Betty Buckley, Mark Lamos & Leigh Katz Featured on WPKN's STATE OF THE ARTS This Week

Betty Buckley, Mark Lamos and Leigh Katz are the featured guests on this week's (Friday, May 6) State of the ARTSwhich airs LIVE every Friday from 12noon to 1pm on WPKN-FM (89.5) in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Co-hosts of the weekly arts & entertainment program are Richard Pheneger and Peggy Nelson.

Betty Buckley has been dubbed "The Voice of Broadway." Whether she's breaking your heart with Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Memory" in her Tony-winning performance from Cats, or bringing down the house with "The Writing on the Wall" inThe Mystery of Edwin Drood, Ms. Buckley is sure to 'raise the roof' in concert at the Ridgefield Playhouse on Saturday, May 7.

Artistic Director Mark Lamos, opens the new season of his Westport Country Playhouse, directing two Tony Award-winning plays, Art and Red...both about art: making it, owning it, the anguish of creating it and the ache of believing in it. Art and Redare running in repertory now through May 29 in Westport, Connecticut.

Leigh Katz is featured in the Square One Theatre cast of Motherhood Out Loud, described as both hilarious and heartbreaking, while taking the audience on a rollercoaster ride of joys, sorrows and perplexities every family shares by having or being a mother. Celebrate Mother's Day all month-long with Motherhood Out Loud, which opens May 12 and continues through May 29 at Square One Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut.

State of the ARTS, featuring arts and entertainment personalities, airs LIVE each Friday from 12noon-1pm on WPKN-FMlocated at 89.5 and streams worldwide online at wpkn.org