Arts Express

Arts Express 6-29-21 Featuring Actor Vincent Pastore Interview

** Vincent Pastore Talks Cannes, The Sopranos, Birthday Cake
** Jocko Sims On New Amsterdam, Driving Dennis Hopper In Crash
** The Conductor: musician Marin Alsop's struggle to become the first US female conductor
** Dennis Broe celebrates the provocative political paintings of African-American artist Robert Colescott 
 

Arts Express 6-22-21 Featuring Chris Matthews on the Hot Seat

** Chris Matthews Takes The Arts Express Hot Seat
** "The Voyage," A Fathers Day Fatherly Story: Arts Express Playhouse
** Ann-Margret Talks Queen Bees, Bette Davis.
** Bro On Raymond Chandler, The Man Behind The Mask.
 
 
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Arts Express 6-15-21 Featuring Actor Tzi Ma Interview

** Actor Tzi Ma Talks US Race Hate History, Then And Now
** Bro On Working-Class Television Women Making Sense Of The World
** Radio Drama: The A List and the D List

Arts Express 6-8-21 Featuring First Nations Actor Adam Beach Interview

** First Nations actor Adam Beach Talks The Unhealer and Percy Vs Goliath, the fight against Monsanto. 
** Mark Harris continues talking about his new biography of Mike Nichols, focusing this time on his films.
** Axis Sally, the new Al Pacino film about the German WWII propagandist
Photo: Gage Skidmore

Arts Express 6-1-21 Featuring Moby Interview

** Moby Talks Music, His Ahab** The Tulsa Massacre, 100 Years: Director Chyna Robinson On Her Film Greenwood: 13 Hours** A conversation with Mark Harris author of Mike Nichols, A Life

Arts Express 5-25-21 Featuring Bill Woodbury, Director of Bless Their Little Hearts

** Director Billy Woodberry Talks The LA Rebellion, Red Hollywood and Bless Their Little Hearts
** "How does Shakespeare start a riot?": "Disaster At The Astor."
** Plus...Corporate Media Watch On Israel...News From Strange Places...

Arts Express 5-18-21 Featuring Kevin Macdonald, Director of The Mauritanian

** The Mauritanian: A Conversation With Director Kevin Macdonald.
** Jeff Fahey Talks Robert Mitchum, Psycho's Anthony Perkins, Locked In. 
** Everybody: A Book About Freedom. Part 2 of a conversation with Olivia Laing about the ideas of Wilhelm Reich.

Arts Express 5-11-21 Featuring Horror Actor Icon Bill Oberst Jr.

**Painkiller: Bill Oberst Jr. Talks Wounded Monster Metaphors, Haunted Plantation Ruins
**Everybody: A Book About Freedom - British Writer Olivia Laing In A Conversation With Jack Shalom
**Radio Drama Corner: An excerpt from The Bermudez Triangle.
 
 
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Arts Express 5-04-21 Featuring Tamala Jones Talking About the New Series "Rebel"

**Tamala Jones Talks about her new series Rebel based on Erin Brockovich
**Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview And Other Conversations: Hayden Herrera discusses the life and work of Frida Kahlo
**Broe On The 150th anniversary of The Paris Commune
 
 
 
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Arts Express 4-27-21 Featuring Michael Paré Interview

**Michael Paré Talks Painkiller, That Big Pharma Other Pandemic
**Last Will And Testament: Who Really Wrote The Shakespeare Plays?
**Copyright Wrongs
 
 
Photo: Rob DiCaterino

Arts Express 4-20-21 Featuring Ken Burns on Hemingway Interview

*Filmmaker Ken Burns takes the Arts Express Hot Seat, as Prairie Miller probes his controversial documentary, Hemingway.
*Radio Drama Corner: the verse of Paul Hostovsky, performed by Jack Shalom

Arts Express 4-13-21 Featuring Don McLean Interview

**Rock Legend Don McLean Talks American Pie - And What Happened To Music Along The Way
**The Lost Family: A Continuing Conversation with Libby Copeland about DNA testing
**Plus...Poetry for a troubled time
 
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