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, beginning January 20, we remember the day we heard the news, Joe Biden had been elected president. That day, the sound of political change was in the air and it was loud.

Finally, we end the show with the News From The Neighborhoods:

It was New York City’s first snowstorm of the COVID-19 pandemic. Close to a foot of snow dropped on parts of the five boroughs and transformed the city into a winter wonderland. We play some of the sounds of its aftermath in Long Island City, Queens.

Local Switchboard’s Sarah Montague takes us across the river to the West Village. The Bated Breath Theatre Company has created an imaginative outdoor performance experience called Voyeur: The Windows of Toulouse-Lautrec. Live performance, puppetry, music, and film combine to help tell the story of the French artist and capture what life was like in 19th-century Paris.