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On April 21, actor, playwright, and novelist of Armenian descent Eric Bogosian spoke to Leonard about his latest book, Operation Nemesis, about a small group of survivors of t…
Peter Coyote began his work in street theater and political organizing in San Francisco, and went on to act in over 140 films and win an Emmy for narrating the documentary "Pacific Cen…
Ben Miles, Nathaniel Parker, and Lydia Leonard talk about their roles in "Wolf Hall: Parts 1 & 2."Â Adapted from Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize winning novels, Wolf Hall is based on …
Actress Lesley Manville talks about her Olivier Award-winning role in Ibsen's "Ghosts."Â The play centers on Helene Alving, a woman who has spent her life suspended in an emotional void af…
Director Ross Katz, along with stars Nick Kroll and Rose Byrne, discuss their new film, "Adult Beginners." A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company's big lau…
Tina Packer, founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts and former Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England, discusses the women…
At a moment in the life of Tennessee Williams when he felt he had been relegated to a "lower artery of the theatrical heart," when critics were proclaiming that his work had been overrated, …
David Hallberg was born in South Dakota and began his formal ballet training at the age of 13. Now an international ballet star, Hallberg's repertoire at American Ballet Theatre inc…
Award-winning playwright, author, and celebrated gay-rights advocate Larry Kramer discusses the first installment of his multi-part novel:Â The American People, Volume 1: Search for My Hea…
 Larry Kramer, the award-winning playwright and gay-rights advocate, with the first installment of his multi-part novel, The American People. Aasif Mandvi, longtime Daily Show correspo…
This week: Senator Elizabeth Warren discusses inequality, the economy and why she'll "always be an outsider" (first). Then, Tim Gunn discusses his new book of lessons on mentorship,…
Actors Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, along with writer David Hare, talk about the new Broadway production of "Skylight." On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey …
Vanessa Redgrave talks about performing a one-night-only reading of selections from the novel Last Train to Paris. She's joined by the novel's author, Michele Zackheim, and by jazz composed …
New Yorker contributor James B. Stewart discusses the conflict that has defined the past year at the struggling Metropolitan Opera"which peaked this past summer, with a narrowly avoided l…
Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone talks about her return to 54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club that she opened nearly 3 years ago. Her concert, "The Lady with The Torch" (April 2 - 14), …
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…
