Broadway’s Unusual Reopening
With masks, vaccination-card checks, and big handfuls of sanitizer, Broadway theatres are welcoming audiences to a new season, mounting new works and restaging shows that closed in March, 2020. In this...
View ArticleBroadway’s Unusual Reopening, and Amanda Petrusich Picks Three
Broadway theatres are welcoming audiences to a new season, mounting original works and restaging shows that closed in March, 2020. In this unusual season, Broadway is featuring atypical works such as...
View ArticleVulture's Best Theatre of 2021
Vulture theatre critic Helen Shaw joins to talk the best theatre of 2021, and take listeners calls on their picks.
View ArticleSteve Earle's Music In The Play 'Coal Country'
[REBROADCAST FROM May 20, 2020] Steve Earle discussed his album Ghosts of West Virginia, including songs he wrote for the play"Coal Country." The interview features the exclusive premiere of Earle's...
View ArticleAn Intense Adaptation of 'Cyrano,' Favorite Passover Dinner Recipes,...
Actor James McAvoy stars as Cyrano in the U.S premiere of the Martin Crimp adaptation, "Cyrano de Bergerac," using spoken word, rap, rhymes, and poetry to seduce his one true love. We are joined by...
View ArticleActor Evelyn Miller On 'Cyrano'
Actor James McAvoy stars as Cyrano in the U.S premiere of the Martin Crimp adaptation, "Cyrano de Bergerac," using spoken word, rap, rhymes, and poetry to seduce his one true love. We are joined by...
View ArticleDebra Messing in 'Birthday Candles'
Debra Messing stars in "Birthday Candles," a new play from Noah Haidle that tells the story of one woman's life over the course of a series of birthdays, from her 17th to her very last. And, a cake is...
View ArticleA Review of the Nominations for the 75th Tony Awards
The Tony Nominations were announced Monday. NPR editor Jay Vanasco talks about what stood out to her.
View ArticleCreator Michael R. Jackson and Director Stephen Brackett On 'A Strange Loop'
The meta musical, "A Strange Loop," is up for 11 Tony Awards this year. We speak with creator Michael R. Jackson and director Stephen Brackett about the show that has been called "dazzling,"...
View ArticleGreetings, Prophet! - Snap Classic
A mild-mannered theater professor attempts to stage a controversial play in a small East Texas town.This episode discusses drug use, sex, homophobia, and contains explicit language. Sensitive...
View Article'The Kite Runner' Comes to Broadway
Khaled Hosseini's wildly popular 2003 novel The Kite Runner has now been adapted into a show on Broadway. Adapted for the stage by Matthew Spangler and starring Amir Arison as a young boy growing up in...
View ArticleProducer Picks: Creator Michael R. Jackson and Director Stephen Brackett On...
[REBROADCAST FROM May 25, 2022] The meta musical,"A Strange Loop," was nominated for 11 Tony Awards this year. We speak with creator Michael R. Jackson and director Stephen Brackett about the show that...
View Article'Once Upon a (korean) Time' Blends History and Fairytale
The playwrighting debut from actor Daniel K. Isaac is an ambitious tale of family and grief, using Korean fairytales to tell the story of how one family passes down trauma and resilience in the wake of...
View Article"Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski" Actor and Director
Jan Karski was a Polish resistance fighter whose reports of the horrors in Warsaw during World War II were tragically dismissed by Allied forces, an experience that haunted him for the rest of his...
View ArticleTwo New Artistic Directors on Their Vision for the Future of Theater
This year, Jill Rafson will replace John Doyle as the artistic director of Classic Stage Company, and Patricia McGregor takes over the role of artistic director at the New York Theater Workshop,...
View ArticleThe Future of Theater, The Art of Set Design, Modern Jewish Comfort Food,...
This year, Jill Rafson will replace John Doyle as the artistic director of Classic Stage Company, and Patricia McGregor takes over the role of artistic director at the New York Theater Workshop,...
View ArticleThings to do in NYC This Weekend Call-In
The Fall is here, and arts and culture events to do in NYC this season is off the charts. Steve Smith, culture and arts editor for WNYC/Gothamist, joins to give us his list of things to do in New York...
View ArticleThe Art of Set Design
If you love theater, you've likely seen a set designed by Tony Award-winner Beowulf Boritt, from "Come From Away" to "Flying Over Sunset" to "Merry Wives" to "POTUS." Now he's drawn back the curtain on...
View ArticleA Dramatization of the Debate Between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr.
In 1965, novelist James Baldwin and conservative thinker William F. Buckley Jr. debated this topic at Cambridge University: "The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro." The resulting...
View ArticleThings to do in NYC This Weekend
Steve Smith, arts and culture editor for WNYC/Gothamist, joins to give us his list of things to do in New York City this weekend, from the best concerts, to Medieval festivals, to Bob Dylan tributes.
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