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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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March 11, 2025 - The Seasons with Anthony Roth Costanzo and Sarah Ruhl, the Hundred-Year Book Debate 2025, and Melody Munitz of The Addams Family
The new baroque opera “The Seasons,” is making its world premiere in Boston. It was conceptualized by Anthony Roth Costanzo and playwright Sara Ruhl who joined The Culture Show for an overview. The Seasons Is set in the near future when the seasons are out of order and extreme weather upends the life and aspirations of a group of artists who’ve escaped the city for a creative retreat on a remote farm. The music is Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” along with other compositions and the libretto is by Sarah Ruhl. “The Seasons” is a co-Production with Boston Lyric Opera, SCENE, and AMOC,* co-presented by ArtsEmerson. It’s onstage March 12th through March 16th. To learn more go here.From there Lisa Fagin Davis joins The Culture Show for a recap of the Hundred-Year Book Debate 2025. Every year the Associates of the Boston Public Library ask “are the books that were published a hundred years ago still relevant today?” The 1925 classics that competed this year for relevancy supremacy were “The Trial,” by Franz Kafka. “Mrs. Dalloway,” by Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.”Finally theater artist Melody Munitz joins The Culture Show to talk about playing Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family. The national Broadway tour brings the show to Boston at the Wang Theatre at the Boch Center March 21-March 23. To learn more go here. -
March 10, 2025 - Craig Ferguson, Big Screen Classics at the Coolidge, and Gaze to the Stars at MIT
Craig Ferguson, the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, producer, director and comedian joins The Culture Show to talk about his “Pants on Fire” tour, which brings him to Boston for a show at The Wilbur on March 13th. To learn more go here.From there Mark Anastasio, Program Manager & Director of Special Programming at Coolidge Corner Theatre, joins The Culture Show for an overview of their Big Screen Classics series, which is on now through mid-June. To learn more go here.Finally we head to the MIT campus where the “Great Dome,” will be illuminated. The exhibition titled, “Gaze to the Stars,” is part of Artfinity, MIT’s Festival for the Arts. The creative force behind this installation, Behnaz Farahi, a professor at the MIT Media Lab, joins The Culture Show for a preview. To learn more about the exhibition go here. -
March 7, 2025 - Week in Review: Hamilton at the Kennedy Center, Meghan Markle, and stolen piglets
Culture Show co-hosts Jared Bowen, James Bennett II and Culture Show contributor Joyce Kulhawik go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture week-in-review.First up, Lin-Manuel Miranda cancels “Hamilton’s” upcoming run at the Kennedy Center amid leadership and ideological changes. From there it’s a look at a freedom of speech issue as the publisher of the romance novel series “Sparrow and Vine,” pulls the books amid readers’ backlash over a character expressing pro Elon Musk sentiments. Then it’s onto Meghan Markle–now Meghan the Duchess of Sussex–and her lifestyle Netflix series, which has been universally panned. Finally, it’s a conversation about Serena Williams who is now an investor in the WNBA. -
March 6, 2025 - Tiana Clark, PopUp Bagels, and Charles Atlas
Award-winning poet Tiana Clark joins The Culture Show to talk about her latest collection of poems, “Scorched Earth.” Tiana Clark will be at a book event March 6th at 7:00 at Porter Square Books: Boston Edition. To learn more, go here.From there Brian Harrington joins The Culture Show. He’s the owner and operator of PopUp Bagels in the Seaport District, which will soon expand into Somerville at Assembly Row. It’s famous for being served piping hot, and for those long lines.Finally the pioneering video artist Charles Atlas joins The Culture Show to talk about his major retrospective at the ICA, which is on view through March 16th. On March 6th he’ll be in conversation with ICA curator Jeffrey De Blois. To learn more go here. -
March 5, 2025 - James Parker, Pixels + Petals at the New England Botanic Garden, and Paul Daigneault
James Parker, a staff writer at “The Atlantic,” joins The Culture Show to talk about his latest piece “When Robert Frost was Bad.” James Parker runs the Black Seed Writers Group—a weekly writing workshop for homeless, transitional, and recently housed writers–and he edits “The Pilgrim,” a literary magazine from the homeless community of downtown Boston. His latest book is “Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes.” From there Marissa Gallant, director of education at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, joins The Culture Show to give us an overview of their exhibition “Pixels+Petals,” which features over 2,000 orchids. It’s on through March 23rd.Finally Paul Daigneault, Producing Artistic Director at SpeakEasy Stage, joins The Culture Show to talk about stepping down after leading the theater company for over 30 years. He also discusses his farewell production, the musical “A Man of No Importance,” which is onstage through March 22nd. To learn more go here.
