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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.






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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.


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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 in the Bronx.  Managing Producer Nellie Gilles talks about the evolution of the series.


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For Pride Month, Local Switchboard reports on the history of the rainbow flag created by artist Gilbert Baker.

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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 […]

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  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, […]

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