All Of It with Alison Stewart

Award-winning screenwriter and director Alexander Payne ("Election," "Sideways," "The Descendants") returns with a new comedy set at an elite prep school over the Christmas holidays. It reunites Payne and actor Paul Giamatti, who worked together on "Sideways." We'll speak with Payne and his producer David Hemingson about "The Holdovers."

The Montclair Film Festival is underway this week! We are joined by Tom Hall, co-head and artistic director of the Festival, to discuss what films people can look forward to during the rest of the week, and to preview the special tribute to Martin Scorcese, hosted by Stephen Colbert, happening at the festival on Friday at 8 pm.

In 1921, Pablo Picasso spent the summer painting in his villa in Fontainebleau, France. Some of his works include six-foot-high canvases that he painted within weeks of each other; Three Women at the Spring and Three Musicians. Curator and art historian Anne Umland joins us to discuss the show, Picasso in Fontainebleau, which is on display at the Museum of Modern Art through February 17.

The beloved Broadway show "Wicked" is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Composer Stephen Schwartz joins us to discuss his now-classic score, and putting the show together 20 years ago. Plus, we are joined by the current Elphaba, Alyssa Fox, and Glinda, McKenzie Kurtz. All three take calls from listeners about their favorite "Wicked" memories.

In two new releases, former Police drummer Stewart Copeland revives material from the late 1970s through 1980, a span that included the band’s formation and the beginning of his solo career. His new book, Stewart Copeland’s Police Diaries, features journal entries written between 1976 and 1979 and providing a glimpse into the band’s formative years. And in November he will reissue Klark Kent, his first solo album, originally released in 1980. Copeland joins us to talk about his career.

Melissa Joseph is a Brooklyn-based artist who previously worked as a high school art teacher and textile designer. Her new show, Irish Exit, displays new work inspired by photographs of her family to explore her own identity (Joseph's mother is American of Irish descent and her father is from India). Irish Exit features felt, ceramics, and paper pulp pieces, and is on view at Margot Samel in Tribeca through November 22. Joseph joins us in studio to discuss the show and her practice.

National Book award winning author Jacqueline Woodson has written a new children's middle grade book (ages 10 and up), inspired by her childhood spent in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Remember Us tells the story of a soon-to-be seventh grader Sage, a basketball-obsessed girl who is living in the midst of a crisis of houses being burned around her neighborhood. Sage also makes a new friend, Freddy, and the two of them go on a summer journey of discovery. Woodson joins to discuss her book.

Golden Globe winning actor Danny DeVito and his daughter Lucy DeVito are starring together in a new Broadway play! The DeVitos and playwright Theresa Rebeck join us to discuss their show, "I Need That," which follows the story of a man struggling with hoarding who must clean out his place... or face eviction. "I Need That" is on Broadway through Dec. 30th.

Described as "the most glamorous civic building to land in New York in years," the Perelman Performing Arts Center recently opened its doors downtown in the World Trade area. We'll hear about the vision of the building, two decades after 9/11 and the inaugural arts season from artistic director Bill Rauch and executive director Khady Kamara.

"I like to think of dreams as a mystery," writes Roz Chast in the introduction to her latest book. "I don't need to know exactly why they are there or what they are. The fact that they exist at all is kind of miraculous." In I Must Be Dreaming, she explores some of hers in both words and pictures and covers nightmares about produce, dreams about Fran Lebowitz roller skating and weird smells in outer space.

 Events: 

 MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2023 — NEW YORK, NYTalk, Q&A, and book signing – 6:30 p.m. ETMuseum of the City of New York1220 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029(212) 534-1672WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2023 — RIDGEFIELD, CTTalk, Q&A, and book signing –7:30 p.m. ETRidgefield Library in partnership with Books on the Common472 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT 06877(203) 438-2282

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2023 — BROOKLYN, NYTalk, Q&A, and book signing at 7:00 p.m. ETBooks Are Magic @ First Unitarian Church119 Pierrepont Street , Brooklyn, NY 11201(718) 246-2665WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2023 — NEW YORK, NYSelected Shorts: Roz Chast, While You Were Sleeping – 7:00 p.m. ETSymphony Space2537 Broadway (at 95th)