Stagecraft with Gordon Cox
225 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 97 ratingsBehind the scenes with the biggest stars on Broadway, Off Broadway and beyond. Hosted by Gordon Cox.
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Episodes
'A Strange Loop' is Tony-Nominated and We Have Thoughts. All Six of Them.
May 17, 2022 11:00 - 56 minutesMeet 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
Debra Messing Will Always Defend Her 'Smash' Scarves
May 03, 2022 15:45 - 38 minutesNow 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
Why ‘Suffs’ is More Than Just ‘Hermilton’
April 05, 2022 11:00 - 34 minutesActors 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
Meet the Musician Breaking Broadway Barriers With ‘Macbeth’
March 22, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutesSinger-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
How New Science Can Keep Broadway Voices Healthier
March 08, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutesTwo 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
From Understudy to History Maker
February 22, 2022 12:00 - 37 minutesBroadway'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
Lynn Nottage Wants to Replace Judgment With Curiosity
February 08, 2022 12:00 - 34 minutesThe "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
Dominique Morisseau Always Has Nine Irons in the Fire
January 25, 2022 16:41 - 42 minutesThe “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
Robin de Jesús Was Always Playing The Long Game
January 11, 2022 12:00 - 36 minutesThe 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
Why Peter Dinklage Didn’t Want a Fake Nose for ‘Cyrano’
December 21, 2021 15:34 - 34 minutesThe “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
How The Cast of 'Company' Learned of Stephen Sondheim's Death
December 07, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutesDirector 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
Uzo Aduba's New Broadway Role Reminds Her of Jaws
November 23, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutesThe 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
How Edie Falco's Handprint Inspired Her New Play
November 09, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutesFalco, 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
'Caroline, or Change,' Then and Now, with Anika Noni Rose and Samantha Williams
October 26, 2021 11:00 - 43 minutesTwo 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
Andrew Lloyd Webber Talks Industry Advocacy, Taylor Swift and Trans Performers
October 19, 2021 13:48 - 1 hourA 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
Norm Lewis' New Rhythms
October 12, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutesThe 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
The 'Playwriting Sisters' Bringing Shows Back After the Shutdown
September 28, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutesPlaywrights 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
'Broadway Will Not Look The Same'
September 14, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutesGennean 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
Inside Disney Theatrical’s Global Restart
August 31, 2021 11:00 - 41 minutesProducer 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 COVID Expert on Returning to Theater Safely
August 17, 2021 11:00 - 42 minutesBroadway'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
What Theater Needs Now
August 04, 2021 16:00 - 40 minutesJesse 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
How 'Pass Over' is Making 'Precedent-Level Changes' to Broadway
July 20, 2021 11:00 - 42 minutesPlaywright-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
Blurring the Lines Between Theater and Ritual
July 06, 2021 11:00 - 42 minutesHow 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
Why 'Rent' is Still a Revolution
June 22, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutesTalking with Andy Señor Jr., the former Angel behind the new documentary "Revolution Rent." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'In the Heights': The Cuts, The Changes, The Ropa Vieja
June 08, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutesWriter 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
Launching Broadway's Future Black Leaders
May 25, 2021 17:22 - 40 minutesHow 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
The Theater Tour That Became a Movie
May 11, 2021 08:00 - 44 minutesBehind the transformation of Heather Christian's 'Animal Wisdom' into a boundary-blurring new film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Making Digital Theater is Like Shooting 'Star Wars'
April 27, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutesDirector 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
How Theater Makers Have Mobilized to Stop Asian Hate
April 13, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutesArtist-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
BONUS: Meet the Squabbling Producers of 'Avvatar: The Musical'
April 06, 2021 20:44 - 27 minutesLillias 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
The Gonzo Journalism Preserving Broadway History
March 30, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutesHistorian 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
How Blair Underwood Found New Colors in ‘Paradise Blue’
March 16, 2021 19:23 - 35 minutesBehind 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
The Case for a New Federal Theater Project
March 02, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutesNataki 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
Broadway Gave Mike Nichols His Juiciest Backstage Stories
February 16, 2021 18:49 - 34 minutesThe 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
The Oscar Winner Helping Off Broadway Find Life on Screen
February 02, 2021 20:29 - 46 minutesHow 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
From 'Slave Play' to Marvel Superhero
January 19, 2021 18:14 - 35 minutes"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
Introducing 'Must Watch: Netflix Edition'
January 12, 2021 09:00 - 1 minuteEach week, Observer senior entertainment reporter Brandon Katz and Hollywood Reporter contributor Jean Bentley highlight the new Netflix titles they're excited about. Recent guests: Daniel Fienberg from The Hollywood Reporter, Joanna Robinson from Vanity Fair, and Megan Vick from TV Guide. Click Must Watch: Netflix Edition to follow the show on your podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The New York Native Who Found Playwriting Success in L.A.
January 07, 2021 17:14 - 38 minutesWriter 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
The August Wilson Expert Who Brought 'Ma Rainey' to the Screen
December 22, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutesOne 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
Ariana DeBose Has a Date With "The Prom"
December 08, 2020 18:58 - 39 minutesThe 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
The Legacy Black Theater Transforming to Meet the Times
November 24, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutesSarah 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
This Dramatic Thriller Stars Half of Broadway
November 10, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutesWriter-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
Baz Luhrmann & His Broadway Team on Making 'Moulin Rouge'
October 27, 2020 08:00 - 1 hourLuhrmann 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
Why Ashley Park Calls Darren Star the Sondheim of TV
October 13, 2020 08:00 - 39 minutesThe "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
The New Voices of Broadway
September 29, 2020 08:00 - 37 minutesHow 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
How One Entrepreneur is Making the Change She Wants to See
September 15, 2020 08:00 - 37 minutesChiChi Anyanwu braved the pandemic to launch a management company focused on diverse talent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Theater Laid the Foundation for Kenny Ortega’s Hollywood Success
September 01, 2020 08:00 - 35 minutesHow 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
How One London Theater is Thriving During the Pandemic
August 18, 2020 08:00 - 35 minutesLynette 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
Harvey Fierstein on the Timely Lessons of AIDS, Gay Rights and Bella Abzug
August 04, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutesThe 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
How Theater Meets Activism With the Broadway Advocacy Coalition
July 21, 2020 08:00 - 42 minutesCo-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