Stage and Studio
Host/Producer Dmae Roberts. Aired Live from the KBOO studio.
Each week Dmae Roberts talks with performing and media artists from the Portland Metro area as well as around the Northwest. As a two-time Peabody award-winning radio producer and writer, Roberts brings national quality to local arts scene. Dmae often features her national radio work on Stage and Studio.If you have an event please send an email to stagenstudio@aol.com at a month and a half before your event. The earlier the better!
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Audio
Dmae Roberts "In The Mix" on Mixed Race artists
Join Host/Producer Dmae Roberts for "In The Mix" - a half-hour look at Mixed Race artists in America. Through voices of artists who have decdicated their lives to building bridges and bringing to light interracial issues, this documentary is a journey toward understanding what it means to be Mixed Race. Artists featured include: Lisa See, Velina Hasu Houston, damali ayo, Heather Raffo, Joshua Wolf Coleman, Soneela Nankani and Juan La Bron.
- Title: ITM-p2(edited)
- Length: 27:28 minutes (25.15 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Snow Falling On Cedars & Japanese Internment
Dmae Roberts focuses on Japanese American internment experience through the production of "Snow Falling On Cedars" at Portland Center Stage. She talks with Bruce Locke, an actor from the show, Tim DuRoche, outreach director and Henry Sakamoto of the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center.
This is a special membership drive edition of the show. We still have tickets to offer to Portland Center Stage and Oregon Shakespeare Festival if you want to become a member for $120 or more.
- Title: SNS12610edited
- Length: 21:14 minutes (19.44 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Kualoa Ranch - LOST TV show
Dmae Roberts visits Kualoa Ranch where much of the hit series LOST is filmed. Kualoa Ranch was sold in 1850 by King Kamehameha III to the Judd family whose descendants still run the ranch as a working cattle ranch and tourist destination. The pristine and awe-inspiring location has been the site for TV shows and films since the 70s. The most recent were Jurassic Park and the hit show LOST. Dmae prepared this audio tour of the rance with co-owner and Operations Director Dave Morgan.
Photos: Courtesy of Richard Jensen
- Title: SNS11910-Kualoa-Lost-
- Length: 9:00 minutes (8.25 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Dancer Minh Tran & Tour of LOST sites in Hawaii
Host Dmae Roberts talks with Dance and Choreographer Minh Tran about his final performance "KISS" which chronicles his coming out as an Asian gay man which is still controversial in the Asian community. And in the second part of the show, Dmae visits Kualoa Ranch where much of the hit series LOST is filmed.
*Minh Tran's "KISS" was commissioned by White Bird Dance for their "Uncaged Series" and will be performed in a two-part bill with Tere Mathern in the round at the World Forestry Center. Here's a video of Tran describing his performance.
- Title: SNS11910-Minh-Lost-edited
- Length: 27:30 minutes (25.18 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Fertile Ground w/Mawson's Mettle & SexyNurd
Dmae Roberts talks with Trisha Mead, director of Fertile Ground, a 10-day festival of new performing arts works in Portland. During January 22 through February 2nd. Fertile Ground features more than a dozen world premieres with well over 50 artists. Also featured on Stage and Studio are Portland Story Theatre's "Mawson's Mettle" with Laurence Howard (about Douglas Mawson who led an expedition in Antartica in 1911) and "Sexy Nurd" with auGi (who performs a couple of songs from his show.)
- Title: SNS11210fertile
- Length: 26:46 minutes (24.51 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Fertile Ground w/Mawson's Mettle & SexyNurd
Dmae Roberts talks with Trisha Mead, director of Fertile Ground, a 10-day festival of new performing arts works in Portland. During January 22 through February 2nd. Fertile Ground features more than a dozen world premieres with well over 50 artists. Also featured on Stage and Studio are Portland Story Theatre's "Mawson's Mettle" with Laurence Howard (about Douglas Mawson who led an expedition in Antartica in 1911) and "Sexy Nurd" with auGi (who performs a couple of songs from his show.)
Check out the video clip of auGi performing live in the studio!
Check out the video on YouTube!
- Title: SNS11210fertile
- Length: 26:46 minutes (24.51 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Broadarts' Melinda Pittman
Host Dmae Roberts talks with Melinda Pittman of Broadarts Theatre unveils "A Broad for All Seasons."
The show is a celebration of amazing international women - alive and from history.
- Title: SNS10510-Broadarts
- Length: 8:18 minutes (7.6 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Milagro Theatre's "American Sueno"
Host Dmae Roberts previews "American Sueno" at Milagro Theatre. Writers Danel Malan and Rebecca Martinez, joined by Composer Joaquin Lopez talk about the process of putting together a touring show about marginalized outsiders pursuing the American Dream. Malan and Martinez talk about the process of writing this play based on interviews with the Portland community. We also get an in-studio concert with Lopez.
- Title: SNS10510-Milagro
- Length: 14:44 minutes (13.49 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Stage and Studio 2009 Review of Arts
Join Host Dmae Roberts for an end of the year review of Stage and Studio. More than 80 artists and arts organizations were featured on 51 shows in 2009. Hear some fun highlights and thought-provoking moments from a year in the arts and ring in the New Year with Dmae!
- Title: SNSReviewfinal2
- Length: 28:53 minutes (26.44 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Author Canyon Sam on Women in Tibet
Dmae Roberts talks with Canyon Sam, the author "Sky Train: Women on the Edge of History" -chronicle of women's lives in Tibet based on a 19-year oral history project. Many women were left to fend for themselves when China invaded Tibet, ending up in work camps with a high mortality rate.
In 2007, Can Yon Sam took a ride on the controversial Sky Train linking Beijing, China to Lhasa, Tibet. Dmae talked to her at the Wordstock Festival in October. Also in the show an audio holiday card.... Plus on the broadcast version, music by Lungchen Llamo.
- Title: SNS122209
- Length: 29:00 minutes (26.56 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)