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With women’s liberation at a crossroads and masculinity under scrutiny, "Theater: All the Moving Parts" explores two plays that challenge the dynamics of power, gender, and identity. 

Host Patrick Pacheco speaks with the cast of Roundabout Theatre Company's "Liberation," a new play by Bess Wohl that traces the fight for women’s equality from the 1970s to today - now playing at the Laura Pels Theatre. Featuring Betsy Aidem, Susannah Flood, Audrey Corsa, and Kristolyn Lloyd, the cast discusses the play’s deeply personal and political stakes. “The gains of second-wave feminism feel like they hang in the balance right now,” says Flood. “Are we losing this? And if so, how do we get it back?” 

Then, Matt Koplik (Podcast Host, Broadway Breakdown) and Annette Saddik (CUNY Distinguished Professor and Author of "Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess") join Pacheco to explore "A Streetcar Named Desire," Tennessee Williams’ timeless drama of toxic masculinity, power, and desire, now revived at BAM with Paul Mescal as Stanley Kowalski and Patsy Ferran as Blanche DuBois. “Streetcar is back at a time when the Stanley Kowalskis of the world are in ascendance, at least politically, if not at the bully pulpit,” notes Pacheco . 

Join us for a timely and thought-provoking discussion that connects the past and present struggles for power, identity, and justice.

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