90 stories from Studio 360
Mike Daisey tells the story of the Tesla's real Dr. Strangelove moment: inventing the ultimate super-weapon, a death ray. But did it work? The government thought it might, and the Cold Wa…
Mike Daisey tells the story of Tesla's salons, where he played fast and loose with technology. "When he had you there, he'd show you inventions, then make you part of the inventions," Dai…
Porgy and Bess was groundbreaking: an opera about poor African-Americans in South Carolina, starring a cripple, a tramp, and a drug dealer. This weekend a new production opens on Broadway …
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season …
This is what Kurt Andersen considers a holiday tale ... melting ice caps and extraterrestrial spies? Kurt's story, "Human Intelligence," was produced for radio by Jonathan Mitchell, and st…
Robert Downey Jr., who stars in the new movie Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, is the latest actor to take on this iconic role. Guy Ritchie, the film's director, says Holmes' persona…
The first thing you notice walking into Manhattan's Park Avenue Armory is its awesome scale. In a city where every nook and cranny seems to be spoken for, the 55,000 square foot Wade…
This week, David Ives' Venus in Fur opened at Manhattan Theatre Club's Friedman Theatre for a limited run, with Nina Arianda playing opposite British actor Hugh Dancy. Â The show opened Of…
"Larger-than-life" doesn't do justice to performer Sandra Bernhard. She can be cartoonishly tough and irreverent, but also intensely sincere. Her breakout role came in Martin Scorsese's The …
A novelist returns home to her prominent California Republican parents with the manuscript of a new book " a memoir filled with very dirty laundry. Needless to say, the reunion is vexed.
Jon…
Listen Early in 2001, the writer and performer Sarah Jones started working on a one-woman Broadway show called Bridge and Tunnel. The play, which won a Tony Award, featured Jones playing a d…
Listen In the days after 9/11, late night talk show hosts like David Letterman and Jon Stewart limped back on screen. On September 20, Stewart mused, "They said to get back to work, and ther…
Listen Over the last several months, Kurt Andersen has been asking guests about their memories of September 11, 2001. Where were they that day, and did the events change their lives? …
When Yowei Shaw was in college, her parents' relationship started to change. Maybe it was empty nest syndrome, maybe it was a midlife crisis " she's not quite sure. But after taking dance le…
Six years before Tony Kushner grabbed the nation's attention with his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America, Larry Kramer staged The Normal Heart, about the AIDS epidemic and its dev…
Sleep No More may be the most unusual, fantastical take on Macbeth ever produced. The London-based theater company Punchdrunk has transformed 100,000 square feet of New York City warehouse …
If you've ever watched South Park, you know that a few of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's favorite things are organized religion and musical theater. In 2003, they did a musical episode a…
We asked our studio audience to tell us about their dream jobs. Eugene Mirman reads some of the responses, from "astronaut" to "artisan glass blower."
What do you want to be in your next lif…
Merrill Garbus is the performer and multi-instrumentalist behind tUnE-yArDs " a music project that blends African-inspired rhythms and vocals with electric bass and saxophone. But she only d…
The Brooklyn-based comedian Eugene Mirman is the stand-up king of hipsterville. He was a regular on the HBO series Flight of the Concords and now appears on Adult Swim's Delocated " and you …
Marie Curie is the sexiest story in science history. The Polish-French physicist and chemist may be as famous (alas) for her love life and tragic death as for her essential early studi…
An old ukulele " bought at an Army-Navy store " started Merrill Garbus on the path to drum-looping, face-painting renown with her band tUnE-yArDs. She told Kurt Andersen that her mother's…
How did you spend Monday night? Here in Studio 360, we tapped a keg, lined up some killer acts, and hung out with 150 of our closest friends at WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.
The…
The Book of Mormon is the toast of Broadway (with 14 nominations for June's Tony Awards) for its "charismatic" performances, "sublimely kitschy" choreography, and inspired use of poop humor …
Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega (of the massive 1980s hits "Tom's Diner" and "Luka") tells the life story of one of her favorite writers in the new one-woman show Carson McCullers Talks About…
