WFMT: Andrew Patner on Arts and Culture

WFMT: Andrew Patner on Arts and Culture


Latest Episodes

Macbeth and a Breathless Opening Weekend
September 17, 2014

Andrew previews an exciting weekend of events in Chicago.  

Susan Nussbaum
September 15, 2014

Andrew talks with Chicago playwright and longtime disability rights activist Susan Nussbaum about her award-winning first novel Good Kings Bad Kings, recently issued in paperback.  

The Season is Upon Us
September 10, 2014

Andrew outlines the must-see Chicago music events for the month of September.  

Bloch’s Macbeth at Chicago Opera Theater
September 08, 2014

Andrew talks with leading team members, and shares music from, Chicago Opera Theater's new production -- and the Chicago premiere -- of the early 20th-century Macbeth by composer Ernest Bloch.  

Films at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
September 03, 2014

Andrew talks the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's year-round and upcoming film viewing schedules.  

Randy Kroszner - Part 2 of 2
September 01, 2014

The second of Andrew's two-part discussion about the role of economics and economists in American society with Randy Kroszner, Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics at the Booth School of Business of The University of Chicago and a former Governor o

Randy Kroszner - Part 1 of 2
August 25, 2014

The first of Andrew's two-part discussion about the role of economics and economists in American society with Randy Kroszner, Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics at the Booth School of Business of The University of Chicago and a former Governor of th

Bennett Gordon Hall
August 20, 2014

Andrew previews upcoming acts at Ravinia's Bennett Gordon Hall.

Bernard Haitink (Rebroadcast)
August 18, 2014

Andrew presents a 2014 conversation with Bernard Haitink discussing his 60th anniversary year as a conductor of leading international orchestras.

Body and Soul and Robin Williams
August 13, 2014

Andrew returns to the airwaves following a seven week recovery from a fall.  Andrew remembers Robin Williams and discusses matters of mental health in this week's Critic's Choice.