'The Notebook' on Broadway; Navigating Menopause; April Fools' Day Pranks; Photographer Nona Faustine

The beloved film "The Notebook" has now gotten a Broadway musical makeover, with new original music from singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson, a new adapted book, and innovative direction from Michael Greif and Schele Williams. Michaelson, Grief, and Williams join us to discuss the show, which is running now at the Schoenfeld Theatre.

A new book, The Menopause Brain, dispels the myth that menopause signifies an end for women, demonstrating that it’s actually just a transition. Dr. Lisa Mosconi, PhD, and director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at WCM/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, joins us to discuss the effects of menopause on the brain, and take your calls.

To celebrate April Fools' Day, we talk with Moira Marsh, author of Practically Joking, University of Indiana liaison librarian for Anthropology, Folklore, and Sociology, and manager of the Modern Language Association Folklore Bibliography Project, about the social value and human history of pranks. Plus, listeners call in to share their stories of executing or falling victim to practical jokes.

A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum presents the work of Brooklyn-born photographer Nona Faustine, specifically her series, White Shoes, where she poses (sometimes nude) in white heels in front of New York City historical sites that have a connection to slavery. Faustine joins to discuss her practice and first solo museum exhibition, Nona Faustine: White Shoes, on view at the Brooklyn Museum through July 7.