All Of It with Alison Stewart

To kick off Pride Month, Melissa Etheridge will perform a four-night residency at City Winery beginning May 30. She stops by to talk about returning to the live stage and discuss her latest album, One Way Out.

The new musical, "¡Americano!," tells the true story of Tony Valdovinos, who didn't learn he was an undocumented immigrant until he attempted to enlist in the Marine Corps. We are joined by Valdovinos, actor Sean Ewing, who plays Tony in the show, and composer Carrie Rodriguez, who created the score. "¡Americano!" runs at New World Stages through June 19.

Fresh off winning a Pulitzer Prize, playwright James Ijames joins us to discuss "Fat Ham," his new interpretation of "Hamlet." A lot happens at a family cookout when a queer black college kid named Juicy is questioning his identity. Suddenly, the ghost of his father shows up and wants his son to get payback for his murder. But Juicy wants to break the cycle of violence in his life, and also in his community. The play is directed by The Public's associate artistic director Saheem Ali, and is a co-production with National Black Theatre. Ijames and Ali join to discuss "Fat Ham," which runs until June 12.

Vulture TV writer Kathryn VanArendonk joins us for a Review/Preview to catch us up on the latest TV news, share her favorite shows right now, and what she's looking forward to.

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival kicked off on May 20, with both online and in-person screenings. The festival's director, John Biaggi, joins us to preview the documentaries available to catch through May 26.

Along with her sister, Nora Ephron, Delia Ephron wrote the hit film, "You've Got Mail." She found her life imitating art when at 72, she fell in love via email. But soon after, she was diagnosed with a severe leukemia. She joins to discuss these extreme up and down experiences as detailed in her new memoir, Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life.

Rapper, songwriter and producer Kendrick Lamar recently released his latest studio album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers. Complex anchor and producer Alana Yzola joins us to analyze the album's themes and the artist's career.

The Rain City Superhero Movement was a vigilante organization led by Ben Fodor, an MMA fighter-turned-crime fighter who sought to thwart wrongdoers in Seattle while wearing a yellow and black bulletproof suit, under the name Phoenix Jones. A new podcast, "The Superhero Complex," explores Jones' rise to (and fall from) fame alongside the phenomenon of real-life superheroism. Host David Weinberg joins us.

Recently, we were joined by Mollie West Duffy and Liz Fosslein, authors of a new book, Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay. We enjoyed the conversation so much, and had so much more to talk about from the book, that we decided to invite Liz and Mollie back for every show this week to take on one big feeling a day, and take your calls as part of our ongoing series, "Taking Care Of You in 2022" and for Mental Health Awareness month. Today, Liz will join us. The specific feeling for this day is comparison.

A new book tells the inside story of the culture of Apple and its trajectory after the passing of the company's co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. Author Tripp Mickle, technology reporter for the New York Times, interviewed more than 200 Apple employees to uncover how the company tried to reimagine itself after the death of Jobs, the power struggle between Tim Cook and Jony Ive for control, and where Apple sees itself in the future of big tech. Mickle joins us to discuss his reporting and his book, After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul.