All Of It with Alison Stewart

Martha Stewart Living’s editor-in-chief, Elizabeth Graves, joins us to offer some holiday gift giving suggestions and craft ideas.

Academy Award winning actor and musician Jared Leto is nearly unrecognizable in his role as Paolo Gucci in the star-studded film "House of Gucci." Leto comes on to talk the film, as well as the upcoming Marvel movie, "Morbius," in which he will be the lead, hitting theatres on January 28, 2022.

"House of Gucci" is playing in theaters now.

[REBROADCAST FROM JANUARY 18, 2019] "The Sopranos" has exploded in popularity more than two decades after it first premiered in 1999, prompting headlines like this one from The New York Times--- "Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’?" In honor of the Sopranos surge, we revisit our conversation with Matt Zoller Seitz, editor-at-large at RogerEbert.com and the television critic for New York magazine and Vulture, and Alan Sepinwall, chief TV critic for Rolling Stone, who wrote the book, The Sopranos Sessions, who joined us to discuss the 20th anniversary of the premiere of "The Sopranos" on HBO.

How did HBO become the powerhouse behind some of the most acclaimed television ever created, changing the way we think about TV forever, and creating household names out of relative unknowns? That's the question journalist and author James Andrew Miller seeks to answer in his new oral history of the company, Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers. Miller joins us to discuss.

The new HBO Max series, "Station Eleven," an adaptation of the acclaimed Emily St. John Mandel novel of the same name, has already been declared one of the best shows of the year by The New York Times, Vulture, and Rolling Stone, even though it hasn't yet premiered. Creator Patrick Somerville and star Mackenzie Davis join us to discuss the series, which follows a woman who joins a traveling Shakespeare company after a deadly pandemic dramatically alters the world as we know it. The first episode premieres tonight on HBO Max.

The new film “King Richard” is receiving acclaim and Oscars buzz for Will Smith’s performance as Richard Williams, the father and first coach of Venus and Serena Williams. Screenwriter Zach Baylin joins us to discuss the film, his first feature, which was featured in the second slot in the 2018 Black List. “King Richard” is in theaters now and streaming on HBO Max.

Author Min Jin Lee shares her experience of having the legendary bell hooks as a professor.

Some movies and TV shows have been more successful at tackling the COVID-19 pandemic than others. Liz Shannon Miller, senior entertainment editor at Consequence, joins us to discuss her piece, "The Best (and Worst) of Pandemic TV Shows and Movies," published in Collider.

[REBROADCAST] Playwright Jeremy O. Harris's "Slave Play" is now playing at Broadway's August Wilson Theatre. He and actors Annie McNamara and Sullivan Jones joined us before the pandemic to discuss the poignant play about interracial relationships when it was still off-Broadway at the New York Theater workshop. O. Harris also joined us this past March, around the 1-year anniversary of Broadway's lockdown, to discuss the theater community's challenging year, and making space for Black theater on Broadway going forward

[REBROADCAST FROM August 17th, 2021] In light of the removal of the Sackler name from the Met's exhibition spaces, We return to Patrick Radden Keefe's "Full Bio" series on his book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. We talk about the relationship between the Sackler brothers, and the creation of MS Contin, the precursor to OxyContin.