Tuesday, April 14, 2015
At a moment in the life of Tennessee Williams when he felt he had been relegated to a "lower artery of the theatrical heart," when critics were proclaiming that his work had been overrated, …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]David Hallberg was born in South Dakota and began his formal ballet training at the age of 13. Now an international ballet star, Hallberg's repertoire at American Ballet Theatre inc…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2015
Award-winning playwright, author, and celebrated gay-rights advocate Larry Kramer discusses the first installment of his multi-part novel:Â The American People, Volume 1: Search for My Hea…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE] Larry Kramer, the award-winning playwright and gay-rights advocate, with the first installment of his multi-part novel, The American People. Aasif Mandvi, longtime Daily Show correspo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 3, 2015
This week: Senator Elizabeth Warren discusses inequality, the economy and why she'll "always be an outsider" (first). Then, Tim Gunn discusses his new book of lessons on mentorship,…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Actors Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, along with writer David Hare, talk about the new Broadway production of "Skylight." On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Vanessa Redgrave talks about performing a one-night-only reading of selections from the novel Last Train to Paris. She's joined by the novel's author, Michele Zackheim, and by jazz composed …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 23, 2015
New Yorker contributor James B. Stewart discusses the conflict that has defined the past year at the struggling Metropolitan Opera"which peaked this past summer, with a narrowly avoided l…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone talks about her return to 54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club that she opened nearly 3 years ago. Her concert, "The Lady with The Torch" (April 2 - 14), …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2015
Seymour Bernstein started playing the piano as a little boy, and by the time he turned fifteen, he was teaching it to others. He enjoyed a long and illustrious career as a performer before h…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2015
Author and performer Ben Rimalower's addiction to spending has driven him to extreme lengths all his life. In the new show he wrote and directed, "Bad With Money,"Â he charts his sometimes…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2015
Sir Kenneth Branagh talks about his various projects, including directing Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale in London's West End, his own theater company, and his new film "Cinderella." The…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 25, 2015
The American soprano Ailyn Pérez will be making her long-overdue Met debut as Micaëla in Carmen, on February 26. The Chicago-born daughter of first-generation immigrants from Me…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' new play, "An Octoroon," is a fresh takes on the Irish author, Dion Boucicault's nineteenth century play of the same name. Judge Peyton is dead, and his plantation…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]David Ives talks about the world premiere of his new comedic short plays, "Lives of the Saints," along with two of its featured actors, Carson Elrod and Liv Rooth. Elrod and Rooth will ev…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 19, 2015
Stacy Sullivan: My Heart Stood Still
Presented by The Jonathan Channel
Songs for Marian McPartland with Stacy Sullivan.
The legendary jazz pianist Marian McPartland (1918-2013) left a bod…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:43PM[SHARE]Stacy Sullivan: I’ve Got A Crush On You
Presented by The Jonathan Channel
Songs for Marian McPartland with Stacy Sullivan.
The legendary jazz pianist Marian McPartland (1918-2013) l…
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Presented by The Jonathan Channel
Songs for Marian McPartland with Stacy Sullivan.
The legendary jazz pianist Marian McPartland (1918-2013) lef…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:43PM[SHARE]A  mountain range divides Hollywood from the "other Hollywood," the San Fernando Valley, world capital of porn. The Civilians, a center for investigative theater, traveled acr…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 18, 2015
New York Dolls founding member David Johansen talks about his music career and his current engagement as his musical alter-ego, Buster Poindexter, at Café Carlyle, through February 21. Joha…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2015
Opera star Deborah Voigt recounts her private battles to overcome the addictions and self-destructive tendencies in Call Me Debbie: True Confessions of a Down-to-Earth Diva. For the first…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 5, 2015
Directors Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld, along with actress Emily Young talk about the new revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical "Into the Woods." With only 10 actors and one piano, this th…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Mike Doughty talks about his Rock Opera "Revelation"
Studio 360 challenges listeners to make Creative Resolutions each year, and at the beginning of 2014, Mike Doughty called into…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:20PM[SHARE]Kelly Leonard and Tom Yorton, executives from The Second City comedy theater in Chicago, discuss their book, Yes, And, about the power of improvisational techniques in everyday life. T…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2015
Rob McClure, Tony Danza, and Andrew Bergman discuss the Broadway production of "Honeymoon in Vegas." Commitment-phobic Jack Singer (McClure) travels to Sin City to elope with his longtime…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 29, 2015
Revelation, a Rock Opera
Studio 360 challenges listeners to make Creative Resolutions each year, and at the beginning of 2014, Mike Doughty called into the show and told host Kurt Andersen …
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Revelation, a Rock Opera by Mike Doughty
Studio 360 challenges listeners to make Creative Resolutions each year, and at the beginning of 2014, Mike Doughty called into the show and told hos…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:30PM[SHARE]Friday, January 23, 2015
Theater director John Tiffany discusses the American premier of his latest production, Let the Right One In, a brutal and tender vampire myth told through the turbulence of a com…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 22, 2015
From Michael Corleone in The Godfather, Tony Montana in Scar Face, Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman, and his Shakespearean work on the stage, Al Pacino has given us…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor Martin Short is back on Broadway in "It's Only a Play", where he plays a television star whose best friend who has put his career on the line for a…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Writer, actor, and playwright Ayad Akhtar is the winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his stage play Disgraced, now on Broadway. He and guest host Aasif Mandvi, who starred …
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