TALKS | FILM

Director Lee Breuer, composer Bob Telson, and musician Sam Butler join BAM Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo for an expansive conversation about the spectacular gospel musical The Gospel at Colonus.

Kurosawa’s final epic is a blistering re-imagining of one of the great theatrical investigations of chaos wrought by tyrannical governance: Shakespeare’s King Lear.

Director Anne Bogart, poet Monica Youn, and political theorist Corey Robin examine the implications of a society governed by fear and the place of will in bringing forth truth.

This mesmerizing hybrid of documentary and fiction breathes life into the tragic story of late British playwright Andrea Dunbar, who spoke voluminous anti-establishment truth.

Masha Gessen and Linda Gordon discuss the truth of women’s lived experiences in the public sphere. What happens when power is used to silence and undermine truth?

This urgent documentary portrait of contemporary activism in action is an electrifying dispatch from the frontlines of protest in Ferguson, Missouri, in the aftermath of Michael Brown’s killing.

A panel of writers and artists examine Gandhi’s nonviolent resistance and locate it on a historical continuum of other social justice movements, from the writings of Tolstoy to Black Lives Matter.

Director Jafar Panahi, after being banned by the Iranian government, posed as a taxi driver to craft this answer to the state’s attempts to challenge his agency as an artist.

How does personal agency predetermine the ability to speak one’s own truth? Philosopher Simon Critchley leads this discussion about economic circumstances and the expression of one’s lived experience.