Guest host Ed Schoaps talks with Statesman Journal reporter Tom Rastrelli about how Salem's LBGTQ community and performing arts organizations are responding to the Orlando shooting, and interviews playwright EM Lewis and Theater 33's Susan Coromel about a new play that debuts this weekend.

Ed Schoaps visits with Pentacle Theatre director Jo Dodge and cast members from their current production, "The Rainmaker." and checks in with Brush Creek Playhouse on the upcoming opening of "The Cemetery Club."

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Ann talks with the cast of Cymbeline from WOU, and Ben Bailey is going to talk about producing and his deliciously fun website, theatrenerds.com, and Ed Schoaps helps with the whole mad enterprise...

Ann welcomes the members of three different productions! The Verona's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Keizer's Drop Dead, and Aumsville's Things My Mother Taught Me

Ed Schoaps co-hosts.

Ann talks with Tom Mayhall Rastrelli, from the Statesman Journal, about Urinetown at the Pentacle, and Marian Scaddon of Distant Serenade. Tom and I could probably have talked theatre for another hour or so...but I didn't get a chance to say how much I really enjoyed the show and how great the performances were!

Ann Interviews Katie Lindbeck, director, and cast members from the production of Urinetown (yes! Urinetown!) at the Pentacle Theatre. Also Jay Gipson-King will be here from Salem Theatre Network to talk about Shakespeare at the Market, an exciting project at the Salem Saturday Market

Ann Interviews Amy Cheifetz Billings and Deborah Johansen from the Verona's Marry Me a Little-great talk!

Ann interviews, from The Diary of Anne Frank, Debby Neel, the director, Molly Fitzsimmons, and of course one of the cast members, Max Romprey. Ann also chats with Trevor Jackson about the Oregon Playwrights Society.

Ann interviews Taylor Pawley, director of Time Stands Still at the Keizer Homegrown Theatre, Rachel Ost, director of Arsenic & Old Lace at Corban, and assorted animals, fairy tale characters, and trolls from Shrek the Musical at North Salem High School!

Ann talks with Tom Mayhall Rastrelli about Verona's Studio's True West.