Jeremy D. Goodwin
Arts & Culture ReporterJeremy D. Goodwin joined St. Louis Public Radio in spring of 2018 as a reporter covering arts & culture and co-host of the Cut & Paste podcast. He came to us from Boston and the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where he covered the same beat as a full-time freelancer, contributing to The Boston Globe, WBUR 90.9 FM, The New York Times and NPR, plus lots of places that you probably haven’t heard of.
He’s also worked in publicity for the theater troupe Shakespeare & Company and Berkshire Museum. For a decade he joined some fellow Phish fans on the board of The Mockingbird Foundation, a charity that has raised over $1.5 million for music education causes and collectively written three books about the band. He’s also written an as-yet-unpublished novel about the physical power of language, haunted open mic nights with his experimental poetry and written and performed a comedic one-man-show that’s essentially a historical lecture about an event that never happened. He makes it a habit to take a major road trip of National Parks every couple of years.
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Owners of music venues in St. Louis are discovering there is no one-size-fits-all solution to the financial straights brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. With stages dark and the immediate future of the business unclear, industry professionals have turned to federal aid programs but experienced mixed results. -
St. Louis Symphony musicians reached an agreement with the organization to reduce the severity of pay cuts instituted last year.
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Arts organizations in the St. Louis region will soon be able to apply for some of the $15 billion in grants Congress approved for coronavirus pandemic relief.
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Artists and performers have scrambled to make and share their work during the pandemic. They've also turned to the work of their peers to help get through a tough year. Here are some of the locally produced things that inspired St. Louis artists in 2020.
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Renée Brummel Franklin, a longtime staffer at St. Louis Art Museum, will lead its efforts to bolster diversity within the organization. She's charged with acting on recommendations contained in a report adopted by the museum's board of commissioners.
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Golden Globe-winning actress Regina Taylor kicked off her tenure as the Rep's playwright-in-residence with "Love and Kindness in the Time of Quarantine," a compilation of monologues and songs addressing life in a period of social distancing.
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The Muny plans a late-starting season in 2021 that would include all seven shows originally scheduled for this year. But it all depends on the state of the coronavirus pandemic.
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During a holiday season transformed by the coronavirus, St. Louis artists and performers are finding ways to adapt Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and keep some version of a cherished tradition intact.
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Longtime Muny leader Dennis Reagan will step down in 2022. One of the longest-serving arts leaders in the region, Reagan began his affiliation with the Muny as a teenager on the cleanup crew.
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A collaboration among St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, Painted Black STL and Chicago-based group Q Brothers tells the story of "A Christmas Carol" — mainly from the viewpoint of Black artists.
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St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson is asking a city board to approve $600,000 in federal pandemic-relief funds to build 50 tiny houses for homeless people.
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A documentary film chronicles the short but influential history of Black Artists Group, an interdisciplinary creative collective that emphasized Black empowerment in St. Louis.
![The 11,000 seats at the Muny will sit idle this summer. The shape of summer life in St. Louis is changing because of the coronavirus. [6/25/20]](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/050ebfd/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4898x2729+81+0/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fkwmu%2Ffiles%2F202006%2F0625culturalimpact_JDG_004_0.jpg)
