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For 30 years (as of November 2022) Theater Talk has been appointment listening on WBFO, featuring the insights of theater critic and historian, Anthony Chase, who joins Peter Hall for a five-minute weekly broadcast at 6:45 and 8:45 Friday mornings on 88.7 WBFO with a podcast available on wbfo.org. As part of BTPM (Buffalo Toronto Public Media), their beat is primarily Buffalo theater, but Broadway, The Shaw Festival, and The Stratford Festival are covered as other relevant art forms are touched on, including ballet and opera.

It's Friday on WBFO, so it's Theater Talk. Anthony Chase and Peter Hall talk about the Buffalo Quickies, and walk you through the openings this week on the theater scene.

Buffalo Starbucks workers are joining a nationwide strike; state budget negotiations enter the final weeks; and celebrations of the Hindu festival Navaratri begins today.

Today a look at Black history in Buffalo and the influence Marcus Garvey had on the region in the early 1900s. Malik "Lion" Blyden, president of Buffalo's branch of Garvey's United Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League talks about the historic sites in Buffalo, how Garvey's ideas on self-reliance can resonate today, and why he feels many of those ideas have been ignored in favor of a more traditional telling of Black history.

Aitina Fareed-Cooke talks with Jay Moran. She is an artist and entrepreneur who was born and raised in Buffalo. In early life, she lived in a foster home and speaks freely about how that experience--and the labels of low expectations attached to it--drove her to find herself through art and creativity. Her Get Fokus'd Production is a media arts company that works, in part, to highlight emerging local artists.

Author and lecturer Emmanuel Kulu talks at length about his work with Buffalo Public Schools and elsewhere, infusing African history - from Egypt and the entire continent of Africa - into the teaching of Black history.

A chat with Dr. Peggy Brooks-Bertram, an author and longtime advocate for the teaching of black history, she is one of the founders of the “Uncrowned Community Builders” database of prominent African-American men and women in Western New York and is the author or co-author of several books, including one that gathered letters to First Lady Michelle Obama, and another similarly for Vice President Kamala Harris.

This week's Producers' Picks program is a complete summary of Wednesday's victim impact statements and sentencing of Payton Gendron for the racist massacre at Tops on May 14.

Hear Karen DeWitt report on how the state budget negotiations are impacted by a state surplus, and Toronto correspondent Dan Karpenchuk on possible changes at the unofficial Roxham Road border crossing in upstate NY used by many asylum seekers and immigrants. Also today, the Republican candidate for Erie County Executive is unveiled, and Gov. Hochul's favorability rating is down in the latest statewide Siena Poll.

If it's Friday, It's Theater Talk- today with Anthony and Peter talk of "Hadestown" at Shea's and "Aleph Complex" at the Alleyway. Also, hear how an ice storm plays out for people without cars, and learn of an emerging push to have a high-speed rail link between Toronto and Montreal.