Arts and Culture

Bread & Roses Show January 9, 2009 ~ Two Women Writers: Keepers of History

I'll be interviewing two local women writers, Anjala Ehelebe author of Images of America: Portland's Woodlawn Neighborhood and Jewel Lansing author of My Montana: A History and Memoir - 1930-1950.  Anjala takes us through a historic accounting of the Woodlawn neighborhood w... Read more

Imago's "Big Little Things" and PCS' "A Christmas Carol"

Airs at: Tue, 12/16/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  On Stage and Studio with Dmae Roberts, Composer Katie Griesar and Performer Danielle Vermette tell us about Imago's "Big Little Things" - a fanciful physical theatre piece about animals. And in the second half Mead Hunter of Portland Center Stage talks about his adaptati... Read more

The Amazing Bruce Bickford

Airs at: Mon, 12/15/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
For more than 40 years, maverick stop-motion animator Bruce Bickford has been constructing dreamlike landscapes and bringing them to life, gaining notoriety in the 1970's as the fertile mind behind the Frank Zappa films Baby Snakes and The Amazing Mister Bickford. The subje... Read more

Tapestry Theatre "1943 Christmas from Home" + Readers Theatre Rep "Tiny Tim in Hell"

Airs at: Wed, 12/10/2008 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Stage and Studio with Dmae Roberts features Tapestry Theatre's 1943 Christmas from Home with Actor Jodi Eichelberger, Director Judy Straalsund Playwright Pat Kruis Tellinghusen which features Big Band orchestra, the Golden Age of Radio and highlights Japanese American Inter... Read more

Gregg Bielemeier, Lyndee Mah about their dance concert + Robin Lane of "Do Jump Theatre"

Airs at: Tue, 12/02/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
 Dmae Roberts talks with Gregg Bielemeier and Lyndee Mah about Skinner, Kirk + Bielemeier dance concert Dec. 3-7th at the Portland Opera Studio Theatre presented by Whitebird Dance.  And Robin Lane of Do Jump's "Home for the Holidays" is featured in the second half.  That s... Read more

Comics and Animation Wizard Michel Gagne

Airs at: Mon, 11/24/2008 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
Words & Pictures travels north to Bellingham, Washington, to visit Canadian comics and animation wizard Michel Gagne, whose work runs the gamut from the abstract jazz-inspired film Sensology to concept design for Disney and Pixar.  Gagne's bewildering take on the Dark Knigh... Read more

Dmae Roberts talks with Benjamin Parzybok about Couch: A Novel

Airs at: Tue, 11/11/2008 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae Roberts focuses on the writers studio and talks with Benjamin Parzybok about his debut book, Couch: A Novel published by Small Beer Press.  Benjamin Parzybok is the creator of Gumball Poetry, a (now defunct) journal published through gumball machines, the Psychic Book ... Read more

Tears of Joy's The Jungle Book and Devon Allen of Thom Pain

Airs at: Tue, 11/04/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae Roberts talks with Puppeteer Shuhe and Director Emily Alexander of Tears of Joy Theatre's "The Jungle Book." In the second half Devon Allen brings back the Pulitzer Prize nominated  "Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) by Will Eno.   Read more

Dr Deborah Smith Pollard, "When the Church Becomes Your Party"

Airs at: Tue, 11/04/2008 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Dr. Deborah Smith Pollard discusses her work, "When Your Church Becomes Your Party," an examination of  contemporary gospel music. What distinguishes this book from other gospel music scholarship is its marriage of elements from the church, the academy, and the medium of r... Read more

Action/Adventure Theatre's "Fall of the House" and Artists Repertory Theatre's "Speech and Debate"

Airs at: Tue, 10/28/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae Roberts talks with Tamara Carrol, Aubrey Jensen and Miranda King of Action/Adventure Theatre about their four-installment production of "Fall of the House" a serialized theatre piece.  And in the second half, Jon Kretzu of Artists Repertory Theatre joins via phone to t... Read more