WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley celebrates Oscar week and International Women’s Day by flashing back to his interview with reigning Best Actress champ Jessica Chastain when she visited Washington D.C. in 2016 to promote her political thriller “Miss Sloane.” They end with a rapid-fire Q&A about the best roles of her career. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley celebrates Oscar week by flashing back to this 2016 conversation with Emma Stone just months before she won the Academy Award for “La La Land.” You’ll also hear a conversation with “La La Land” director Damien Chazelle, who that year became the youngest filmmaker to win the Oscar for Best Director at age 32. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with Dispatch frontman Chadwick Stokes, who performs live at Rams Head in Annapolis, Maryland on Wednesday. They break down Dispatch songs from “Out Loud” to “The General,” as well as other projects like State Radio and even his new rock opera. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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Four unique and compelling stories: He was a carjacking victim. She is a Vietnamese Boat person. A mixed-race woman is told to go back to Africa. And he can’t get a photograph from 1962 out of his head.
WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with WWE Intercontinental Champion Gunther as “Friday Night Smackdown” hits Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. tomorrow night. They discuss his journey from growing up in Vienna, Austria to nearly winning the “Royal Rumble.” (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Fred Rogers, who died on Feb. 27, 2003. Jason spoke about the legacy of Mr. Rogers with Nicholas Ma, son of Yo-Yo Ma and producer of the 2018 documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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Craig Timberg, Sr. Editor for Collaborative Investigations at the Washington Post, details the growing threat to female journalists, who are targeted online for holding powerful people accountable.
WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with Sean Carroll, executive producer of the HBO Max bird documentary “All That Breathes,” which will compete for Best Documentary Feature next month at the Oscars. They discussed how his local production company, Tangled Bank Studios in Chevy Chase, Maryland, collaborated with Indian filmmaker Shaunak Sen to chronicle two brothers who have cured over 26,000 injured birds over the last 20 years in Delhi. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley marks the one-year anniversary of Russia invading Ukraine, sparking a brutal war that continues today. He spoke in 2016 with filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky about his Oscar-nominated documentary “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom,” chronicling the Ukrainian Revolution in Kyiv that ultimately ousted pro-Russian President Victor Yanukovych. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with beloved red-dirt country singer Pat Green (“Wave on Wave”), who performs with the Josh Abbott Band tomorrow night at the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. They spoke when he previously played the 9:30 Club with Josh Abbott and Randy Rogers back in 2020. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)
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