Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Louise Kerz Hirschfeld discusses the work of her late husband, Al Hirschfeld, along with David Leopold, who organized “The Hirschfeld Century: The Art of Al Hirschfeld” at the New-York H…
SOURCE: WNYC at 09:16PMTuesday, August 11, 2015
Actor Patrick Stewart discusses the new series he stars in, “Blunt Talk,” along with the show’s creator and show runner, Jonathan Ames. The show follows Walter Blunt (Stewart), a Briti…
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:55PMThursday, July 30, 2015
Playwright Joshua Harmon talks about his play “Significant Others,” with stars Gideon Glick and Lindsay Mendez. A young man searches for love while supporting his friends, and finds it…
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:35PMMonday, July 27, 2015
Martin Short talks about his life, career, and new memoir, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend. Once a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada, he transformed himself into one of Hollywoo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 10:44PMColin Quinn discuss the new off-Broadway play he wrote and stars in, “Colin Quinn The New York Story.” Based on his book The Coloring Book and directed by Jerry Seinfeld, the play has Q…
SOURCE: WNYC at 10:44PMBefore he was cast in “The Defiant Ones,” with Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis – a role for which he would be nominated for an Academy Award, the Austrian-born Theodore Bikel told direc…
SOURCE: WNYC at 10:44PMFriday, July 24, 2015
Penn Jillette joined us to talk about coming back to Broadway with his partner Teller. He also let us in on some of his favorite music, TV shows, and foods.
What have you read or seen over …
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:12AMThursday, July 23, 2015
Penn Jillette talks about his Broadway engagement with partner in magic, Teller. The show includes both elements of their Las Vegas show and classics from their repertoire, and marks the 4…
SOURCE: WNYC at 06:48AMWednesday, July 22, 2015
The Bronx-born E.L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow made the past come alive through his many novels –among them Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, World Fair, and Loon Lake. He h…
SOURCE: WNYC at 02:35PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
The Welsh-born actor Roger Rees may be familiar to fans of “Cheers” and “The West Wing.” But he was primarily a denizen of the stage – where he won both an Olivier and Tony awards …
SOURCE: WNYC at 01:20PMWednesday, July 8, 2015
Playwright Anne Washburn and actor Thomas Jay Ryan discuss their production, “10 Out of 12.” In it, a company of theatre artists is engaged in the task of making a new play. Based on not…
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:31PMThursday, June 25, 2015
The Public Theater kicked off their free Shakespeare in the Park season with a production of "The Tempest." Sam Waterston who is playing the character of Prospero alongside his son-in-…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:50AMFriday, June 19, 2015
Director John Collins talks about the new staging of William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury,” along with stars Kaneza Schall and Vin Knight. The production is a staging of the fir…
SOURCE: WNYC at 09:46PMMonday, June 15, 2015
Jesse Eisenberg talks about “The Spoils,” the play he wrote and stars in, along with co-star Michael Zegen, about Ben, a moody ex-graduate student who lives off his parents’ money an…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:44PMWednesday, June 10, 2015
"The Two Gentlemen of Verona" may well have been Shakespeare’s first play. A seemingly simple tale of shifting devotions among mismatched lovers, it helped launch the genre of rom-com…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:16PMMonday, June 1, 2015
We're taking a look at the new Lincoln Center production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “The King and I” with star Kelli O’Hara! The show was recently nominated for nine Tony Award…
SOURCE: WNYC at 06:29PMFriday, May 29, 2015
On May 29, lyricist Sheldon Harnick was on the show to talk about writing for the legendary musical, "Fiddler on the Roof." While Harnick was responsible for show tunes like "Tradition" and…
SOURCE: WNYC at 06:36PMActors Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, along with writer Nick Payne, discuss the play “Constellations.” This story begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman (Gyllenh…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:43AMKenneth Lonergan talks about his critically acclaimed play “This Is Our Youth,” set in New York in 1982. He’s joined by Kieran Culkin, who stars in it. The play follows 48 hours i…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:43AMActors 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…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:43AMMatthew Broderick and Micah Stock discuss their roles in the Broadway premiere of Terrence McNally’s “It’s Only A Play.” Broderick stars as the playwright Peter Austin, who is anx…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:43AM16 Grammy winner Sting tells us about his debut as a Broadway composer in "The Last Ship" a new musical inspired by his own childhood. In a close-knit English seafaring town, life revolv…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:43AMActors Kristin Chenoweth, Peter Gallagher, and director Scott Ellis, discuss the new Broadway production of “On the Twentieth Century.” The Twentieth Century, a luxury coach trave…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:43AMThe Elephant Man, based on the real life of Joseph Merrick, is the story of a 19th-century British man who became a star of the traveling freak show circuit. When the renowned Dr. Treves ta…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:43AMAndrew Bujalski, Guy Pearce and Kevin Corrigan on their new film, “Results." Lyricist Sheldon Harnick on the 50th anniversary of “Fiddler On the Roof.” Paolo Bacigalupi's new novel…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:43AMTony winner Michael Cerveris, 3-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn, and Beth Malone talk about “Fun Home,” the musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel of the same name. “Fun H…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:42AMChita Rivera, playwright Terrence McNally, and songwriter John Kander talk about their new Broadway musical, “The Visit.” It centers on Claire Zachannassian, the world’s wealthie…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:42AMBen Miles, Nathaniel Parker, and Lydia Leonard talk about their roles in “Wolf Hall: Parts 1 & 2.” Adapted from Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize winning novels, Wolf Hall is…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:42AMLyricist Sheldon Harnick celebrates the 50th anniversary of “Fiddler On the Roof.” He’ll be presenting “To Life! 50 years of Fiddler on the Roof” at 92Y, in which he’ll go insid…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:42AMIn "Hand to God," Jason is a shy, inquisitive student who finds an outlet for his burgeoning creativity at the Christian Puppet Ministry in the devoutly religious small town of Cypress, Te…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:42AMThursday, May 28, 2015
Simon Stephens talks about writing the play “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” based on the novel of the same name by Mark Haddon. He's joined by Francesca Faridany, …
SOURCE: WNYC at 11:00AM 
