Dr Lisa Donovan, co-director of the Berkshire Regional Arts Integration Network, discusses the work being done with support from the Arts Endowment to increase access to arts education equitably in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
Saheem Ali is Associate Artistic Director of The Public Theater as well as the director of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Fat Ham.” In this podcast, Ali talks about working with Fat Ham playwright James Ijames, his commitment to directing work, in...
In this 2021 interview, singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and artistic director of Silkroad Rhiannon Giddens talks about the Black roots of American music, excavating the past to bring forgotten music and stories forward, her opera Omar, and h...
In this podcast, Sonja Kostich and Stella Abrera—both Asian Americans, former dancers, and co-leaders of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park—talk about the organization and its 30-year history; Kaatsbaan’s singular role as both artistic incubator and arts presen...
In today’s podcast, I speak with U.S. Army veteran Jaymes Poling and jazz trumpeter Dominick Farinacci about creating and presenting Modern Warrior LIVE--a theatrical experience that mixes first-person narrative with music and multimedia to chronicl...
You may know Daniel K. Isaac as Ben Kim from the television series “Billions,” but he’s also a committed and talented actor in theater and an accomplished playwright. In this podcast, he talks about his career on the stage and the screen.
Peng Shepherd discusses her speculative mystery The Cartographers, her fascination with maps, her love of speculative fiction, and the challenges of writing “the second book.”
To kick off our celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we are revisiting two interviews with cultural powerhouses and 2011 National Heritage Fellows taiko drum leaders Roy and PJ Hirabayashi and slack gui...
We're celebrating poetry in this week's podcast. The first Latino and non-academic Poet Laureate of Kansas (and National Council on the Arts member) Huascar Medina reads from and talks about his poetry, making Kansas his home as a Latino poet, his de...
In this tuneful podcast, bassist Stanley Clarke talks about his long and storied career, including his musical partnerships with Chick Corea and their band Return to Forever, his solo career, his collaboration with George Duke, and his approach to wo...
This week, the podcast is divided into two parts with one subject—poetry. Part 1 is excerpts from my 2018 interview with poet Melissa Range while part 2 excerpts my 2021 interview with 2017-2019 US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. In this poetry-filled ...
In this podcast Terence Blanchard talks about bringing the sounds of blues and jazz to his opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones, his long collaboration with Spike Lee, and the joy of playing live with his group the E Collective.
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