Director Kenny Leon and actor Steven Pasquale join us to discuss the new play, ”American Son.” Set in a Florida police station in the middle of the night, two parents search for answers when their son goes missing after being stopped by the police. Kerry Washington returns to the Broadway stage alongside Steven Pasquale. This production marks the Broadway debut of playwright Christopher Demos-Brown.

Kate Hinds, WNYC's planning editor, presents (at 19:00) this week’s installment of ”Living Here with Kate."

Jen Carlson joins us (at 25:30) to discuss her recent piece for Gothamist, “Tompkins Square Dog Park Halloween Parade Is Back On, Baby!”

Keegan Hamilton, U.S. editor at Vice News and Miguel Ángel Vega, journalist, filmmaker and fixer from Culiacan, Sinaloa, join us (at 29:30) to discuss Vice News’s first podcast, Chapo: Kingpin on Trial. This long-form, bilingual, documentary podcast charts how over the years, El Chapo has captured the world’s attention and gained mythological status as an escape artist when he twice absconded from top-security prisons and eluded police. El Chapo is now awaiting trial next week in New York City’s Metropolitan Correctional Center. The series tells the story of El Chapo and the effects his drug empire had on both sides of the border.