WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

Rachel Swartz, Assistant Professor of Theater Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, talks about their current production - "The Wolves" - that concerns the young women on a high school soccer team.  After that, from the archives, a discussion about injuries in sports and recent breakthroughs in treatment with the author of "That's Gotta Hurt."  

James Schatzman, founder and artistic director of the Choral Arts Society of Southeastern Wisconsin,  talks about the group's 36th season - which opens this Saturday evening with a concert called "The Spirit Sings."  

Christina LePort, author of "Dissection: a Novel." 

Yohuru Williams, author of "Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter."  This new biography of Robinson looks beyond his impact on the baseball diamond to explore other ways in which he was a force for change.

From the archives:  David Shoemaker, author of "The Squared Circle:  Life, Death and Professional Wrestling" 

"One Day at Disney"  

Paul Sexton, author of "Charlie's Good Tonight: The Life, the Times, the Rolling Stones: The Authorized Biography of Charlie Watts."   Watts was the principal drummer for the Rolling Stones for more than half a century.  

The Carthage College Theater Department is about to present performances October 13,14 and 15 of "Frontline- a Verbatim Play," which tells the story of a half dozen front line health care works contending with the extraordinary challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic.  Originally conceived as a pre-recorded virtual production seen over Zoom, it is presented now as a stage performance before a liv...

For the third and final time this week, we are focusing on Alzheimer's.  This is an archival interview from 2017 I recorded with former Wisconsin governor Martin Schreiber, talking about his memoir "My Two Elaines:  Learning, Coping and Surviving as an Alzheimer's Caregiver."    The book chronicles what it was like for Schreiber to care for his beloved wife Elaine as she s...

From 2008 -  Mary Ellen Geist, author of "Measure of the Heart:  a Father's Alzheimer's, a Daughter's Return" 

From 2003-  David Shenk, author of "The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic."   

From the archives-   Katherine Jackson Raymond, author of 'Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails,  When Memory Fades in Mid-Life."  

In honor of Carthage College's Fall Choral Concert, which is Sunday afternoon - we are replaying a conversation from several years ago that featured choral composer Jocelyn Hagen - along with Carthage music professor Dr. Peter Dennee - talking about a piece that Ms. Hagen was commissioned to write for Carthage's Christmas Festival.  A work by Ms. Hagen ("To See the Sky") is being performed Su...

Edson Melendez talks about this weekend's performances of the Belle Ensemble in a program titled "Sounds from Across the Street" that will feature choral compositions by six different local composers.   The two performances are Friday night, October 7th, 6:30 at Holy Communion Lutheran Church in Racine - and Saturday evening, October 8th, 6:30 at First Lutheran Church in Janesville, WI....

Concert Pianist Joanne Polk (who is on the piano faculty at Manhattan School of Music) is playing a recital at Carthage College on Tuesday evening, October 11th, 7:30 p.m. in Siebert Chapel.  The program will consist entirely of music by great women composers such as Amy Beach, Cecile Chamiade and Louise Ferrenc.   This interview is interspersed with examples of Ms. Polk's piano pla...

Dr. Jason Karlawish (the University of Pennsylvania) is the author of "The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What we can do about it. "   Dr. Karlawish gives a presentation of the same name at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside on Wednesday morning, October 12th, at 9 a.m.  More information about this free event and...

Elaine Khosrova, author of "Butter: A Rich History" 

Eric Greitens, author of "Resilience:  Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life."  

We discuss Carthage College's production of Sophocles' ANTIGONE with Herschel Kruger (stage director),  Maureen Chavez-Kruger (set director) and Kim Instenes (costume director.)  The production runs for one more weekend, with performances this Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Carthage's Wartburg Auditorium.  

Journalist Nora Neus is the co-author of "Muhammad Najem: War Reporter."  In this book intended for young readers - published in graphic novel format - you are introduced to Muhammad, who as a young teenager braved the streets of his war-torn city in Syria to chronicle what it was like for young people to live in the midst of such senseless violence.  Neus, who was with CNN at the time,...

From 2011 -  Sheena Iyengard, author of "The Art of Choosing" 

From the archives-  with the recent death of Queen Elisabeth II and so much focus being put on the Royal Family, I thought it would be fun to replay this interview from the summer of 2021 about a novel in which we meet a woman with a rather unhealthy fixation on British Royalty and memorabilia related to them.  The novelist's name is Kristin Contino.  

Dr. Art Cyr, from the faculty at Carthage College, pays his monthly visit to the Morning Show to offer his thoughts on the late Queen Elisabeth II (focusing on her service to her nation during World War Two, when she was still Princess Elisabeth), recent public demonstrations in Iran,  new tensions between North and South Korea, and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. 

Randall Balmer discusses his newest book "Passion Plays:  How Religion Shaped Sports in North America."  

Chancellor Debra Ford from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside talks about Parkside's robust enrollment numbers,  campus renovation, and several significant awards which the university has recently received.