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John Arnone

In this podcast series I’ll be one on one with designers, playwrights, directors and actors and we’ll be discussing the lives and careers of legendary theater luminaries and how their work developed.

  1. 12/04/2025

    Guests: PATRICK KELLY & JEROME WEEKS Topic: JOHN ROSENFIELD

    Max John Rosenfield Jr., was amusement critic for the Dallas Morning News for 41 years . It can be  argued that John Rosenfield did more for the arts in Dallas than any other person during a long  reign in which he was known as Cultural Pontiff of  the Southwest. In Mr. Rosenfield's  column, The Passing  Show, he wrote about the lively arts, theater, music, ballet and movies with erudition and grace. But his contribution to the performing arts in the  Southwest did not stop there. He put people with  talent in touch with people with money and watched the results with a certain pride. Through his influence, shrewdly exercised, he  guided his city's development in the arts and  popular amusements. By the time he retired,  Dallas was recognized throughout the music and  theater world for its opera, symphony and  innovative stage productions. Behind every  cultural achievement, the support and guidance of Rosenfield could be felt.  Patrick Kelly is Professor of Drama Emeritus at University of Dallas where, with Judy his wife, he taught for forty-two years. Besides scores of campus productions he has directed plays at professional theaters around the country. He has also taught in such graduate theatre programs as University of Washington, Denver's National Theatre Conservatory, University of Colorado at Boulder and SouthernMethodist University. Jerome Weeks was the arts producer-reporter for the NPR-PBS station KERA for 15 years. A professional critic for more than three decades, he was the theater critic for The Dallas Morning News for ten years and the paper’s book columnist for ten years after that. He blogged as book/daddy for Artsjournal, and his writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, LosAngeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre  magazine.

    55 min
  2. 09/08/2025

    Guests: PAT KELLY & JEROME WEEKS TOPIC: ADRIAN HALL PART TWO

    Adrian Hall was born in Van,  Texas on December 3,1927. He was an American theater director. His directing style has been described as "bold" and his work was considered part of the first and second generation of the regional theater movement  of the 1960s and late 1980s. He was the founding Artistic Director of the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island from 1963 to 1986, and the Artistic Director of The Dallas Theater Center in Dallas, Texas  from 1983 to 1989. He is considered to have created major and divisive change within both institutions. Patrick Kelly is Professor of Drama Emeritus at University of Dallas where, with Judy his wife, he taught for forty-two years. Besides scores of campus productions he has directed plays at professional theaters around the country. He has also taught in such graduate theatre programs as University of Washington, Denver's National Theatre Conservatory, University of Colorado at Boulder and SouthernMethodist University. Jerome Weeks was the arts producer-reporter for the NPR-PBS station KERA for 15 years. A professional critic for more than three decades, he was the book columnist for TheDallas Morning News for ten years and the paper’s theater critic for ten years before that. He blogged as book/daddy for Artsjournal, and his writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre  magazine.

    37 min
  3. 09/08/2025

    Guests: PAT KELLY & JEROME WEEKS Topic: ADRIAN HALL PART ONE

    Adrian Hall was born in Van,  Texas on December 3,1927. He was an American theater director. His directing style has been described as "bold" and his work was considered part of the first and second generation of the regional theater movement  of the 1960s and late 1980s. He was the founding Artistic Director of the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island from 1963 to 1986, and the Artistic Director of The Dallas Theater Center in Dallas, Texas  from 1983 to 1989. He is considered to have created major and divisive change within both institutions. Patrick Kelly is Professor of Drama Emeritus at University of Dallas where, with Judy his wife, he taught for forty-two years. Besides scores of campus productions he hasdirected plays at professional theaters around the country. He has also taught in such graduate theatre programs as University of Washington, Denver's National Theatre Conservatory, University of Colorado at Boulder and SouthernMethodist University. Jerome Weeks was the arts producer-reporter for the NPR-PBS station KERA for 15 years. A professional critic for more than three decades, he was the book columnist for TheDallas Morning News for ten years and the paper’s theater critic for ten years before that. He blogged as book/daddy for Artsjournal, and his writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre  magazine.

    41 min

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In this podcast series I’ll be one on one with designers, playwrights, directors and actors and we’ll be discussing the lives and careers of legendary theater luminaries and how their work developed.