one thing that happened was steven anthony jones helped me a great deal with the african american character. we took it to sundance and what happens when you go to sundance is you bring some actors and some are given to you. i hadn't worked with the actors who we teamed up with at sundance, both excellent actors but people we didn't know so we didn't have a working relationship. there were moments where we worked where i could tell that the fellow, in particular, wasn't happy with his character because i had him standing there while the african american character went on and on. finally he said, phillip, i would not stand there and take that crap. the moment he opened his mouth, i would say stop. okay. so it wasn't contentious but what it was that area of discomfort. racial politics are very tricky this day and age and if you want to really address certain things, you have to go to that area of discomfort and you have to go to the area beyond discomfort of being slightly offensive of each other. as long as you are in a context of trust and say this is an art piece we are working on, we are

. >> steven anthony jones is known as an actor, now, he's the executive director.t's a theater focuses on african american and multi cull trap play wrights. >> i call it doing plays of who we are all are. >> so it is named after a play wright of the raisin in the sun. this is one of the longest running african american theaters in the country. they were forced out of the old theater and co-founder and director died. and there is a a few your production called free choice this, company after being left homeless found a new theater. and it suits their production, ideally. they're changing it into an intimate theater. >> we've cleared the hurdle. yes. very important. so now, we need to address of course issues of money. >> the other is award winning day of absence by douglas turner ward. >> he said we should use this path to illuminate the present. >> that is about a new era. >> we're now in the process of creating the next 30 year autos in san francisco, abc 7 news. >> and raider goesing on offensive to help their defense. coming up next, a former number one draft pi

. >> steven anthony jones is known to bay area audiences as an actor at act.arry executive director. >> i call it doing plays about who we all really are. >> it is named after the playwright of a raisin in the sun. she wrote it while living in the bay area. the hansberry is one of the longest african-american theaters in the country. they have had rough times. they were forced out of their old theatre and then their cofounder and director died. >> the future is called rejoice and that might be the appropriate word here. this company, after being left homeless for a couple of years, has found a new theatre at 450 post, and it suits their productions ideally. >> they are changing their new home into a 400 feet intimate theatre. >> we've cleared that hurdle. it's very important. so now we need to address, of course, issues of money. >> the other play they are doing is the award winning "day of absence" by african-american theatre legend douglas ward. >> he said we should use the past to illuminate the present. >> that is about a new era for this company. >> we ar

. >> steven anthony jones is known to bay area audiences as an actor at a.c.t.ansbarry executive director. it is a theatre that focuses on african-american and multi-cultural playwrights. >> i call it doing plays about who we all really are. >> it is named after the playwright of "a raisin in the sun." she wrote it while living in the bay area. the hansbarry is one of the longest-running african-american theaters in the country. they have had rough times. they were forced out of their old theatre and then their cofounder and director died. >> the future is called rejoice, and that might be the appropriate word here. this company, after being left homeless for a couple of years, has found a new theatre at 450 post, and it suits their productions ideally. >> they are changing their new home into a 400 feet intimate theatre. >> we've cleared that hurdle. it's very important. so now we need to address, of course, issues of money. >> the other play they are doing is the award winning "day of absence" by african-american theatre legend douglas ward. >> he said we shou

he follows in the footsteps of carol browner, anthony van jones, who also supported increasing taxes on america's energy, as well as energy secretary steven chu. you remember steven chu, the president's energy, who said, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels of the price in europe." that's about $8 a gallon. so it's the intention of this administration to race gas prices to either reduce -- force them into some other type of energy or to -- or to stop people from having the freedom of driving, as we always have in this country. but that was the energy secretary who said that we've got to bring our price of gasoline at the pumps up to that in the -- of europe. then we had also allen krueger. allen krueger is the -- has been nominated by president obama to be the chairman of the council of economic advicers -- advisors, as yet another example. and during his time at the department of treasury under president obama, mr. krueger made it clear his opposition to the development of traditional domestic energy. he even went so far as to say -- and i'm quoting now -- "the administration believes that it is no longe