Front Row Center
Sundays at 9:53 a.m. Occasionally Fridays at 3 p.m. and Saturdays at 9:30 a.m.
Montana Public Radio’s on-air arts and culture magazine, bringing you news of upcoming performing arts and music around western Montana.
Latest Episodes
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Front Row Center Host Keely Larson sits down with Westside Theater and Bare Bait Dance Executive Director Joy French, along with dancer and choreographer Caroline McCauley, to talk about 40 Over 40—a production that includes over 80 dancers ages 40 and up, from "dance curious" participants to those with extensive experience in the artform.
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‘Front Row Center’ host Lauren Korn speaks with Alissa Tucker, the founder and director of Last Best Cabaret, a new entertainment company with two spring performances in March and April.
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For this extended segment of ‘Front Row Center,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with the co-directors and editors of ‘The Boys of Summer,’ Mito Habe-Evans and Annabel Edwards. The film will have its world premiere at the 2026 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
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Bare Bait Dance and Westside Theater Executive Director Joy French spoke with MTPR Special Projects Producer Keely Larson about Kinetoscope 13 — Westside Theater’s dance film festival, featuring 10 films from six different countries as well as live performances.
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On this episode of ‘Front Row Center,’ Lauren Korn speaks with David Edmonds, Director of Choral Studies at the University of New Mexico and the Artistic Director of Missoula’s Dolce Canto. The two talk about Dolce Canto’s upcoming holiday concerts in St. Ignatius and Missoula.
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Bare Bait Dance and Westside Theater Executive Director Joy French speaks with MTPR Special Projects Producer Keely Larson about A Few of My Favorite Things – Bare Bait’s holiday show this winter season.
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‘Front Row Center’ co-host Lauren Korn speaks with Chris La Tray, current Montana Poet Laureate and one of the organizers of IndigiPalooza MT: Indigenous Arts & Storytelling Festival. The two talk about the inaugural festival, taking place August 1-2, 2025, in Missoula, Montana.
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‘Front Row Center’ co-host Lauren Korn speaks with Lisa Simon, owner of Missoula’s Radius Gallery, about James G. Todd, the late “scholar artist” and printmaker.
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Program Director Michael Marsolek speaks with John Ludin—Executive Director of Montana TheatreWorks, which owns and operates the Ellen Theater in Bozeman—about the theater’s history and about upcoming shows and performances.
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Host Lauren Korn sits down with Los Angeles-based filmmaker Marshall Granger to talk about ‘Your Opinion, Please!,’ a short film that celebrates public opinion and public radio. The film premieres at 22nd annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.