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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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April 9, 2024

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2024/04/09

Anthony Rapp, the actor and singer, went from being a Starbucks Barista to a Broadway star by way of the hit musical “Rent.” But, his meteoric rise was tempered by the death of Jonathan Larson, “Rent’s” 35-year-old composer and librettist who had an aortic aneurysm on the eve of the show’s debut. Then, a year later, he lost his mother to cancer.These seminal events are the making of Rapp’s one-man-show, “Without You.”Then, it’s the one-man media conglomerate: Matt Farley. For him quality IS

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April 8, 2024

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2024/04/08

In 1970, when Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Company” first opened on Broadway, his main character Bobby was a 35-year old unmarried man, whose paired-up friends were pressuring him to leave his bachelor days behind.A few years ago Tony-award winning director Marianne Elliott ran with a revelation: to reverse genders and have the main character, Bobbie…be a woman. It was a eureka moment that earned her another Tony.Now “Company,” is onstage by way of Broadway in Boston. Marianne Eliott joins

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April 5, 2024 - Week in Review: Lizzo, Women's March...

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2024/04/05

Live from the GBH studio at the Boston Public Library, it’s our arts and culture week in review. First up, A Tik Toker’s hot take lands her in hot water for saying that SNL has never hired a – you guessed it–hot woman. From there, pop star Lizzo- gives new meaning to “quitting while you’re ahead,” And when it comes to the NCAA, there’s no denying that these women ARE hot–a hot ticket that is, literally –with the price of women’s final four tickets far outpricing the men’s. And from

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April 4, 2024 - AI Art, the Eclipse in Vermont, and...

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2024/04/04

In creative circles, there are artists who worry that Artificial Intelligence could replace them. Not roboticist and artist Alexander Reben– he’s entered the belly of the beast as the first artist-in-resident at Open AI. He joins us to talk about collaborating with AI–not being replaced by it. From there it’s total windfall. New England towns in the path of totality are experiencing a tourism boom. Edgar B Herwick III joins us fresh from St. Johnsbury, Vermont to talk about how the town

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April 3, 2024 - Jeff Beal, James Brown in Boston, and...

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2024/04/03

The Emmy award-winning composer Jeff Beal. You might not know it, but you’ve heard his work. He gave us the theme song to “House of Cards,” which became an anthem for power and corruption. He added even more splashes of color to the Oscar-winning film Pollock. Now his work brings him to Boston, to lead the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra in an upcoming concert. From there, when music saved Boston. We get a preview of a James Brown tribute concert, marking the anniversary of the night the

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April 2, 2024

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2024/04/02

Comedian and actor Chris Fleming. He has a comedy special streaming on Peacock, a YouTube Channel with a cult following and he’s selling out comedy venues – but he’s far from selling out. As someone who has built a following playing the oddball, his absurdist comedy can’t be corrupted by success—he’ll be the first to tell you that it lives outside of the standards that come with standup. Ahead of his show at the Wilbur, the Massachusetts native joins us. In January we were joined by Amanda

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April 1, 2024 - Padma Lakshmi and Muppets in Moscow

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2024/04/01

Padma Lakshmi. She’s been on a quest to learn how food is entwined with our history and culture. From inviting us into her kitchen, to entering the kitchens of others. The through-line in all she’s done in her career is making people feel known – and feel at home. To honor this work,Boston University is presenting her with its ICON award. She joins us ahead of her visit to BU. And, In her book Muppets in Moscow, Natasha Lance Rogoff pulls back the iron curtain on what it was like to work

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March 29, 2024

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2024/03/29

Live from the Boston Public Library, it’s our arts and culture week in review.Beyonce gives new meaning to “Midnight Cowboy,” dropping her much-anticipated country album “Cowboy Carter” today at 12:00 AM. From there music mogul Sean Combs has been accused of sexual assault by multiple people, prompting Federal agents to raid his homes. Is this even more of a signal that people with money, power, and fame are no longer above the law? Then, it’s the kind of comeback that you only see

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March 28, 2024

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2024/03/28

The street artist Shephard Fairey officially crossed the threshold into fine art with his first museum exhibition–right here at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Curated by Culture Show contributor Pedro Alonzo, that exhibition happened 15 years ago. What did it mean for Fairey’s street cred? What trails did he blaze? Pedro Alonzo joins us to talk about about Shepard Fairey’s legacy and where street art lives today along the spectrum of counter-culture, conventional and

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March 27, 2024

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2024/03/27

He contains multitudes: an actor, singer, writer– a bon vivant with boundless energy. That would be the Tony-Award winning Alan Cumming. It’s impossible to typecast him: from performing Macbeth to Miley Cyrus. To starring on network television by way of The Good Wife, populating public Television as the host of our own Masterpiece Mystery. And now he’s the saucy star of streaming–on Peacock, hosting and producing the reality TV series, “The Traitors.” However, he is not a traitor to

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March 26, 2024

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2024/03/26

Sarah and Angelina Grimke are admired in American history for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in the south to become activists in the North. Their pamphlets evangelizing anti-slavery were among the most influential of the antebellum era. They are still read today. What also endures was an omission from the Grimkes’ family portrait: their Black relatives. That was until Tufts University history professor Kerri Greenidge made a course correction with her book "The Grimkes,"

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March 25, 2024

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2024/03/25

Today on The Culture Show: Lights. Camera. Action. This Wednesday the Coolidge Corner Theatre is opening its new 14,000 square foot addition to the public. After Fifteen years of planning, 10 years of fundraising and two years of construction, this is a mega makeover with a renovated lobby, two state-of-the-art theaters and a refurbished concession stand. At a time when other movie theaters are struggling, the Coolidge is having the kind of comeback you only see in the movies. Katherine

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March 22, 2024

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2024/03/22

First up, we mark the 34th anniversary of the Gardner Museum theft. It’s the ultimate whodunnit in the world of art heists, with the stolen works valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. AND, with a 10 million dollar reward on the table, the tip hotline never goes cold. Then, in the land down under, women rule and men’s egos are torn asunder–at least one man felt diminished when he was denied entry to the women’s-only Ladies Lounge, an art exhibition designed to highlight centuries

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March 21, 2024 - Message in a Bottle, living with...

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2024/03/21

What happens when you mix Sting’s greatest hits with the power of hip-hop dance? You get “Message in a Bottle.” It’s a fusion dreamed up by Kate Prince, one of England’s most acclaimed choreographers…resulting in a production that addresses the international refugee crisis. And told from the point of view of a family displaced by civil war. Prince joins us ahead of the show’s New England premiere discussing what inspired her to weave Sting’s songbook into a high-voltage show. From

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March 20, 2024

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2024/03/20

Growing up in Venezuela, artist Miguel Braceli could not express queer love. Today he’s in Provincetown, wrapping up an artist residency program at the Fine Arts Work Center and he’s working to put queer love on the map. Literally. As part of his multi-pronged art project, Braceli has been crowdsourcing stories about finding love in P-Town…using people’s recollections to create a large-scale art installation titled “Map of Love.” He’ll unveil it this weekend…along with a parade of

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March 19, 2024 - Cost of Living, Dill, and Historic...

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2024/03/19

In the play “Cost of Living,” now onstage in Boston, four characters find themselves isolated from society–cut off by poverty, by physical disabilities and by an armor of defensiveness that makes the cost of living exponentially more exacting. It’s a soul-stirring play that explores the longing for human connection. I’ll be sitting down with two of the show’s stars. From there it’s two takes on American history: First, a preview of an immersive experience that takes us into the world of

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March 18, 2024

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2024/03/18

August Wilson’s monumental Century Cycle is a collection of 10 dramas chronicling the black experience in America, one set during each decade of the 20th century. King Hedley II, number nine in the series, is a powerful, gritty and gripping play about an ex-convict trying to rebuild himself and his community all the while the ghosts of the past haunt him. Actor Naheem Garcia, stars in the play as Elmore. As he’ll explain, playing the role is unfinished business. We’ll talk to him about

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March 15, 2024

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2024/03/15

Coming up, it’s our arts and culture Week in Review.First up, could Governor Healey be giving new meaning to Taxachusetts? By proposing a live theater tax credit the Bay State could become a breeding ground for Broadway. From there, can you really turn the clock back on TikTok? Even if the US Government bans the social media platform, we’ll look at how TikTok has been THE ultimate influencer. Changing the way people–and sometimes their pets– get famous, get our news, make money, and

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March 14, 2024 - Kneecap, Katherine Goforth, and Pi Day

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2024/03/14

Vocalist Katherine Goforth. When she came out as a transgender woman and transitioned, she wasn’t sure if she would ever work in opera again. Opera can be conventional and conservative and gender roles are traditionally defined by the performer’s voice. So what does it mean to be a female tenor who wants to play female roles? Having found her voice, that’s what Katherine Goforth is finding out. And along the way she’s showing other vocalists what it means to be authentic onstage and

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March 13, 2024 - Traveling while blind, Ronan Noone,...

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2024/03/13

What is it like to travel the world as a blind person–navigating different cultures, traditions and transportation systems? That’s what Dr. Mona Minkara explores in her travel documentary series, “Planes, Trains and Canes.” After losing her sight, Minkara came to believe that vision is more than sight. And her vision has been to reimagine the travel show by highlighting stories of people who have disabilities. From there playwright Ronán Noone shows us how the other half lives–or

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