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RadioLoveFest—BAM and WNYC’s celebration of an always engaging and ever evolving medium—returns March 10—12 Wide-ranging program highlights include, NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!® live; WNYC Studios’ Death, Sex & Money with Anna Sale; The Moth Mainstage; Garrison Keillor: Radio Revue featuring music and storytelling; Selected Shorts; and a special evening with Laura Poitras and Edward Snowden Hosts and guests include Brian Lehrer, Peter Sagal, Mo Rocca, John Cameron Mitchell, Anika Noni Rose, Amy Ryan, and recently added Cynthia Nixon, Rosie Perez, Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton, Hari Kondabolu, Catherine Palmer, and others Bloomberg Philanthropies is the Season Sponsor BAM and WNYC present RadioLoveFest Produced by BAM and WNYC Mar 10—12 BAM (multiple venues) Tickets on sale Jan 19 to BAM and WNYC members Tickets on sale Jan 26 to the general public Feb 29, 2016/Brooklyn, NY—For a third year, WNYC takes up residence at BAM venues to reimagine some of public radio’s most beloved programs and podcasts live on stage as part of RadioLoveFest. The line-up is a vibrant cross-section of genres and formats—from storytelling and music to comedy and conversation—featuring public radio favorites on stage with NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!®; live iterations of shows and podcasts including The Moth Mainstage and WNYC Studios’ Death, Sex & Money with Anna Sale, and a presentation of Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts: Dangers and Discoveries featuring guests John Cameron Mitchell, Cynthia Nixon, and others. Special events include Garrison Keillor: Radio Revue and WNYC’s Brian Lehrer in conversation with Laura Poitras and Edward Snowden. Additionally, there will be BAMcinématek screenings curated by WNYC producers Molly Webster (Radiolab) and Sean Rameswaram (Studio 360). BAMcafé Live performances are curated by WQXR’s Terrance McKnight. Nearly all shows during RadioLoveFest will be taped for broadcast on WNYC. Additional guests to be confirmed—check BAM.org for updates. For press information, contact David Hsieh at 718.636.4129 x5 or [email protected] Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!® NPR® BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave) Mar 10 at 7:30pm Tickets: $35, 75, 110 Hosted by Peter Sagal Judge and Scorekeeper: Bill Kurtis Panelists: Paula Poundstone, Mo Rocca, Faith Salie Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!® is NPR's weekly hour-long news quiz program hosted by Peter Sagal. Along with human scoreboard Bill Kurtis, Sagal will challenge panelists Paula Poundstone, Mo Rocca, and Faith Salie—as well as the BAM audience, listener contestants, and a celebrity guest—to distinguish between real and fake news through a comic review of the week’s headlines. Sagal’s varied career extends beyond Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!®, which he began hosting in 1998. He’s also pursued projects as a playwright, screenwriter, stage director, actor, extra in a Michael Jackson video, travel writer, essayist, ghostwriter, and staff writer for a motorcycle magazine, and was recently named by Newsweek as one of its top picks to host the Oscars. The Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!® show recorded at BAM will air the following Saturday on WNYC at 11am and on public radio stations across the country that weekend. The show will also be available to stream on demand as a podcast and at npr.org/waitwait. Into the Deep: The Moth at BAM BAM Harvey Theater (651 Fulton St) Host: Steve Burns Storytellers: Matthew Dicks, Ted Hartley, Omar Musa, Catherine Palmer, and others Mar 10 at 7:30pm Tickets: $35, 40, 50 Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented more than ten thousand stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year, and the Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio Hour, produced by Jay Allison and presented by PRX, The Public Radio Exchange, airs weekly on more than 500 radio stations nationwide. The Moth’s flagship program, The Moth Mainstage, features true, personal stories by luminaries in the arts and sciences, as well as an astronaut, an undertaker, a voodoo priestess, and a retired NYPD detective, among many others. Each show features five carefully selected storytellers who develop and shape their stories with The Moth’s directors. Laura Poitras and Edward Snowden Interviewed by WNYC’s Brian Lehrer BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave) Mar 11 at 7:30pm Tickets: $35, 55, 85 In this very special RadioLoveFest event, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer interviews filmmaker Laura Poitras and former intelligence officer Edward Snowden (appearing via live video link)—the subject of Poitras’ Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour. Lehrer and guests discuss the intersection of human rights, privacy, national security, and more. Selected Shorts: Dangers and Discoveries A Presentation of Symphony Space BAM Harvey Theater (651 Fulton Street) Mar 11 at 7:30pm Tickets: $35, 45 Readers: John Cameron Mitchell, Anika Noni Rose, Amy Ryan, Cynthia Nixon, and others Following last year’s sold-out show, the popular live performance series and public radio podcast Selected Shorts returns to RadioLoveFest for an evening of moving, comical, and adventurous tales of risky business and redemption. Broadway and Hollywood actors will read classic and contemporary short fiction filled with madness, treachery, cryptic characters, and revelations. It has been called "one of the best evenings at the theater" by David Sedaris. Guests include actors John Cameron Mitchell, Anika Noni Rose, Cynthia Nixon, and Amy Ryan. Complete performance lineup will be announced on BAM.org. Death, Sex & Money BAM Harvey Theater (651 Fulton St) Hosted by Anna Sale Mar 12 at 7:30pm Tickets: $35, 45 Death, Sex & Money is a show about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation. Host Anna Sale—dubbed “the Queen of the Awkward Pause” by Fast Company—talks about relationships, money, family, and work with (couple) actor Mahershala Ali (House of Cards, The Hunger Games) and singer/songwriter Amatus, Rosie Perez and her sister Carmen Serrano, stand-up comic Hari Kondabolu and his mother Uma Kondabolu, and musical guest Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton. Garrison Keillor: Radio Revue BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave) Mar 12 at 7:30pm Tickets: $35, 55, 85 Author and host Garrison Keillor, who steps away from his long-running show A Prairie Home Companion in July, appears at BAM to reminisce about radio. He will offer songs from the show’s 42-year-history with Prairie Home Companion music director and Broadway luminary Rob Fisher and singer Christine DiGiallonardo (Live from Lincoln Center’s Carousel). BAMcafé Live curated by Terrance McKnight McKnight is WQXR’s award-winning evening host, as well as the host of a series of audio documentaries on the musical lives of notable African-Americans, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Hazel Scott, Langston Hughes, and Florence Price. As part of RadioLoveFest, McKnight curates two free nights of music at BAMcafé, featuring PUBLIQuartet and Addi & Jacq. PUBLIQuartet BAMcafé (30 Lafayette Ave) Mar 11 at 9:30pm Free Addi & Jacq BAMcafé (30 Lafayette Ave) Mar 12 at 9:30pm Free BAMcinématek screenings curated by WNYC producers Molly Webster (Radiolab producer) and Sean Rameswaram (Studio 360 producer) BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Ave) Mar 11 & 12 at 7:30pm For these special screenings, WNYC personalities tap their inner movie buff, choosing and introducing film favorites. Scream (1996) 111min Host: Sean Rameswaram Mar 11 at 7:30pm Tickets: $14 Directed by Wes Craven. With Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette Attempting to cope with her mother's murder, Sydney and her horror movie-obsessed friends are stalked by a murderer who seems to have a hard time letting go of the past. A League of Their Own (1992) 128min Host: Molly Webster Mar 12 at 7:30pm Tickets: $14 Directed by Penny Marshall. With Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell In the Midwest during World War II, two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed despite their growing rivalry. About BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is recognized internationally for its innovative programming of dance, music, theater, music-theater, opera, and film. Its mission is to be the home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas. BAM presents leading national and international artists and companies in its annual Winter/Spring Season and highlights groundbreaking, contemporary work in the performing arts with its Next Wave Festival each fall. Founded in 1983, the Next Wave is one of the world's most important festivals of contemporary performing arts. BAM Rose Cinemas features new, independent film releases and BAMcinématek—a curated, daily repertory film program. In 2012, BAM added the Richard B. Fisher Building to its campus, providing an intimate and flexible 250-seat performance venue—the Fishman Space—as well as the Hillman Studio, a rehearsal and performance space. BAM serves New York City's diverse population through a weekend concert series in BAMcafé, community events, literary series, and a wide variety of educational and family programs. BAM, America's oldest performing arts center, has presented performances since 1861, and attracts an audience of more than 700,000 people each year. The institution is led by President Katy Clark and Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo. Visit BAM.org. About WNYC From its state-of-the-art studios in New York City, WNYC is reshaping audio for a new generation of listeners, with groundbreaking, innovative radio programs and podcasts that include Radiolab; Freakonomics Radio; On the Media; Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin; Death, Sex & Money; and New Tech City, among others. With an urban vibrancy and a global perspective, WNYC is America’s most listened-to public radio station and the home to an award-winning newsroom of 70 journalists.