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WORLD Premieres New Series Stories from the Stage<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Revealing the Art of Storytelling to a Live Audience<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stories from the Stage<\/em> will launch with 12 half-hour episodes, showcasing diverse storytellers and addressing universal themes in each episode, including \u201cLast Dance,\u201d \u201cFood Confessions,\u201d and \u201cHell or High Water.\u201d These storytellers from the U.S. and around the world reveal candid personal memories that connect with audiences across a wide range of human emotion and experiences:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now more than ever, Stories from the Stage<\/em> hopes to amplify the voices of people usually not see on national television,\u201d says Liz Cheng, GM for WORLD Channel and co-executive producer of the series. \u201cPersonal stories rich in human experience and emotion can create understanding, empathy and appreciation for people very different from ourselves. With Stories from the Stage<\/em>, we hope to prove how much we all have in common.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The series also includes original digital content\u2014stories and interviews not seen in the broadcast episodes\u2014on social media and the WORLD Channel website<\/a>. On Facebook, visitors can immerse themselves in audience-booth commentary and \u201cMasterclass\u201d videos. Audiences will also have the chance to share their own stories and experiences through WORLD Channel\u2019s Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The series is co-executive produced by Liz Cheng and Patricia Alvarado Nu\u00f1ez, hosted by humorists\/storytellers Theresa Okokon and Wes Hazard with lead camera\/director\/editor Michael Rossi and Chris Hastings, executive in charge of production.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n S<\/em>tories from the Stage<\/em> is a collaboration of WORLD Channel, WGBH Events and Massmouth.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n Media Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n Alexis Feinberg, WGBH<\/p>\n alexis_feinberg@wgbh.org<\/p>\n 617-300-5334<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n About WORLD Channel<\/strong><\/p>\n The WORLD Channel delivers the best of public television\u2019s nonfiction, news and documentary\u00a0programming. The channel features\u00a0original content by and about diverse communities\u00a0to U.S. audiences through local public television stations and streaming online at\u00a0worldchannel.org. WORLD reached 33.3 million unique viewers 18+ last year (52% adults 18-49) and over-indexes in key diversity demographics. Online, the WORLD Channel expands on broadcast topics and fuels dialogue across social media, providing opportunities for broad and diverse audience interaction. WORLD has won numerous national honors including Tellys, a Media for a Just Society Award, two Lesbian & Gay Journalist Awards, a Gracie, an Asian American Journalists Award and many others. \u00a0WORLD Channel also won the Radio Television Digital News Association\u2019s 2017 Kaleidoscope Award for its critically-acclaimed series, AMERICA REFRAMED and has received four National News & Documentary Emmy Nominations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n WORLD is programmed by WGBH\/Boston, in partnership with American Public Television and WNET\/New York, and in association with\u00a0PBS\u00a0and National Educational Telecommunications Association. Funding for the WORLD Channel is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation and The Kendeda Fund. \u00a0For more information about The WORLD Channel, visit\u00a0www.worldchannel.org<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n October Premiere Episode Descriptions<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n EPISODE 101:\u00a0 LAST DANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n A last dance may be at the end or beginning of something big: Sandi Marx narrowly misses getting cast for Broadway\u2019s A Chorus Line<\/em>; choreographer Mark Lamb returns to his small, unaccepting town in Kentucky and encounters an extraordinary reunion; and Jean Appolon dances his way out of a death sentence in Haiti.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n EPISODE 102: CHANCE <\/strong><\/p>\n Chance<\/em> could mean possibilities, risk or opportunity: Rodrigue Kalambayi seeks asylum from political violence in the Congo; Korean-American Eson Kim is held at gunpoint in her family\u2019s hardware store in New York; and Christine Gentry donates a kidney to a complete stranger.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n EPISODE 103: WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORBHOOD <\/strong><\/p>\n Neighborhoods are forever in flux: Paloma Valenzuela travels to a Dominican neighborhood searching for her identity; Mark Redmond learns what happens when you are no longer welcomed on your street; and Norah Dooley finds the real meaning of community from neighbors who teach her life lessons.<\/p>\n EPISODE 104: TICKETS, PLEASE!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Tickets mean opportunity, but for what?\u00a0 Dan Dahari describes being adopted and smuggled out as an infant from Mexico; Courtney Allen finds freedom during a trip to Havana, Cuba; and Social Psychology Professor Michael Sargent confronts his own biases on a flight immediately after September 11, 2001.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] WORLD Premieres New Series Stories from the Stage Revealing the Art of Storytelling to a Live Audience September 7, 2017 (Boston, MA)\u2014As we explore the meaning and value of diversity in America, WORLD Channel presents Stories from the Stage, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cherylduncanpr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sfts-2-300x129.jpg\")
September 7, 2017 (Boston, MA)<\/strong>\u2014As we explore the meaning and value of diversity in America, WORLD Channel presents Stories from the Stage<\/em><\/strong>, a new series that illustrates the power of real stories told by both masterful and first-time multicultural storytellers. The first of its kind for WORLD Channel, each episode features storytelling to an audience, interviews with tellers before and after performances as well as comments, reactions and short stories from the audience. Stories from the Stage<\/em> premieres on October 9th<\/sup> at 9:30PM (check local listings<\/a>) with online streaming starting on October 10th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n
\r\n\r\nWORLD Premieres New Series Stories from the Stage<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nRevealing the Art of Storytelling to a Live Audience\r\n\r\nSeptember 7, 2017 (Boston, MA)<\/strong>\u2014As we explore the meaning and value of diversity in America, WORLD Channel presents Stories from the Stage<\/em><\/strong>, a new series that illustrates the power of real stories told by both masterful and first-time multicultural storytellers. The first of its kind for WORLD Channel, each episode features storytelling to an audience, interviews with tellers before and after performances as well as comments, reactions and short stories from the audience. Stories from the Stage<\/em> premieres on October 9th<\/sup> at 9:30PM (check local listings<\/a>) with online streaming starting on October 10th<\/sup>.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nStories from the Stage<\/em> will launch with 12 half-hour episodes, showcasing diverse storytellers and addressing universal themes in each episode, including \u201cLast Dance,\u201d \u201cFood Confessions,\u201d and \u201cHell or High Water.\u201d These storytellers from the U.S. and around the world reveal candid personal memories that connect with audiences across a wide range of human emotion and experiences:\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n \t