'School Pictures' at Playwrights Horizons, Nellie McKay Performs Live, The Story of an HIV Medical Scandal, Cocktails for Holiday Season

"School Pictures," a new one-person show at Playwrights Horizons, takes aim at the education system in New York, especially the High School admissions process. The show is written and performed by Milo Cramer, a former tutor, and they join to discuss their production, which Vulture calls "completely wonderful." "School Pictures" runs through December 3. 

Singer and songwriter Nellie McKay stops by to perform from her latest album, Hey Guys, Watch This. 

A new book uncovers a medical scandal that led to HIV infections of around 8,000 people in the United States, and many more in the UK. Blood Farm: The Explosive Big Pharma Scandal That Altered the AIDS Crisis details how a cure for promised hemophilia relied on contaminated blood plasma, collected in locations like nightclubs and prisons. Cara McGoogan, the book's author and host of the investigative podcast of the same subject, Bed of Lies, joins us to explain. 

The holiday season is also the season for entertaining. We discuss some new takes on the Hot Toddy, Spritzes, Eggnog and more with Carey Jones and John McCarthy, bartenders and authors of the new book, Every Cocktail Has a Twist. We also take your calls and questions.