{"id":26549,"date":"2018-05-08T20:38:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=26549"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T10:13:34","slug":"actor-sam-mcgovern-talks-to-norma-burke-about-assassins-at-the-gate-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=26549","title":{"rendered":"Actor Sam McGovern talks to Norma Burke about ASSASSINS at the Gate Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26550\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sam-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sam-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sam-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sam-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sam-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sam-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sam-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sam-442x442.jpg 442w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sam.jpg 886w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sam McGovern is currently\u00a0starring in <em>ASSASSINS<\/em> on at the Gate Theatre until June 9th.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"select-event-desc\">The multiple Tony Award-winning\u00a0<em>ASSASSINS<\/em>\u00a0lays bare the lives of nine people who assassinated (or tried to assassinate) the President of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s most notorious assassins gather on stage to violently pursue a twisted American Dream\u2026 Stephen Sondheim\u2019s signature blend of intelligently stunning lyrics and beautiful music combine in this bold, original, disturbing, and alarmingly funny musical.<\/p>\n<p>Sam chatted to Norma Burke on The Arts Show about it. For more information and tickets visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatetheatre.ie\/production\/assassins\/\">The Gate website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3685\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SamMcGovernPodcast.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3685','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SamMcGovernPodcast.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SamMcGovernPodcast.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=26549-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SamMcGovernPodcast.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"SamMcGovernPodcast.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 5:42 &#8212; 5.2MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam McGovern is currently\u00a0starring in ASSASSINS on at the Gate Theatre until June 9th. The multiple Tony Award-winning\u00a0ASSASSINS\u00a0lays bare the lives of nine people who assassinated (or tried to assassinate) the President of the United States. The nation\u2019s most notorious assassins gather on stage to violently pursue a twisted American Dream\u2026 Stephen Sondheim\u2019s signature blend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3686\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SamMcGovernPodcast.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3686','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SamMcGovernPodcast.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SamMcGovernPodcast.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=26549-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/SamMcGovernPodcast.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"SamMcGovernPodcast.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 5:42 &#8212; 5.2MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-arts-show-arts-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26555,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26549\/revisions\/26555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}