenges with creativity, special speakers, vibrations through the floor, and a blackboard. The episode also features a performance of choreographer Gerald Arpino's L'Air d'Esprit, and a candid conversation between Sills, the students — including her own daughter Muffy — and their parents about what it means to live, learn, and dance between two worlds.

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Title: Immigration Politics on Stage
Runtime: 1:28
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: N and A confront the human cost of immigration policy and the limits of symbolic protest. Inspired by real political figures and events, the Off-Broadway play N/A follows two women in Congress as they debate power, responsibility, and what meaningful change actually requires.

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Story Time With Us! Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month | THIRTEEN

Title: Story Time With Us! Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month | THIRTEEN
Runtime: 37:32
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, we're sharing five family-friendly stories that celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander cultures, food, fashion, family, and identity.

Hari Sreenivasan reads "Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix" by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and June Jo Lee — the story of a Seoul, South Korean-born, Los Angeles, California street cook who turned a food truck into a cultural phenomenon.

Author Supriya Kelkar reads her book: "The Many Colors of Harpreet Singh" — a story about identity, expression, and the colorful Patkas (a traditional Sikh head covering primarily worn by young boys) and clothing that show the world exactly who Harpreet is and how he feels.

Parisa Spitaleri from the NYC Department of Education reads "HUSH!" A Thai Lullaby by Minfong Ho — a bedtime story that will have everyone drifting off to sleep.

Emma from WCNY Reading Buddies reads "Slippers in Hawai'i" — a joyful celebration of the ...

Are Long Island's Waterways Toxic? NewsdayTV Experts Clash

Title: Are Long Island's Waterways Toxic? NewsdayTV Experts Clash
Runtime: 1:24
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Is untreated wastewater poisoning Long Island's bays and harbors — or is the science being exaggerated? An oyster farmer and an environmental advocate go head-to-head over nitrogen, cesspools, algal blooms and what the data actually shows in this heated exchange.

#LongIsland #WaterQuality #ToxicTides #Environment #AlgalBlooms #LongIslandSound #Nitrogen #NewsdayTV #IslandInsider

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