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Dressing Room Banter

Dexter Whitehead

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What’s not to talk about when you are backstage waiting for your next entrance? Join Dexter Whitehead as he sits down with special guests from each and every part of the theatre and brings you into the dressing room too. So pick up your interval coffee or pour your post show wine and get ready for some dressing room banter. “There are no small parts, only small actors”. – Konstantin Stanislavski
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Mild mannered Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass and WGN Radio's Jeff Carlin explore the week in news, politics and other thngs done the Chicago Way in this WGN Plus podcast from WGN Radio in Chicago.
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