Program Director Michael Marsolek speaks with John Ludin—Executive Director of Montana TheatreWorks, which owns and operates the Ellen Theater in Bozeman—about the theater’s history and about upcoming shows and performances.

Host Lauren Korn sits down with Los Angeles-based filmmaker Marshall Granger to talk about ‘Your Opinion, Please!,’ a short film that celebrates public opinion and public radio. The film premieres at 22nd annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

Lauren Korn speaks with the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Glacier Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, John Zoltek, about an upcoming concert: ‘Scheherazade,’ one of the world’s most beloved orchestral works by Rimsky-Korsakov.

The 22nd annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is taking place in Missoula, Montana, February 14-23, 2025 (and virtually February 17-27). Lauren Korn discusses this year’s festival with Director of Programming, Ryan Weibush.

Lauren Korn speaks with the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Glacier Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, John Zoltek, about an upcoming concert: Symphony jazz night on January 18, 2025, featuring internationally-acclaimed vocalists Halie Loren and Steven Santoro.

Lauren Korn talks to Dolce Canto’s Artistic Director and Conductor, David Edmonds, as well as the Artistic Director of the String Orchestra of the Rockies (SOR), Maria Larionoff. Members of the SOR will join Dolce Canto to perform ‘Pacem: Music of Struggle and Reconciliation’ on November 16, 2024; and on November 17, 2024, celebrating SOR’s 40th anniversary, Dolce Canto will join the orchestra in performing Peteris Vasks’s ‘Dona Nobis Pacem.’

On this episode of ‘Front Row Center,’ host Lauren Korn sits down with Jay Kettering and Gwen McKenna to talk about their brand new musical, ‘The Girl with the Ivory Ankle,’ staged at the Orphan Girl Children’s Theatre, located in the basement of the Mother Lode Theatre in Butte.

‘Front Row Center’ co-host Lauren Korn speaks with the Executive Director of Whitefish’s Alpine Theatre Project, Cynthia Benkelman, about the organization’s 20th anniversary and about their upcoming Broadway Concert Series.

‘Front Row Center’ co-host Lauren Korn sits down with Sarah Calhoun—the producer and founder of the Red Ants Pants Music Festival, owner of Red Ants Pants, and the executive director of the Red Ants Pants Foundation—to talk about 2024 festival happenings.

‘Front Row Center’ host Lauren Korn sits down with MTPR Artist-in-Residence and Artistic Director of the Helena Symphony Allan R. Scott to talk about the 20th annual Symphony Under Stars, which will take place on Saturday, July 20 at 8:30 p.m. and will celebrate the music of Tina Turner.