WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call

On the March 22 Wake-Up Call, guest host Pete Ronayne talks with Ralph Alan Cohen, Founding Executive Director and Director of Mission at the American Shakespeare Center, and Sarah Ellen Enloe, Director of Education. The American Shakespeare Center is an internationally acclaimed theatre company that performs Shakespeare’s works under their original staging conditions — on a simple stage, without elaborate sets, and with the audience sharing the same light as the actors — right in Central Virginia.

 

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It’s an Oscar tradition! On the February 22nd edition of the Wake-Up Call,  Rick chatted with Adam Greenbaum, owner of Visulite Cinemas; Tom DuMontier, frequent reviewer on WNRN’s 91 Seconds on Film; and Ben Nuckols of Ill Informed Gadfly. The entertaining trio give their Oscar picks for tonight’s Academy Awards.

 

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On February 1, 2009, Host Rick Moore talks with John Halliday and Krista Farrell, the director and assistant director of Jefferson-Madison Regional Library about how the public library is affected by the changing technological landscape. They also discuss this year’s selection for The Big Read, “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston.

 

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On the November 9th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick Moore chats with local young talents Pilar Marshall and Will Denton. Pilar sings, acts, and dances in productions at Live Arts and other area venues. “Willie DE” is the lead singer for The Wave, a trio that plays regularly at local venues such as Gravity Lounge. Rick plays some music, and talks to the youths about balancing school work, social life, and the drive to perform.

 

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On the August 3rd edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call on WNRN, Rick Moore discusses the artistic life with Beryl Solla, Chair of the Piedmont Virginia Community College Art Dept. and Gallery Curator; Laura Parsons, Arts Editor for The Hook, and Maggie Guggenheimer, Executive Director of the Piedmont Council of the Arts. In a wide-ranging conversation, these leaders in the local art scene explain how our lives and community are enriched by the arts, and why it is important to support local arts organizations.

 

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It’s the annual Barhoppers show on this week’s edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call! Members from Offstage Theatre’s Barhoppers 2008 join Rick Moore in the studio to present some samples from their show. The show’s various directors and producers explain what exactly Barhoppers is and how it got started, while the actors perform excerpts from some of the skits - “Automatic Writing,” “Tragic Hero,” “Big Fish, Little Fish,” and “Answer Man.”

Barhoppers is theatre performed in bars - and this year, all seven skits are by local playwright Joel Jones. You can see the show at Rapture for the next two weeks, Sunday through Tuesday, 7:30 at Rapture. The show is open to all ages, though parental discretion is advised. Tonight is the only non-smoking show.

 

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