The Roundtable

We welcome Kevin Bleyer, writer for The Daily Show, and speak with him about his new book, Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America.

WAMC's Ian Pickus sits down with Troy, New York-based photographer and visual artist George Gruel, former road manager for acclaimed musician Warren Zevon and the author of Lawyers, Guns and Photos: Photographs and Tales of My Adventures with Warren Zevon.

Chester Theatre Company’s theme for this summer’s season - their 23rd - is “Uncommon Love Stories,” and they kick off the summer this week with a production of Animals Out of Paper by 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist, Rajiv Joseph.   We speak with artistic director, Byam Stevens, about that show and the rest of the season's offerings.

The immigration debate entered a new era with President Obama’s recent executive order. In today’s Congressional Corner, Vermont Representative Peter Welch tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock that the decision was a smart one.

The exhibition, Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered will be on display at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA through October 28. Stephanie Plunkett, chief curator at the Norman Rockwell Museum and Dr. Joyce Schiller, curator of the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies at Norman Rockwell Museum join us to tell us more about Howard Pyle and his work.

We welcome Pulitzer-prize winning biographer and associate editor of the Washington Post, David Maraniss, to the program and speak with him about Barack Obama: The Story.

For our final segment of the show we welcome Pittsfield's Mayor, Dan Bianchi.

The Berkshire Museum’s Executive Director, Van Shields and their Director of Communications, Lesley Ann Beck, join us to talk about the current goings-on at the museum - including, but not limited to, their Tom Patti: Free Opening Day Celebration on June 30.

Brad Oscar (Tevye) and Rachel Coloff (Yente the Matchmaker) join us to talk about their work in Barrington Stage's Mainstage production of Fiddler on the Roof.

Will Garrison - Curator of the Berkshire Historical Society at Herman Melville's Arrowhead; Michael Melle, the artist who created “Ahab and the Whale” – a sculpture currently on installed in the field at Arrowhead; and Jana Laiz, Arrowhead’s Writer-in-Residence join us to talk about this summer's "Call Me Melville" celebration.