Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Jonathan Bank, the Mint Theater's producing artistic director, joins us to discuss directing Teresa Deevy's collection of four plays presented as, "The Suitcase Under the Bed."Â This set o…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 15, 2017
In his new book, Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult, contributing editor to Vanity Fair Bruce Handy revisits classic American children's literature to se…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 12, 2017
Two former guests on The Leonard Lopate Show passed away this week. Glen Campbell had been an accomplished session musician before he became a star himself, recording guitar parts for eve…
SOURCE: WNYC at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 11, 2017
Actor Bill Murray made headlines this week with an impromptu visit to see one of his iconic roles, as the weatherman Phil Connors in the film "Groundhog Day," brought back to life on Broa…
SOURCE: WNYC at 01:55PM[SHARE]Monday, August 7, 2017
Tony Award-nominee and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Tina Howe discusses her first full-length play in almost eight years, "Singing Beach." It tells the story of a Massachusetts-based …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]The New York Times' Stephanie Clifford and Jessica Silver-Greenberg on how the city uses foster care as punishment. Tina Howe on her play, "Singing Beach." Peter Hellman inves…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2017
"Corkscrew Theater Festival" is a theater festival launching this year that aims to increase production opportunities for early-career artists. We hear from its artistic director Thoma…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 24, 2017
Director Gillian Robespierre and producer Elisabeth Holm discusses their new film, "Landline." The two co-wrote the film, which follows two sisters who suspect their father may be h…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 21, 2017
Director Joshua Z. Weinstein and actor Menashe Lustig discuss their new Yiddish-language film "Menashe." The film takes place within the New York Hasidic community of Borough Park, Bro…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 20, 2017
Actors Janeane Garofalo, Lili Taylorand Celia Weston come to Broadway with their new show "Marvin's Room." The play follows, Lee (Garofalo), a single mother who lives with he…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Janeane Garofalo, Lili Taylor and Celia Weston discuss their performances in the new Broadway show "Marvin's Room." Playwright Dominique Morisseau, and actors Karen Pittman and Namir Smallwo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Award-winning science writer Sam Kean dives deep into the origins of our atmosphere for his latest book, Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us. Kean looks…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Albert Schultz, Founding Artistic Director of Soulpepper, Toronto's acclaimed theater company, joins us to discuss their 10 shows in repertory at the Signature Center. The productions inc…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Former FBI special agent Ali Soufan explains how terror organizations grew following Osama bin Laden's death. Soulpepper artistic director Albert Schultz, composer Mike Ross and actres…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Joshua Green, a senior national correspondent at Bloomberg Businessweek, spent six years interviewing the key players who would go onto shape the results of the 2016 presidential election fo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Joshua Cohenjoins us to discuss his latest novel Moving Kings. It tells the story of Yoav and Uri, 21-year-old veterans of the last Gaza War, who move to New York City and begin working for …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 6, 2017
Tom Sturridge, Olivia Wilde, and Reed Birney talk about their starring roles in the Broadway premiere of the new stage adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984." Christian B…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tom Sturridge, Olivia Wilde and Reed Birney join us to discuss their starring roles the Broadway premiere of the new stage adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. Sturridge pl…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Filmmaker Matthew Heineman joins us to discuss his new film "City of Ghosts" , along with Syrian journalist and activist Abdalaziz Alhamza. Heineman offers an up-close look at the citizen jo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Christian Borle joins us to discuss starring as Willy Wonka in the Broadway premiere of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory along with the musical's songwriters Marc Shaiman an…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Jim Brochu joins us to discuss his one man show, "Zero Hour," a play about the life of theater legend Zero Mostel. The play traces Mostel's early days growing up on the Lower East Side as th…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 16, 2017
Today is Bloomsday, where people in cities all over the world come together and celebrate the life of James Joyce, and celebrate his masterpiece "Ulysses" by reading portions of the book alo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 11:12AM[SHARE]Director Nick Hamm, and actors Timothy Spall and Colm Meaney join us to discuss their new film, "The Journey." The film re-imagines the real life event that found two men o…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 15, 2017
Filmmaker Nicholas de Pencier joins us, along with Bill Marczak, senior research fellow at Citizen Lab, to discuss his documentary, "Black Code," which will be shown during the Human Rights …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Finn Murphy discusses his book The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road, about his over 30-year career as a long-haul trucker. Murphy has driven more than a million mile…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 12, 2017
We've had some great conversations with many of the people behind the 2017 Tony winners. Listen below!
Ben Platt, Steven Levenson on 'Dear Evan Hansen'Â
The Secret 'Oslo' Peace TalksÂ…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:27PM[SHARE]Friday, June 9, 2017
Director Brett Haley and actor Sam Elliott join us to discuss their new film, "The Hero." Elliott plays Lee Hayden, an aging Western movie star who reevaluates his life, legacy and …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Director Aisling Walsh joins us to discuss her new film "Maudie," along with Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke. The movie tells the true story of Maude Lewis, a Nova Scotian artist in the 1930s.…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Tony Award nominees, actress Jenn Colella, director Chris Ashley and choreographer Kelly Devine join us to discuss their Broadway play, "Come From Away," which has received 7 Tony nomination…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]New Yorker staff writer Margaret Talbot on how residents of West Virginia -- the state with the highest overdose death rate in the country -- are trying to push back against an opio…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 5, 2017
Alan Alda joins us to discuss his book, If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating. Alda is fascinated wit…
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