Schedule for Wednesday July 30
It's Q the Summer! Piya Chattopadhyay hosts this week. Jian returns with a new season of Q on Sept 1. Please note that all schedules are subject to last-minute changes. Check back for updates. Piya talks to Christopher Shinn - a New York-based playwright whose work has won him an Obie Award and made him a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize....
It's Q the Summer! Piya Chattopadhyay hosts this week. Jian returns with a new season of Q on Sept 1. Please note that all schedules are subject to last-minute changes. Check back for updates.
- Piya talks to Christopher Shinn - a New York-based playwright whose work has won him an Obie Award and made him a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He argues that disability is wrongly treated as a metaphor on stage and screen... and that characters with disabilities should be portrayed by people who actually are disabled. His belief is informed by his own recent experience with cancer, which has left him disabled. [FULL POST]
- Former lawyer Greg Poehler -- brother of comedic actress Amy Poehler -- talks to Piya about his semi-autobiographical sitcom, Welcome To Sweden in which he stars as an accountant who leaves New York and moves to Stockholm to be with his girlfriend. The fish-out-of-water comedy is already a hit in Sweden where he still lives. [FULL POST]
- Best of Q: ADHD has become a much-diagnosed condition these days...and a ubiquitous cultural shorthand. Jian's interviews New York Times writer Alan Schwarz and ADHD expert Dr Gabor Maté reflect on the cultural and marketing reasons as to why the ADHD prescription rate is rising. [FULL POST]