Podcasts

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  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.

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  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.

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  June 25, 2023Podcasts

  Pride Full

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

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  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 […]

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  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, […]

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  June 3, 2022Podcasts

  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, […]

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  July 21, 2021Podcasts

  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 […]

• June 28, 2021Podcasts

  Pride Special

  On this episode, we celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Local Switchboard’s Jordan Gass-Poore’ speaks with Eric Marcus, founder and host of the podcast Making Gay History, and […]