Dean Richards

Metacritic.com film editor, Keith Kimbell, joins Dean Richards to walk us through what movies will be released onto DVD and to Blu-ray in the month of May.

ABC News Radio Correspondent Tom Rivers reports from London to share with Dean the damage the earthquake Saturday caused in Nepal, and the disaster relief efforts that are underway.  

Bruce Jenner told Diane Sawyer Friday that “I’m a woman.” Only moments after Dean finished an interview with two activists involved in transgender outreach, listeners flooded the studio hotline with their thoughts.

Rondi Reed joins Dean to talk about how she will be contributing to Gold Star Families Saturday at Chicago’s Run to Remember, and to talk about her recent work on Mike and Molly.

Howard Brown Health Center Transgender Outreach Coordinator Myles Brady joins Dean to share his thoughts on Bruce Jenner’s interview with Diane Sawyer that aired Friday on ABC’s “20/20.” With Brady is Columbia College Chicago Diversity Initiative Assistant Director Precious Davis to explain how the team supports people who are trying to claim and accept their own identities.

For this week’s “Food Time” segment, Dean Richards invites on Chicago Magazine’s Penny Pollack onto the program to discuss the best new restaurants of 2015.  

Dean Richards gives his review of the Broadway classic, Carousel, at the Lyric Opera  for “The Week in Theater Segment” and then opens the phone lines to hear what the listeners who have seen the musical thought.  

The weather is warming up and the grills are too.  Today on Dean Richards’ Food Time segment, he talks grilling, and what some of our listeners favorite things are to grill.  

Joining Dean Richards for The Week in Theater segment is Vanessa Claire Stewart as Keely Smith and Anthony Crivello as Louis Prima in Louis & Keely ‘LIVE’ at The Sahara as they talk about their production, what it was like for Vanessa to perform in front of Keely Smith, and they perform a song for us live!  

Metacritic.com film editor, Keith Kimbell, joins Dean Richards to walk us through what movies will be released onto DVD and to Blu-ray in the month of April.

Dean Richards talks with Tony Award winning Jessie Mueller as she shares her insight on her continuous growing process as an artist and we hear a wonderful performance of hers.

Dean Richards remembers the passing of WGN’s “Uncle Bobby”, Bob Collins, 15 years ago today by sharing a touching piece of Bob’s final broadcast where he tells us about 21 things he has learned as he grew older.  

On the day before the passing of WGN’s , “Uncle Bobby” Bob Collins, 15 years ago, Dean Richards made an appearance on Bob’s show as they begin with a light hearted conversation about a made-for-television movie, Mary and Rohda, and it quickly turns to a beautiful and somewhat ironic discussion of not knowing what your future has in store for you.  

Drew Taylor, writer for Moviefone, joins Dean Richards to discuss the DVD and Blu-ray releases for the month of February.  You can follow what Drew is up to on twitter @DrewTailored.  

Joining Dean Richards today for The Week in Theater is the very talented Gene Weygandt who is starring in La Cage Aux Folles that is out at The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire.  He talks about his perspective on the Chicago theater scene and performs a number from the show.  The show is open now and will play through March 22, 2015.