365 stories by "WNYC"
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Stacy Sullivan: Oh What A Beautiful Morning
Presented by The Jonathan Channel
Songs for Marian McPartland with Stacy Sullivan.
The legendary jazz pianist Marian McPartland (1918-2013) lef…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 usÂ�…
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…
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 …
Actor Patrick Stewart discusses his latest film, "Match." Stewart plays Tobias "Tobi" Powell, a master dance teacher at Julliard with a lifetime of memories that have made him a loving and c…
The 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 tak…
A Christmas Carol: A Radio Drama
Written by Arthur Yorinks and inspired by the Charles Dickens classic
The Greene Space presents its beloved holiday tradition — a radio drama inspire…
