September 2, 2025 - Marianne Leone, Rachel Ruysch at the MFA, and Passengers at the ART

Marianne Leone is an actress, author, and screenwriter. She joins The Culture Show to talk about her novel “Christina The Astonishing," a  coming-of-age story about Christina Falcone and her desire to break free from Catholic school nuns, Italian mothers, and small-town Massachusetts. On September 10th she’ll be at Porter Square Books, in conversation with Chris Cooper. To learn more go here. From there we head to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for an overview of their new exhibition “Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, and Pioneer.” Antien Knaap, the MFA’s Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, Curator of Paintings, Art of Europe, and Charles Davis,  Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University join The Culture Show.Finally Shana Carroll, the Co-Founding Artistic Director of the Montreal based circus company The 7 Fingers joins us to talk about “Passengers,”  which is written, directed and choreographed by Carroll. “Passengers,” is a kinetic show about train travel as a metaphor for life that  blends circus, music, dance and storytelling. It’s onstage at the American Repertory Theater’s Loeb Drama Center through September 26th. It is co-produced by TOHU and ArtsEmerson. To learn more go here.