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On the October 16th episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska Public Media radio studio. Tune in to hear host Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about the arts and humanities in Nebraska with: singer/songwriter Jessica Willis Fisher, investigative journalist Wesaam Al-Badry, collections manager for Bone Creek Museum Gabrielle Comte, and director Tyler J. Rinne and actor Mitchell Keane for Beatrice Community Players' staging of Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery.

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall talks with the directors and actors of two plays which revolve around conversation. "Now and Then" is a production being put on by the Grand Island Little Theatre, with director Steve Gobel and the actress playing "Abby," Jana Thompson, appearing on this week's show. "The Sunset Limited" is one of Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy's plays; it's being put on by Omni Arts with director Jillian Carter. She and the actor playing "Black," Max Antoine join Genevieve for a discussion of the play.

On the Oct. 9 episode of Friday LIVE, hear Friday LIVE from the Fox Theatre in North Platte. Tune in to hear music and lively conversations from: pianist Jim Fischer (0:44); the North Platte Community Playhouse about what its upcoming season has in store (18:41); North Platte's Prairie Arts Center (25:26); muralist Breeanna Benton (32:28); and bluegrass group, the Blackwood Creek Pickers (38:03).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall talks with the founder of Omaha's House of Afros, Capes and Curls, Jade Rogers, about this year's Afro Con, and its theme, "Cool Girls ♥ Anime: Celebrating the Women & Girls that Love Anime & the Communities That Love Them." Also hear about a unique opportunity to see hay bale sculpting from some of the best snow sculptors around, in Omaha's Heartwood Park.

On the Oct. 2 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Mill Coffee and Tea in Lincoln's Historic Haymarket. Tune in as host Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about: The Beatrice Regional Orchestra's upcoming concert featuring Philip Daniel and his (1:22); Underdog: The Other Other Brontë a new theater production opening at Nebraska Wesleyan Theatre (9:32); Larry Buller's new art exhibition at the LUX Center for the Arts, Gaze: Jockstraps, Bunnies and the Divine (19:28); and Western Music Hall of Fame musician Dave Stamey and his concert at the Midwest Theatre in Scottsbluff (33:08). Also hear the poetry of Ted Kooser, read by Stephen Buhler, UNL Aaron Douglas Emeritus Professor of English (29:39).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall talks with composer and singer Nick Lemme about Cloak of Stars, a meditative program of sacred music inspired by the life of St. Francis of Assisi. The concert features the Lincoln ensemble Consort Pelicani performing Renaissance vocal music and Gregorian chant, along with organ music.

On the Sept. 25 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska Public Media radio studio. Tune in to hear host Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about: The 2026 American Liszt Society Festival, with artistic director Paul Barnes and featured artist Angel Stanislav Wang (0:51); The Manhattan Short Film Festival being shown at Kearney's World Theatre (12:28); and the upcoming Nebraska Storytelling Festival, and its theme "Many Threads, One Story" (19:46). Hear how Undertale-The Determination Symphony is paying La Vista's Astro Theater a visit, from the Verge Arcade's Penelope Morrow (44:34), and what The Ross Theatre in Lincoln has planned for their upcoming Fright Fest, from Cole McEwen (31:19). Also hear poetry from Wayne, Nebraska's own J.V. Brummels. (40:01)

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall talks with artist Sophia Baker about her art and how it seems to ask difficult questions about morality and the consequences of human action. Also hear about ArteLatinx 2026 being held at Omaha's El Museo Latino

On the Sept. 18 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska Public Media radio studio. Tune in to hear host Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about: Musical invention, with Casey Hollingsworth (26:20); Flatwater Shakespeare's upcoming shows, One-Ham Manlet, and Coriolanus (17:09); The Marches: Fragments of Time from Arp Clock and Wood Shop, a book and art exhibition by Terry Ratzloff (1:09); the Willow Creek Folk School with Tom Isern (34:27); and the Nebraska Chamber Players' upcoming concert, Autumn Contemplations (41:38). We will also hear the final part of the series on the art of the Omaha Public Library from KJ Teder (48:34). This time she spoke with artists Peyton Pearson and Sarah Rowe.

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall talks with author Tlotlo Tsamaase about her latest book House of Margins, where a young African author disappears after being invited to an exclusive writing residency, and her sister is left only with a true crime podcast to help her uncover the truth about what really happened. Also hear a conversation with writer Katie Marya about what goes into translating a text, and how, between languages, there is not always a one-to-one answer.

On the Sept. 11 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska Public Media radio studio. Tune in to hear host Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about: author Amy Smyth Miller's soon-to-be-released book, "HOME: A Memoir of Family, Forgiveness, and Healing from Complex PTSD" (1:20); the 2026 Art in the Garden, themed Patchwork Garden (12:47) ; the Omaha Community Playhouse's 2026/2027 opening show "Come From Away," (22:03) ;Oboe and English horn player Robert Walters and his upcoming show in Brownville (36:54) ; and Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra season opener taking on Copeland (45:35). We will also have a film review by Kwakiutl Dreyer of "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma." (30:29)

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall talks with folk band The Riverside about their music and their upcoming show at Sutherland's Stolen Vault Records. Also hear a conversation from the Nebraska State Fair with Kearney artist Kyan the Red.

On the Sept. 4 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from the Nebraska State Fair! Tune in, or come to the fair, to hear live musical performances and interviews from: the Sutton High School Marching Band (1:02); The Many Moccasins Dance Troupe (4:10); troubadour Nathan Ertzner(13:00); The Flying Royals (19:37); and Kiley Barwick and Company (32:32).

This week on the Friday LIVE Extra, Genevieve Randall is talking to two artists about their craft and how their experiences and history informs their current work. Elizabeth Burden is taking part in an exhibition titled “Elsewhere/The Prairie was Ours" at the Great Plain Art Museum where she is taking the ideas behind history, and how it is told. Artist Madeline Cass is exploring the connections between humans and nature with her exhibition "Where Dust Devils Dance" at The Archive located at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

On the Aug. 28 episode of Friday LIVE, we're broadcasting from Nebraska Public Media. Tune in to hear Genevieve Randall have lively conversations about: Summerfest at Lincoln's LUX Center for the Arts (1:30); the Second Chance Comedy Show, from founder Joe Huisman (9:54); the upcoming Nebraska Bluegrass Concert Series (23:05); the 15th Prairie Pride Film Festival, with organizer Kris Stanley and executive director for OutNebraska Rachel Tomlinson Dick (32:25); "The Mess That Made Them," a new book from author Ryan T. Pozzi (43:39). You'll also hear poetry from JV Brummels (18:25). Excerpts from the Corson Branch Buzzard Club's "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" (30:39) and Bien Fang's "Push." (42:00)