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The latest news about arts and humanities happenings around Nebraska, as well as talk and performances from those involved.
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18 SEP 2026 · On the Sept. 18 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska Public Media radio studio. Tune in to hear host Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about: Musical invention, with Casey Hollingsworth (26:20); Flatwater Shakespeare's upcoming shows, One-Ham Manlet, and Coriolanus (17:09); The Marches: Fragments of Time from Arp Clock and Wood Shop, a book and art exhibition by Terry Ratzloff (1:09); the Willow Creek Folk School with Tom Isern (34:27); and the Nebraska Chamber Players' upcoming concert, Autumn Contemplations (41:38). We will also hear the final part of the series on the art of the Omaha Public Library from KJ Teder (48:34). This time she spoke with artists Peyton Pearson and Sarah Rowe.
17 SEP 2026 · This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall talks with author Tlotlo Tsamaase about her latest book House of Margins, where a young African author disappears after being invited to an exclusive writing residency, and her sister is left only with a true crime podcast to help her uncover the truth about what really happened. Also hear a conversation with writer Katie Marya about what goes into translating a text, and how, between languages, there is not always a one-to-one answer.
11 SEP 2026 · On the Sept. 11 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska Public Media radio studio. Tune in to hear host Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about: author Amy Smyth Miller's soon-to-be-released book, "HOME: A Memoir of Family, Forgiveness, and Healing from Complex PTSD" (1:20); the 2026 Art in the Garden, themed Patchwork Garden (12:47) ; the Omaha Community Playhouse's 2026/2027 opening show "Come From Away," (22:03) ;Oboe and English horn player Robert Walters and his upcoming show in Brownville (36:54) ; and Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra season opener taking on Copeland (45:35). We will also have a film review by Kwakiutl Dreyer of "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma." (30:29)
10 SEP 2026 · This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall talks with folk band The Riverside about their music and their upcoming show at Sutherland's Stolen Vault Records. Also hear a conversation from the Nebraska State Fair with Kearney artist Kyan the Red.
4 SEP 2026 · On the Sept. 4 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska State Fair! Tune in, or come to the fair, to hear live musical performances and interviews from: the Sutton High School Marching Band (1:02); The Many Moccasins Dance Troupe (4:10); troubadour Nathan Ertzner(13:00); The Flying Royals (19:37); and Kiley Barwick and Company (32:32).
3 SEP 2026 · This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall is talking to two artists about their craft and how their experiences and history informs their current work. Elizabeth Burden is taking part in an exhibition titled “Elsewhere/The Prairie was Ours" at the Great Plain Art Museum where she is taking the ideas behind history, and how it is told. Artist Madeline Cass is exploring the connections between humans and nature with her exhibition "Where Dust Devils Dance" at The Archive located at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
28 AUG 2026 · On the Aug. 28 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from Nebraska Public Media. Tune in to hear Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about: Summerfest at Lincoln's LUX Center for the Arts (1:30); the Second Chance Comedy Show, from founder Joe Huisman (9:54); the upcoming Nebraska Bluegrass Concert Series (23:05); the 15th Prairie Pride Film Festival, with organizer Kris Stanley and executive director for OutNebraska Rachel Tomlinson Dick (32:25); "The Mess That Made Them," a new book from author Ryan T. Pozzi (43:39). You'll also hear poetry from JV Brummels (18:25). Excerpts from the Corson Branch Buzzard Club's "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" (30:39) and Bien Fang's "Push." (42:00)
27 AUG 2026 · This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall is talking with Tom Knoblauch about his upcoming Reel Talk with Omaha's Film Streams about "Portrait of a Lady on Fire." Also hear from those at the Lofte about their stage performance of Aaron Sorkin's "A Few Good Men."
21 AUG 2026 · On the Aug. 21 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from Nebraska Public Media. Tune in to hear Genevieve Randall have lively conversations with: the former and current executive directors of the Lincoln Community Playhouse, Morrie Enders and Ali Schade(1:07); Liz Kendall Weisser and JaKeen Fox, who are helping to put on the Issa Trap Symphony show at the Joslyn Art Musuem in Omaha (14:27); Cynthia Miller, manager of Lewellen's The Most Unlikely Place, about what they have planned for the end of the summer (31:06); Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra Executive Director Barbara Zach Lee about their upcoming 100th season (39:46); and country artist Neah McMeen (48:46). You'll also hear poetry from Eleanor Reeds (26:29).
20 AUG 2026 · This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall is talking with the editor of Nebraskaland magazine about their current exhibition at Omaha's Durham Museum, celebrating 100 years of publication, and the Hastings Community Playhouse is bringing the movie, Evil Dead to the stage, and it's a musical!
The latest news about arts and humanities happenings around Nebraska, as well as talk and performances from those involved.
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| Author | Nebraska Public Media |
| Organization | Nebraska Public Media |
| Categories | Performing Arts |
| Website | nebraskapublicmedia.org |
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