WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with “Schmigadoon!” creator Cinco Paul and “This Is Us” writer Bekah Brunstetter about their new Biblical musical “A.D. 16” at Olney Theatre in Olney, Maryland about teenage Mary Magdalene crushing on Jesus. Paul also shares his Minions memories from writing “Despicable Me.”
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Amanda Weinstein, Rachel Vindman, and Jasmine Clark of The Suburban Women Problem Podcast join us to talk about privilege, exceptionalism, and of course race.
WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley celebrates the start of the Winter Olympics by bringing back this conversation with gold medalist figure-skater Scott Hamilton, who came to “A Capital Fourth” in Washington D.C. in 2016.
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WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with the hilarious J.B. Smoove, one of the comedians featured in the new docuseries “Phat Tuesdays,” which premieres tomorrow on Amazon Prime. He called in to promote his standup gig at Warner Theatre in Washington D.C. back in 2019.
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WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley celebrates Groundhog Day with the one and only Bill Murray! They spoke on the Kennedy Center red carpet when Murray received the 2016 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. You’ll also hear from Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Heder, Sigourney Weaver, Rhiannon Giddens, Bruce Vilanch and “Ghostbusters” director Ivan Reitman. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with seven-time Grammy winner Christian McBride, who kicks off Black History Month by presenting “The Movement Revisited” this Friday at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. The piece is a tribute to Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama.
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WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with Susan Tedeschi as Tedeschi Trucks rocks Warner Theatre in Washington D.C. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. You’ll also hear Jason’s 2020 chat with her husband Derek Trucks to close the podcast.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gisela Perez Kusakawa, a staff attorney at Asian-Americans Advancing Justice, says it’s exhausting to be Asian in the US, where they have for decades been unfairly labeled as national security threats.
WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with Tim Commerford, bass player for Rage Against the Machine, as the Tally Ho Theatre hosts a tribute tomorrow night in Leesburg, Virginia. They spoke in 2016 when Commerford’s supergroup Prophets of Rage played EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia, breaking down the band’s biggest anthems from the political rage of “Killing in the Name” to the John Coltrane roots of “Bulls on Parade.” He even mentions his time with other supergroup Audioslave. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Marc Cohn, who performs live at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia on Feb. 2. They discussed Cohn’s breakthrough hit “Walking in Memphis,” as well as his other underrated albums that paint his full life story, from losing his parents at a young age to being shot in the head during a carjacking incident in 2005.
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