Guests: PATRICK KELLY & JEROME WEEKS Topic: JOHN ROSENFIELD

Max John Rosenfield Jr., was amusement critic for the Dallas Morning News for 41 years . It can be argued that John Rosenfield did more for the arts in Dallas than any other person during a long reign in which he was known as Cultural Pontiff of the Southwest.In Mr. Rosenfield's  column, The Passing  Show, he wrote about the lively arts, theater, music, ballet and movies with erudition and grace.But his contribution to the performing arts in the Southwest did not stop there. He put people with talent in touch with people with money and watched the results with a certain pride.Through his influence, shrewdly exercised, he guided his city's development in the arts and popular amusements. By the time he retired, Dallas was recognized throughout the music and theater world for its opera, symphony and innovative stage productions. Behind every cultural achievement, the support and guidance of Rosenfieldcould be felt. Patrick Kelly is Professor of Drama Emeritus at University of Dallas where, with Judy his wife, he taught for forty-two years. Besides scores of campus productions he has directed plays at professional theaters around the country. He has also taught in such graduate theatre programs as University of Washington, Denver's National Theatre Conservatory, University of Colorado at Boulder and SouthernMethodist University. Jerome Weeks was the arts producer-reporter for the NPR-PBS station KERA for 15 years. A professional critic for more than three decades, he was the theater critic for The Dallas Morning News for ten years and the paper’s book columnist for ten years after that. He blogged as book/daddy for Artsjournal, and his writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, LosAngeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre  magazine.