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Celebrating Pride All Year

Pride may be over this year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate and support the LGBTQ community all year long. The post Celebrating Pride All Year appeared first on Local Switchboard.

New York in the Wake of Trump

On this episode, we look at the impact of a few of the policy goals and changes initiated by the Trump administration on New York City. From the podcast This Way Out, we have a report on the response of the LGBTQ movemen

A Nice Town

On our latest episode, we revisit the poet Dorothy Parker’s famous quip, that New York “will be a nice town if they ever get it finished” from two perspectives.

We Are Family: NYC’s Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center Opens

On June 28th, 1969 patrons at The Stonewall Inn, a well-known nightspot and refuge for the queer community in New York’s Greenwich Village, had had enough. Raided and ridiculed by local police most nights, on this night

Saving and Savoring the Planet, New York Style

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, helped to inspire environmental awareness and climate activism in the United States. This spring of 2024, we wish to be anything but silent. On this program, we share two

Women Make Theatre: Bonus Episode

Actor Ellen Lauren was once a competitive show jumper, but theatre goers of the last 30-odd years will know her as a founder and principal actor with the SITI Company, where she played roles as varies as Virginia Woolf a

NYC: Women Make Theatre

For Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating women’s contribution to the theatre, where they have had a dramatic presence since classical times and a professional presence as actors since the 17th century. Today, women a

Happy Holidays From Local Switchboard NYC

On this episode, Local Switchboard’s Sarah Montague talks with Lauren Keating, adapter and director of “A Christmas Carol” at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey. And Jordan Gass-Poore’, host of Local Sw

October Fests

This month on the show, we feature two different ways of celebrating New York and honoring New Yorkers. It’s the 50th anniversary of the iconic Village Halloween Parade, and Sarah Montague talked with director Jeanne Fle

Pride Full

For Pride Month, Local Switchboard reports on the history of the rainbow flag created by artist Gilbert Baker. The post Pride Full appeared first on Local Switchboard.

Voices Raised In Song & Protest

It’s the holidays: friends, family, gifts and gelt, tree lightings, and ‘good will towards men.’ Not so fast. Our brief show for this season does indeed include an uplifting tree lighting in Greenwich Village’s Abingdon

Pride Acts Up

Local Switchboard NYC celebrates Pride month by revisiting significant parts of its past: the activist group ACT UP, and the participatory pr

Take A Walk

Spring has finally sprung, and people see eager to get outdoors. But the return of “normal” business and social life has also meant a return to the subway. Never fun, and even less so these days. Sima Sadykhov, an audio

Closed Doors

On this episode we say goodbye to spaces lost during the pandemic, as part of a new series. First, Local Switchboard’s Sarah Montague gets a tour of her old apartment building — an historic family home that’s now on the

Closed Doors

On this episode we say goodbye to spaces lost during the pandemic, as part of a new series. First, Local Switchboard's Sarah Montague gets a tour of her old apartment building -- an historic family home that's now on the

Introducing Our New Series: ‘We’re Still Here’

In this bonus episode, Local Switchboard’s Heather Chin presents the New Ohio Theatre’s latest production, “Journey Around My Bedroom.” The post Introducing Our New Series: ‘We’re Still Here’ appeared first on Local Swit

Introducing Our New Series: 'We're Still Here'

Hats Off To Bella Abzug

Hats Off To Bella Abzug

Liz Abzug, the daughter of feminist icon and former New York Representative Bella Abzug, spoke with Local Switchboard host Jordan Gass-Poore’ during the summer about running her mom’s political campaigns, being the first

New York City In Changing Times

Local Switchboard’s Betsy Laken in conversation with local theater director Adrienne Campbell-Holt on the resiliency of New York City’s performing arts community. And as we prepare for a new presidential administration,