# Kevin Ray on the Rot in American Theater

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-radicalist-6700506/kevin-ray-on-the-rot-in-american-theater
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-radicalist-6700506/kevin-ray-on-the-rot-in-american-theater.md
Podcast: [The Radicalist](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-radicalist-6700506)
Published: 2025-05-12T13:12:57+00:00
Episode link: https://www.theradicalist.com/p/kevin-ray-on-the-rot-in-american
Audio file: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/163247853/21a24e6c496234b13b4f2942fc56ce34.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-radicalist-6700506/episodes/kevin-ray-on-the-rot-in-american-theater
Duration seconds: 2851

## Resource

David Volodzko talks to former guest Kevin Ray about a disturbing experience he recently had on the New York subway, the pathology of woke activism, its influence in the arts and why things are getting worse rather than better, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We , his experience with compelled speech, and the effort to turn educators into activist therapists. Kevin Ray is a New York City theater director with over 20 years of experience as an arts educator. He produced and directed “ Unearthly Visitants ,” based on ghost stories by Edith Wharton, “ The Machine Stops ,” from EM Forster’s short story, and “ We ,” from Russian dissident Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian science-fiction novel. You can find more on his website or find him on Instagram , YouTube and Facebook . The Radicalist is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theradicalist.com/subscribe

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-radicalist-6700506/episodes/kevin-ray-on-the-rot-in-american-theater/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-radicalist-6700506/kevin-ray-on-the-rot-in-american-theater.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.