It's always been a challenge to "Sunday Supper" that the birthdays of Pete Seeger and Judy Collins collide on the calendar. On this week's show we'll solve that by toasting them both — Judy's 85th on Wednesday and Pete's 105th on Friday — in a joint medley.
On Your Radar: Matt King & White Collar Crime, Mad Agnes and Sandy Bailey.
John Platt's On Your Radar has a new venue, the legendary Bitter End NYC.
It’s been 54 years since Chris Smither’s debut album, I’m a Stranger Here Too! (produced by the recently deceased Michael Cuscuna, who also produced Bonnie Raitt’s Give it Up, which contained Smither’s most famous song, “Love Me Like a Man”). It made him known among critics, but not a household name.
Chekhov’s plays, like Shakespeare’s, are essential to the theater canon. His oeuvre isn’t as deep as Shakespeare’s, of course, but it is rich and thus open to multiple revivals. Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of Uncle Vanya is satisfying in every way.