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Go below decks with "Ship" at Live Theater Workshop, a quirky new play about a young woman charting a course to adulthood.

Also on Arizona Spotlight: "Weekend Edition Sunday" host Ayesha Rascoe on the current reality facing NPR; and storyteller Sharon Wysocki tells how her art project went viral way back in the '90s. by Mark McLemore

LTW ship hero 2 What's in the box? You wouldn't believe it if I told you. The three actor cast of Live Theater Workshop's "Ship", left to right: Allison Akmajian, Alexandra Kaplan and Rayce Morland.
courtesy LTW / Dan Quinones

Featured on the August 21st, 2025 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:

Arizona Spotlight

August 21, 2025

NPR
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  • Mark talks with NPR’s [“Weekend Edition Sunday”https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/) host and former NPR White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe about the future of public broadcasting amid budget cuts, and the unexpected places her career has taken her.

ayesha rascoe Ayesha Rascoe was named host of NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday" in 2022.
courtesy NPR / Allison Shelley

hbcu made cover unsized VIEW LARGER Howard University graduate Ayesha Rascoe is the editor of the 2024 essay compilation "HBCU Made".
  • Meet director Samantha Cormier and lead actor Alexandra Kaplan of Live Theater Workshop’s production “Ship”. The play tells an unusual tale about a young woman’s journey to find herself using "The Guinness Book of World Records" like a self-help guide, and her obsessive interest in a boy from high school who once tried to grow the longest fingernails in the world. The play is performed on weekends through

LTW ship hero 3 Sisters getting to know each other again after time spent apart. Alexandra Kaplan and Allison Akmajian in Live Theater Workshop's "Ship".
courtesy LTW / Dan Quinones

LTW ship poster unsized VIEW LARGER Live Theater Workshop presents "Ship" in August of 2025.
courtesy Live Theater Workshop

samantha cormier hero Samantha Cormier is a frequent performer at Live Theater Workshop, including being the director of "Ship".
courtesy Live Theater Workshop

  • And, in this month’s “Storyteller” segment, artist, activist and actor Sharon Wysocki tells the story of how her art project about banned books went viral back in the mid-1990s, and gave her what she calls her “ten minutes of fame”.
Storyteller Sharon Wysocki 1 VIEW LARGER Actor & artist Sharon Wsocki continues to live a very interesting life.
Sharon Wysocki
Storyteller Sharon Wysocki 2 VIEW LARGER Sharon Wysocki starred as Mommie in director Carolyn Cavallero's 2024 film "Time of the Witch".
Sharon Wysocki
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