L.A. Theatre Works On the Air: THE WATTS TOWERS PROJECT

Written and performed by Roger Guenveur Smith

Thursday, 6/20/13, from 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

The Watts Towers Project is Roger Guenveur Smith’s spellbinding memory play on the building of the Los Angeles landmark. In our story this week, Smith scavenges his own one-man history of the Watts Towers from the cultural materials of his youth. The Watts Towers Project is written and performed by Roger Guenveur Smith.

Simon Templeman stars in “Breaking the Code”

(available online one week only at www.latw.org)

L.A. Theatre Works’ Radio Theatre Series will air Breaking the Code, written by Hugh Whitemore, directed by Rosalind Ayres and starring Simon Templeman. It will be streamed on demand at www.latw.org.

English mathematician Alan Turing, one of the fathers of computer science, broke the German Enigma code and helped win World War II — only to learn that his country cared less about his genius than about his sexual orientation.