City Lights with Lois Reitzes

When you go to the movie theater, you might see a film that went through dozens of rounds of focus groups, cost tens of millions (or hundreds of millions) of dollars to make and spent a year in post-production.

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Or, you might see a film with a much more modest budget, made with a crew of less than 50 and one camera. These are just some of differences between an independent film and one made with a major film studio like Columbia Pictures and 20th Century Fox.

Found Stages is exactly what it sounds like. The roving theater company takes theater off the stage and into untraditional spaces.

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Monday on "City Lights with Lois Reitzes":

Charlotte the spider and Wilbur the pig are classic characters in the classic story of friendship: E.B. White’s children’s novel “Charlotte’s Web.”

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The book came out in 1952, and since then has been adapted into films, a musical, a video game and, also, a puppet show.

The Center for Puppetry Arts opens “Charlotte’s Web” next week. "City Lights" host Lois Reitzes spoke with puppeteers Amy Sweeney and Nikolas Carleo about the production and White’s enduring story.

Raised in a joke-cracking family, Dulcé Sloan was introduced to standup comedy at the Laughing Skull Lounge in Atlanta. She also attributes the Laughing Skull as the place where she honed her craft, which just landed her as the newest correspondent on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.”

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She made her debut last week and spoke with "City Lights" host Lois Reitzes about what she has planned for her time on the show.