Stagecraft with Gordon Cox: Recent Episodes
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Behind the scenes with the biggest stars on Broadway, Off Broadway and beyond. Hosted by Gordon Cox.
And now for something completely different: I talk with three of the creators behind Stray Gods, the new videogame that describes itself as a "Roleplaying Musical." Taking us behind the scenes (behind the code?) of this unusual genre mashup are Summerfall Studios creative director David Gaider, composer Austin Wintory and actor Anjali Bhimani. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the trenches with three theater leaders from organizations around the US and in the UK as they battle the economic crisis facing theaters everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alexander, the “Seinfeld” star who directed the new Broadway comedy “The Cottage,” talks the choreography of comedy and spills details on all the theater projects he’s developing for Broadway and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Theater Camp" co-creator and star Molly Gordon talks kissing gay boys at camp, improv comedy with kids, and crushing on Ben Platt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The "Here Lies Love" actor on queer characters, Filipino pride and the cognitive dissonance of singing about the Marcos regime in a karaoke dance party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer Tori Sampson, whose play “This Land Was Made” is now running off Broadway, shares her POV as one of the many writers who love the theater but make most of their living in TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The co-founders of the new museum on the story it's telling, the philosophy behind it, and why it's like Switzerland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Director Julie Taymor celebrates the Disney musical’s Broadway birthday, revealing how she did it, what she learned and what’s next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this supersized episode, we present three of the panels and keynote conversations from Variety's 2022 Business of Broadway breakfast: 3:25: A conversation with producers LaChanze ("Topdog/Underdog," "Kimberly Akimbo"), Lee Daniels ("Ain't No' Mo'"), Cindy Tolan ("Death of a Salesman") and Ken Davenport ("A Beautiful Noise"), moderated by Eric Piecuch of City National Bank. 29:00: A panel discussion with three Broadway creatives, featuring Jordan E. Cooper ("Ain't No' Mo'"), Crystal Lucas-Perry ("1776") and Chris Wood ("Almost Famous") and moderated by Stagecraft host Gordon Cox. 51:13: The breakfast's keynote conversation with Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson Jackson ("The Piano Lesson"), interviewed by Variety executive editor Brent Lang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer Suzan-Lori Parks and director Kenny Leon on spiritual inspiration, making work that matters and why this Pulitzer-winning play is like 'Doctor Strange.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Actors Gregg Mozgala and Kara Young talk care and connection in the award-winning Broadway play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Tony winner and star of TV’s “Raising Kanan” talks Sondheim, motherhood and getting the Witch’s Rap right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How writer Jesse Green worked with Mary Rodgers to make her memoir "Shy" as lively, candid and cutting as she wanted it to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The “Scandal” actor on “American Prophet,” Douglass and the often-overlooked woman behind the man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“The Black List” actor on living in the moment, exiting a successful TV show and how his life was changed by "My Robot Buddy." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jodi Picoult on her full-steam-ahead theater career with "Between the Lines," "The Book Thief" and "Austenland." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The "Fat Ham" playwright on queering "Hamlet," decentralizing artistic leadership and writing prolifically. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The "Paradise Square" actor explains how her role in the Broadway musical came along at exactly the moment she needed it most. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Actor David Morse and playwright Paula Vogel on what they’ve learned revisiting the Pulitzer-winning, Tony-nominated play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The former "Grey's Anatomy" star on "Take Me Out," his Tony nomination and why theater is like baseball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Meet the dynamic ensemble of actors who play the Thoughts of a young queer Black man in the Tony-nominated Broadway musical "A Strange Loop": Antwayn Hopper, James Jackson Jr., John-Michael Lyles, Jason Veasey and Tony nominees L Morgan Lee and John-Andrew Morrison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Now on Broadway in 'Birthday Candles,' the actor talks aging 90 years in 90 minutes, live studio audiences and what she knows about what's next for 'Smash.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Actors Phillipa Soo and Jenn Colella on singing American history, filming musicals and acting in the moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Singer-songwriter and disability advocate Gaelynn Lea on accessibility, growing up in a theater and making moody tunes for Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Two experts hope a “vocal Fitbit” can change Broadway’s voice health practices. With Professors Ana Flavia Zuim and Celia Stewart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Broadway's first Black Glinda on her landmark first show, her advice for young performers and what she learned from being a swing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The "MJ" and "Intimate Apparel" writer talks operas vs. musicals, artistic legacy vs. personal legacy, and why she's not reading reviews right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The “Skeleton Crew” writer on lifting up Detroit, the influence of August Wilson, the closing of “Ain’t Too Proud” and the advice she got from Chadwick Boseman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Tony-nominated actor, now in “Tick, Tick… Boom!,” talks honoring his ancestors and shares the setbacks that kept him humble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The “Game of Thrones” actor talks singing, Cyrano, great theater roles and filming on the side of an active volcano. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Director Marianne Elliott and actor Matt Doyle on hearing the news backstage, paying tribute to the composer's talent, and singing "Getting Married Today." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The star of Lynn Nottage's 'Clyde's' talks second chances, sandwich nirvana, and why Clyde is like Jaws. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Falco, Blair Brown and Marin Ireland reveal the Easter eggs and secrets behind the new play "Morning Sun." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Two actors with a shared connection to the Broadway musical discuss the timely return of the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A keynote conversation with Webber and a panel featuring on-the-rise producers, both recorded live at Variety's Legit! The Return to Broadway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Broadway fan favorite on "Phantom of the Opera," the freedom of starring in a play, and... mushroom coffee? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Playwrights Jocelyn Bioh ("Nollywood Dreams") and Martyna Majok ("Sanctuary City") discuss returning, 18 months later, to plays the pandemic had paused. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Gennean Scott, the Broadway League's first Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, on the initiatives she's leading to ensure the industry's evolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Producer Thomas Schumacher and Anne Quart on opening 23 shows in 7 months, from Broadway to London to Mexico City to Tokyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Broadway's leading COVID advisor, Dr. Blythe Adamson, talks epidemiology, economics, safety and the delta variant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jesse Cameron Alick’s new Sundance Institute study reveals how influential artists and leaders imagine the future of theater and live performance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Playwright-producer Antoinette Nwandu and director Danya Taymor on how they're doing things differently -- both onstage and behind the scenes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How playwright Aleshea Harris and director Whitney White conduct an orchestra of Black experience in "What to Send Up When It Goes Down." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Talking with Andy Señor Jr., the former Angel behind the new documentary "Revolution Rent." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer Quiara Alegría Hudes on going big, and getting intimate, with the movie version of 'In the Heights.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How the new Theatre Leadership Project aims to welcome emerging Black professionals to the theater industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Behind the transformation of Heather Christian's 'Animal Wisdom' into a boundary-blurring new film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Director Lileana Blain-Cruz and producer Jim Glaub on “The Baltimore Waltz” and why virtual theater is a lot more complicated than it looks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Artist-activists Christine Toy Johnson and Leslie Ishii on how theater can be an important part of the movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lillias White and James Monroe Iglehart play the bickering backers of a massive, controversial, and entirely fictional Broadway musical version of "Avatar." Recorded in collaboration with the audio comedy As The Curtain Rises. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Historian and producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper on the latest volume of her theater-by-theater chronicle, The Untold Stories of Broadway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Behind the scenes of the new audio adaptation of Dominique Morisseau’s play, with Underwood and Mandy Greenfield, the artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nataki Garrett, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, on getting the theater industry the support it deserves during the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The author of "Mike Nichols: A Life," Mark Harris, on the director's life and influential work -- and the dramas behind the scenes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How John Ridley ("12 Years a Slave," "American Crime") and theater veteran Scott Elliott got together for the starry "grand experiment" of The New Group Off Stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"WandaVision" actor Teyonah Parris on moving from an Off Broadway buzzmagnet into one of the biggest franchises in Hollywood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer Kemp Powers on adapting his play "One Night in Miami" into a buzzy new film, and why L.A. was more welcoming to his work than New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One of the foremost interpreters of Wilson's work, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, on how he crafted his screenplay for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Tony-nominated actor ("Hamilton," "West Side Story") is having a screen moment with stage musicals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sarah Bellamy, the artistic director of Penumbra in St. Paul, Minn., on making theater the centerpiece of a new center for racial healing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer-director-actor Arian Moayed on how the theater community turned out for his starry screen thriller, “The Accidental Wolf.” "The Accidental Wolf” on Topic: http://go.topic.com/varietytaw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Luhrmann and the creators of the stage musical talk putting the show together, shutting it all down, and why its message feels more relevant than ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The "Mean Girls" Tony nominee talks "Emily in Paris" and how she'll help make "Thoroughly Modern Millie" a musical for everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How playwrights Katori Hall, Jeremy O. Harris and Matthew López think about shaping the future of Broadway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
ChiChi Anyanwu braved the pandemic to launch a management company focused on diverse talent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How to craft dances for screens, with the director of “High School Musical” and Netflix’s upcoming “Julie and the Phantoms.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lynette Linton, artistic director of the Bush Theatre, on reopening, responding and why now is the time for new work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Broadway favorite reveals how his work, including new Audible release “Bella Bella,” speaks to the current moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Co-founders Adrienne Warren and Zhailon Levingston on BAC's work at the intersection of arts and activism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The writer-performer gets both personal and political on her new Instagram Live show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Baltimore Center Stage artistic director Stephanie Ybarra on her ongoing anti-racism work, at her own theater and in the industry at large. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Shaina Taub and Kris Kukul on "The Liz Swados Project," the starry new album celebrating Swados' work and influence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Broadway and the theater industry can do to work toward anti-racism, with artist, educator and activist Nicole Brewer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Playwright Sarah Ruhl on how the new theater site 3Views changed its mission after the pandemic hit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Pulitzer-winning creator of “A Strange Loop” on how he celebrated in lockdown, why he used to balk at being called a composer, and how “A Chorus Line” made him cry at his office temp job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Broadway’s go-to livestream director Paul Wontorek on what works, what doesn’t, and what’s next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Tony-winning Broadway favorite on his coronavirus recovery, the Actors Fund, and why “Impossible Dream” is the perfect song for right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Global Creatures CEO Carmen Pavlovic on what it's like producing theater around the world right now, and what comes next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Broadway alum, now on “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist," talks genderfluidity, Barbara Streisand and his “Dreamgirls” goals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Audible's Kate Navin on the Williamstown Theater Festival and one way to sustain theater in the coming months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How fans are devouring theater in the time of social distancing, with the co-founders of BroadwayHD.
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Set during the Golden Age of Broadway, Emily Neuberger's new novel "A Tender Thing" reminds us musicals were made to push boundaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Playwright Martyna Majok and theater executive Jeremy Blocker on "Sanctuary City" and surviving the shutdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The "Moulin Rouge!" star talks shaping Satine, 'In the Heights' anticipation and the felting on her to-do list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The actress, now in "The Inheritance," on the lessons of Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Six" creators Toby Marlow, Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage on Tudor queens, pop icons and conference rooms in Edinburgh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The playwright talks hot wings, Tina Turner, and Lil Bad Cousin, her rapping alter ego. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bending genres, confronting history and rocking out, with playwright Lauren Yee and director Chay Yew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Tony-winning composer, whose latest musical "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" is now playing Off Broadway, talks the Buddhist mafia, his controversial thoughts about songs forwarding plot, and the trend he helped launch with "Spring Awakening." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer Qui Nguyen, the co-founder of Vampire Cowboys Theater Company, talks stage superheroes, Comic-Con and his new play "Revenge Song," about historical badass Julie d'Aubigny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Gender politics, quick changes and honoring Robin Williams: a live conversation with Rob McClure, Jerry Zaks and more, recorded at BroadwayCon 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why playwright Bess Wohl, now making her Broadway debut with “Grand Horizons,” keeps asking for the impossible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The "Ozark" actress, now on Broadway in "My Name is Lucy Barton," on the lessons of failure, her favorite costars and why solo shows are "bonkers." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Actor-producer Nnamdi Asomugha traded in pro football for Broadway, where he’s now starring in “A Soldier’s Play.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Director Tom Hooper talks digital fur, trailer reactions and the reason that only some cats wear shoes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The playwright behind "The Thin Place" and "Dana H." talks mental remapping, performing trauma and why in ghost stories, less is more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Broadway's first intimacy director, Claire Warden, is helping to revolutionize how actors get intimate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer Lauren Gunderson reveals the secrets to her success. Step 1: Write. A lot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The star of "Mindhunter" and "Frozen 2" gets wet for his current gig in "Little Shop of Horrors." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why the actor, now on Broadway in 'The Great Society,' chases 'scripts of the now.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The musical's creative team talks pushing boundaries and sea changes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Actress Adrienne C. Moore on Ntozake Shange, "Wonder Woman" and life after "Orange is the New Black." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Composer Jeanine Tesori on how musicals can spur change, and how her latest changed her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Meet the creators and producers bringing Alanis to Broadway. Recorded at Variety's Business of Broadway breakfast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Broadway favorite dishes on her new album, her worst flub, and the bucket-list musical she wants to write. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce, now in “The Height of the Storm,” reveal favorite roles, Broadway memories and the “Phantom” casting that never was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hiddleston and his co-stars in "Betrayal," Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox, talk Pinter, dick-swinging and superheroes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The mentalist and illusionist on the magic of theater, the theatrics of magic, and why he's banned from casinos all across the U.K. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The actor, director and photographer talks directing in a language he doesn't know, memories of Hal Prince, and sexy flowers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Behind the scenes at Broadway's "Sea Wall/A Life,' with Gyllenhaal and director Carrie Cracknell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The comic, now starring in musical "Two's a Crowd," started out in some legendary Broadway shows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer John Logan and director Alex Timbers bring elephants, windmills, Baz and Beyoncé to Broadway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Jeremy McCarter acts locally but thinks globally with podcast series Make-Believe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Playwrights Hilary Bettis and Caroline V. McGraw on how the collective will expand its push for parity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Tony-winning actress talks intimacy onstage, Broadway diversity and why she calls Michael Shannon "The Rev." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From early Broadway days to Marvel and Star Wars, with Disney Theatrical president Thomas Schumacher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Get a backstage glimpse at the Tony Awards from this year's host. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tales from the actress’ storied career, including that time she got discovered walking a gay dog. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The award-winning actor spills backstage secrets behind his Tony-nominated turn in “Network.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Tony-nominated actor on fighting the good fight, and why it’s “like a war movie” backstage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The "West Wing" writer killed his darlings to make his Broadway "Mockingbird" work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 'Hedwig' creator explains how his new musical podcast series nods to his previous work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Broadway favorite talks vocal honesty and what her Tony win means to her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and director Oskar Eustis talk race, art, slavery and... bowling? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The new musical's creators reveal how the show has changed since its DC tryout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How not to act your age, with Broadway favorites Celia Keenan-Bolger and Gideon Glick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The "Fleabag" and "Killing Eve" creator revisits her breakout stage role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Oscar winner on “The Ferryman” and how James Bond made him a writer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sound designer Gareth Owen gives theatergoers a few pointers on understanding an esoteric art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Producer Eva Price talks taking risks with her two big Broadway projects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Anaïs Mitchell and Rachel Chavkin created their buzzy, Broadway-bound musical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Tony winner reveals her most challenging role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A top director of Hollywood musicals spills his secrets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The fast-rising Broadway star on what he wishes he knew as a young actor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bob Martin and Beth Leavel get political with their critically acclaimed new musical comedy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The actor talks 'True West' and the ghost of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The writer-performer on her scary-topical hit "What The Constitution Means To Me." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Broadway composer on writing for Ariana Grande -- and for himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The real-life siblings on playing brother and sister onstage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The former Harry Potter on how Broadway made him a better actor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Creators take you backstage with 635 costumes, 6 million feathers and one pioneering superstar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Tony winner talks Broadway, her favorite film and women's roles in Hollywood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The actor talks "Thom Pain," queer roles and more "Dexter." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Her new play, her recent movie and what "Fatal Attraction" means in the #MeToo era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How "the DeNiro of Israel" stole tricks from a Tony winner in "The Band's Visit." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The veteran stage and screen actress doesn't love "Grease" as much as you do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A YA adaptation reveals new secrets of the fan-favorite Tony winner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why Mandvi's 20-year-old play "Sakina's Restaurant" is suddenly a political statement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Top execs talk the business of Broadway at Variety's power breakfast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
He wrote a play with Bob Dylan tunes -- but don't call it a jukebox musica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The writer and star of “Bernhardt/Hamlet” on their timely play about a powerful woman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The "Pretty Woman" star on nostalgia, reviews, and that injured knee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How to make your musical go viral, according to the fan-fave composer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why the Go-Go's and 16th century literature make a perfect match in "Head Over Heels." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The "Star Trek" actor talks Broadway, gay rights and his dream role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Emmy winner on an “Orphan Black” reunion and her timely new stage role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Producer Ken Davenport dissects his unexpected Tony triumph and blurs the lines with "Gettin' The Band Back Together." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Tony-winning actor, now returning to the New York stage in "The Great Leap," talks basketball in Beijing, dinosaurs, mad scientists, Whiterose, and the secret origin of his name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Two stars of the big-name revival of the landmark gay drama "The Boys in the Band" talk Broadway debuts, Tony parties, Rannells' new book and why Bomer's next Broadway show should be a musical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The puppeteer, a MacArthur genius grant winner, explains the difference between working downtown and working on Broadway, and spills the secrets behind the new revival of his 20-year-old breakout show, "Symphonie Fantastique." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The actor, nominated for a Tony Award for his leading role in "Angels in America," compares the Tonys and the Oscars, talks up the timeliness of "Angels" and reveals what is, for him, "the greatest privilege in playing this part." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The writers of the Tony-nominated "Mean Girls" -- book writer Tina Fey, composer Jeff Richmond and lyricist Nell Benjamin -- take us behind the scenes of their fetch new musical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tony Award winner and current nominee LaChanze dishes on the Tonys, shares what it means to her to play Donna Summer in the bio-musical "Summer," and reveals why she started going by just one name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Tony-nominated stars of Lincoln Center Theater's "My Fair Lady" talk about performing the classic musical in the era of Time's Up and reveal how Adele helped Ambrose pick up Eliza Doolittle's accent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner of "Ruined" and "Sweat" reveals the secret origins of her new play "Mlima's Tale" -- including its surprising link to Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The "Avengers: Infinity War" star reveals how he first got hooked on The Bard and details his recent production of "Hamlet." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Evans, now on Broadway in "Lobby Hero" and soon to reprise his signature role as Captain America in "Avengers: Infinity War," reveals his theater-kid roots, details the difficulties of spit management and ponders his future with -- or without -- Captain America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Olivier-winning star of Broadway's "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" reveals how he got cast as the boy wizard, why he's re-read the books five or six times, and what it's like interacting with the show's international audience of superfans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Joshua Jackson ("Dawson's Creek," "Fringe") and newcomer Lauren Ridloff, the stars of the new Broadway revival of "Children of a Lesser God," sound off on accessibility, representation, communication and why "Children" is still so relevant today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The "Doctor Who" star talks about reprising her Olivier Award-winning role in "Yerma," along the way touching on her pop-star past, the film she's directing and the musical that might be in her future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
There are several characters in the Off Broadway thriller "Harry Clarke." But they're all played by Billy Crudup -- who sure does get lonely up there sometimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The chairman of NBC Entertainment is the man responsible for the network's embrace of theater, performance and live programming, from the new "Rise" to the upcoming "Jesus Christ Superstar" to "Smash" -- and he's also a theater fan and producer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Pace, the "Halt and Catch Fire" star who's now appearing on Broadway in "Angels in America," takes listeners behind the scenes of the "massive" Tony Kushner play -- and explains why he'd love it if Donald Trump came to see the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw, Broadway's go-to guy for musical comedy, gives the scoop on his buzzy upcoming production of "Mean Girls," and along the way talks getting "Aladdin" right, why "The Prom" is so timely and what it was like working with the "South Park" creators on "The Book of Mormon." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The star of "Love" and "Community," Gillian Jacobs, and "Hamilton" director Thomas Kail talk politics, margaritas and their new Off Broadway show, "Kings." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Actresses Caissie Levy and Patti Murin, director Michael Grandage and designer Christopher Oram, four of the leading players behind Disney's Broadway adaptation of "Frozen," talk deeper characters, new songs and high expectations -- especially from the audience members who show up in costume. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Two pop musicans, Jake Shears of the Scissor Sisters and Kirstin Maldonado of Pentatonix, talk about their starring roles in Broadway's "Kinky Boots" -- and why doing theater is like "slamming heroin and jumping out of an airplane, but in front of an audience." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lea Salonga, the fan favorite who was the original star of "Miss Saigon" and is currently in "Once On This Island," talks Broadway diversity, her new album and finding musicals that "rock me to my core." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Garber, back on Broadway opposite Bernadette Peters in "Hello, Dolly!," shares his thoughts on the theater, the Arrowverse and the idea of an "Alias" reunion -- and reveals the "weird thing" he used to have about singing, and how he got over it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The film, TV and stage veteran talks about his new Broadway show, "Stories By Heart" -- and reveals that even he feels like a fraud sometimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The former "Key and Peele" star talks about his stage gigs in Broadway's "Meteor Shower" (opposite Amy Schumer), Off Broadways' "Hamlet" (opposite Oscar Isaac), his theater background, his "19-year detour into sketch comedy" and why he just can't stop craving the green lights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Pulitzer-winning playwright ("Jesus Hopped the A Train," "Between Riverside and Crazy") talks about writing (and not writing), his recent forays into acting and why his current retrospective and residency at Signature Theater at first made him think, "Uh, oh. I'm old. It's done." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The creator of the CW musical comedy series "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," Rachel Bloom is a theater geek at heart. She spills on her favorite musicals, the stage roles she'd like to play and recent events on "Crazy Ex" -- and sings a tune from the unproduced full-length musical she wrote, "Broadway Crazy." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The writer-performer learned a lot in preparation for his new Broadway solo outing -- but his biggest takeaway is that he's "a true ghetto nerd." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The director and playwright behind the Broadway revival of "M. Butterfly," starring Clive Owen, talk casting, stage pictures, gender in 2017, and why you can't have Borscht belt humor show up in Shanghai. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Director Tina Landau and writer Kyle Jarrow peel back the curtain to explain how they took "SpongeBob Squarepants" from screen to stage, and actors Ethan Slater and Lilli Cooper reveal how they bring two iconic animated characters to life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The playwright and creator of TV shows "House of Cards" and the upcoming "The First" talks about his new Broadway play, "The Parisian Woman," starring Uma Thurman, and reveals why he's drawn to writing about politics, what it's like to write in the age of Trump, and why his TV career is still a surprise to him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Pulitzer-winning playwright of "Disgraced" talks about his new Broadway show "Junk," revealing how his father taught him about the stock market, the ways his experience with faith has affected his writing, and how he ended up as the skinny, serious young man in the background of the movie "Vanya on 42 Street." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The songwriters behind "Ragtime" and "Anastasia" talk about the new revival of their 1990 musical "Once On This Island," its found-object orchestra, diversity and authenticity on Broadway, and their "not particularly good" first song together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Broadway favorite ("Hamilton," "Spring Awakening") talks about working with the famously meticulous director David Fincher in Netflix series "Mindhunter" -- and also spills the truth about the rap that Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote for Kelli O'Hara, explains why he's not on social media and reveals with Miranda calls him "the Snowden of Broadway." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Playwright Harvey Fierstein and actor Michael Urie discuss "Torch Song," their newly revised version of Fierstein's breakout work "Torch Song Trilogy." Along the way they talk auditions, bus and truck tours, the legacy of gay history plays, and Estelle Getty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Pulitzer and Tony-winning writer and actor Tracy Letts talks about his new, politically charged play "The Minutes," as well as his latest film, buzzmagnet November release "Lady Bird." He reveals why he's never written a part for himself, why he's happy not to have acted in a play lately, and how an act of blackmail led him to discover acting as a teenager. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Stars and creators of the buzzy, award-winning musical talk about bringing the Off Broadway hit to Broadway. Actress Katrina Lenk looks back on a breakout year, writer Itamar Moses explains adapting unlikely source material, composer David Yazbek encourages improvisation and Tony Shalhoub reveals what he finds "terrifying." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Legendary Broadway producer-director Harold Prince, recipient of 21 Tony Awards, talks turkey about his storied career, his current projects, the recent revivals of his work -- and why he never wanted to be producer at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices