Joan Juliet Buck, novelist and former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue from 1994 to 2001, joins us to discuss her memoir The Price of Illusion. Buck details her privileged childhood growing up…
Comedians Judy Gold and Alan Zweibel, along with filmmaker Ferne Pearlstein join us to discuss her new documentary "The Last Laugh." Pearlstein looks at taboo topics in comedy -- the Holocau…
Charles Campisi joins us to discuss his book Blue on Blue: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops. Actor John Douglas Thompson and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson discuss Manhat…
Actor John Douglas Thompson and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson join us to discuss Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway debut of August Wilson's "Jitney," the only one of the ten pla…
Composer Paola Prestini, the creative and executive director of National Sawdust, an artist-led performance space in Williamsburg, joins us to discuss her new theater piece, "Aging Magician.…
Tony Award-winning actor Reed Birney joins us to discuss his role in "Man From Nebraska," along with playwright Tracy Letts. Birney stars as Ken, a middle aged man from Nebraska, suddenly fi…
Cate Blanchett joins us to discuss her Broadway debut in an adaptation of Anton Chekov's "Platonov," or "The Present," along with co-star Richard Roxburgh. Andrew Upton's adaptation is set i…
Cate Blanchett joins us to discuss her Broadway debut in an adaptation of Anton Chekov's "Platonov," or "The Present," along with co-star Richard Roxburgh. Author and graphic novelist Nei…
Atlantic senior editor Derek Thompson joins us to discuss his book Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in the Age of Distraction. Thompson looks at the psychology of why we like what we li…
Dr. Danielle Ofri, an associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine who cared for patients at Bellevue Hospital for over two decades, joins us to discuss her new …
Emily Fridlund joins us to discuss her debut novel, History of Wolves. It tells the story of Linda, a 14-year-old girl living on a nearly abandoned commune in the Minnesota woods. Her life t…
Actress and writer Patricia Bosworth joins us to discuss her memoir, Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan. She details her early life in theater in Manhattan during th…
Actors Marie Mullen and Aisling O'Sullivan join us to discuss "Beauty Queen of Leenane." Ireland's Druid theater company makes its BAM debut with this 20th anniversary revival of Martin McDo…
Stéphane Gerson, historian and professor of French studies at New York University, joins us to discuss his new book, Disaster Falls: A Family Story. Gerson offers an account of living with …
Actor and author Robert Creighton joins us to discuss "Cagney," a new musical he co-wrote and stars in as James Cagney. The show tells the story of Cagney's dramatic life, from his Vaudevill…
Author and professor Brad Gooch joins us to discuss Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love, a new biography of the 13th century Persian poet and Sufi mystic. Gooch paints a vivid m…
In 2015, The Guardian appointed journalist Patrick Kingsley to be their first migration correspondent. He joins us to discuss his book, The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis,…
Illustrator and cartoonist Edward Sorel joins us to discuss his new book Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936. He vividly details Mary's life as a child star wit…
Playwright Itamar Moses and composer/performer David Yazbek discuss the Atlantic Theater Company production of "The Band's Visit,"Â a new musical based on the critically acclaimed screenpl…
Gerard Lordahl, the Director of GrowNYC, talks about December gardening and answers your questions. CiaraÌn O'Reilly, director and co-founder of the Irish Repertory Theatre, on their new …
Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall talks about the new Broadway musical "In Transit," along with starring actress Erin Mackey and Sara Wordsworth, a …
Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodóvar discusses his new film "Julieta" which is based on three short stories from the book Runaway by Alice Munro. The film marks Almodóvar's 20t…
Playwright Richard Greenberg, along with actors Josh Radnor and Elizabeth Reaser, discuss, "The Babylon Line," which is playing through January 22nd at the Lincoln Center Theater. Set in Lev…
Nobel Prize-winning economist and author Joseph Stiglitz discusses on the emergence of Donald Trump and how the Democrats can repair their party. David Kaufman gives an intimate por…
Theater critic and New York Times contributor David Kaufman offers a detailed, intimate portrait of Mary Martin, the woman who inspired the work of Rogers and Hammerstein and originated m…