Keefer Glenshaw joins The Culture Show ahead of Intention / Desire, a collaborative 24-hour performance that begins at sunset on April 25 and runs through sunset on April 26 at the Berklee Loft in Boston. Glenshaw, a musician, performance artist, electric cellist, and founder of the rock band The Romance, talks about pushing performance to its limits and inviting audiences directly into the work.

MassArt president Mary Grant returns for our recurring feature “AI: Actual Intelligence,” where we hear from some of the region’s most original thinkers. This month, she joins us to talk about the school’s new co-op program and whether an art school can also become a pathway to work.

Ahead of Patriots’ Day, Kiernan P. Schmitt joins us to go beyond the Freedom Trail and into the lesser-known corners of Greater Boston where the Revolution still leaves visible marks on the landscape. Schmitt is the author of Secret Boston: An Unusual Guide and co-host of the travel podcast Out of Office.

Providence-based six-piece Sharks Come Cruisin’ joined The Culture Show with their sea-shanty-driven sound, drawing on maritime music, group singing, and an instrument lineup that includes guitar, bass, banjo, fiddle, accordion, and melodica. The band also hosts the regular PVD Shanty Sing at The Parlour in Providence on May 8 and has a duo set at Aidan’s Pub in Bristol on May 10.

A century after Robert Goddard launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts, Vanessa Bumpus, exhibition coordinator at the Museum of Worcester, joined us to discuss Worcester to the Stars: The Goddard Rocket Centennial. On view through August 1, the exhibition traces Worcester’s place in the history of American rocketry through artifacts and images from Clark University, NASA, the Smithsonian Institution, and other collections.

Then we turned to the other Boston marathon: the Boston Theater Marathon XXVIII, a full-day relay of 50 new ten-minute plays staged by New England theater companies at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre on May 3. Nathan Alan Davis, Director of the MFA Playwriting Program and Associate Professor of the Practice of Playwriting at Boston University, joined us to talk about the event’s staying power and its broader role as a gathering point for the region’s theater community, with proceeds benefiting the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund.

Actor Bob Odenkirk and writer Derek Kolstad reunite after the Nobody films for Normal, a twisted neo-Western about a bank robbery that shatters the facade of a seemingly quiet small town. They join us ahead of the film’s theatrical release this Friday, April 17. To learn more, go here.

At Harvard’s Houghton Library, Thanks for Typing brings long-overlooked women’s labor out of the margins and into the center of literary and artistic history. Christine Jacobson, Associate Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts at Houghton Library and co-curator of the exhibition, joins us to discuss the typists behind drafts, dictation, revisions, and retyped pages — including work connected to writers like Henry James and Emily Dickinson. To learn more, go here.

Say It Loud: AAMARP, 1977 to Now at the ICA traces nearly fifty years of art, activism, and community through the history of the African American Master Artists-in-Residence Program. Meghan Clare Considine, ICA’s Curatorial Assistant and featured artist Bryan McFarlane join us to discuss the larger story the exhibition tells about Black cultural life in Boston and what it means to see that history inside the museum now. To learn more, go here.