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Live from Mount Olympus, the award-winning podcast by the Onassis Foundation, Prx and the Team, for kids and families weaves timeless Greek myths created through the artistry of contemporary theater-makers and told through the imaginative power of audio, launches season four today.
The podcast is available free on-demand on all major podcast platforms. Tony-, Emmy-, and Grammy-Award winner André De Shields returns as Hermes, host of this “GodsPod,” to tell the story of an unlikely friendship between Zeus and the young Titan Prometheus, played by Ato Blankson-Wood. New episodes will drop every Tuesday for five episodes and will then resume with a different myth for part two in October 2024.
The first three seasons of this lively, engaging podcast have been downloaded more than a million times. Now, Live from Mount Olympus Prometheus brings listeners a fast-paced adventure about a god with an unusual gift. Though Prometheus can see the future,...
The podcast is available free on-demand on all major podcast platforms. Tony-, Emmy-, and Grammy-Award winner André De Shields returns as Hermes, host of this “GodsPod,” to tell the story of an unlikely friendship between Zeus and the young Titan Prometheus, played by Ato Blankson-Wood. New episodes will drop every Tuesday for five episodes and will then resume with a different myth for part two in October 2024.
The first three seasons of this lively, engaging podcast have been downloaded more than a million times. Now, Live from Mount Olympus Prometheus brings listeners a fast-paced adventure about a god with an unusual gift. Though Prometheus can see the future,...
- 4/9/2024
- Podnews.net
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Exclusive: Scripted podcast Live from Mount Olympus has added John Turturro to its cast.
The series, which was created by Julie Burstein and comes from the Onassis Foundation and Prx, tells the stories of stories of Greek myths.
The season will dramatize the story of Atalanta, who is abandoned at birth in the deep forest, where all expect her to perish. Instead, she’s adopted by a mama bear, who raises her as her own. As Atalanta grows, she knows she is loved but senses that she is different—she doesn’t look like her brother and sister, she runs on two legs faster than they can on four, she has no fur of her own. But if she’s not a bear, then what is she?
Artemis teaches the bear girl how to hunt, Athena teaches her the finer points of human society, and Atalanta becomes a skilled archer,...
The series, which was created by Julie Burstein and comes from the Onassis Foundation and Prx, tells the stories of stories of Greek myths.
The season will dramatize the story of Atalanta, who is abandoned at birth in the deep forest, where all expect her to perish. Instead, she’s adopted by a mama bear, who raises her as her own. As Atalanta grows, she knows she is loved but senses that she is different—she doesn’t look like her brother and sister, she runs on two legs faster than they can on four, she has no fur of her own. But if she’s not a bear, then what is she?
Artemis teaches the bear girl how to hunt, Athena teaches her the finer points of human society, and Atalanta becomes a skilled archer,...
- 4/11/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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Exclusive: Tony-winner Rachel Chavkin is behind a new tween-aimed podcast series based on Greek myths.
Live from Mount Olympus is co-directed by Chavkin (Hadestown) and Zhailon Levingston, who currently serves as the Resident Director for Broadway’s Tina: The Tina Turner Musical and hosted by Broadway’s Hadestown star André De Shields.
The series comes from The Onassis Foundation and Trax from Prx, the podcast network that is run by the This American Life radio distributor and cast members of Broadway troupe Team.
When young Perseus, voiced by actor Divine Garland, makes a rash promise to save his mother from the clutches of an evil king, he has to strike out on a dangerous quest. Hermes, god of luck and thieves, voiced by De Shields, narrates this tale of terrifying monsters, powerful gods, and a brave girl who will changes Perseus’ life forever.
The six-part series also features Vinie Burrows,...
Live from Mount Olympus is co-directed by Chavkin (Hadestown) and Zhailon Levingston, who currently serves as the Resident Director for Broadway’s Tina: The Tina Turner Musical and hosted by Broadway’s Hadestown star André De Shields.
The series comes from The Onassis Foundation and Trax from Prx, the podcast network that is run by the This American Life radio distributor and cast members of Broadway troupe Team.
When young Perseus, voiced by actor Divine Garland, makes a rash promise to save his mother from the clutches of an evil king, he has to strike out on a dangerous quest. Hermes, god of luck and thieves, voiced by De Shields, narrates this tale of terrifying monsters, powerful gods, and a brave girl who will changes Perseus’ life forever.
The six-part series also features Vinie Burrows,...
- 1/26/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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