Thursday, May 18, 2017
Tony Award-winning actor Andy Karl joins us to discuss his starring role in “Groundhog Day.” Based on the 1993 film, the musical tells the story of a weatherman who finds himself trapp…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMWednesday, May 17, 2017
Pamela Paul, author and editor of The New York Times Book Review, joins us to discuss her new book My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues. She writes about a journ…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMTuesday, May 16, 2017
Bestselling author Scott Turow joins us to discuss his new book, Testimony. The book follows a bottomed out prosecutor who is selected by the International Criminal Court to investigate th…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMMonday, May 8, 2017
Paula Hawkins, author of the bestselling novel The Girl on the Train, joins us to discuss her new novel, Into the Water: A Novel, which tells the story of a town in England where women hav…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMFriday, May 5, 2017
Journalist Bianca Bosker joins us to discuss her latest book, Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Li…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMMonday, May 1, 2017
Min Kym joins us to discuss her memoir, Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung. Kym was a violin prodigy who won her first international prize at age 11. After she purchased a 1696 Stradiv…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
Barbra Streisand joins us to discuss her upcoming live performances at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on May 4th, and at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on May 6th. This is Streisand's fi…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMFriday, April 21, 2017
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Christine Ebersole, Doug Wright, and Scott Frankel on the new Broadway musical, “War Paint." David Bellos joins us to discuss why Victor Hugo’s classic novel Les Misérables conti…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMChristine Ebersole joins us to discuss her starring role in the new Broadway musical, “War Paint." She is joined by Doug Wright, who wrote the book. The musical focuses on the rivalry be…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMSaturday, April 15, 2017
Over the past few weeks, we were saddened to learn that three former guests of the show had passed away. Yevgeny Yevtushenko was a rock star of a poet – who used his work and acclaim as a …
SOURCE: WNYC at 10:00AMFriday, March 24, 2017
Playwright Rachel Bonds discusses her show, “Sundown, Yellow Moon." The play explores the relationships between twin sisters Ray and Joey and their father. The sisters return to their smal…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMThursday, March 23, 2017
John Freeman Gill, architecture and real estate editor of Avenue Magazine, discusses his debut novel, The Gargoyle Hunters. Gill’s novel tells the story of a father and son team who steal …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMMonday, March 13, 2017
James Crawford discusses his book Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings From the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers, which reveals the history, archaeology and …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMWednesday, March 8, 2017
Joan Juliet Buck, novelist and former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue from 1994 to 2001, joins us to discuss her memoir The Price of Illusion. Buck details her privileged childhood growing up…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMTuesday, February 28, 2017
Comedians Judy Gold and Alan Zweibel, along with filmmaker Ferne Pearlstein join us to discuss her new documentary “The Last Laugh.” Pearlstein looks at taboo topics in comedy -- the Hol…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMFriday, February 24, 2017
Actor John Douglas Thompson and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson join us to discuss Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway debut of August Wilson’s “Jitney,” the only one of the ten pla…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMCharles Campisi joins us to discuss his book Blue on Blue: An Insider’s Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops. Actor John Douglas Thompson and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson discuss Manhat…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMThursday, February 23, 2017
Composer Paola Prestini, the creative and executive director of National Sawdust, an artist-led performance space in Williamsburg, joins us to discuss her new theater piece, “Aging Magicia…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMTuesday, February 14, 2017
Tony Award-winning actor Reed Birney joins us to discuss his role in “Man From Nebraska,” along with playwright Tracy Letts. Birney stars as Ken, a middle aged man from Nebraska, suddenl…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMFriday, February 10, 2017
Cate Blanchett joins us to discuss her Broadway debut in an adaptation of Anton Chekov’s “Platonov,” or “The Present,” along with co-star Richard Roxburgh. Author and graphic nove…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMCate Blanchett joins us to discuss her Broadway debut in an adaptation of Anton Chekov’s “Platonov,” or “The Present,” along with co-star Richard Roxburgh. Andrew Upton’s adaptat…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMThursday, February 9, 2017
Atlantic senior editor Derek Thompson joins us to discuss his book Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in the Age of Distraction. Thompson looks at the psychology of why we like what we li…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Dr. Danielle Ofri, an associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine who cared for patients at Bellevue Hospital for over two decades, joins us to discuss her new …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMThursday, February 2, 2017
Actress and writer Patricia Bosworth joins us to discuss her memoir, Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan. She details her early life in theater in Manhattan during th…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMEmily Fridlund joins us to discuss her debut novel, History of Wolves. It tells the story of Linda, a 14-year-old girl living on a nearly abandoned commune in the Minnesota woods. Her life t…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Actors Marie Mullen and Aisling O'Sullivan join us to discuss “Beauty Queen of Leenane.” Ireland’s Druid theater company makes its BAM debut with this 20th anniversary revival of Marti…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMWednesday, January 25, 2017
Stéphane Gerson, historian and professor of French studies at New York University, joins us to discuss his new book, Disaster Falls: A Family Story. Gerson offers an account of living with …
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Actor and author Robert Creighton joins us to discuss “Cagney,” a new musical he co-wrote and stars in as James Cagney. The show tells the story of Cagney’s dramatic life, from his Vau…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Author and professor Brad Gooch joins us to discuss Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love, a new biography of the 13th century Persian poet and Sufi mystic. Gooch paints a vivid…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM 
