Local Switchboard NYC

Pride may be over this year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate and support the LGBTQ community all year long.

On this episode, we look at the impact of a few of the policy goals and changes initiated by the Trump administration on New York City.   From the podcast This […]

On our latest episode, we revisit the poet Dorothy Parker’s famous quip, that New York “will be a nice town if they ever get it finished” from two perspectives.

Local Switchboard’s Sarah Montague celebrated the opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center.

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, published in 1962, helped to inspire environmental awareness and climate activism in the United States. This spring of 2024, we wish to be anything but silent.  On this […]

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.

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.

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.

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 i...

For Pride Month, Local Switchboard reports on the history of the rainbow flag created by artist Gilbert Baker. Your browser does not support the audio tag.

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 […]

  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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

In this bonus episode, Local Switchboard’s Heather Chin presents the New Ohio Theatre’s latest production, “Journey Around My Bedroom.”

Liz Abzug, the daughter of feminist icon and former New York Representative Bella Abzug, spoke with Local Switchboard host Jordan Gass-Poore’ during the summer about running her mom’s political campaigns, […]

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 […]

In this episode, we take a look back at the annual New York City Village Halloween Parade and explore the colorful past and uncertain future of the beloved Lower East […]

In our season two kickoff, we go back in time to September 16, 1920, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Wall Street Bombing, the worst terror attack in American […]