but you know that i got. this. we. welcome everybody watching the hawks i am tyrrel but and i'm having a while in the great white way broadway has always been a part place to fight diversity since most plays and musicals the make it there are centered on white people of a certain economic class however recently in the last decade we've seen more diverse productions or shows become resoundingly hits however despite these games it's still a very very white way on broadway tony award winning producer ron simons is working to change that he joined us earlier and we started by asking him how do we expand upon those successes to bring more diversity to broadway and the arts i think

a couple different ways i think one of the things that i'm involved with broadway league is i sit on the diversity committee but i sit on the diversity committee of just about every organization of which i'm a member. and one of the things we're trying to tackle is trying to get more people of color to come into the theater so they are first they are the patrons because you know broadway is not a cheap endeavor and the cost of it makes it. will for a good number of people particularly people of color so access is to theater is a big thing which is why many of us who really care about diversity we go outside the boundaries of broadway and you know we might go to schools or we'll invite schools in or and look for sponsors to sponsor kids to come in and see a show if you feel it's important enough the thing is that that's on an individual producer by producer basis so it's not an endeavor that the entire. community is

an undertaking it's a one off based on what the particular producer of that show wants to do because that's his or her option to decide so access is one thing and trying to get rush tickets and say enough good market so that you know people who have lower income can come in and see a show for twenty dollars a very limited number of seats of course hamilton has done that i'm sure you wear a number of shows have followed suit even before that as well and so then there's trying to get more people access to the theater and then. about the folks who actually decide which are the produce who are the producers what goes on the stage that's another know i'm trying to crack because i feel that it's very important that the people who decide what you're going to see on stage should be representative of the people you know that you are serving and in the past i think it's been the white people doing white shows for white people so it's ok

occasionally some shows of color but in this ever changing world of people who like me want to change that model we want to see more people of color telling stories from under-represented communities which is what simon says which is why our motto is tell every story. and we want to make sure that that that that that those ranks grow when i'm working on that for broadway for film moving into television hopefully i'll have a chance to have an impact there we'll see but. it's a difficult process particularly for broadway for going to stick with theater for a second because broadway producers. have to have access to either capital or people who have capital so by and large that means white people because most african-americans you know americans asian americans we come from humble beginnings not that you know our white colleagues don't but we don't typically have the same

rolodex so if you're trying to raise three and a half million dollars or ten million dollars or twenty five million dollars and you try to go to people to invest four hundred thousand dollars here and seven hundred thousand dollars there well you can ask your aunt and cousin and niece and nephew you have to have people who have high net worth and who have you know significant disposable incomes so part of my job as a producer of color is to increase my network on an ongoing basis to find not only people of color but anyone at all who cares about the kind of. stories that we want to tell. and in addition i part of my. five to try to do is i actually every year have a session for aspiring producers of color so there are people out there who want to produce but they have no idea we're dipping in they don't have any connections so it's a sort of a primer and as my career grows i hope i'll be able to expand that as well so that we can have more people longer sessions greater education networking possibilities

so they can meet other folks of high that work to get their shows made that's a really smart technique of doing that for you know the young producers out there and you know giving them those opportunities the chargers not will be available to them but a very very it was a really good good move on your part it's interesting to me because absolutely and it's very interesting to me because this is an issue that's strictly just a an american issue that you only see on broadway. foundation put out a study last year on diversity in british theatre whatever himself has said the industry is still as he puts it hideously weiss that's from andrew lloyd webber so do you think what he said in the study is that if the situation continues there's a real danger that not only will black and asian young people stay away from theatre as a profession they will stay away as customers and without them in the audience theatres will become unsustainable as they are forced to compete for

a dwindling aging white middle class audience and the broadway league reported that in the twenty fifteen twenty sixteen season seventy seven percent of ticket buyers were white. that's right. and in particular you know as a producer on broadway you have to take care of and acknowledge a very key demographic which are particularly white women between the ages of forty five and sixty five because they make up a large block of ticket buyers and for you to succeed on broadway before you become a brand like week you like hamilton. you know all the other brands you have to have the early feeder go worse who go to theater a lot to come in to sustain you until you can have the momentum in the marketing machine moves to get you know people from visiting aside from other cities or what have you who come to new york and say i want to see a show yeah i heard about it or heard about the jitney or whatever the thing is so yeah it's an ongoing challenge to to diversify audiences and i got to tell you

what you said is absolutely true about it not being just an american issue i was in germany huge in the documentary and i was working with a number of afro german performers and actors there and they are where we were in one thousand nine hundred sixty one which is to say that their national theater is theaters who get money from the government will not hire black people or people of color and less of that work particularly of classics calls for a person of color. because they feel that audiences this is the more artistic director said audiences won't accept a black person playing a role in shakespeare unless it's off you know i want to say that the theory that's been going on first so long i feel like especially with classics like shakespeare it's always that well and there's always a fellow and it's just it's heartbreaking it's like twenty years later after theatre school still hearing this same kind of rhetoric is always very strange

because truthfully some of the best shakespeare i've ever seen was done outside of sort of this idea what it's supposed to be i always say one of the best shakespeare as i ever saw was a south african theater group putting out and modern day of south africa and to me that's the celebration of theater and what it does i want to salute i want to this is i think it was all but you know. one of the reasons we don't have a lot of great art to bear is because it's too expensive to be a starving artist. especially in new york of us. if you're theater actor out there given the you know the cost of living and things like that how much does that kind of outside barriers whether political economical you know how much does that play a role in the creation of art today especially in the creation of diverse or especially in the art of you know you hope is going to speak to people who you know classes and cultures that are being systematically looked over or challenged by the

system. well i think that the creation of our is not the challenge because anyone with a pen and paper or a computer can write a play it's getting that work seen which is a challenge and in fact what you're asking about is the very reason why i became a producer because i'm an actor as well as a producer and when i got to new york i was just acting and so i met a lot of playwrights of color amazing gifted folks like dominic maurice and marcus gardley and ron a block of the list goes on and on and on and lynn nottage kotori hall and many of them were getting their work done in reading hell so they would have a twenty nine hour reading then they would have another reading then they would have a workshop and then they would have another workshop. and they were getting main stage they were actually moved into production and the things that i saw at the time that were getting greenlit and were on stage. there were some good things but

there was a lot of stuff that i wouldn't have even bothered to put my time into meanwhile these incredibly gifted artists are not getting produced so i decided that because of that i'm going to become a producer not have any idea what they do but i'm going from a comic producer so that i can help those kinds of stories being told but more to your point in terms of. actors in particular since that's the example you used it's tough in new york it's tough everywhere but because you know the county cost of living is so high here and there are so many actors and the competition is really fierce and what people often outside of the business don't appreciate is that there are a lot of actors but more importantly every year there's a whole new crop of actors that hit the scene and they're fresher faced in the last years and they're younger than the two year before and so it's an ongoing change and i remember when i graduated and came to new york to become an actor people told

me you know when you look forty or fifty years old are you going to work all the time. i might well geez face yeah i guess you know but a lot of people you know i have to say i know a bunch of friends who you know they worked at it for years and then they got to a certain age where they wanted to buy a house or they wanted to you know have kids and that's very challenging to do even with a working actor salary and you know i mean you can't have a middle of a real class or certainly middle class life in new york city with the kind of money that broadway pays so it's an ongoing challenge in a lot of people around my age you start to see them leaving the business because now they start to go and do something whether it's education or whether you know it's going into mainstream business and and because it's all about the economics really i take i definitely i thank you for the good work you're doing because you know to me that you know one of the great things about our is that our allows us to

not only you know celebrate our great triumphs but it also allows us to remember and learn from our great sorrows and when new communities that are being under represented in the artistic world then we're not paying attention to their celebrations or their sorrows and i really take my hat off to you for standing up and doing that thank you very much sir for the work that you're doing here. thank you i appreciate it thanks guys. as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we cover the facebook and twitter see our poll shows dot com coming up we preview sean storm's interview with anita baker executive director for the metro atlanta task force for the homeless and she will talk about the u.s. government's war against the poor stay tuned to watch fox. the

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goes it's garbage in real danger and you see. the. gentrification is one of the most polarizing issues of modern urban life we often hear sarcastic moans about the sounds and smells of real life being edged out by the smell of eight dollar cabbage you know concoctions and longtime locals being priced out by rooftop partying fros is superb but in atlanta georgia the issue is all too real for thousands of downtown homeless who rely on the one hundred thousand square foot peach tree pine shelter which apparently has no place in the modern glossy atlanta envisioned by real estate developers and local politicians not everyone is upset that since as curbed atlanta reports the closure will likely

be a boon to luxury leasing offices that have been popping up in the neighborhood and clearly peachtree pines fate isn't unique slate magazine just weeks ago a report on how the case is emblematic of the nationwide battle between the forces of gentrification and the homeless for some insight on the pro long legal battle over peach tree pine watching the hot shot stone sat down with executive director anita beatty here's a preview of their discussion. on a takes two and a half three maybe minimum wage jobs to afford housing just hood's fair fair housing. cost which is based on. fair not not area median income but fair market rent so we know what those costs are you have to the average two bedroom apartment in atlantic you have to earn eight thousand nine hundred dollars an hour to be able to afford it if as hud says you don't pay more than thirty percent of your income. so there's not that

opportunity so people get stuck in shelters and now the city is saying no more shelters the policy is no more shelters because they don't want homeless people you know out loose walking around and be invisible. but i don't know how that's going to work because really as we discussed i mean the point is unless you throw them in jails if you don't have to provide shelters for them you know they're where they can end up going. well we are fraid they will put them in jail except that they're on to some court orders now to keep the jails. at a balanced sensis they've always been a crowd it but what we know is people are you know the city has often used this threat of arrest or real. cyclical arrests to deter people from being homeless import some of the if we are to threaten you now for a rest you know if you go somewhere else to be poor and homeless not here so it

doesn't make any sense and for me selfish as i am having worked with the people i loved so much for thirty two years i know this is just it's absolutely ridiculous to make policies based on class race economic status gender choices that sort of thing it's ridiculous we have relationships and it's in those relationships that you see the the beauty of the humanity and the willingness to do whatever it takes to help run this community and that's what will be missing i think. and that breaks my heart. it's the end of the week cork watchers which reads a time for a weekly preview of our to use hit comedy news show redacted tonight. if you watch the hawks but stuart we're back to your to and i think you had better pay close attention to our following will be hawking their nights of redaction which will and

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footsteps so yes the abuse of riker's is very well known and guards have been convicted by the d.o.j. for beating inmates with excessive force there's been you know if you even kind of force your supporting players yeah. i don't know really so many. a little bit of choking you. i think yeah so. so activists are really angry at the blahs here who's been kind of the champion novell lot of progressive reforms in new york but this one. he seems to be tiptoeing back on and the plan is just relying on so many. so many other people really drastic reforms to have been with the criminal justice system and people are losing their patients because plenty of people's lives are ruined when they stay at rikers you've heard of browder who stayed for three years without

a trial for stealing a backpack and later took his own life after two years of coming back from rikers so it breaks a lot of people there's a lot of people in solitary confinement and it's just going to corrupt out of date institution that needs to go. and i did bring a clip so i'll stop talking. like this you're the d.o.j. charge right person island guard with beating and kept in me and stabbings and slashings are still on the rise despite millions of dollars spent on these conditions are so brutal that after an eight month stand right. little wayne. wrote . in gone so much that he said even considered converting to christianity while in rikers and started to think maybe i don't need some big booty bitches to be created right very little wayne spirit. in. this church is

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north korea launched another missile just before midnight friday that landed in the sea of japan according to japanese officials authorities believe it crashed down in japan's exclusive economic zone though not in its territorial waters but was still within a few hundred miles of the coast this test comes the same day japan blacklisted two chinese companies for their connections with pyongyang the japanese foreign minister said the companies will be subject to asset freezing and other punishments a way to continue applying pressure on north korea and its nuclear drive one of the organizations is china's bank of don dong which the u.s. is also saying and japan in the u.s. have accused the bank of money laundering for kim jong un's nuclear and missile programs japan imposed the same sions expecting an.