(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman and WAMC Northeast Public Radio producer Sarah LaDuke will co-host Change Makers, WAM Theatre’s fifth season celebration and benefit at the Mahaiwe on Sunday, August 24, 2014, at 7 pm. The multifaceted event includes a panel discussion with award-winning artist/activists working to effect positive change; a…
(ALBANY, N.Y.) – Academy Award-winner Chris Cooper, Emmy Award-winner Margo Martindale, and Tony Award winners Bill Irwin and Julie White are among the actors who will be reading short plays over the air on Playing on Air, a new public radio show of short plays, to be broadcast every fourth Friday of every month beginning…
(ALBANY, N.Y.) – On the heels of the release of The Question Jar Show, a two-disc live album culled from recordings of his 2009 tour of the same name, Mike Doughty brings his Book of Drugs tour, featuring new songs and readings from his new memoir, The Book of Drugs (Da Capo Press, due out…
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Former New York Times columnist and theater critic Frank Rich will speak at the Colonial Theatre on Sunday, October 9 at 2 pm. WAMC Northeast Public Radio’s morning host Joe Donahue will moderate the conversation with Rich, who now writes a monthly column for New York magazine. As the former chief theater…
