Jere 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 …
Andy 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 A…
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," "Sweeney Tod…
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 lege…
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 …
Tova 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 docu…
Hal 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 exh…
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 artist/mot…
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 bro…
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…
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 …
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 friendship…
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…
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…
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…
Loudon Wainwright III discusses his new memoir Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of My Other Favorite Things. Loudon detai…
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore comes to Broadway with his new one-man show, "The Terms of My Surrender."Â Richard "Crazy Legs" Colon joins us to talk about his career and th…
Academy 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 and …
Alexandria 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 Royal…
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."Â This set o…
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 se…
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 eve…
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 Broa…
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-based …
The 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 inves…