Joe Donahue

Walking the Dog Theater in association with PS21 in Chatham is presenting Anton Chekhov’s, The Cherry Orchard, directed by David Anderson July 5th through the 22nd. We speak with David Anderson, Nancy Rothman and Judy Grunberg about the production.

We welcome Kevin Bleyer, writer for The Daily Show, and speak with him about his new book, Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America.

The exhibition, Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered will be on display at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA through October 28. Stephanie Plunkett, chief curator at the Norman Rockwell Museum and Dr. Joyce Schiller, curator of the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies at Norman Rockwell Museum join us to tell us more about Howard Pyle and his work.

We welcome Pulitzer-prize winning biographer and associate editor of the Washington Post, David Maraniss, to the program and speak with him about Barack Obama: The Story.

Republican leaders say that the Supreme Court decision upholding President Obama's health care law will hurt President Obama and the Democrats - largely because of the ruling that "a penalty on Americans who did not buy health insurance was legal because it was a tax."

USA Today article.

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For our final segment of the show we welcome Pittsfield's Mayor, Dan Bianchi.

The Berkshire Museum’s Executive Director, Van Shields and their Director of Communications, Lesley Ann Beck, join us to talk about the current goings-on at the museum - including, but not limited to, their Tom Patti: Free Opening Day Celebration on June 30.

Brad Oscar (Tevye) and Rachel Coloff (Yente the Matchmaker) join us to talk about their work in Barrington Stage's Mainstage production of Fiddler on the Roof.

Will Garrison - Curator of the Berkshire Historical Society at Herman Melville's Arrowhead; Michael Melle, the artist who created “Ahab and the Whale” – a sculpture currently on installed in the field at Arrowhead; and Jana Laiz, Arrowhead’s Writer-in-Residence join us to talk about this summer's "Call Me Melville" celebration.

Barrington Stage Company's second Mainstage show this season is Arthur Miller's All My Sons. Artistic Director, Julianne Boyd, directs and actors Jeff McCarthy and Lizbeth MacKay play Joe and Kate Keller. The talented trio join us in this segment to talk about their work.