Ep25 – Billie Piper
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
The star of “Love” and “Community,” Gillian Jacobs, and “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail talk politics, margaritas and their new Off Broadway show, “Kings.”
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.
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.”
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.”
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.