“I fell in love, and I just kept falling in love.” Patrick Page @PagePatrick tells @RedBullTheater about discovering the music of Leonard Cohen. Leonard Cohen Fan Listen: personplacething.org

“To me it was just the most magical thing,” Patrick Page @PagePatrick tells @RedBullTheater. Shakespeare’s Globe? No. Disneyland Resort. Hear why. And when. personplacething.org

A great way to start with Shakespeare, Patrick Page @PagePatrick tells @RedBullTheater: memorize passages. And he has. “Put me in a jail cell, and I have a lot to keep me company.” Listen: personplacething.org

Patrick Page @PagePatrick recites Shakespeare and Disney for @RedBullTheater’s 20th Anniversary Festival. Listen: personplacething.org

“Everybody has a reason to say no,” @ZachIscol, Commissioner of @NYCemergencyMgt tells @NYCrecords. NIMBYism vs getting things done. Listen: personplacething.org

.@NYCemergencyMgt responds to emergencies, but what is an emergency: Covid? Car crash? Trump presidency? Commissioner @ZachIscol defines his turf for @NYCrecords. Listen: personplacething.org

His future father contemplated leaving the country, @ZachIscol, Commissioner of @NYCemergencyMgt tells @NYCrecords. “He was concerned about Jimmy Carter’s administration.” That hot-head Jimmy Carter. Those were the days. (sigh) Listen: personplacething.org

Ty Jones Ty Jones of the Classical Theatre of Harlem @ClassicalHarlem keeps journals to remind himself who he is. . . or was: “I looked at something the other day from 2013; I didn’t know I thought that.” Listen: personplacething.org

He was 9 when his mother joined the Air Force, says Ty Jones Ty Jones of @ClassicalHarlem. “We moved from Black Black East New York to Whiteman Airforce Base in Missouri, where we were like the raisins in the oatmeal." Listen: personplacething.org

The Classical Theatre of Harlem @ClassicalHarlem focusses on, well, classics, to explore basic truths, says Ty Jones Ty Jones. “These are living arguments, these classic plays.” Listen: personplacething.org

I'm looking forward to my conversation with Gordon Davis and to walking through the most beautiful lobby in New York.

We started with a small calendar on Dave's desk and worked our way up to the side of a building, befitting the show's aesthetic of making a big deal out of a small thing. You know: TV!

Composer Peter Boyer esteems Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, “but I started as a @BillyJoel wannabe.” Influences. Listen: personplacething.org

“He is a composer who comes to define an American sound.” Chuck Berry? For me, yes. For composer Peter Boyer, Aaron Copland. Hear why: personplacething.org

When Peter Boyer was commissioned to compose a piece about Ellis Island Statue of Liberty NM, he made his first visit: “Standing in the Great Hall, one feels the weight of history.” Hear how: personplacething.org

Tales of when the Sheep Meadow still had sheep. And the Great Lawn was only Pretty Good.

From her teenage triumph with her sisters, the Roches, @TerreRoche has been performing for 50 years. Now she tells all. Most. Some. Listen: personplacething.org

“You see donkeys, you see goats, sheep.” Singer-songwriter @TerreRoche on either Trump’s Haitian eating fantasies or the Virgin Islands: personplacething.org

During the audience Q&A, you can ask inappropriately personal questions of former principal Denise Jackson and current artistic director Ashley Wheater (which they won't answer).

Singer-songwriter @TerreRoche seems so decent, and yet, “Did you meet the boyfriend I dumped when I got famous?” Hear the not-so-lurid details: personplacething.org