Dedicated Email - Tuesday - 01/14/2025 - 59E59 Theaters - Radio Downtown Dedicated - 2024 - Live Event: One-off

The Civilians presents
Radio Downtown: Radical ‘70s Artists Live on Air
Written by Steve Cosson and Jocelyn Clarke
Conceived and directed by Steve Cosson
At 59E59 Theaters

Radio Downtown: Radical ‘70s Artists Live on Air is made from archival interviews from WNYC’s “Arts Forum,” a 1970s radically open format radio show about avant garde artists. This world premiere enlists an experimental storytelling method in homage to its downtown subjects. The result is a hilariously naturalistic, wholly live experience. 

This show was created by The Civilians, a theater company who is dedicated to ambitious and exuberant new theater that creatively interrogates our lived experience; questions and tests the stories that shape our world; and awakens new thinking and perceptions. Its signature work is “investigative theater”— projects created through field research, community collaborations, and other methods of in-depth inquiry. Shows originated with The Civilians include Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, a post-electric play, cited by The New York Times as the “4th Best Play of the Past 25 Years,” and Lucas Hnath’s Dana H., recently on Broadway and included in Top 10 of 2021 lists by The New York Times and Time magazine.

Use code NYC59 for $25 tickets!*

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