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The Culture Show Podcast

A Boston-based podcast that thrives in how we live. What we like to see, watch, taste, hear, feel and talk about. It’s an expansive look at our society through art, culture and entertainment. It’s a conversation about the seminal moments and sizable shocks that are driving the daily discourse. We’ll amplify local creatives and explore the homegrown arts and culture landscape and tap into the big talent that tours Boston along the way.

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November 27, 2024 - Handel's Messiah, the Mayor's...

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2024/11/27

The Handel and Haydn Society has been performing Messiah every year since 1854. This year there’s a new component: Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen is introducing CitySing which unites 121 musicians on the Symphony Hall stage to perform Messiah November 29th through December 1st. He, along with Steven Marquardt, principal trumpet player, joined The Culture Show for a preview and performance.From there, culture show contributor Julia Swanson of The Art Walk Project, takes us on a tour of

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November 26, 2024 - Annette Gordon-Reed, Nantucket...

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2024/11/26

Annette Gordon-Reed is renowned for her groundbreaking work on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. She was the first Black person awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History. She was honored with MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, and won the National Book Award for “The Hemingses of Monticello.” Jared Bowen recently caught up with her to talk about her latest book, “On Juneteenth,” at the GBH studio at the Boston Public Library as part of Boston Speaker Series.Next, Nantucket has a history

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November 25, 2024 - Joyce Kulhawik and Pedro Alonzo

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2024/11/25

Today Culture Show contributor Joyce Kulhawik joins us for our recurring feature, Stage and Screen Time–a look at the latest movies and plays in theaters now. Joyce Kulhawik is an Emmy-award winning arts and entertainment reporter and president of the Boston Theatre Critics Association. You can find her reviews on Joyce’s Choices.From there, Culture Show contributor independent curator Pedro Alonzo joins The Culture Show to talk about Midnight Zone, his latest project, which is a solo

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November 22, 2024 - Week in Review: Wicked, Gladiator...

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2024/11/22

Today Culture Show co-hosts Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley and Edgar B. Herwick III go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture week-in-review.First up, Boston University suspends admissions its PhD programs in the humanities and social sciences.From there something to sing about, Charlestown Rehearsal Studios, home to hundreds of musicians, will stay open and operational And, something to not sing about, literally. AMC Theaters is warning moviegoers that singing along during the

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November 21, 2024 - Commonwealth Shakespeare...

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2024/11/21

Steven Maler, Founding Artistic Director of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, joins The Culture Show to talk about their upcoming production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” and how they hope this will become a new holiday tradition. The production is onstage December 8th through December 22nd at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre. It stars Will Lymon as Ebenezeer Scrooge, it’s directed by Steven Maler, and the adaptation is by Steve Wargo.From there filmmaker, author and

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November 20, 2024 - Gregory Maguire, David Waters and...

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2024/11/20

Something Wicked this way comes in many iterations. First, as the 1995 widely acclaimed book by Gregory Maguire, “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” then as an entire “Wicked” series, which Maguire has been authoring since 2003, with a forthcoming book to be published next year titled “Elphie: A Wicked Childhood.” Along the way “Wicked” has been adapted to a Tony-award winning musical, and this Friday, “Wicked,” the movie, will be in movie theaters

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November 19, 2024 - Renée Fleming and Patrick Radden...

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2024/11/19

The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Andris Nelsons will lead a program featuring world renowned soprano Renée Fleming and baritone Rod Gilfry in “The Brightness of Light” on November 21, 22 and 23. This BSO co-commission is a song cycle based on the letters between painter Georgia O’Keefe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz. It’s composed by Kevin Puts. The program also includes two pieces by Mozart, the overture to Die Entführung aus dem Serail and his Symphony No. 36, Linz. Renée Fleming

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November 18, 2024 - Orville Peck and the Actors...

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2024/11/18

Last month Orville Peck played to a sold out show in MGM’s Music Hall. Culture Show host and Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen caught up with him ahead of his performance to talk about his path to country music, what it’s like to be regarded as country music’s most mysterious outlaw and his latest album “Stampede,” which includes a duet with Willie Nelson about gay cowboy love.From there Christopher V. Edwars, Artistic Director at Actors’ Shakespeare Project and Director Regine Vital join

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November 15, 2024 - The Grammys, Roy Haynes, and The...

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2024/11/15

Today on The Culture Show, co-hosts Jared Bowen, Edgar B. Herwick III and Callie Crossley go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture week-in-review. First up: The Grammy nominations are out. They’ll go over the snoozers, snubs and surprises.From there they’ll remember Boston’s own jazz giant Roy Haynes. The pioneering drummer who earned the nickname "Snap Crackle" died this week at age 99. He was one of the last remaining musicians of jazz’s swing and bebop eras.Then, Simon and

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November 14, 2024 - Cillian Murphy, the Old North...

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2024/11/14

Fresh off his Best Actor Oscar win for Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy produces and stars in the quiet, contemplative, and powerful film “Small Things Like These.” Based on the book by Claire Keegan, “Small Things Like These” is set in 1985, in a small Irish village just before Christmas. The protagonist, Bill Furlong, played by Murphy, is a devoted husband and father to five daughters. A coal merchant, he spends his days hauling truckloads of coal around town. He’s well-liked, very kind and

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November 13, 2024 - Imari Paris Jeffries and Carmen...

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2024/11/13

Imari Paris Jeffries, President and CEO of Embrace Boston, joins The Culture Show to talk about his reflections on the 2024 election results. He also recaps Embrace Boston’s 2024 Arts and Culture Summit and he and Jared Bowen share their experiences of both being featured performers in the Huntington Theatre’s production of “Nassim.” From there, longtime journalist Carmen Fields joins us to talk about her new book, “Going Back to T-Town:The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band,” where she

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November 12, 2024 - National Museum of Women in the...

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2024/11/12

When it comes to art by women that museums acquire or exhibit, it’s still a fraction of the focus on male artists. The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. has long been trying to change that. Founded in 1987, it’s always been dedicated to the creativity and work of women. Now it’s celebrating a milestone renovation and expanded collection. Museum Director Susan Fisher Sterling joins me.From there things in Dorchester are getting more bookish. Boston’s Poet Laureate is

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November 11, 2024 - Charles Coe and Ken Field, Vinny...

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2024/11/11

Charles Coe’s Cricket Symphony is a new collection of poetry and music based on the poetry of award-winning African American writer and musician Charles Coe, with music including original compositions by Ken Field. They’ll perform tomorrow night at Arts at the Armory in Somerville. Charles Coe and Ken Field join The Culture Show with a preview and in studio performance. To keep abreast of upcoming Revolutionary Snake Ensemble performances, which includes one on November 23rd at Peabody

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November 8, 2024 - Week-in-Review: Quincy Jones,...

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2024/11/08

Today on The Culture Show co-hosts Callie Crossley, Jared Bowen and Edgar B. Herwick III go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture week-in-review.First up: Remembering Quincy Jones. He influenced popular music for half a century, producing the best selling album of all time: “Thriller.” He scored movie soundtracks, he produced television, launching Will Smith’s acting career with “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and he facilitated the greatest night in pop: producing “We Are the

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November 7, 2024 - November 7, 2024 - Ken Burns and...

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2024/11/07

The latest documentary film by Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband David McMahon is a portrait of an artist as a Renaissance man: Leonardo da Vinci. As the documentary, Leonardo da Vinci, illustrates, he was a man with infinite curiosity about the world and how it works. His passions and obsessions prompted him to study all manner of the world: from the human heart to the complexity of water; flying machines to weaponry. Through his paintings, drawings and writings, this

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November 6, 2024 - Susan Glisson and Tracy K. Smith

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2024/11/06

Historian Susan Glisson helps people reckon with the country's fraught racial history who sees the past not necessarily as an anchor but rather a buoy, as a navigational tool to point us toward a better way. She joins The Culture Show for her thoughts, and guidance on how to navigate the world post Election Day.She is the founder and president of the Glisson Group, a healing and equity consulting firm and founder and executive director of the Welcome Table Collaborative. She is a 2024

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November 5, 2024 - The BSO's Duke Ellington Tribute...

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2024/11/05

Thomas Wilkins, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s artistic partner for education and community engagement and vocalist Renese King join The Culture Show to talk about the BSO’s tribute to Duke Ellington concerts, which includes a free concert on Friday, November 8 at 7 p.m. The performance will take place at Boston’s Basilica in the Mission Hill neighborhood. The all-Duke Ellington program marks the 50th anniversary of Ellington’s death with a selection of the jazz great’s most seminal works,

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November 4, 2024 - The Ufot Family Cycle and Andre...

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2024/11/04

Growing up in Southbridge, Massachusetts the acclaimed playwright Mfoniso Udofia rarely saw stories about Africans and African Americans that felt true to her own family. Inspired in part by August Wilson’s Century Cycle, she set out to create a cycle of nine plays that follows one Nigerian American family through three generations. Titled the Ufot Family Cycle, all nine of those plays will be produced as part of a two-year city-wide festival in Greater Boston. Led by the Huntington

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November 1, 2024 - Week in Review: Martha Stewart,...

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2024/11/01

November 1, 2024 - Week in Review: Martha Stewart, Teri Garr, and Mariah Carey's early return

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October 31, 2024 - Secret Byrd, Night of the Living...

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2024/10/31

St. Paul’s Cathedral in Boston will transform into a clandestine location for six intimate performances October 31st through November 2nd, of Concert Theatre Works’ production of “Secret Byrd,” an immersive musical experience celebrating the music and activism of English Renaissance composer William Byrd. Presented by Revels, this is how Byrd intended for his Mass for 5 Voices to be sung- for worship and in strict secrecy. “Secret Byrd,” was created and directed by Bill Barclay, and

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