All Of It with Alison Stewart

The new Broadway musical "Wanted" is based on the true story of twin sisters Mary and Martha Clarke, two Black women who became outlaws in Texas in the late 1800s. Solea Pfeiffer and Liisi LaFontaine, who star as Mary and Martha, discuss the new musical.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson has spent years immersed in the plays of August Wilson, from his work in the Tony-winning revival of "Jitney" to his recent Tony-nominated performance in "Joe Turner's Come and Gone." Now, he's directing a new revival of Wilson's play "Seven Guitars" at Lincoln Center Theater. Santiago-Hudson discusses his long relationship with Wilson's work, and his approach to this play about a blues musician in 1940s Pittsburgh.
'Wanted' production photo by Julieta Cervantes

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"Chicago," Broadway’s longest-running revival, turns 30 this month. We celebrate live in The Greene Space with performances from current cast members and discussion about the record-breaking musical with its Tony-winning director, Walter Bobbie. Performers include Tony nominee Natasha Yvette Williams, Lissa deGuzman, Red Concepción, and Bianca Marroquin, who will return to the Broadway production as Roxie Hart on November 16 having performed the role over 4,000 times.
Photo by Zach Gottehrer-Cohen/WNYC

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In the Vietnam War, there was one group of special forces that made history as the first all-Black long-range reconnaissance patrol unit in the war. They were known as the "Soul Patrol." Now, a new documentary tells the story of what these men experienced, and what waited for them when they returned to a country that didn't recognize their own civil rights. Director J.M. Harper discusses his film "Soul Patrol," which is playing at AMC theaters across the country for Veteran's Day, as well as at the IFC Center and the Village East by Angelika.
Filmmaker Ron Howard discusses his new documentary "Avedon" about famed photographer Richard Avedon. The film premieres on Netflix on November 11.
Photo: Richard Avedon planning hs retrospective exhibition at New York's Marlborough Gallery, photographed August 27, 1975. (Jack Mitchell/Getty Images)

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Melissa Clark, New York Times food reporter and columnist, has written a new cookbook dedicated to dinner. The Big Book of Dinner: Recipes and Rules (and How to Break Them), includes framework for making dinner recipes, but also advise on how to riff on or break the the rules of the recipe with different flavors or techniques. Clark discusses her ideal dinners and previews Thanksgiving cooking. Listeners share their cooking questions.
When New York Magazine/Vulture features writer Rachel Handler heard that the heir to a chocolate fortune was complaining how Reese's Peanut Butter cups now taste ("inedible," in his view), she began investigating. She discusses what she found: a corporate world of cheaper vegetable oils and substitutes for cocoa butter, and a strange vision for the future of mass-market chocolate.
Photo by: Deb Cohn-Orbach/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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Writer and translator Jennifer Croft has been collecting postcards for years, and sending them to her friends, family, and romantic partners. She's used postcards to stay in touch with her grandmother, and to convince an ex to get back together. Now, she writes about the history, power, and personal nature of postcards in her new memoir Notes on Postcards. Croft discusses the book, out on November 10. Listeners share stories about their own relationship to postcards.
Juan Atkins, known as the Godfather of Techno, passed away last week at the age of 64. Fellow Detroit producer Carl Craig called him, "the guy who made techno when nobody was calling it techno." Craig and music journalist Shuja Haider talk about Atkins and the history of techno.
Cover art courtesy of the publisher

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