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Vintage recording details an eyewitness account of Lexington, Concord battles
In the 1950 recording, preserved by GBH Archives, a Waltham doctor recalled his great-grandmother’s childhood account of the chaos on the first day of the Revolutionary War.
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November 25, 2024 - Joyce Kulhawik and Pedro Alonzo
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 exhibition by Julian Charrière inspired by the environmental hazards of deep-sea mining. -
November 22, 2024 - Week in Review: Wicked, Gladiator II, and Cher
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 musical film Wicked is not allowed..Then, is BU actually onto something? Do we really need degrees in the humanities if AI generated poetry is preferable to works penned by people?Plus, if anyone out there still reads material written by real humans…assuming that Cher is real and not some diva deity, part one of her memoir dropped this week. -
November 21, 2024 - Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's Christmas Carol, John Waters, and the Martha Graham Dance Company
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 visual artist John Waters joins The Culture Show, to talk about his career and receiving the 2024 Coolidge Award, which recognizes a film artist whose work advances the spirit of original and challenging cinema. Tonight John Waters will be at the Coolidge Corner Theatre at 8:00 in conversation with The Culture Show’s host and GBH Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen. To learn more about tonight’s “Evening With John Waters,” go here.Finally, Janet Eilber, Artistic Director of Martha Graham Dance Company joins The Culture Show. She discusses the enduring legacy of Martha Graham as the mother of modern dance, the Martha Graham Dance Company at 100 and their return to Boston for two performances “American Legacies,” onstage at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre November 22nd and November 23rd, presented by Celebrity Series. -
November 20, 2024 - Gregory Maguire, David Waters and Joanne Chang
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 nationwide. The best-selling author Gregory Maguire joins The Culture Show to talk all things “Wicked.” From there we get into the spirit of Thanksgiving, with an emphasis on giving, by way of Community Servings. For decades the organization has been providing free home-based nutritional support to persons living with life threatening illnesses. Every November Community Servings hosts their annual Pie in the Sky bakesale to help fund their mission. David Waters, CEO of Community Servings and award-winning chef Joanne Chang, Myers + Chang restaurant and Flour Bakery + Cafe join The Culture Show. -
November 19, 2024 - Renée Fleming and Patrick Radden Keefe
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 joins The Culture Show to talk about “The Brightness of Light.” She also discusses her new book "Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness." It’s a collection of essays edited by Fleming, which feature reflections on the impact of music and the arts on our health from leading scientists, artists, therapists, educators, and physicians. On November 23rd you can join Renée Fleming after the evening concert for a special signing of her new book.From there, we’re joined by writer Patrick Radden Keefe. The new FX series “Say Nothing,” which is streaming now on Hulu, is based on his 2018 book “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.” The book is an epic account of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the bloody sectarian conflict between Catholics and Protestants that extended from the late 1960s to the Good Friday peace accord of 1998. Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at “The New Yorker” magazine and author of the New York Times bestsellers “Rogues,” “Empire of Pain” and “Say Nothing.”
