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November 1, 2024News, Podcasts

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.
August 1, 2024Podcasts

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

Local Switchboard’s Sarah Montague celebrated the opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center.
May 13, 2024Podcasts

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 […]
March 22, 2024Podcasts

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. Lauren shares some of them with us here.
March 21, 2024Podcasts

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.
December 23, 2023Podcasts

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 Switchboard NYC, sits down with Regine L. Sawyer, a New York City-based comics writer, editor, and the founder of Women in Comics Collective International.
October 30, 2023Podcasts

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 Fleming about the beautiful, elegiac tone of this year’s event. And the documentary production house Radio Diaries brings us stories from Hart Island, a little-known burial ground in the Bronx. Managing Producer Nellie Gilles talks about the evolution of the series.
June 25, 2023Podcasts

Pride Full

For Pride Month, Local Switchboard reports on the history of the rainbow flag created by artist Gilbert Baker.
December 20, 2022Podcasts

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 […]
June 29, 2022Podcasts

Pride Acts Up

Local Switchboard NYC celebrates Pride month by revisiting significant parts of its past: the activist group ACT UP, and the participatory project The Gay Rub, founded by Steven Reigns, […]