Playtime Radio: Frida Kahlo 2020 Exhibit in Glen Ellyn

Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall is our radio arts partner. Third Coast Review news and reviews are highlighted and our writers sometimes appear on the Sunday afternoon arts radio show. Playtime broadcasts on WCGO, 1590AM and 95.9FM, each Sunday from 1 to 3pm and streams on Facebook. You can listen to each week’s Playtime here on our site. Here’s host Bill Turck’s description of what you’ll hear on Playtime’s latest edition.

Hour One

The first comprehensive U.S. retrospective of Frida Kahlo's work in 40 years comes to the McAninch Art Center at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn. The exhibit opens June 1. Executive director Diana Martinez, along with artist Megan Williamson and Darla Leclair from Basil Ishkabibble's art gallery in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, join the conversation about Frida Kahlo 2020. Plus, what is trending at Third Coast Review for movies, art gift ideas, videogames, theater and much more. Make Third Coast Review your go-to every Thursday for your weekend curated by Julian Ramirez.
 

Hour Two

Bill and Kerri save the world, with the help of artistic superhero friends like Lainie Petersen with the Theater Report. Just in time for the holidays and tough girls, Starsky a,nd Hutch's Paul Michael Glaser's holiday family novel, Chrystallia and the Secret of Light is now available in audiobook and free with trial at Audible.com. Paul joins us for the hour.
Nancy S Bishop

Nancy S. Bishop is publisher and Stages editor of Third Coast Review. She’s a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and a 2014 Fellow of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. You can read her personal writing on pop culture at nancybishopsjournal.com, and follow her on Twitter @nsbishop. She also writes about film, books, art, architecture and design.