Brothers of the Baladi

Oct 06, 2009 Comments Off by

Host Dmae Roberts talks  with the Portland music group The Brothers of the Baladi, a Grammy-nominated band specializing in Middle Eastern/World Music. This is a membership drive edition of Stage and Studio.
Brothers of the Baladi

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Stage and Studio 10-5: White Bird Dance

Sep 26, 2010 No Comments by

[ October 5, 2010; 11:00 am to 11:30 am. ] White Bird’s new season features Lucinda Childs, Gallim Dance, Oslund & Co and Martha Graham Dance Co.

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Stage and Studio 10-12: “Hillsboro Story”

Sep 26, 2010 No Comments by

[ October 12, 2010; 11:00 am to 11:30 am. ] Join us for a special one-hour membership drive edition with Susan Banyas’ “Hillsboro Story” at Artists Repertory Theatre.

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“Songs For A New World”

Jun 15, 2010 No Comments by

Chanda Hall
Host Dmae Roberts talks with Chanda Hall, the artistic director of Staged who’s collaborating with  Milagro Theatre to produce “Songs for A New World” – composed by the Tony-award-winning Jason Robert Brown. “Songs for a New World” is a long-time off-Broadway hit. The composer himself will be coming to Portland [...]

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Hand2Mouth Risk/Reward Festival

Jun 15, 2010 No Comments

Jerry Tischleder
Hand2Mouth presents Risk/Reward Festival of New Works. We hear from Jerry Tischleder (featured left), the Risk/Reward festival. The two-day festival includes performances on Saturday and a conference with panel discussions on Sunday. The shows take place in the BodyVox Dance building. Some of the Seattle/Portland performers include Oslund & [...]

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Naseem Rakha

Jul 07, 2009 Comments Off

Dmae Roberts talked with Oregon Author Naseem Rakha about her debut novel “The Crying Tree” — the story of a family whose son is murdered. The novel brings to light issues of justice and forgiveness as a mother begins a correspondence with the convicted murderer of her son. Naseem describes her experiences [...]

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33rd Portland International Film Festival

Feb 09, 2010 Comments Off

Host Dmae Roberts featured films from the The 33rd Portland International Film Festival with Bill Foster, Executive Director of the Northwest Film Center. They talked about a sampling of the films from more than 36 countries.
Bill Foster
Hear some clips and get some tips on which films to see.  The festival runs February 11th-28th. Film [...]

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Actor Anthony Heald (Boston Public) plays Shakespeare

Jun 30, 2009 Comments Off

Anthony Heald and Dmae Roberts
Dmae Roberts talks with Anthony Heald, star of Boston Public and Boston Legal and such films as “The Silence of the Lambs” is now a resident actor at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He says that OSF in Ashland is the best experience he’s ever had on the stage [...]

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Choir Director Fights To Keep Job

Aug 14, 2010 6 Comments

My listeners know that I have long championed the importance of music education in America and the struggle to keep it alive in our public schools.
Well here’s a story right out of the film, Mr Holland’s Opus, or the more recent TV show, Glee…
Much-loved high school choir director and music teacher of two years leads her choirs [...]

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Milagro Theatre’s “American Sueño”

Jan 05, 2010 Comments Off

Host Dmae Roberts previews “American Sueño” at Milagro Theatre. Writers Danel Malan and Rebecca Martinez, joined by Composer Joaquin Lopez talk about the process of putting together a touring show about marginalized outsiders pursuing the American Dream. Malan and Martinez talk about the process of writing this play based on interviews [...]

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