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Click this link to watch the reading and images: http://vimeo.com/user184187732/ Thanks to the many individual donors who helped make this reading possible July 29, 2022, at the Arts + Literature Laboratory, and to the overflow crowd who came out
Joe Hill – Alive as You and Me Performed at The Dark Horse Artbar, Madison WI. April 7, 2022 Singer/storyteller Tom Kastle David Simmons, Producer/Director Script by David Simmons and Tom Kastle, Copyright 2022 by Fermat’s Last Theater Co. Special
Video from this show is being reworked … please be patient. Performed at The Crucible, Madison WI, September 30, 2021 LAUGHIN’ TO KEEP FROM CRYIN’: Oh! Those Blues of Langston Hughes Created and curated by Quanda Johnson Very few poets
The live reading of She Fights for the Motherland took place on October 14, 2021 at the Central Madison Public Library. A Q&A after the reading was led by UW-Madison History Department professors Francine Hirsch and Kathryn Ciancia, both
Photo: Elsa Dorfman – Wikimedia Commons Video for this show is being reworked … please be patient. Rock Steady: The Revolutionary Soul of Nikki Giovanni – 2021 Concept and curation by Quanda Johnson On April 8, 2021, four talented
In this second reading (of three) of the letters of Willa Cather, we find her in Pittsburgh and then New York, doing mostly (to her regret) journalism. But she takes a trip to the southwest, publishes a few short stories
Acting Un-American – HUAC and the Federal Theatre Project Fermat’s adaptation of the testimony of Hallie Flanagan before the House Un-American Activities Committee With live theater a fevered dream in the midst of the 2020 COVID pandemic, Fermat’s recorded Acting
Fermat’s Last Theater presents August 13, 2020, Cafe Coda Madison Concept and curation by Quanda Johnson Program Lawd, How Come Me Here – Negro spiritual – sung by Quanda Johnson From Giovanni’s Room – read by Melvin Hinton The
Gregg Williard’s fiction, non-fiction and visual art have been published in Shenandoah, New England Review, The Iowa Review, The Rupture, Into the Void and Diagram, among others. He teaches English to refugees and does a book reading show on WORT
Robert Ingersoll speaking the eulogy at Walt Whitman’s funeral Robert Ingersoll, called The Great Agnostic, was one of the premier orators of the second half of the 19th century, and gave the funeral eulogy for Walt Whitman on March 30,