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On the stage: Opera Theatre St Louis summer season; magical realism at MU; and the Missouri Symphony Orchestra documentary
The past year has exacted a huge amount of resilience, determination, patience and forebearance from our arts leaders all the while expecting them to stay optimistic a...
A peek behind the curtain with an arts consultant, an arts funder, and an artistic director
As the arts world starts to peek over the parapet, this week show host Diana Moxon goes behind the curtain to chat with arts consultant, Sara Leonard to hear what she'...
Progress in the Arts awards revisited
Repeat show: This week Speaking of the Arts host, Diana Moxon, revisits the Missourian newspaper's Progress in the Arts award and chats with the 2020 winner, Brandon H...
A potpourri tour of the Arts from Carol Burnett sketches to Tiny Things and a drive-in arts showcase
As Spring arrives so too do the arts events multiply and this week host Diana Moxon visits with five local people and places to chat about upcoming events: Director Ch...
True False's Hindsight Film Fest, the Visual Arts & Design Showcase at Mizzou, and Greenhouse Theatre Project's variety night
We are finally coming full circle on this new world order year, and on this week's show host Diana Moxon checks in with two events, which were some of the last IRL eve...
From stainless steel labradors to an epic tale in 1-minute episodes: Checking in with the Missouri Arts Council's featured March artists
Each month the Missouri Arts Council features four artists on its website from a variety of arts genres, and on this week's show Diana Moxon checks in with the March f...
Conductor Marlon Daniel and Chevalier de St Georges
Last July, Diana Moxon chatted with conductor Marlon Daniel about his introduction to music, his career, the difficulties facing black musicians and conductors in the ...
Juneteenth activist Miss Opal Lee, her grandson, actor Richard Harris and a new production of 'Satchmo at the Waldorf'
Miss Opal Lee of Fort Worth Texas has been promoting June 19th as a day of unity and freedom for over 40 years and last year delivered a petition of 1.5 million signat...
From Alaskan landscapes to soul treatments of Johnny Cash: Checking in with the Missouri Arts Council's featured February artists
Each month (since December 2020) the Missouri Arts Council features four artists on its website from a variety of arts genres and on this week's show Diana Moxon check...
The Arts in the time of Vaccines: Ragtag Cinema, Columbia Art League, Cabaret for a Cause
Theatre, cabaret, cinema, art exhibits - they are all going on whether we are there in person or watching from afar. On this week's show host Diana Moxon chats Academy...
Lap-tapping guitarist Yasmin Williams and her new album 'Urban Driftwood'
Having mastered Guitar Hero as a young teen, Yasmin Williams picked up a guitar, sat it horizontally across her lap, and developed her style of lap-tapping guitar. Thi...
The Arts at a New Dawn: Unbound Book Festival, Gateway Plaza, Greenhouse Theatre Project
It is a time for reimagining, and the arts are in the reimagining vanguard. On this week's show, host Diana Moxon, talks to Unbound Book Festival Executive Director, A...
The Art of... Managing a community radio station
On this week's Speaking of the Arts, host Diana Moxon stays close to home with two conversations with the station's new General Manager, Miquel Calçada, and its former...
The Hindsight is 2020 show with guest Monica Senecal Palmer
In a week when the world descended to a new level of crazy, actor and ardent arts supporter, Monica Senecal Palmer, joins host Diana Moxon for an hour of arts escapism...
The Arts in Review - A look back on Speaking of the Arts in 2020
Despite lockdowns, ghost lights, reductions and limitations, Speaking of the Arts has gone out every week this year thanks to the extraordinary group of arts leaders w...
The Arts at Christmas with Audra Sergel, Joy Powell & Symonne Sparks
This year so many artists, directors, and arts leaders have performed amazing feats to keep on delivering the arts to us, but what has kept those artists going? On thi...
The Arts of 2020 - A Year in Review Part I
In a year when there were almost no arts as we knew them, there was instead a plethora of arts as we had never seen before. In Part I of a 2-week Arts Year in Review, ...
The Arts in the time of Masks - A pair of Christmas Carols and a couple of books for your holiday gift list
On this week's show a pair of Christmas Carols and a couple of books. With stages still dark, two theatre companies are reinventing Dickens' A Christmas Carol to engag...
The Arts in the time of Giving: 6 community arts organizations review their year
This week was Giving Tuesday and also the launch of the month-long COMO Gives campaign, so what better time to feature 6 local arts organizations who are making mid-Mi...
The Arts in the time of Masks - Progress in the Arts awards 2020
Each year since 2017, The Missourian newspaper has asked the community to nominate individuals for awards in 10 categories, one of which is the Arts. The annual Progre...
The Arts in the time of Masks: Starting Gate New Plays, Jólabókaflóð, and Holiday Home Tours
For the past 6 years, Talking Horse Productions has hosted the Starting Gate New Play Festival with 6 brand new plays by 3 playwrights and, despite the pandemic, the s...
The Arts in the Time of Masks - Travel Plans, True/False, Grounded
This week's Speaking of the Arts is a theatre-film-theatre sandwich, with host Diana Moxon taking on the role of butter. Greenhouse Theatre Project's founder and direc...
The Arts in the Time of Masks: Classical music, history meets art, film, and what's an actor to do?
On this week's show, host Diana Moxon checks in with four local organizations as they pirouette through the year. In the world of classical music, Odyssey Chamber Musi...
The Arts in the Time of Masks - Columbia Entertainment Company, Jabberwocky Studios and TRYPS Children's Theatre
This week, Diana Moxon chats to actor/producer Enola White about what happens when Disney Princesses stay at home drinking tea and catching up via Zoom in Columbia Ent...
The Arts in the time of Masks: Typhoid Mary, Post-Demure, and life on Broadway
This week's Speaking of the Arts runs the gamut from a play about the first known asymptomatic typhoid carrier, to an art exhibit about society's view of women, and th...
The Arts in the time of masks: Fine Art and Documentary Film
We have grown accustomed to the endlessness of arts cancelations but on this week's show Diana Moxon checks in with two artists who have shows on real life walls: Jenn...
The Arts in the Time of Masks - Art Therapy and Comedy
On this week's show host Diana Moxon explores the world of art therapy with registered art therapist Michelle Itzcak from the University of Indianapolis, catches up wi...
The Arts in the Time of Masks - and Zoomed theatre
On this week's Speaking of the Arts host Diana Moxon chats to Greenhouse Theatre Project's founder, Elizabeth Braaten Palmieri and her brother, playwright Matt Braaten...
The Arts in the Time of Masks and Staying Artfully Engaged
As we officially head into Fall next week, Diana Moxon checks out the autumn schedules at Skylark Bookshop (Alex George), Columbia Art League (Kelsey Hammond), Ragtag ...
The Arts in the time of Masks, creating sanctuary
Keeping people safe and staying in business is almost impossible right now if your operation relies on an audience. When is the right time to re-open? This week host D...