December 15, 2025 - Is This A Room, Marina Abramović, and remembering Rob Reiner

Tina Statter’s  “Is This A Room” uses the verbatim FBI transcript of Reality Winner’s 2017 interrogation to turn everyday language into gripping drama. Actor Parker Jennings, who plays Reality Winner, and actor Cristhian Mancinas-García, who plays Special Agent R. Wallace Taylor, join The Culture Show to discuss this production, which is now onstage at Apollinaire Theatre Company through January 18th. To learn more go here.For more than five decades, Marina Abramović has made endurance, vulnerability, and moral responsibility central to performance art. She joins The Culture Show to discuss her new BBC Maestro course, “The Marina Abramović Method: Performance and Presence.” To learn more go here.Boston Globe TV and pop culture critic Chris Vognar remembers actor and director Rob Reiner, he’ll also cut through December’s viewing overload, highlighting holiday films that still deliver, and unexpected titles worth your time.