
Brian Pope
Music HostBrian is well known in the Baton Rouge Arts community, especially for hosting and producing "Center Stage" on WRKF over the last decade and a half. He teaches courses in Musical Theatre History at Northwestern State University and for the LSU-OLLI program. He served for years on the Board of the Baton Rouge Little Theater (Theatre Baton Rouge) as well as the Boards of the Baton Rouge Ballet Theater, Friends of the Baton Rouge Zoo and the Baton Rouge Gilbert and Sullivan Society. A retiree of the Dow Chemical Company, Brian has chaired over 30 musicals locally and has appeared in over a dozen musical productions. He was inducted into the Baton Rouge Little Theater’s Hall of Fame (TBR) in June of 2012.
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It is with heavy heart that WRKF announces the passing of our beloved host, Brian Pope, who succumbed to cardiac arrest on Aug. 23, 2024, the eve of his 75th birthday. Brian had hosted and produced "Center Stage," a show about musical theater on WRKF since 1999.