Episode 142 Logan Sledge - "Shreveport-Bossier: My City, My Community, My Home"

Shreveport-Bossier: My City, My Community, My Home

This week is a reminder of yet another thing we are so lucky to have in our community - high quality theater. You can find my full discussion with Logan Sledge, Chair of the Theater Department at Centenary College, here.

Here are the questions I asked:

0:32 1. You and I go way back. I believe I first met you in the summer of 1997. We’ve never talked about it I don’t think. But let’s start here today. Tell me how you first got into theater.

7:04 2. You moved back to Shreveport in 2008 after many years in California. You and I were out in California at the same time in fact. I know that Bob Buseick and Patrick McWilliams, two of Shreveport’s greatest theater legends, both of whom unfortunately are no longer with us, both had a profound effect on you.

Tell me a little about Bob and Patrick, what made each of them so good and tell me a thing or two or three that you learned from each of them.

16:11 3. You are the Chair of the Theater Department at Centenary College. Tell me what happens today in the theater department.

25:50 4. Last week I had Morgan Walker, the Executive Director of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, on the podcast and we talked about how to get new people to go to the symphony. When is the best time for someone who is new to theater to come to Marjorie Lyons to see a production?

39:22 5. Last week Morgan and I also talked about what our community would miss without the symphony. I know how lucky we are to have symphony, opera, ballet, community theater. In your opinion, what would Shreveport-Bossier miss if community theater ceased to exist?