LETTERS READ: Bananas Anyone?
Welcome to this reading from a handmade, 1906 photo-album compiled in response to the last documented yellow fever outbreak in New Orleans and the Uni...
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Now in its forth consecutive season, LETTERS READ is the series of live events in which local artists interpret personal letters written by culturally vital individuals from various times and New Orleans communities and is an ongoing series presented by stationer Nancy Sharon Collins and Antenna.
LETTERS READ INCUBATOR VII: Yellow Fever, Mosquitos, and Monkeys
Listen now. A brief prelude to tomorrow’s “Bananas Anyone” podcast launching July 15, 2021, at 6:00 pm CDT. Here on anchor.fm/lettersread. In this re...
LETTERS READ: The Letters of Edgar Degas
This reading is of personal letters from Edgar Degas surrounding his 4-month stay in Reconstruction-era New Orleans. Christopher Kamenstein reads as D...
LETTERS READ: The Letters of Edgar Degas
This reading is of personal letters from Edgar Degas surrounding his 4-month stay in Reconstruction-era New Orleans. Christopher Kamenstein reads as D...
LETTERS READ INCUBATOR VI: Michel Musson, 1849
A prelude to the March 25, 2021 reading, The Letters of Edgar Degas, hosted by Pitot House and co-promoted by Alliance Française de La Nouvelle-Orléan...
LETTERS READ: A Conversation with Two Actors
December 31st, 2020: A remote interview with two professional actors, George Saucier and Colin Miller in Lafayette, Louisiana. With ten questions as ...
LETTERS READ INCUBATOR V: George & Colin Talk about Southern Stereotypes that some Tennessee Williams Figures have Become
This outtake is from the 16th full LETTERS READ production, to be podcast here on New Year’s Eve this year. George Saucier talks about the theatricali...
LETTERS READ INCUBATOR IV: Baron Joseph-Xavier Delfau de Pontalba & the Yellow Fever Epidemic in New Orleans
Yesterday, the number of people with the coronavirus who died in the United States exceeded 300,000. Today we offer another incubator-style, experimen...
LETTERS READ: The Letters of Robert W. Stuart
November 30, 2020, hosted by Bastion | Community of Resilience, Gentilly, New Orleans. Featuring William Bowling, reader, Steve Chyzyk, and Steve Hime...
LETTERS READ: The Letters of Skip Ward
Thursday, August 20, 2020: Blanchard, “Skip” Ward was a gay activist in rural Louisiana during the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and into the beginning of the ...