{"id":27396,"date":"2012-02-03T11:21:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T18:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=27396"},"modified":"2012-02-03T11:21:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T18:21:54","slug":"pentagon-papers-the-play-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/02\/03\/pentagon-papers-the-play-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Papers: The Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/pentagonpapers_videos.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>With this year marking the 40th anniversary of the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon\u2019s resignation, writer-director J-Powers brings to the stage \u201cthe hidden story of the Vietnam War\u201d with his premiere of Pentagon Papers. Powers\u2019 fresh look at the U.S. involvement in the war beyond what was revealed in the courtroom draws from the recently declassified Pentagon Papers. Inspired by Daniel Ellsberg\u2019s belief that \u201cthe truth will set you free,\u201d Powers and his cast of actors seek to motivate a new generation of Americans to continue demanding \u201chonesty and transparency from leaders.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>On Friday February 3rd, 2012, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar, interviewed J-Powers, along with two of the Pentagon Papers&#8217; cast members, Mark Jacobson and Amanda Martindale. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ukAkQLCOLXc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pentagon Papers will play for eight weeks only, Sundays at 3:30, February 5 through March 25, 2012. Santa Monica Playhouse is located at 1211 4th Street Santa Monica, CA. For reservations and information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.SantaMonicaPlayhouse.com\">www.SantaMonicaPlayhouse.com<\/a> or call 310-394-9779 ext. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Martina Steiner recorded this interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this year marking the 40th anniversary of the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon\u2019s resignation, writer-director J-Powers brings to the stage \u201cthe hidden story of the Vietnam War\u201d with his premiere of Pentagon Papers. Powers\u2019 fresh look at the U.S. involvement in the war beyond what was revealed in the courtroom draws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}