{"id":271570,"date":"2026-08-24T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271570\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T23:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:52:10","slug":"quiet-machinery-of-institutional-failure-with-m-m-haney-and-lee-sunday-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271570\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Quiet Machinery of Institutional Failure&#8221; with M.M. Haney and Lee Sunday Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Scuffle looks at the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/touchstone.org\/events\/the-poisoner\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Touchstone Theatre debut<\/a> of the neo-noir thriller play The Poisoner with playwright M.M. Haney and director Lee Sunday Evans. The play, inspired by the Flint water crisis, follows a journalist who returns to his hometown and uncovers a story of power, democracy, and corporate influence that resonates far beyond Flint, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Haney and Evans share how Michigan&#8217;s labor history ties into the play and talk about theatre&#8217;s unique ability to wrestle with hard truths. They also talk about the seven-city tour that kicks off at Touchstone Theatre, all focused around a goal of bridging divides and renewing civic engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in to Lehigh Valley Arts Salon\u00a0every Monday from 6:00 to 6:30 PM following All Things Considered.<\/p>\n<p>(Original air-date: 8\/24\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate Scuffle looks at the upcoming Touchstone Theatre debut of the neo-noir thriller play The Poisoner with playwright&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-271570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}