Local Switchboard NYC

<p >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...

<p >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.</p> <p...

<p >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.</p> <p >And Jordan Gass-Poore’...

<p>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...

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

<p >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...

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

<p >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...

<p >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...

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...

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

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<p >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...

<p >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.</p> <p >And as we prepare for a new presidential...