Radio Theatre

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Conversations about theatre ... on the radio.

Conversations about theatre ... on the radio.


81 Pieces

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You know that anxiety dream where you're on stage (sometimes naked) and you've got no script, no lines memorized - nothing? The improv actors of R...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:28
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Brian Matuszak may still be found lurking around Northland back stages ... but he's not waiting for his cue any longer.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 06:42
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Crystal Pelkey, the producing director for The Underground, joins us to talk about their upcoming season (including the third season of Take It Wit...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2016
  • Length: 04:59
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The start of a new year can be exciting - but the UWS Theatre Department is exploding out of the gate with plans for a musical (SUDS: The Rocking '...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
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Robert Lee has the challenge of bringing the world of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach to life (complete with human-sized bugs and a house-si...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 05:57
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We take a look at the theatre curriculum at the College of St. Scholastica, and in the process, learn about the difference between drama and theatr...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 06:45
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Tony Tracy whiles away the long winter at the Douglas County Historical Society catching up on the maintenance and work from the busy summer ... bu...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2016
  • Length: 08:24
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Christine Seitz of the Duluth Playhouse on the adventure that is tech rehearsal.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2016
  • Length: 09:14
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Set designer Ann Gumpper on the challenges of set design, particularly for opera.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2016
  • Length: 08:30
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We talk with Rebecca Katz Harwood, Associate Professor in the UMD Department of Theatre about adaptation, transforming a story originally in anothe...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2016
  • Length: 16:36
Caption: Duluth Mayor Emily Larson, Credit: ©lisa johnson/Thorsburg Photography
Brian Matuszak, the founder and leading (lime) light of Rubber Chicken Theater may have stepped off the stage as an actor, but he's stepping out - ...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 09:52
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If you're a theater company looking for a permanent space - and the money to acquire one - what do you do?

  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 05:13
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Fresh off their triumph with Spoon River this fall, UMD students and four staff members, including director Tom Isbell, journied to Paris as part o...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 07:25
Caption:  Cathy Berggren in "Motherhood Out Loud" at The Underground , Credit: Credit ©Nicole Modeen Photography
Crystal Pelkey is a playwright, performer, director - she's even been a guest honoree in KUMD's Women's History Month episodes.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 06:35
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Director Kelly Mullen takes us behind the scenes of Boy Gets Girl, the next production of the St. Scholastica Theater Department.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 07:50
Caption: Jessica Michna as Eleanor Roosevelt, Credit: Jessica Michna
How do you successfully marry history and theater?

  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 07:01
Caption: Shad Olsen, Credit: ©Taylor Hooper
Shad Olsen left the Northland at 18, bound for the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and the bright lights of the Big Apple . Sixteen years la...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2016
  • Length: 06:52
Caption: "Screen" shot - literally - at the State Theater in Traverse City, MI Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky as Queen Elizabeth and tenor Matthew Polenzani as Devereux
When KUMD's Northland Morning host attended a Live in HD performance of the Metropolitan Opera's Roberto Devereux a few weeks ago ... she couldn't ...

  • Added: May 06, 2016
  • Length: 07:38
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Renegade Theater Company is not just in the middle of three shows right now: Seminar runs through May 14, Marie Antoinette opens in July and audit...

  • Added: May 06, 2016
  • Length: 05:52
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Brian Matuszak contemplates the next season of Rubber Chicken Theater, the passing of the Holiday Revue baton and turning angst into art.

  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 06:58