Robin Lithgow's guest appearances

Robin Lithgow

Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited

The History of Literature

Commentaries from the Edge

Julius Caesar

John Milton

Henry James

Jane Eyre

Emily Dickinson

Soren Kierkegaard

Alfred Hitchcock

Henry David Thoreau

Henry V

Toni Morrison

James Joyce

Frederick Douglass

Walt Whitman

Scott Fitzgerald

Leo Tolstoy

OwlTail

Everyone has an opinion about what the United States public education classrooms need, and everyone agrees there is something terribly wrong with how young people are learning, or not learning, in America’s public education system. Robin Lithgow, a prominent educator in California, was a classroom teacher for 21 years before becoming the Director of the Arts Branch of the Los Angeles Unified School District for 14 years.   She has what might seem to some both classical and radical ideas for what is desperately needed for young people to become educated.  It is clear we are living in a time when there are several threats to the functioning of our United States democracy, and having citizens who can think and calculate is obviously essential to its future.  Listen to Robin Lithgow’s approach to fixing public education and along the way promoting how young people can become geniuses in our future society.   Look for her upcoming book soon to be published, - LEARNING THE WAY SHAKESPEARE LEARNED:  Classroom Dramatics, Physical Rhetoric and a Generation of Geniuses. For Contact:  Robin@RobinLithgow.com

Everyone has an opinion about what the United States public education classrooms need, and everyone agrees there is something terribly wrong with how young people are learning, or not learning, in America’s public education system. Robin Lithgow, a prominent educator in California, was a classroom teacher for 21 years before becoming the Director of the Arts Branch of the Los Angeles Unified School District for 14 years. She has what might seem to some both classical and radical ideas for what is desperately needed for young people to become educated. It is clear we are living in a time when there are several threats to the functioning of our United States democracy, and having citizens who can think and calculate is obviously essential to its future. Listen to Robin Lithgow’s approach to fixing public education and along the way promoting how young people can become geniuses in our future society. Look for her upcoming book soon to be published, - LEARNING THE WAY SHAKESPEARE LEARNED: Classroom Dramatics, Physical Rhetoric and a Generation of Geniuses. For Contact: Robin@RobinLithgow.com

FIXING PUBLIC EDUCATION: What We Can Learn from Shakespeare, with prominent Educator, Robin Lithgow

Robin Lithgow spent her life immersed in the performing arts, including a childhood in the theater and decades spent as an educator and arts administrator. But it wasn't until she read a little-known work by Erasmus that she fully realized the importance that performance had on Shakespeare and his generation--which mirrored the experiences she had had as an English and drama teacher in inner-city schools in Los Angeles. In this special episode, Robin joins Jacke to talk about her life in the theater, her epiphanies regarding Shakespeare's education, and the centrality of the performing arts in a child's development.ROBIN LITHGOW was the first Theatre Adviser, and eventually the Director, of the Arts Education Branch of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest school district in the United States. Before becoming an arts administrator, she was a teacher for twenty-one years, teaching every grade level from kindergarten through senior high school and ending her classroom tenure as an English and drama teacher. And before that, she was the daughter of Arthur Lithgow, a theater impresario who developed Shakespeare festivals all over Ohio, which meant that Robin and her younger brother John Lithgow, the acclaimed actor, grew up traveling from place to place, watching rehearsals and performances, as their father mounted productions of every play in the Shakespearean canon.Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com.New!!! Looking for an easy to way to buy Jacke a coffee? Now you can at paypal.me/jackewilson. Your generosity is much appreciated!The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robin Lithgow spent her life immersed in the performing arts, including a childhood in the theater and decades spent as an educator and arts administrator. But it wasn't until she read a little-known work by Erasmus that she fully realized the importance that performance had on Shakespeare and his generation--which mirrored the experiences she had had as an English and drama teacher in inner-city schools in Los Angeles. In this special episode, Robin joins Jacke to talk about her life in the theater, her epiphanies regarding Shakespeare's education, and the centrality of the performing arts in a child's development.ROBIN LITHGOW was the first Theatre Adviser, and eventually the Director, of the Arts Education Branch of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest school district in the United States. Before becoming an arts administrator, she was a teacher for twenty-one years, teaching every grade level from kindergarten through senior high school and ending her classroom tenure as an English and drama teacher. And before that, she was the daughter of Arthur Lithgow, a theater impresario who developed Shakespeare festivals all over Ohio, which meant that Robin and her younger brother John Lithgow, the acclaimed actor, grew up traveling from place to place, watching rehearsals and performances, as their father mounted productions of every play in the Shakespearean canon.Help support the show at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/literature" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/literature</a> or <a href="http://www.historyofliterature.com/shop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">historyofliterature.com/shop</a>. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at <a href="http://www.historyofliterature.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">historyofliterature.com</a>, <a href="http://www.jackewilson.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jackewilson.com</a>, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com.New!!! Looking for an easy to way to buy Jacke a coffee? Now you can at <a href="http://paypal.me/jackewilson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paypal.me/jackewilson</a>. Your generosity is much appreciated!The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at <a href="http://www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature</a>. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the <a href="https://thepodglomerate.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a> and sign up for our <a href="https://thepodglomerate.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=a3da57251c024955428e72bcc&amp;id=abeea0a423" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">newsletter</a> for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our <a href="https://thepodglomerate.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Privacy Policy</a>. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like <a href="https://link.chtbl.com/KONblm2B?sid=HOLShowNotes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Storybound</a>, <a href="https://link.chtbl.com/wJsjTkdx?sid=HOLShowNotes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Micheaux Mission</a>, and <a href="https://link.chtbl.com/ZsurgAa4?sid=HOLShowNotes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The History of Standup</a>. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

269 Shakespeare and the Generation of Genius - The Role of Performing Arts in Education (with Robin Lithgow)

John Lithgow

Tony Dallas

Over the course of three summers in the 1950s, Arthur Lithgow, Meredith Dallas, and a troupe of actors they’d gathered performed every single one of Shakespeare plays, in rep, at the Antioch Shakespeare Festival, also known as Shakespeare Under the Stars, at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.This podcast episode brings together the children of the festival’s founders to talk about their fathers’ work and its legacy: Tony Dallas, Robin Lithgow, and the Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning actor John Lithgow. John, Robin, and Tony are interviewed by Barbara Bogaev.From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. Published June 12, 2018. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This podcast episode, "I Live to Speak My Father’s Words," was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer.

Over the course of three summers in the 1950s, Arthur Lithgow, Meredith Dallas, and a troupe of actors they’d gathered performed every single one of Shakespeare plays, in rep, at the Antioch Shakespeare Festival, also known as Shakespeare Under the Stars, at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. This podcast episode brings together the children of the festival’s founders to talk about their fathers’ work and its legacy: Tony Dallas, Robin Lithgow, and the Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning actor John Lithgow. John, Robin, and Tony are interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. Published June 12, 2018. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This podcast episode, "I Live to Speak My Father’s Words," was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer.

Antioch Shakespeare Festival: John Lithgow, Robin Lithgow, and Tony Dallas