The Culture Show Podcast

Imari Paris Jeffries, President and CEO of Embrace Boston , joins The Culture Show to talk about the 60th Anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally. As part of the Everyone 250 Initiative and other 250 celebrations, Embrace Boston, in collaboration with the City of Boston and other community partners, will gather at the Embrace Monument/Parkman Bandstand. To learn more about the event, go here . From...

David Grann, author of “The Wager,” and “Killers of the Flower Moon,  is a #1 “New York Times” best selling author and an award-winning staff writer at “The New Yorker” magazine.  He joins The Culture Show to talk about  his writing and reporting process, and adapting his work for the screen. On April 27th he’ll be honored at the Associates of the Boston Public Library's 35th annual Literary Light...

Culture Show co-hosts Jared Bowen, Callie Crossley and James Bennett II go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture week-in-review, which includes the Museum of Fine Arts. Following a global search, they announced that Pierre Terjanian will be the museum’s next Ann and Graham Gund Director and CEO. He joins The Culture Show to talk about his vision for the MFA. From there it’s “A Minecraf...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Harvard Square’s iconic Harvest Restaurant. To kick off this milestone birthday year, Harvest is inviting alumni chefs to cook a selection of special dinners. Their first one is Harvest Alumni, noted cookbook author and TV Personality Sara Moulton. She joins The Culture Show for a preview. The dinner will take place on Friday. To learn more go here . From th...

Bestselling author Amor Towles has another bestseller, “Table for Two.”  It’s a collection of short stories that land us in New York. The second part of the book moves us to Los Angeles in a novella set during the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We caught up with Towles back in September when he was in town for a book event. He joins us again, now that “Table for Two” is out in paperback to continue the...

Actors’ Shakespeare Project closes out their 2024-25 Season with their latest production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Actor De’Lon Grant, who stars as Demetrius, joins T he Culture Show to talk about the production. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is on stage, April 11- May 4 at the Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown. To learn more, go here . From there James Poniewozik j...

“Night Side Songs,”   a new musical created by brothers Daniel and Patrick Lazour is a work that explores the myriad experiences of catastrophic illness–the fear, blame and reconciliation. Produced by the American Repertory Theater in association with the Philadelphia Theatre Company, “Night Side Songs” is onstage at Hibernian Hall in Roxbury  April 9th  through April 20th. Daniel and Patrick Lazo...

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, the fate of  TikTok, which is nearing its Saturday deadline to find a new buyer under federal law or it’ll have to go dark as a result of a ban in the United States. Then  it’s the Netflix series “Adolescence,” which has provoked a conversation...

Artist Cicely Carew joins  The Culture Show to talk about her solo exhibition at the Fuller Craft Museum, Be LOVE d, a visionary site-specific installation uniting  multiple media: sculpture, video and a soundscape to create an immersive, meditative experience. To learn more, go here . From there Samuel Brewer joins The Culture Show. He is a co-founder of FlawBored , a multi award winning disabili...

Boston Lyric Opera mounts an 80th Anniversary production of "Rodgers & Hammerstein's CAROUSEL,” eight decades to the day of its first Boston run, and in the same venue where the final pre-Broadway tryout played in 1945, the Colonial Theatre. BLO Artistic Associate Anne Bogart stages a  tribute to this classic and  she joins The Culture Show for an overview. To learn about upcoming performances...

Matthew Teitelbaum, Director of  the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Ethan Lasser, John Moors Cabot Chair, Art of the Americas, join The Culture Show   to kick off a new series. Each month the curators and experts from the MFA will be on the show to talk about works in their collection that offer insight into the American Revolution. This is an extension of Museums 250 . From there Culture Show co...

Peter Drummey, Chief Historian at the Massachusetts Historical Society, joins The Culture Show for an overview of their new exhibition “1775: Rebels, Rights & Revolution.”  The exhibition explores the pivotal events and personal stories that ignited the American Revolution. It’s on view through December 2025. To learn more, go here . From there playwright Robert Horn joins The Culture Show to...

Today on The 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, President Trump’s latest directive to control culture. Yesterday he signed an Executive Order intended, in his words, to Restore Truth and Sanity to American History. He’s called for the restoration of monuments, memorials and stat...

When it comes to Jeff and Julie Kinney, their life is one for the books. Jeff Kinney is the author of the blockbuster, best selling  “ Wimpy Kid ,” kingdom, which is reaching a milestone this year, with Kinney publishing his 20th title, .“Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper.”  Together, Jeff and Julie  own An Unlikely Story bookstore and cafe,” in downtown Plainville, MA, which they opened ten years...

Director Igor Golyak is the founder of Arlekin Players Theatre based in Needham. He joins T he Culture Show to talk about upcoming events, productions and what it means to be embarking on its 15th anniversary year. To learn more about Arlekin Players Theatre and their programming, go here . Since 1938 researchers at Harvard have been studying the lives of hundreds of people and their families to d...

What happened to young Elphaba before she was saddled with the wicked mantle?  Almost 30 years after the publication of  “Wicked,” Gregory Maguire offers readers Elphaba’s origin story in a new book titled “Elphie: A Wicked Childhood.”  He joins The Culture Show to talk about it. From there Boston Celtics’ president Rich Gotham joins The Culture Show to talk about the new HBO docu-series “Celtics...

The new comedy film, “ The Ballad of Wallis Island ,” stars Tim Key as a lottery winner who tries to reunite his favorite musical duo Mortimer-McGwyer, played by Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden, also a romantic couple that broke up many years ago. Distributed by Focus Features,  the film hits theaters on March 28th. Ahead of its release Tim Key and Tom Basden, who co-wrote and co-star in the film, j...

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, they reflect on the 35th anniversary of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery, the largest art heist in the world and Boston’s most famous unsolved mystery. Then it’s something that’s hardly the steal of this century, the Boston Celtics ha...

Fabiola Jean-Louis, a visual activist working in photography, paper textile design, and sculpture joins The Culture Show  to talk about her solo exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum “Waters of the Abyss: An Intersection of Spirit and Freedom.” The exhibition features a large amount of original commissions from the Haitian artist, crafted from paper pulp, mineral stones, shells, metals...

Joshua Croke, the President and Founder of the organization Love Your Labels joins The Culture Show to preview their “Threads Youth Fashion Showcase,” which features the artistry of youth designers, ages 13-19.  The showcase is this Sunday at the Jean McDonough Arts Center in Worcester. To learn more, go here. From there, by day she teaches theater to Boston’s youth; by night, she channels those s...

We mark the 35th anniversary of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist with Holly Salmon, the John L. and Susan K. Gardner Director of Conservation and Anthony Amore, head of security and chief investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. From there Emmy Award-winning director Lauren Stowell joins The Culture Show to talk about the HBO documentary series “ Celtics City ,” which is a...

Kim David Smith, the internationally acclaimed singer and actor , joins The Culture Show to discuss his new album, “Mostly Marlene,” and to preview his show at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater on March 21st, "Mostly Marlene: a Dietrich-Drenched Album Debut!"   To learn more, go here . From there we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Riverdance. Steven O Broin was an original company member. He joins...

Callie Crossley, James Bennett and Lisa SImmons go over the latest headlines on our arts and culture week-in-review. First up, the Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library is honored with the  Harleston Parker Medal for best new architecture. Then it’s onto a structure that has no honor despite a public campaign to save it– The Pink house has been demolished. From there, President Trump removes...

Veteran television journalist and anchor Chris Wallace joins The Culture Show to talk about the state of media today, a polarize nation and why presidential debates still matter. From there Chris Pitts,  the founder and producer of the Newton Piano Summit, which showcases world-class professional musicians in a series of concerts each season,  joins The Culture Show to preview the 2025 season, whi...

“Parade,” the Tony-winning revival on Broadway, is now onstage at Emerson Colonial Theatre through March 23rd.  The musical is a dramatization of the real life, trial and tragedy of Leo Frank. He was a Jewish man from Brooklyn who found himself in Atlanta in 1913. As a northerner in the south, he quickly found himself subject to rampant antisemitism which culminated in Frank being tried and convic...