680 stories by "WNYC"
A new film captures the magic of the Theater of the Ridiculous, an eccentric troupe rooted in New York's queer underground. Director FermÃn Eloy Acosta talks about connecting with one …
This month marks 25 years of Bullseye, a public radio show and podcast founded, hosted, and produced by Jesse Thorn. The show began as an offbeat college radio show at UC Santa Cruz, as a wa…
Ana González, host of WNYC's new podcast (with Yo-Yo Ma) Our Common Nature (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/our-common-nature) , talks about the new podcast she hosts where Yo-Yo Ma …
Elizabeth Alexander, president of The Mellon Foundation, poet, educator, memoirist and scholar and the author of The Trayvon Generation (Grand Central Publishing, 2022) (https://www.hachette…
"Grey Gardens (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqJHP_oPD24) " was recently selected to be in the National Film Registry, and will celebrate its 50th anniversary with screenings at the Maysle…
Actors Michael Urie and Grantham Coleman discuss starring in the new production of Shakespeare's "Richard II," which is set in 1980s Manhattan. "Richard II" is running at the Astor Place The…
[REBROADCAST FROM Sept. 23, 2025] The new play "The Other Americans" was written by John Leguizamo, and stars Leguizamo as a laundromat owner in Queens who is grappling with secrets and tryi…
Yo-Yo Ma has wanted to use his cello to communicate with whales for half his life. And, in Hawai'i, he got a chance. With help from the Polyneisan Voyaging Society and hula master Snowbird B…
Sean Mason is a North Carolina-based composer and pianist who, after beginning his career in New York, decided to return home to discover a new creative path. So it's fitting that his new al…
Actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, one-time co-stars in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure," have reunited on stage in Jamie Lloyd's production of "Waiting for Godot (https://godotbroadwa…
The new revival of Rajiv Joseph's play "Gruesome Playground Injuries (https://www.gruesomeplaygroundinjuries.com/nyc/shows/45270-gruesome-playground-injuries) " charts the lives and relation…
[REBROADCAST FROM August 6, 2025] Rachael & Vilray perform in our studio from West of Broadway, their new album of original songs inspired by the American songbook, classic Broadway showtune…
The new documentary "Santacon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7C0WCqBICw) " tracks the growth of the phenomenon of drunken and delinquent Santas taking over New York City, and other cities…
On the island of MolokaÊ»i in Hawaii, we trace the spiritual power of mana, from a sacred grove to the Kalaupapa colony, where music, story, and Yo-Yo Ma's performance honor the resilience…
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes discusses her new novel, The White Hot (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-white-hot-a-novel-quiara-alegria-hudes/38966beb0…
The new film "Sentimental Value (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKbcKQN5Yrw) " stars Renate Reinsve as Nora, a stage actor and the child of a famous and celebrated director, played by Stell…
Laurie Metcalf stars as a sharp-tongued Aunt Sarah in the new Broadway family drama "Little Bear, Ridge Road (https://littlebearridgeroad.com/) ." The show follows Sarah as she and her long-…
The new play 'Queens (https://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/shows/2025-26-season/queens/) ' follows a group of women spanning multiple generations, living in an illegal basement apartment as …
Hannah Frishberg, New York City arts and culture reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, shares some non-politics related activities for the weekend as listeners share how they're shifting their at…
Ariana DeBose talks about the tangled romances and French-inspired music of Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein's 1976 musical "The Bakers Wife (https://www.classicstage.org/the-bakers-wife/) …
A new, musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's "The Skin Of Our Teeth" called "The Seat Of Our Pants (https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2526/the-seat-of-our-pants/) " follows the …
West Virginia is defined by its beauty and its coal, two things that can work against each other. Yo-Yo Ma felt this as soon as stepped foot in its hills.This episode explores how music and …
More than 735,000 New Yorkers voted early this year, over five times the turnout from 2021 as the city prepares for Election Day on Tuesday. Meanwhile, trash, recycling, and compost collecti…
This weekend, Flushing Town Hall hosts MexFest (https://www.flushingtownhall.org/event-detail.php?id=898) , a DÃa de los Muertos celebration honoring those who have passed and those separ…
Once upon a midday talkshow, 'fore we hear Sean Carlson read Poe " Halloween tradition, you know, if you have tuned in before " hear about the works enduring, of bleak Edgar, dark a…
