All Of It with Alison Stewart

After some pandemic disruption, Comic Con is back in full force at the Javits Center. Chris D'Lando, the NYCC's events manager, tells us what's happening.

Next week, seven teams will showcase theatre pieces created by and for artists who does not correspond with the male and female binary. Coinciding with LGBTQ+ History Month and National Coming Out Day, Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival culminates in a public reading presentation the week of October 10 - 16, 2022 at Theatre Row. George Strus, founding artistic director, and Sam Morreale, cultural consultant, join us to talk about the program. 

It's the New York Renaissance Faire's closing weekend, so before the final "Huzzah!" we're taking your Ren Faire calls. All Of It producer and occasional hobbit Zach Gottehrer-Cohen, who spent a day at the fairgrounds last weekend, joins us to talk about the festivities.

According to New York Times cocktail and spirits writer Robert Simonson, we are living through the second golden age of cocktails. What does that mean, precisely? Simonson joins to tell us the neat history of some of the most well-known cocktails, as well as his own takes on the best cocktails you can make at home, with recipes which you can find in his new cookbook, Modern Classic Cocktails: 60+ Stories and Recipes from the New Golden Age in Drinks. Plus, he takes your calls.

Lorraine Hansberry's classic play "A Raisin in the Sun," about a Black family's struggles with housing discrimination on the South Side of Chicago, has been given a new staging at the Public Theater. Director Robert O'Hara joins us to discuss his vision for this revival, alongside Francois Battiste, who stars as Walter Lee Younger. "A Raisin in the Sun" runs at the Public Theater through November 6th.

Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino joins us to discuss the 75th anniversary of The Actor's Studio, of which he is co-president. He also discusses a special benefit screening of his 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon," which is set to take place on October 27th at 7 pm. Pacino will attend the screening and participate in a live interview afterwards.

Recently, Rolling Stone published a list of "The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time" with input from television critics, actors and showrunners. Rolling Stone's chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall joins us to talk about some of the shows from the list and take listener calls.

Bestselling author Celeste Ng is back with her latest novel after the tremendous success of Little Fires Everywhere. In Our Missing Hearts, Ng creates a future America in which laws have been created to "preserve American culture" and children of dissidents can be sent away. One of those children is Bird, whose mother is a Chinese American poet deemed unpatriotic by the government. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother, but when he receives a mysterious note, he begins a journey to find her. Ng join us to discuss.

Wednesday is Bond Day, a worldwide celebration of the James Bond series. This is the 60th anniversary of the premiere of the first film and the first on-screen Bond, Sean Connery. Vulture film critic Bilge Ebiri, who wrote "The Best Bond films, Ranked" for Vulture last year when Daniel Craig departed, joins to discuss the impact of the Bond franchise and we take listener calls about their favorite Bond film and theme song.

[REBROADCAST FROM April 14, 2022] To celebrate National Poetry Month, we talk to acclaimed author Colm Tóibín about his debut poetry collection, Vinegar Hill, which discusses religion, death, sexuality, and the pandemic.