Ep15 – John Lithgow
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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 […]
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.”
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.