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Caption: Dudley Riggs in 2012, Credit: Sheila Regan
"Instant Theater" was a term that Dudley Riggs, founder of the Brave New Workshop theater came up with in the 1950s. The former circus and vaudevil...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 17:42
Caption: Fans at the Beatles only concert in Minnesota, Credit: Minnesota Historical Society
In the summer of 1965, the Beatles were the hottest act in the world. And for the first — and only time — John, Paul, George and Ringo were coming ...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 35:39
Caption: HUGE Improv Theater has purchased the Art Materials building and will transform the south half of the building into a theater., Credit: Sheila Regan
After learning that their landlord had donated to a former KKK leader, HUGE Improv Theater knew they needed to move. So how did a small arts non-pr...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 05:24
Caption: Jim Napolitano, Credit: Jim Napolitano
Jim Napolitano is the creator of Nappy’s Puppets. He’s known throughout the US as one of the leading shadow puppetry artists performing today. In...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:16:47
Caption: Turntable Taxi Host Carl Freuden
Host Carl Freuden present the work of Dave Van Ronk

  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 56:24
Caption: Novice Nurse Susie Terse cover art, Credit: Lawton Lovely
"The Price of Infection!" Can Nurse Susie find a way to deliver vital antiviral medicine while navigating hospital bureaucracy while fending off th...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Turntable Taxi Host Carl Freuden
Host Carl Freuden presents country Western music in the week Turntable Taxi.

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 56:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Have you ever been to a midnight movie? What exactly constitutes a midnight movie? How did the trend get started and is it now something of the pas...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 23:03
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Dieter Kosslick is one of the film world’s best known festival directors. He’s put his stamp on the Berlin International Film Festival for the pas...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 27:06
  • Purchases: 2
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On this episode of Don't Cha Know, we talk to MMAM Executive Director Nicole Chamberlain Dupree. Nicole keeps us up to date on all the wonderful pr...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 34:13
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It's the first episode of the second season. This time I travel around Madison and meet with people that own or operate galleries, stores and other...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 37:54
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I begin my quest to meet artists in Madison, WI with Holly Meyers.

  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 35:48
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There are plenty of good films out there, but I have to confess that the dominance of mediocre Hollywood pablum sometimes challenges my faith in ci...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:55
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Aquarius, a new film by Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho, wants to make us comfortable before we enter its main story. In a prologue...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:23
Caption: Lisa Emery
In A BETROTHAL by Pulitzer Prize winner Lanford Wilson, two middle-aged iris breeders bicker - and bond - at a flower breeders' competition. Perfor...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 36:09
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The director and one of the actresses spoke earlier this week with Interchange host Doug Storm.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 08:19
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Vicki Stenerson has played lots of important roles in Bemidji’s theater community. In “Leading Ladies,” put on by the Bemidji Community Theater, Vi...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 06:42
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La la la, dum di di dum, a wop bop a loo bop a wop bom bom - what are all those non-words doing masquerading as words in songs? Hrishikesh Hirway f...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2015
  • Length: 13:44
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During this past year, St. Cloud State University's School of the Arts has brought a wide variety of multidiscipline events to the community throug...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 26:20
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with two members of the cast, and the assistant stage manager of the upcoming production on "Assassins". "Ass...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: 13:13
  • Purchases: 2
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We're introduced to Maine storytelling today through John McDonald, a humorist making his living telling stories in the state's oral tradition. One...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:07
Caption: Drummer, Vince Ector
Cory and Travis talk with drummer Vince Ector about his new CD 'Organatomy'.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2013
  • Length: 28:35
Caption: Bobby's Cover-Up
Bobby speaks with Jeremy Swan, an amazing and talented tattooer, and curator of Broken Art Tattoo in Los Angeles. This episode of the podcast was c...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2013
  • Length: 58:03
Caption: Host Matt Fagerholm, Credit: Matt Fagerholm
Nick Allen of TheScorecardReview.com joins host Matt Fagerholm to explore the directorial efforts of Mark and Jay Duplass.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2012
  • Length: 27:09
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“And then we used to play hockey in the street, roller skate hockey. So while I was up there playing roller skate hockey I was moving my feet aroun...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 13:21
  • Purchases: 3