The Vt Show features special guests in Vineyard Theatre livestreams
Who: Creators of Lessons in Survival
What: Live discussion series
Where: Vineyard Theatre YouTube channel and Facebook Live
When: September 29, free, 5:30 (new programs the last Tuesday of each month)
Why: Vineyard Theatre continues its live, interactive program The VT Show on September 29 at 5:30 with an inside look at its upcoming series Lessons in Survival, in which a collective called the Commissary reenacts historic speeches, interviews, and conversations from activists and artists during revolutionary times. LIN, which kicks off October 6, was conceived by Marin Ireland, Peter Mark Kendall, Tyler Thomas, and Reggie D. White and features such episodes as “Survival Is Not a One Time Decision,” “I’m Trying to Make You See Something,” and “When You Say Revolution . . . What Do You Mean?” Among the participants are Kyle Beltran, Dan Butler, Helen Cespedes, Crystal Dickinson, Brandon J. Dirden, Nicole Lewis, Joe Morton, Deirdre O’Connell, and Keith Randolph Smith performing the words of Nina Simone, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nikki Giovanni, and others. Future episodes of The VT Show will air on October 27 and November 24; you can catch previous episodes here, including talks with Whitney White, Ngozi Anyanwu, Cornelius Eady, Colman Domingo, Tina Satter, Emily Davis, Michael R. Jackson, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Judy Kuhn, and Anika Noni Rose.