16 episodes

Every story is a crossroads. A diverse company of Chicago artists produces new audio dramas—recorded live—and stages freewheeling audience conversations about them. Led by Founder and Executive Producer Jeremy McCarter, Make-Believe shares suspenseful, moving, hilarious stories, and tries to discover how they shape our world.

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    • 4.7 • 47 Ratings

Every story is a crossroads. A diverse company of Chicago artists produces new audio dramas—recorded live—and stages freewheeling audience conversations about them. Led by Founder and Executive Producer Jeremy McCarter, Make-Believe shares suspenseful, moving, hilarious stories, and tries to discover how they shape our world.

    Listening to Lake Song

    Listening to Lake Song

    LAKE SONG makes its debut today on the Tribeca Audio Premieres podcast! Listen here.
    Starting on October 13, listen to LAKE SONG on its own podcast feed.
    Available everywhere, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and on the web at lakesong.fm.
    Follow or subscribe to LAKE SONG to hear new episodes as they appear each week.

    • 2 min
    Trailer 2: Chicago Poets--Past, Present, Future

    Trailer 2: Chicago Poets--Past, Present, Future

    Lake Song co-creator Nate Marshall talks about what Chicago poets have always done. . . and what they're *going* to do.
    Lake Song, the epic new audio-drama series from Make-Believe Association, will debut October 12 as an official selection of Tribeca Audio.
    For more, visit lakesong.fm.

    • 3 min
    Trailer: Lake Song

    Trailer: Lake Song

    OFFICIAL SELECTION - Tribeca Festival Audio Premieres. It's 2098 and the Republic of Chicago has what the world needs: fresh water. But with new opportunities come new threats, especially for a pair of siblings on the South Side. Can the people come together to save their city--and each other?
    LAKE SONG is the joint creation of seven multidisciplinary Chicagoans. Combining sci-fi and music, politics and poetry, it's a collective response to our times, and a shared dream of our future.
    Go to the new LAKE SONG feed to subscribe. Coming in mid-October.

    • 1 min
    Our Decameron: Shakespeare in Utopia

    Our Decameron: Shakespeare in Utopia

    Following the cancellation of Shakespeare in the Park, Oskar Eustis talks about a utopian story in one of Shakespeare's plays. A practical guide to what a vision of the future can do--and what it can't.
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    Hosted by Jeremy McCarter
    Music, mixing, and mastering by Mikhail Fiksel
    Graphics and social media by Carly Pearlman
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    Share Make-Believe on social media:
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/MakeBelieveFM
    IG: https://www.instagram.com/makebelievefm/
    FB: https://www.facebook.com/makebelieveassociation/
     

    • 35 min
    Our Decameron: Lorraine Hansberry at the End of the World

    Our Decameron: Lorraine Hansberry at the End of the World

    Can a new society arise from a cataclysm? Does humanity deserve a second chance? Chicago author and journalist Natalie Moore joins a virtual audience to explore utopia, dystopia, and the radical imagination while discussing the great Chicago dramatist's "What Use Are Flowers?".
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    Listen to Lorraine Hansberry’s What Use Are Flowers?:
    https://makebelieve.fm/flowers
     
    Listen to Natalie Moore and Jeremy McCarter’s City on Fire: Chicago Race Riot 1919:
    https://makebelieve.fm/city-on-fire
     
    Credits for this episode:
    Hosted by Jeremy McCarter
    Music, mixing, and mastering by Mikhail Fiksel
    Graphics and social media by Carly Pearlman
     
    Credits for What Use Are Flowers?:
    Directed by Daniel Kyri
    Music by Mikhail Fiksel
    Sound by Erisa Apantaku and Mikhail Fiksel
    Production manager - Madeleine Borg
    Stage manager - JC Widman
     
    Cast:
    Hermit – Billy Branch
    Charlie – Daniel Kyri
    Lily – Khloe Janel
    William – Tevion Lanier
    Narration read by Kiayla Ryann
     
    Thank you to the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust for allowing us to produce the audio drama; and to the Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation and the Poetry Foundation for making season one possible

    • 39 min
    Our Decameron: The Tortoise, the Hare, and Will Leitch

    Our Decameron: The Tortoise, the Hare, and Will Leitch

    To tide us over until baseball returns, sportswriter Will Leitch breaks down the most famous athletic contest of all time, and a lively virtual audience debates its moral today.
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    Subscribe to Will Leitch's newsletter:
    https://tinyletter.com/williamfleitch
    Consider an actual tortoise vs. an actual hare:
    https://metro.co.uk/2016/10/15/someone-staged-an-actual-race-between-a-rabbit-and-a-tortoise-6194091/
    Hosted by Jeremy McCarter
    Music, mixing, and mastering by Mikhail Fiksel
    Graphics and social media by Carly Pearlman

    • 39 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
47 Ratings

47 Ratings

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Opens Your Eyes

Incredible storytelling with narratives hard to find anywhere else.

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SO GREAT!

This pod is amazing-SO glad I found it!

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