Looking Back to Lincoln
As Lincoln's birthday gives way to Presidents' Day, Fishko Files takes you back to the 1930s, when a remarkable partnership between culture and politics sought to inspire a population weakened by the...
View ArticleOn Hamlet
The 2019 season of free Shakespeare in the Park gets underway this week. In honor of that great New York tradition, WNYC's Sara Fishko considers the infinite variety of voices that have squeezed every...
View ArticlePeter Dinklage on Cyrano, and Life After “Thrones”
In the classic play “Cyrano de Bergerac,” a romantic with an exceptionally large and ugly nose pines after an unattainable woman. “As a person who looks like me, whenever I would watch a version of...
View ArticlePeter Dinklage on Cyrano, and Life After “Thrones”
In the classic play “Cyrano de Bergerac,” a romantic with an exceptionally large and ugly nose pines after an unattainable woman. “As a person who looks like me, whenever I would watch a version of...
View ArticleThe State of Business in NY and NJ
Greg David, contributor covering fiscal economic issues for THE CITY and director of the business and economics and Ravitch Fiscal Reporting Program at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, and...
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Remembering the Ramifications of Robert Moses's Lincoln Square Renewal Project
Few of the world’s classical music festivals have so lodged themselves in the collective consciousness like Mostly Mozart has, spawning an array of knock-offs and even a Peanuts cartoon that riffed on...
View ArticleBette Midler on “Coastal Elites”
The new film “Coastal Elites” is a series of monologues written by Paul Rudnick, one of which features Bette Midler as a retired New York schoolteacher who’s educated, funny, possibly insane, and in...
View ArticleRadha Blank’s “Forty-Year-Old Version”
Radha Blank, a playwright who started rapping in middle age, wrote and directed a loosely autobiographical film about her journey, which is now premiering on Netflix. When “The Forty-Year-Old Version”...
View ArticleGreetings, Prophet!
A mild-mannered theater professor attempts to stage a controversial play in a small East Texas town.This episode discusses drug use, sex, homophobia, and contains explicit language. Sensitive...
View ArticleChayefsky
It's 45 years since the film Network had its premiere. It seemed pretty far out in its time - but now seems remarkably prescient, thanks to the writing by Paddy Chayefsky, the subject of this archival...
View ArticleThe Return of NYC: Stage Performances
Michael Paulson, the theater reporter for The New York Times, looks ahead to the return of live stage performances to NYC. Plus, and Susan Feldman, the founder and artistic director of St. Ann's...
View ArticleRomeo y Julieta, Told In Two Languages
New York’s Public Theater and WNYC is doing Romeo and Juliet on the radio, and this production aims both to entertain and to show that language need not divide us. All the characters shift seamlessly...
View Article'Seven Deadly Sins' Theatrical Experience
After a sold-out run in Miami, "Seven Deadly Sins," a unique outdoor theatre experience, has come to the Meatpacking District for a limited run through July 25. Audiences travel to different...
View Article'Seven Deadly Sins,' Apple Daily, A Book on Seashells, Full Bio: James...
After a sold-out run in Miami, "Seven Deadly Sins," a unique outdoor theatre experience, has come to the Meatpacking District for a limited run through July 25. Audiences travel to different...
View ArticleSummer Culture Calendar
Jennifer Vanasco, WNYC news and culture editor, rounds up some of the great outdoor cultural offerings in the area this summer.
View ArticleLynn Nottage & Miranda Haymon on 'The Watering Hole'
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage joins us along with director and co-creator Miranda Haymon to discuss the new collaborative production currently on view at the Signature Theatre titled,...
View ArticleFrench Cooking Call-in, 'The Stone Face' Reprint, Gathering During COVID,...
New York Times food columnist and cookbook author Melissa Clark joins us to discuss French recipes and techniques in honor of Bastille Day. She's the author of over 40 cookbooks including Dinner in...
View Article'Merry Wives' at Shakespeare in the Park
Playwright Jocelyn Bioh and actors Susan Kelechi Watson and Pascale Armand join us to discuss the Public Theater's "MerryWives," the season's free Shakespeare in the Park production, which runs at the...
View Article'Homeroom' Doc, 'Merry Wives' at the Public, 'Pappyland,' All Things Whiskey
Director Peter Nicks joins us to discuss the documentary, “Homeroom,” which follows Oakland High School’s class of 2020 over the course of a year marked by the pandemic and efforts to eliminate the...
View ArticleJonathan Franzen Talks with David Remnick, and Broadway Reopens
The novelist Jonathan Franzen discusses religion, the ethics of writing characters of a different race, and his deliberate evolution away from literary formalism and “po-mo hijinks.” As Broadway...
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