Friday, October 13, 2017
Jacques d'Amboise founded the National Dance Institute in 1976 while working as a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. His goal was to spread arts education and dance to younger …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMMonday, October 9, 2017
Acclaimed stage and film actor Alan Cumming and illustrator Grant Shaffer join us to talks about their new children’s book The Adventures of Honey & Leon. It tells the story of the aut…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMJere Van Dyk investigates his 2008 kidnapping in Afghanistan. Marc Maron mines his podcast "WTF" for words of advice. Alan Cumming and Grant Shaffer discuss their new children's book abo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMAndy Serkis has played numerous career-defining roles as an actor including as Gollum from the "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" movies, and as Caesar in the new "Planet of the Apes" m…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMSaturday, September 30, 2017
Hal Prince is a Broadway legend whose career spans 70 years. He has won 21 Tony Awards as a producer and director for productions that include: “Cabaret,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “S…
SOURCE: WNYC at 10:00AMFriday, September 29, 2017
Grammy Award-winning singer, musician and songwriter Art Garfunkel joins us to discuss his memoir What Is It All But Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man. Hal Prince is a Broadway legend…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:23PMWednesday, September 27, 2017
Hal Prince is a Broadway legend whose career spans 70 years. He has won 21 Tony Awards, including eight for directing, eight for producing the year's Best Musical, two as Best Producer of a …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMTova Mirvis was born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family where she followed the rules and rituals of daily life, got married and quickly started a family. But as she document…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMHal Prince on his career and the show, “Prince of Broadway." Tova Mirvis on the difficulties of becoming non-Orthodox. Annie Polland and Andrea Velez on the Tenement Museum's exhibit "…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Singer Jamie Leonhart performs songs from her new show “Estuary: an artist/mother story” live in our studio! She's joined by husband and musician Michael Leonhart. In “Estuary: an arti…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMWednesday, September 20, 2017
Cognitive neuroscientist Jonathan Skariton joins us to discuss his debut novel Séance Infernale. The novel presupposes that movies weren’t the invention of Thomas Edison or the Lumiére b…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMTuesday, September 19, 2017
James Delbourgo, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, joins us to discuss his book Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum. He tells the stor…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMMonday, September 18, 2017
In 2007, journalist Deborah Campbell traveled to Damascus to report on the flow of Iraqi refugees into Syria following the fall of Saddam Hussein. While there, she hired an Iraqi refugee na…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMThursday, September 14, 2017
TJ Brennan and Finbarr O’Reilly join us to discuss their dual memoir Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War. It chronicles of their friendsh…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
Award-winning memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn joins us to discuss his new book An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic. When Daniel’s father, 81-year-old Jay Mendelsohn, decided t…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMMonday, September 11, 2017
Bestselling author Nicole Krauss joins us to discuss her latest novel Forest Dark. It tells the story of 68-year-old Jules Epstein, a man who has recently divorced his wife of 30 years, reti…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMWednesday, September 6, 2017
Two years ago, Manoush Zomorodi and her team at the WNYC podcast Note to Self recruited thousands of listeners to join their "Bored and Brilliant" challenge. It was an attempt to get listene…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMTuesday, September 5, 2017
Loudon Wainwright III discusses his new memoir Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of My Other Favorite Things. Loudon details his l…
SOURCE: WNYC at 10:09AMThursday, August 24, 2017
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore comes to Broadway with his new one-man show, “The Terms of My Surrender.” Richard “Crazy Legs” Colon joins us to talk about his career …
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:07PMAcademy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore comes to Broadway with his new one-man show, “The Terms of My Surrender.” Like Moore’s films, the show features his wry, satirical humor …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMAlexandria Neason looks at Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ war on public schools. Richard “Crazy Legs” Conlon and Grand Mixer DXT discuss breakdancing and the upcoming “B-Boy Roy…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMWednesday, 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.” This…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMTuesday, 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 see …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMSaturday, 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 every…
SOURCE: WNYC at 10:00AMFriday, 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 Broadw…
SOURCE: WNYC at 01:55PMMonday, 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-base…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMThe 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 investigate…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMFriday, 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 Thomas Ka…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMMonday, 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 havin…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMFriday, 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, Brookly…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMThursday, 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 her tr…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM 
