Ta-Nehisi Coates on his Apollo Residency, A Collection of Lenape Folklore, 'Merrily We Roll Along' on Broadway, Open House New York Weekend
Award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates is the current artist-in-residence at The Apollo and is curating the festival [at] The Intersection, running from October 6-8, a series of performances and panel discussions with cultural figures like Jordan E. Cooper, Bisa Butler and Salamishah Tillet. We preview the festival with Coates and speak more about his relationship with The Apollo. And, during Banned Books Week, we also speak to him about recent attempts to remove his book Between the World and Me from schools in South Carolina, Texas, and other states.
A new collection of Lenape folklore contains some stories published together in a book for the first time. Camilla Townsend, a professor of history at Rutgers, and Nicky Kay Michael, Interim President of Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and a member of the Delaware tribe, join us to discuss their work on the collection, On the Turtle's Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren.
EVENT: Townsend will be speaking on Indigenous People's Day at the National Museum of the American Indian for NYC's Indigenous People's Day Open House.
"Merrily We Roll Along" has long been considered the biggest flop of Stephen Sondheim's career, even as it features some of his most ambitious musical work. Now, after a successful run at the New York Theatre Workshop, a new revival of the musical starring Daniel Radcliffe, Lindsay Mendez, and Jonathan Groff comes to Broadway. We speak with director Maria Friedman, who once starred in a Haymarket production of this musical, on how she made this notoriously difficult show work. "Merrily We Roll Along" is running at Hudson Theatre through March 24, 2024.
This year's Open House New York Weekend will feature behind-the-scenes access to everything from the Perelman Performing Arts Center to the Hip Hop Museum to the Hindu Temple Society of North America. OHNY executive director Pamela Puchalski will walk us through the offerings. Plus, we take your calls about your favorite NYC places.
