SummerStage, New York’s largest free performing arts festival; The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater; “Holler If Ya Hear Me,” the new Broadway musical based on Tupac Shakur’s music and lyrics; and the New York Asian Film Festival at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Directed by Kimberly Senior, ”The Who and the What” tells the story of Zarina, a brilliant and outspoken Pakistani-American writer, who goes to great lengths to please her family. But when they read the manuscript of Zarina’s novel about women and Islam, a confrontation threatens to tear the family apart.

Leon Botstein – an accomplished conductor and scholar who has been the President of Bard College since 1975 – talks to Philippe de Montebello about his multifaceted career, the international projects led by Bard College, as well as highlights from Bard SummerScape 2014 and the 25th edition of Bard Music Festival.

Philippe de Montebello in conversation with Leon Botstein, an accomplished conductor and the President of Bard College since 1975. Nina Stritzler-Levine, Gallery Director at the Bard Graduate Center, talks about “Waterweavers: The River in Contemporary Colombian Visual and Material Culture.” From the Alice Austen House on Staten Island, Christina Ha presents the news.