Jeremy D. Goodwin
Arts & Culture Senior 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 He’s also written an as-yet-unpublished novel about the physical power of language, haunted open mic nights with his experimental poetry and written and performed a comedic one-man-show that’s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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The playwright Tennessee Williams is not most-often associated with St. Louis, where he grew up. The Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis has spent 10 years making the case for the city’s influence on Williams’ work. -
Members of the IAM union rejected Boeing’s contract proposal on Sunday, hours before the current deal expired. The union will wait at least a week before potentially calling a strike. -
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band started in 1965 as a jug band, became a titan of country-music radio and reached back to the roots of American music for its latest efforts. The group plays Chesterfield Amphitheater on Thursday. -
The American Red Cross operated five shelters in the weeks after the May 16 tornado, serving nearly 1,000 displaced people. -
An unusual partnership between public-art promoter Counterpublic and the International Institute of St. Louis will help the institute reach community members and prepare to be an anchor site for the 2026 Counterpublic exhibition. -
A June 29 benefit concert and an associated online campaign netted $350,000 to support the Urban League’s tornado relief efforts in north St. Louis, with another $150,000 in pledged donations expected. The Fabulous Fox Theatre donated its space for the event. -
“Romeo and Zooliet” is a kid-friendly adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” that puts large, custom-made animal puppets at center stage. St. Louis Shakespeare Festival will perform it at St. Louis Zoo from Tuesday through Aug. 17. -
New festival Free 4 All will take over 10 venues in Grand Center the weekend before Music At The Intersection. Organizers of the new festival say it’s a sort of opening act for MATI, featuring St. Louis artists. -
A tornado benefit concert at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Sunday will feature the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Chorus and the IN UNISON Chorus. The May 16 tornado damaged the churches and homes of many IN UNISON singers. -
A program launched by a trio of nonprofit organizations seeks to reinforce St. Louis’s reputation as a hub for music — and to make streets more welcoming to residents and visitors — by paying musicians to play on street corners. -
English-speaking people who need emergency assistance anywhere in St. Louis County can now reach emergency services by texting 911. -
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage teamed with her poet daughter Runy Aiyo Gerber and veteran composer Ricky Ian Gordon to create “This House,” which makes its world premiere at Opera Theatre of St. Louis through June 29.
