Bad Mouth Theatre Company
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Twin Cities theater talk with backstage texture.
Mouthing Off keeps close company with the Twin Cities theater scene. Episodes move from production talk and artist interviews into weather, radio craft, fringe festivals, book podcasts, haunted attractions, and whatever else the guest brings into the room.
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Mouthing Off is a St. Paul arts-and-theater conversation show with its feet firmly in the Twin Cities. It is built around interviews, but the interviews do not feel boxed in. A guest may arrive to talk about a production, a fringe run, a radio project, or an immersive haunt, and the episode will usually follow the practical, funny, slightly winding path of that person's experience. That is the charm. The show is local without being narrow. Frogtown Radio, History Theatre, Minnesota Fringe, Green Bay Fringe, Bryant Lake Bowl, Lyric Arts, and neighborhood performance spaces all become part of its geography. It pays attention to where art happens. It also pays attention to how art happens. Guests talk about posters, dorm rooms, rehearsal realities, makeup departments, prosthetics, playlists, show openings, audience habits, and the constant need to market the thing while still caring about the thing. The mood is warm and informal. The pacing leaves room for side comments. Minnesota weather comes up. So do sports rivalries, Coachella, book podcasts, old radio formats, and the occasional joke about being too old for TikTok. The show works because it treats those detours as part of the arts world rather than distractions from it. Performers are people with schedules, budgets, friends, anxieties, and favorite shows. Venues are places with histories and practical constraints. Radio is both a platform and a craft. Mouthing Off is especially good when it lets guests describe the physical texture of performance: rooms, costumes, props, beds on tour, makeup recipes, or the feeling of being in the middle of a festival city. It is not glossy culture coverage. It is closer to a smart, friendly lobby conversation that happens to be recorded for radio and podcast listeners. For anyone interested in the lived reality of regional theater, fringe performance, and local arts communities, it offers a useful, human window.
Made for: For listeners who follow regional theater, fringe festivals, community radio, and the practical lives of working artists. It especially suits people who prefer relaxed arts conversation over polished culture criticism.
What sets it apart: Mouthing Off stands out by keeping the local arts ecosystem in the frame: venues, radio stations, festivals, rehearsal realities, marketing chores, and social side roads all matter. The result feels grounded in actual creative work rather than detached review culture.
Mouthing Off is a theatre, arts and culture podcast from Bad Mouth Theatre Company in St. Paul, Minnesota. The show features compelling interviews and discussions with artists and creators from around the Twin Cities and beyond. Tune in for something different online, at Minnesota Playlist, and in St. Paul from Frogtown Radio, 94.1 FM.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mouthing Off brings Twin Cities performance culture into focus through candid interviews about artistic choices and the practical labor behind them.
Mouthing Off turns interviews into working conversations about how performance gets made and sustained around St. Paul and the Twin Cities. Amanda Forstrom, Kevin Kautzman, and Mari Sittner meet actors, theatre companies, and local arts organizers with the familiarity of…
A haunt has poop recipes, and you get the backstage conversation no theater program could print.
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A relaxed station-side conversation where playlists, digital radio, and Minnesota Nice share the same microphone.
Frogtown Radio gives this Mouthing Off episode its center of gravity, with the station's co-manager helping turn the conversation into a relaxed sketch of local radio in practice.
A loose local theater chat that stays grounded in the work artists are actually making.
This episode is a warm theater-and-arts conversation centered on the Twin Cities scene. The hosts settle into an easy, conversational pace before Sam Landman comes in to talk about a Fringe show he developed with Nissa Nordland and an earlier version of the idea as the…
A warm, practical theater conversation about Fringe logistics, hospitality, and bringing a show back home.
Mouthing Off keeps its focus on a friendly theater check-in, with Dark Pony Radio and Edinburgh Fringe setting the frame. The conversation moves through hospitality, poster troubles, dorm-style rooms, and even the simple pleasure of walking past a castle on the way to coffee.
A warm, bookish arts-radio chat that feels pleasantly inside the planning room.
Mouthing Off plays like a loose, likeable arts-radio hangout, circling books, upcoming guest spots, and the simple pleasure of programming with a clear purpose.
A haunted-house conversation that turns into a grounded look at immersive theater, craft, and local arts collaboration.
Mouthing Off treats a haunted house conversation as a grounded look at immersive theater, with Kevin Kautzman talking with Britt Johnson and Gail Kowski about the Catacomb Collective.
A warm local theater conversation that follows Doris Hines from humble beginnings into a Minneapolis jazz story.
Mouthing Off is a theater, arts, and culture podcast from Bad Mouth Theater Company in St. Paul, and this episode stays close to those local roots.
Kaitlin Prest blends personal reenactment and Gaza war testimony across serialized documentary seasons.
Frogtown Radio gets its turn at the mic.
Sam Landman drops in for theater talk, and the conversation takes its time getting there.
This episode features an interview with actor Matt Saxe about his role in the production 'And Then There Were None' at Lyric Arts, with casual conversation about weather and seasonal changes.
This episode of Mouthing Off is an interview-focused theater and culture podcast from Bad Mouth Theater Company, featuring discussions with artists from the Twin Cities and beyond, sponsored by Minnesota Playlist.
This episode features an interview with actor Elena Glass about a show at History Theater in St.
Dark Pony talks Edinburgh.
Matt brings books into the theater room, and the chat follows him there: guest-led author episodes, shared reading duties, and the small circus of keeping literary podcasts alive at the same time.
Haunt craft gets practical fast.
Comfort starts with training, not polish.
This episode of Mouthing Off is a theater arts and culture podcast discussing community theater and featuring interviews with artists from the Twin Cities and beyond.
This episode features an interview with Brian James Polak, host of the Subtext podcast from American Theater Magazine, discussing his move to the Twin Cities and his work in theater and podcasting.
This episode of Mouthing Off features an interview with the Hive, discussing theater, arts, and culture in the Twin Cities and beyond.
This episode features an interview with returning guest and actor Matt Sachs, discussing theater, arts, and culture in the Twin Cities.
This episode of Mouthing Off features an interview with Eric Morris, discussing his involvement with the Bad Mouth Theater Company and theater arts in St.