92NY Talks

Emmy nominated actor and Law & Order: SVU star Christopher Meloni sits down with TVLine's Michael Ausiello to discuss the brand-new series Law & Order: Organized Crime. Hear Meloni talk about the powerful new addition to the long-running franchise, the enduring appeal of the Law & Order shows, the new gravity that he brings to the Elliott Stabler roll, stories from behind the scenes, his other upc...

We dip into our archives and go back to 2008 on the eve of the publication of Star Trek sensation William Shatner's memoir, Up Till Now, when he sat down with Leonard Lopate to share stories about his life and career. The conversation was recorded on May 12, 2008 in front of a live audience at New York's 92nd Street Y.

The creators of Netflix's new series Hit & Run — Lior Raz who also stars, Avi Issacharoff, Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin — discuss their new international action-thriller with SiriusXM's Jessica Shaw. Following a man looking for answers in the US following his wife's death in a mysterious accident in Tel Aviv, Hit & Run is suspenseful at every turn, driven by Raz's virtuoso performance — a clas...

Award-winning WNYC reporter Jim O'Grady sits down with longtime 92Y host Budd Mishkin to discuss Blindspot: The Road to 9/11, the eight-episode podcast from HISTORY and WNYC Studios that's hosted by O'Grady who was part of the team that covered 9/11 for The New York Times. It tells the story of FBI agents and terrorists, public events and private meetings, signs missed and opportunities lost. The...

The creator and star of Disney+'s new action-comedy series Turner & Hooch , Matt Nix and Josh Peck, sit down with John Stamos, actor and star of the Disney+ original series, Big Shot . A continuation of the hit 1989 buddy cop movie of the same name starring Tom Hanks, hear them discuss adapting the series for a new audience, the challenges and joys of working with animal actors, stories from behin...

Join the creator and stars of Peacock's acclaimed new series  Girls5eva  – Meredith Scardino, Sara Bareilles, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Paula Pell, and Busy Philipps – for a conversation about the making of the show with  TV Guide Magazine 's Damian Holbrook. Following the members of a one-hit wonder '90s girl group as they take one more shot at making their pop dreams come true,  Girls5eva  is bein...

Christina Hendricks sits down with Emmy Award-winning Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner to discuss her role in NBC's Good Girls , now entering its fourth season. They also talk about their collaborative relationship, Hendricks' new projects, stories from behind the scenes, and more. The conversation was streamed live as part of the 92nd Street Y's online talks series on June 22, 2021.

The award-winning stars of Netflix's Master of None — Lena Waithe, Naomi Ackie, Alan Yang and Aziz Ansari — discuss the comedy's highly-anticipated third season. It's being hailed for its bold, new dramatic depths, anchored by performances from Waithe and Ackie. Writer Jim Pascoe moderates the conversation, streamed live as part of the 92nd Street Y's online talks series on June 17, 2021.

Join Pulitzer Prize-winning writers Annette Gordon-Reed and Brent Staples for a discussion of Gordon-Reed's new book, On Juneteenth — a stirring reflection on how the holiday commemorating the freeing of African-American slaves in the United States is celebrated. Focusing on her upbringing in Texas, Gordon-Reed's candid meditation on the complex mythologies of her state's relationship to the holid...

Reel Pieces moderator Annette Insdorf interviews Academy Award®-winner Barry Jenkins about his acclaimed new series, The Underground Railroad . Based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, the ten episodes — currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video — trace the journey of Cora Randall, a slave who escapes a Georgia plantation and struggles for freedom in the antebellum South. The conv...

The editors of Cosmopolitan and Esquire , Jessica Pels and Michael Sebastian, discuss The Future of Sex with sex educator Haylin Belay. What will sex, dating and relationships be like once COVID-19 is finally behind us? Cosmopolitan and Esquire teamed up with the iconic Kinsey Institute to find out how the future of sex will change in a post-pandemic world. The conversation was streamed live as pa...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, SoFi and 92Y's XYZ present a conversation on work and mental health with psychologist Dr. Jaclyn Lopez Witmer and SoFi's Ashley Stahl, a career expert and host of the popular mental health podcast You Turn. The COVID crisis has added unprecedented stress to our lives, including our work lives. They explore how your mental health may be impacting your work, and the rev...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, we present another installment of excerpts from our recent State of Democracy Summit, produced in collaboration with the Knight Foundation, ProPublica, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies. Democracy in Public: Kounkuey Design Initiative's Chelina Odbert, Eric Klinenberg of NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge, and Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering and host of...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, we present excerpts from our recent State of Democracy Summit, produced in collaboration with the Knight Foundation, ProPublica, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies. The 2020 election season and its aftermath is perhaps one of the most tumultuous times in recent history: bringing longstanding tensions in America into violent relief and testing core pillars of the democra...

Huey Lewis sits down with SiriusXM's Mark Goodman for a career-spanning conversation about his first album with his band The News in nearly two decades, Weather —a smooth, whip-smart return to the sound that helped make Huey Lewis and The News one of the biggest bands of the '80s, earning them Grammy Awards and selling over 30 million albums. The conversation was recorded on February 17, 2020 in f...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, director and actor Soleil Moon Frye, star of the beloved 80s and current Peacock sitcom  Punky Brewster , sits down with Demi Moore to discuss her new Hulu documentary  kid 90 . When Frye was a teenager, she documented hundreds of hours of her life with her friends – other young stars like David Arquette, Stephen Dorff, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and more. In  kid 90 , Frye...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, Budd Mishkin hosts a celebration of the life and legacy of Debbie Friedman, whose music continues to inspire Jews to sing out all over the world. Special guest Mandy Patinkin discusses his close friendship with Debbie, along with Debbie's sister Cheryl Friedman, Rabbi Peter Rubinstein, Rabbi Dan Freelander, Cantor Jeff Klepper, Merri and Rabbi Ramie Arian, Douglas Mis...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, Annette Insdorf interviews director and co-writer Thomas Vinterberg and co-writer Tobias Lindholm about their film  Another Round , which is Denmark's official submission for the Best International Feature Film category of the 93rd Academy Awards. The dark comedy has already swept the European Film Awards — winning Best Film, Director, Screenplay, and Actor for Mads M...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, bestselling author and cultural icon Roxane Gay discusses her new Scribd Originals story  Writing into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language  with award-winning journalist and host of  Matter of Fact  Soledad O'Brien.  Writing into the Wound is a remarkable consideration of being human, and a skillful guide to processing our pain, by one of the finest a...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, the iconic artist Christo discusses his creative process, his creative partnership with his wife Jeanne-Claude, and much more with Amei Wallach. Some of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's projects include the Lake Iseo project documented in the film  Walking on Water , and wrapping the entire Arc de Triomphe in 270,000 square feet of silvery-blue fabric. The conversation was...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, Pulitzer Prize winners Susan Faludi and Anna Quindlen discuss feminism, identity, and the creative spirit with Jennifer Finney Boylan. The conversation was recorded on March 30, 2017 in front of a live audience at New York's 92nd Street Y.

In this special edition of 92Y Talks, we are launching a new series with the Regional Plan Association called Recalibrate Reality: The Future of New York, hosted by Scott Rechler, chair of RPA and RXR Realty. The series will feature conversations with top leaders in government, business, transportation, hospitality, arts, and other key sectors, with the goal of answering the question: How do We Re...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, Annette Insdorf interviews filmmaker Ramin Bahrani about his film  The White Tiger. Netflix, which is currently streaming the film, describes it as an "epic journey of a poor Indian driver," played by Adarsh Gourav, "who uses his wit and cunning to break free from servitude to his rich masters," played by Rajkummar Rao and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, "and rise to the top o...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, legendary writer and performer Anna Deavere Smith, former senior advisor to President Obama Valerie Jarrett, and CNN's Van Jones discuss the HBO film  Notes from the Field . The film was adapted from Smith's acclaimed one-woman show, in which she portrays a multitude of real-life characters with her signature precision. The conversation was recorded on February 19, 20...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, actor, director and producer Melissa Joan Hart talks with Glamour's Jessica Radloff about her trio of family Christmas films on Lifetime and her experiences directing Mario Lopez in the family film Feliz NaviDAD, starring alongside Jason Priestley in the holiday romance Dear Christmas, and producing the Vanessa Lachey-led Once Upon a Main Street through her production...