Podcasts

Almeta Ingram-Miller, leader of the powerhouse gospel group and 2022 National Heritage Fellows the Legendary Ingramettes, talks about the group's six decades-long journey.

Sarah Smarsh discusses her book Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth​​​​​​​, which is a 2022-2023 NEA Big Read title.

Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and 2021 NEA Jazz Master Henry Threadgill reflects on his musical life and shares his thoughts about improvised music.

Songwriter and instrumentalist Louie Pérez takes us through the 50 year journey of the legendary band and 2021 National Heritage fellows Los Lobos.

Chief Artistic Officer of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) Shanta Thake talks about programming that speaks to the needs of New York City at this pivotal moment, opening up the 16-acre Lincoln Center campus to over 300 free events with i...

Dr Lisa Donovan, co-director of the Berkshire Regional Arts Integration Network, discusses the work being done with support from the Arts Endowment to increase access to arts education equitably in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

Saheem Ali is Associate Artistic Director of The Public Theater as well as the director of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Fat Ham.” In this podcast, Ali talks about working with Fat Ham playwright James Ijames, his commitment to directing work, in...

In this 2021 interview, singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and artistic director of Silkroad Rhiannon Giddens talks about the Black roots of American music, excavating the past to bring forgotten music and stories forward, her opera Omar, and h...

Michael R. Jackson--the creator of A Strange Loop—talks about the origins and evolution of the prize-winning musical.

In this podcast, Sonja Kostich and Stella Abrera—both Asian Americans, former dancers, and co-leaders of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park—talk about the organization and its 30-year history; Kaatsbaan’s singular role as both artistic incubator and arts presen...

In today’s podcast, I speak with U.S. Army veteran Jaymes Poling and jazz trumpeter Dominick Farinacci about creating and presenting Modern Warrior LIVE--a theatrical experience that mixes first-person narrative with music and multimedia to chronicl...

You may know Daniel K. Isaac as Ben Kim from the television series “Billions,” but he’s also a committed and talented actor in theater and an accomplished playwright. In this podcast, he talks about his career on the stage and the screen.

Peng Shepherd discusses her speculative mystery The Cartographers, her fascination with maps, her love of speculative fiction, and the challenges of writing “the second book.”