NH Unscripted with Ray Dudley for the NH Arts Community!

Today’s WKXL NH Unscripted guest was celebrity dwarf comedian Brad Williams ! Calling in from CA Brad wanted to talk about his upcoming shows Aug. 8th at the Capitol Center for the Arts . His press release says it all: ”Pound for pound, Williams is one of the funniest comedian in the country right now and has taken the comedy world by storm with sold out concerts across the U.S. and Australia alon...

Today was a field trip day! Headed to the campus of the Peterborough Players to do an onsite interview with some of the cast for their upcoming production of “Native Gardens”. From their site: “Native Gardens is a high-spirited Horti-Culture Clash by Karen Zacarías. Melissa Crespo will be directing the comedy. Pablo, a high-powered lawyer, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, are...

Todays guest is Jordan Reeves from  The Barnstormers  in Tamworth. “The Barnstormers Theatre is premiering a brand-new play this month — “Front Row to Murder,” a cozy, comedic murder mystery inspired by Agatha Christie and written by longtime Barnstormer Jordan Reeves. It opens July 24 and runs through August 2. Directed by Blair Hundertmark and featuring a cast of professional actors, the play is...

Today’s WKXL NH Unscripted show is about the upcoming  Ovation TC  production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and our guests were Meg Gore (AD), Katy Gore (choreographer), Debrah Hernandez (Esmeralda) and Jillian Mastroberte (Gargoyle).”Based on the Victor Hugo novel and songs from the Disney animated feature, The Hunchback of Notre Dame showcases the film’s Academy Award-nominated score, as well a...

Todays WKXL NH Unscripted guest was Emma Cahoon. Emma stops by to chat up tKapow’s first show of their 18th season. From their own marketing: “theatre KAPOW and Ballet Misha bring to life the greatest love story and most epic tragedy of all time. Seven actors and sixteen dancers lay their scene in fair Verona in this fresh and physical reimagining of Shakespeare’s transcendent play. Featuring musi...

We at WKXL's NH Unscripted focus a lot on entertainment on this radio/podcast but what good is it if you can’t experience the entertainment? Amy Evans , board member of  NHhears.org , graciously comes by to talk about hearing loss in this day and age. And she came armed with stats, technology currently being used and the evolution of that technology going forward. Red River Theatre is one example...

Well it’s summertime and we (okay I) at WKXL's NH Unscripted decided to try a little more laid back approach to the show. Introducing “Quad Intro Music”! I felt that it was time to start introducing some of the songs and artists that I reference to the listeners in a longer version. For some it’s a new music find and to others it’s a time to reminisce. So each block starts with a song from wayyyy...

In this episode of WKXL's NH Unscripted : I had no idea that the traumatizing movie I saw when I was younger, A Clockwork Orange , was now also a stage play! And here to correct my ignorance was Angèlica Forcier Rosenthal , assisted by Mackenzie Goodwin , on a return trip to talk all about her upcoming October production of the play as well as giving us some audition info. She’s, eerily,  more ver...

Today's WKXL NH Unscripted guest,  Ethan Paulini, Artistic Director for the Weathervane Theatre , graciously came all the way from Whitefield NH and drops by to chat up the Weathervane’s 60th season. It’s packed to say the least! With a themed season focusing on icons it features productions such as Alanis Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill” , “Becoming Dr. Ruth”, “Grease”, “Dirty Blonde”, “The Prod...

On today’s episode: Angèlica Forcier Rosenthal & Mackenzie Goodwin from the Actors Cooperative Theater served us up all the deets on their upcoming production of “American Idiot” opening this Friday at the Derry Opera House. Controversial, striking, dark and thought provoking the musical is derived from the Green Day (certified 6x Platinum) album of the same name. It features all 13 songs from...

There’s some new life being injected into downtown Concord and it has the community buzzing. A new building that’s being called Arts Alley is being constructed between the COOP and the BNH stage and it’s frickin’ wild! And in their word: “The Rooftop 20 – Our sky-high bar featuring the Ciel Airstream (because why not), cocktails, and sunsets: The Main Venue – Our largest indoor event space for wed...

Today’s WKXL NH Unscripted show has us highlighting  the fund raising efforts of NH Gives and it’s impact on non-profits. Then we veer off into comparing the two most famous versions of Tom Waits’ “Tom Trauberts Blues” (his and then Rod Stewart’s). And finally we toss in Stewart’s “I Don’t Want to Talk About It” for good measure. The video version which has been viewed over a billion times!

The  tKapow  cast drops in to the WKXL NH Unscripted studio to talk about their upcoming production of “The Best We Could” opening Friday June 13th at the BNH stage . And as usual we get into the weeds asking and talking about the mechanics of how they pull it off.

In this episode of WKXL's NH Unscripted I discover Postmodern Jukebox and their cover of "Creep" . Then offer up the goods on summer theater shows that are on stage or will be very shortly complete with some restaurant suggestions and chit chatting with Andrew.

Indie film time! Via call-in AJ Calandrino and Kristina Kessler from Christie Rex Productions give us the scoop and details of their Indie short film “Dream Genocide” ( https://shorturl.at/BlKXJ ). And as usual I want ALL the details. Why this genre? How long did it take to film it? How did you have auditions for the roles? What equipment and software was used (that’s for the geeks)? Where does th...

It’s time to talk about the sexy part of the arts on WKXL's NH Unscripted ! Budgets. Please hold back your excitement. Most of the arts that we’re familiar with depend on multiple streams of income. Ticket sales, sponsorships, grants, benevolent donors, etc and lately there’s been chatter about one arm of support being taken away or ended. That source is government aid and today’s guest Deanna Hoy...

Immigration. Is there a hotter topic right now? Time to find out. The law offices of Shaheen & Gordon  (@shaheengordon) are the sponsor of WKXL's NH Unscripted and each time we’ve had one of their attorneys in to chat those episodes have been some of the most informative, fun and educational shows we’ve done. Today’s episode with immigration Attorney Ron Abramson (@ronabramson) further proves...

Summertime, summertime, sum, sum summertime…Oh how I love summer theater in New Hampshire and todays WKXL NH Unscripted guest, Jordan Ahnquist , Artistic Director for  The Barnstormers Theatre in Tamworth , drops in to bolster my viewpoint! Celebrating 95 years of top tier theatre (yes, that’s right 95 YEARS not 95 shows) commencing with a 2025 Gala on June 21st that will include Patrick Duffy &am...

It was a road trip day for WKXL's NH Unscripted as I was invited to co-host the great Ken Cail’s “One Hit Wonder Wednesday” episode!! Ken asked me to bring a list of some “One Hit Wonders” that (hopefully) he and his fans hadn’t heard yet. Challenge accepted! I brought hits that were considered novelty hits or hits that were sung by famous actors (think David Soul, Lorne Greene, Richard Harris, et...

I love just taking the time to chat with actors. Jordan Gagan drops in to the WKXL NH Unscripted studios to do just that: chat. We talked about getting his degrees, which you would think would be a mundane topic, but, nope. He got to travel to Scotland to finish his MFA and has some wonderful stories about doing some indie film shorts. I’m not sure how we haven’t bumped into each other before this...

Nancy Barry, the Producing Director for the multiple award winning Interlakes Theatre Company , stops by the WKXL NH Unscripted studio to give all the details of their upcoming season. We talk show selection, casting selections, spotting talent, their Youth division, housing the company, difficulty in the industry with releasing some of the classic more well know plays, all of the bragging rights...

Time for NH Unscripted to get culcha-ed up!! Todays' WKXL NH Unscripted fascinating guest is Jane Cormier, host of the NH Talk Radio program Artful Living . What an incredible life. Jane gets to name drop big names that she had the privilege of either working with or coming into contact with as she wove her way through the opera world in Europe. And man, does she know her stuff and she was very gr...

It was another One Hit Wonder Wednesday on the show Cail & Company LIVE . This month’s edition co-hosted by Ray Dudley of WKXL’s “ New Hampshire Unscripted ”. No script for this program just a chance to bring back some memories including a few hand picked novelty songs that climbed the charts in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s.

Today on WKXL NH Unscripted former restaurant owner turned author, Douglas Zechel aka KD Mason , drops by to talk about his writing journey. He’s been pretty much self taught for most of his writing career and I found that extremely intriguing. Now with 13 novels completed it was time to get the details about how he did it, his tenacity and some great stories about his characters and places he nam...

New York talent agent Albert Bramante ( Bramante Artists ) steps up to the plate on today’s WKXL NH Unscripted episode! Some of Alberts talents have appeared in Blue Bloods , FBI:SVU and on networks such as Netflix , hulu , Paramount + and Comedy Central plus in commercials for Venmo, McDonalds, Spotify and UPS . Albert chats about what he looks for when accepting submissions and taking on new tal...