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The Ogunquit Playhouse opens its 2025 summer season with the hit musical " Come From Away" now through June 14th at the Playhouse on Route 1 in Ogunquit Maine. " Come From Away" is a musical based on the events in the Newfoundland town of Gander during the week following the September 11th attacks. It is a fascinating true story with a beautiful musical soundtrack.  Actors David Benoit and Erica S...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Newt Gingrich takes readers and listeners inside what he calls  the most significant political comeback in American history and explains where the Trump movement goes from here in a new book entitled Trump's "Triumph: Amerca's  Greatest Comeback." The former Speaker of the U.S. House joined Mike Pomp on the Morning Information Center.

Comedian Gregg Warren joined Mike Pomp on the Morning Information Center to chat about his new standup comedy special "The Champ" streaming for free on Youtube.  Gregg brings his summer comedy tour to Portland Maine at the Empire Comedy Club August 29th and 30th.

Jude Warne was born and raised in Manhattan, amidst two parents who were (and still are) rock 'n' rollers, so she believes very strongly in the power and importance of rock 'n' roll and high-quality music and art criticism, Her latest book is about singer Boz Scaggs.  According to Jude, Boz Scaggs has always been a musical artist of complexity. The new book is called LOWDOWN: THE MUSIC OF BOZ SCAG...

Niall Harbison is a street dog rescuer based in Thailand. Originally from Dublin, Niall moved to Thailand after selling his very successful marketing and PR company. He now lives in the countryside where he spends his days feeding and looking after the thousands of street dogs he comes across. His first book  Hope: How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life  went on to become an international b...

In their first ever feature documentary nearly sixty years after they met as teenagers before the British Invasion music scene, THE ZOMBIES tell their story of navigating the tumultuous music industry over the decades and making one of the most influential albums of all time,  Odessey and Oracle. "She's Not There" made them the first British band after The Beatles to reach #1 in the US. After year...

The First Annual Capt. Jack Casey Memorial 5K Benefit Run and Walk will be held on Sunday May 25th starting at 9am at St. Thomas Aquinas High School on Dover Point Road in Dover, NH. Capt. Casey was tragically killed in a crash in a Marine Corps helicopter back in February of 2024 with four other crewmen while on active duty.  This 5K will help fund a secondary education scholarship for local high...

Poverty, climate change, human rights abuses – the news cycle is full of seemingly  insurmountable global challenges that leave many of us feeling powerless and pessimistic. Yet every  day, we all consume products that inevitably have a real impact on these social and environmental  threats, for better or worse. This raises some fundamental questions for humanity: what is the role of business in p...

Oliver Stark co-stars alongside Angela Bassett, Peter Krause and Jennifer Love Hewitt as confident, compassionate firefighter Evan 'Buck' Buckley in the smash hit drama series "9-1-1" on ABC. The actor joined Mike Pomp to chat about his career and the show during the Morning Information Center.

New Hampshire's senior U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen joined Mike Pomp on the Morning Information Center with a Washington update including a look at the President's first 100 days, the medicaid impact tour and tariffs and the NH economy.

Brad Taylor was born on Okinawa, Japan, but grew up on 40-acres in rural Texas. Graduating from the University of Texas, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Infantry. Brad served for more than 21 years, retiring as a Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel. During that time he held numerous Infantry and Special Forces positions, including eight years in 1st Special Forces Operati...

Carl Lumbly is an actor respected for his steadfast talent, versatility and class. His prolific career includes over 150 credits in theatre, film, television and voiceover, with extensive critical acclaim for his work. He is the co-star of the Marvel smash hit Captain America: Brave New World which is now available on digital platforms.  Carl joined Mike Pomp on the Morning Information Center to c...

Nat Segaloff has been a movie publicist and film critic (not at the same time), TV producer, college teacher, reporter, and broadcaster. He has brought all those skills to over 30 books, most of them about film history and filmmakers. Five feature films. Three novels. Seven video games. Countless comic books, action figures, and even an animated TV show for kids. The Rambo machine has been as unst...

Academy Award-nominated actress Amy Irving has announced her sophomore album,  Always Will Be , featuring 10 electrifying renditions of songs from her longtime friend Willie Nelson's iconic catalog. The album includes contributions from Amy Helm, Louis Cato, Steve Earle, Chris Pierce, Lizzie No, and Willie himself, and is out now.  Amy Irving and Willie Nelson's decades long friendship began when...

NOTHIN' COMES EASY: The Life of Rodney Dangerfield is the first biography of the "bug-eyed, sweaty, herky-jerky, tie-pulling comedian with the doleful countenance." Dangerfield's indelible beat-down image was played for laughs, but there were sad truths behind his sad-sack persona. TV writer Michael Seth Starr has crafted an immensely entertaining bio of the comedian's slog up the show business la...

Comedian Anjelah Johnson-Reyes is bringing her " The Family Reunion Tour" to the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom Sunday April 27th at 7pm.  Tickets are available at anjelah.com.  Angela joined Mike Pomp on the Morning Information Center to chat about her comedy origins and the latest tour.

You asked, and she delivered-this is Poppy Cooks' all-potato cookbook. Whether you like them fried, baked, mashed, or roasted, TikTok's High Priestess of the Potato gives you the ultimate potato book. Poppy O' Toole is the self-titled "Potato Queen" of the internet, where she has amassed over 5.5 million followers and more than 400 million views, with her judgement-free approach to cooking. Poppy...

It was the election America dreaded, a rematch between the two oldest men to serve as president. But somewhere along the way, the 2024 battle for the White House became the most jaw-dropping, heart-pounding, head-turning contest in American history. The ride was so wild that it forced a sitting president to drop his re-election bid, a once and future president to survive felony convictions and a w...

The group " Don't Trash Dover" is holding its 2nd Annual Power-of-an-Hour city-wide litter clean up day in honor of Earth Day.  Earth Day was April 22nd but this Dover Clean-Up Day will be Saturday April 26th starting at 9:30a.  Event organizer Deb Clough joined Mike Pomp on the Morning Information Center to encourage Dover residents to participate in the organized litter collections in each of Do...

Shannon Fiedler  is a New York based comedian, writer and content creator who has amassed over 500k followers on social media. Known for her relatable - albeit exaggerated - characters, Shannon distills ordinary situations to their most entertaining essence. Fiedler recently debuted her first stand-up special, Thirty, Flirty, & Crying , via YouTube and shared her comedy with Mike Pomp on the M...

My Russia  reveals CNN's Jill Dougherty's transformative journey from a Cold War-era obsession with Russia to witnessing firsthand the rise of Vladimir Putin and the unraveling of a nation she grew to love. Jill Dougherty is an expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. In her three-decade career with CNN she served as Foreign Affairs Correspondent, based in Washington, D.C., where she covered...

On April 18, 1775, a Boston-based silversmith, engraver, and staunch anti-British political operative named Paul Revere set out on the most famous horse ride in American history. A century later it inspired the poem and legend of "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." But the story is deeper and richer than we've all assumed. Acclaimed writer and editor Kostya Kennedy, through extraordinary and exten...

Actor Shawn Ashmore is best-known for starring as "Bobby Drake," otherwise known as "Iceman," in the highly successful "X-Men" movie franchise, and reprised his role in XMEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. Keeping with his superhero roots he was recently seen as "Lamplighter" on Amazon Prime's cult hit THE BOYS. Shawn can currently be seen in ABC's THE ROOKIE and also starred alongside Haley Attwell in the...

As of February 20, 2025, the film adaptation of  Wicked  (2024) has grossed over $727 million worldwide. The movie is projected to earn over $1 billion at the box office and the advance ticket sales for film were the second best for Fandango in 2024. The film was nominated for ten Oscars, including Best Picture, and won two.   Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author behind the best-selling novel  Wi...

Neil O'Brien is an award-winning journalist and producer who has worked at NBC News for more than two decades. He has produced hundreds of hours of television over the course of his career and his work with NBC News Specials has been honored with four Emmy Awards, a Peabody, and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Neil has spent more than a decade researching and conducting interviews for this book. Neil j...