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34 Episodes 2017 - 0
Episode 1
Thu, Oct 19, 2017 27 mins
The fall theater season is previewed.
Episode 2
Thu, Oct 26, 2017 27 mins
"KPOP" is discussed with librettist Jason Kim, director Teddy Bergman and Ars Nova artistic director Jason Eagan. Also: a preview of the fall theater season.
Episode 3
Thu, Nov 2, 2017 27 mins
Murray Hill, Bridget Everett and producer Daniel Nardicio; and horror theater producers Timothy Haskell and Clay Cameron McLeod.
Episode 4
Thu, Nov 9, 2017 27 mins
Harvey Fierstein, Moises Kaufman and Michael Urie discuss "Torch Song," their revival of Fierstein's 1988 Tony Award-winning play.
Episode 5
Thu, Nov 16, 2017 27 mins
Nia Vardalos and Marshall Heyman discuss their adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's "Tiny Beautiful Things."
Episode 6
Thu, Nov 23, 2017 27 mins
Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis discusses the revival of "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train" as well as the initial LAByrinth Theater production of the play in 2000, which was directed by his friend and mentor, Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Episode 7
Thu, Nov 30, 2017 27 mins
Director Julie Taymor looks back at "The Lion King" and how she responds to the work 20 years after it opened on Broadway; and she and writer David Henry Hwang discuss Taymor's production of Hwang's 1988 Tony Award-winning play, "M. Butterfly."
Episode 8
Thu, Dec 14, 2017 27 mins
Playwright Ayad Akhtar and director Doug Hughes discuss "Junk," their play about the world of high finance and eclipsed morality; and playwright Susan Miller and actors Polly Draper and Kathryn Grody discuss the dramedy "20th Century Blues."
Episode 9
Thu, Dec 21, 2017 27 mins
Composer David Yazbek and librettist Itamar Moses discuss their work on the celebrated musical based on a popular 2007 Israeli film about an Egyptian police band stranded in a small town in the Negev Desert.
Episode 10
Thu, Dec 28, 2017 27 mins
Amy Schumer (Steve Martin's "Meteor Shower") is interviewed. Also: LGBTQ performer-activist Agosto Machado.
Episode 11
Thu, Jan 11, 2018 27 mins
New shows of the 2017 fall season are reviewed.
Episode 12
Thu, Jan 18, 2018 27 mins
Mark Rylance and playwright Claire van Kampen discuss "Farinelli and the King." Also: a conversation with the songwriting team of Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt ("The Fantasticks").
Episode 13
Thu, Jan 25, 2018 27 mins
Actors Daniel Breaker, Bryan Terrell Clark, Mandy Gonzalez of "Hamilton" are interviewed.
Episode 14
Thu, Feb 15, 2018 27 mins
The spring theater season is discussed, including Broadway productions of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," "Angels in America," "Three Tall Women," "The Iceman Cometh," "Lobby Hero," new musical adaptations of "Mean Girls and "Frozen," and classic musical revivals of "Carousel" and "My Fair Lady."
Episode 15
Thu, Feb 22, 2018 27 mins
Gavin Creel, Kate Baldwin and Charlie Stemp ("Hello Dolly!").
Episode 16
Thu, Mar 1, 2018 27 mins
John Lithgow discusses his one-man show "Stories by Heart," which he developed over 10 years while touring the country.
Episode 17
Thu, Mar 15, 2018 27 mins
"Jerry Springer—The Opera" is discussed with composer-bookwriter-lyricist Richard Thomas, and actors Terrence Mann and Will Swenson. Also: "The Amateurs" playwright Jordan Harrison, director Oliver Butler, and actor Michael Cyril Creighton.
Episode 18
Thu, Mar 22, 2018 27 mins
Tony Shalhoub, Katrina Lenk and John Cariani ("The Band's Visit") talks about working on the musical hit based on a popular 2007 Israeli film.
Episode 19
Thu, Mar 29, 2018 27 mins
Playwright David Rabe, producer/director Scott Elliott, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan discuss The New Group production of David Rabe's new work Good for Otto
Episode 20
Thu, Apr 5, 2018 27 mins
Actor Estelle Parsons and actor/author Patricia Bosworth discuss the art of acting and their formative years of training at the legendary ACTORS STUDIO in the 1950's.
Episode 21
Thu, Apr 12, 2018 27 mins
Actors Richard Kind and Gideon Glick join Roundabout Underground Artistic Producer Jill Rafson to talk about the new edition of the popular "The 24-Hour Plays" that she is producing at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre. Also: Jesse Green (New York Times) discusses the role and responsibilities of theater critics and his recent article "The Agony and Ecstasy of Writing Negative Reviews."
Episode 22
Thu, Apr 19, 2018 27 mins
Playwright David Cale, director Leigh Silverman and actor Billy Crudup discuss Cale's one-man play, "Harry Clarke."
Episode 23
Thu, Apr 26, 2018 27 mins
"Angels in America" is discussed with actors Ellen McLaughlin and Amanda Lawrence; and Isaac Butler, whose "The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America" is an oral history of the landmark theatrical piece.
Episode 24
Thu, May 3, 2018 27 mins
Composer-lyricists Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez discuss transforming Disney Animation's "Frozen" into a Broadway musical. Also: Broadway League president Charlotte St. Martin discusses preparing for the 2018 Tony Awards and Broadway Bridges, which is an initiative to give every New York City public high school student the opportunity to see a Broadway show.
Episode 25
Thu, May 10, 2018 27 mins
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" director John Tiffany and movement director Steven Hoggett discuss creating the blockbuster show.
Episode 26
Thu, May 17, 2018 27 mins
The Lincoln Center Theater's revival of "My Fair Lady" is discussed with LCT producing artistic director, André Bishop; the production's director, Bartlett Sher; as well as actors Lauren Ambrose, Harry Hadden-Paton, and Allan Corduner.
Episode 27
Thu, May 24, 2018 27 mins
Taylor Louderman and Grey Henson ("Mean Girls"); Also: Randy, the Australian comedian-puppet and star of Off-Broadway's new hit, "Randy Writes a Novel."
Episode 28
Thu, May 31, 2018 27 mins
Who should win Tony Awards and why.
Episode 29
Mon, Jun 4, 2018 27 mins
Glenda Jackson, Alison Pill and Laurie Metcalf discuss their roles in the revival of Edward Albee's "Three Tall Women."
Episode 30
Thu, Jun 14, 2018 27 mins
Joshua Henry and Jessie Mueller ("Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel") perform excerpts from the show's classic "Bench Scene" number and discuss its brilliant musical architecture. Also: director George C. Wolfe ("The Iceman Cometh").
Episode 31
Thu, Jun 21, 2018 27 mins
A recap of the Tony Awards; and a performance by "Theater Talk" musical director Tyrik Washington and Tyrik Washington Jr.
Episode 32
Thu, Jun 28, 2018 27 mins
New shows on Broadway are reviewed.
Episode 33
Thu, Jul 5, 2018 27 mins
Theater historian Ethan Mordden discusses the legacy of the musicals "Carousel" and "Chicago."
Episode 34
Thu, Jul 12, 2018 27 mins
Renée Taylor ("My Life on a Diet"). Also: critics John Simon, Justin Brown and Matt Windman.