Front Row Center
Sundays at 9:53 a.m. Occasionally Fridays at 3 p.m. and Saturdays at 9:30 a.m.
Montana Public Radio's on-air arts and culture magazine, bringing you news of upcoming performing arts and music around western Montana.
Latest Episodes
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Host Lauren Korn speaks with Erika Fredrickson and Matthew Frank, former ‘Missoula Independent’ reporters and the founders of ‘The Pulp,’ a new independent, non-profit news organization covering politics, arts, and culture in Missoula, Montana.
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Michael Marsolek speaks with Rafael Chacón, Director of the Montana Museum of Art and Culture, about the museum’s new home and its homecoming week grand opening events.
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Lauren Korn speaks with Jeffrey Foucault about his upcoming appearance at the Wilma Theatre. The two will be helping Missoula novelist David James Duncan celebrate the release of ‘Sun House’ on August 11, 2023.
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Lauren Korn discusses Missoula Community Theatre’s production of Roald Dahl’s ‘Matilda’ with cast member Scoob Decker, who plays sinister headmaster Miss Trunchbull.
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Novelist Maxim Loskutoff won a 2021 Artist Innovation Award, presented by the Montana Arts Council. FRC host Lauren Korn chats with Maxim about his citizenship in the American West and about “innovative” writing.
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FRC host Lauren Korn speaks with Cara Wilder, Director of Operations and Marketing for the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center, about the venue’s 2022-2023 winter season.
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Host Lauren Korn sits down with Michael Legg, the artistic director of the Montana Repertory Theatre. The two chat about ‘Hearth: A Yuletide Tale,’ a play about what it means to live in a community that cares for each other.
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Lauren Korn sits down with Gillian Glaes, the Director of the Humanities Institute, housed on the University of Montana campus, about the many events the organization has programmed this year and has planned for next year.
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Lauren Korn speaks with Dr. Alicia Odewale about her forthcoming visit to Montana on November 17, 2022—to Kalispell for a National Geographic Live event at the Wachholz College Center, ‘Greenwood: A Century of Resilience.’
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Lauren Korn sits down to chat with the current Executive Director of Humanities Montana, Randi Tanglen. Humanities Montana is the statewide council and nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in October 2022.