Stagecraft with Gordon Cox
226 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 18 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 97 ratingsBehind the scenes with the biggest stars on Broadway, Off Broadway and beyond. Hosted by Gordon Cox.
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Episodes
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
Sarah Jones' New Theater is Instagram
July 14, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutesThe writer-performer gets both personal and political on her new Instagram Live show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How One Theater Leader Practices Anti-Racism
June 30, 2020 08:00 - 42 minutesBaltimore Center Stage artistic director Stephanie Ybarra on her ongoing anti-racism work, at her own theater and in the industry at large. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Overlooked Composer Who Inspired Broadway's Rising Stars
June 16, 2020 08:00 - 34 minutesShaina Taub and Kris Kukul on "The Liz Swados Project," the starry new album celebrating Swados' work and influence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Does Anti-Racist Theater Look Like?
June 09, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutesWhat Broadway and the theater industry can do to work toward anti-racism, with artist, educator and activist Nicole Brewer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Swerving to Serve a Theater Community in Lockdown
June 02, 2020 08:00 - 35 minutesPlaywright Sarah Ruhl on how the new theater site 3Views changed its mission after the pandemic hit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Michael R. Jackson Has Finally Accepted He’s a Composer
May 26, 2020 17:59 - 42 minutesThe Pulitzer-winning creator of “A Strange Loop” on how he celebrated in lockdown, why he used to balk at being called a composer, and how “A Chorus Line” made him cry at his office temp job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lockdown Theater’s Most In-Demand Director
May 19, 2020 08:00 - 35 minutesBroadway’s go-to livestream director Paul Wontorek on what works, what doesn’t, and what’s next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brian Stokes Mitchell's Fight to Help the Whole Industry Get Better
May 12, 2020 08:00 - 32 minutesThe Tony-winning Broadway favorite on his coronavirus recovery, the Actors Fund, and why “Impossible Dream” is the perfect song for right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
'Moulin Rouge!,' 'King Kong' and the View from Down Under
May 05, 2020 08:00 - 39 minutesGlobal Creatures CEO Carmen Pavlovic on what it's like producing theater around the world right now, and what comes next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alex Newell is Destined for Effie
April 28, 2020 08:00 - 28 minutesThe Broadway alum, now on “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist," talks genderfluidity, Barbara Streisand and their “Dreamgirls” goals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Pandemic Theater Can Sound Like
April 21, 2020 08:00 - 34 minutesAudible's Kate Navin on the Williamstown Theater Festival and one way to sustain theater in the coming months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Binge-Watching Broadway
April 14, 2020 08:00 - 31 minutesHow fans are devouring theater in the time of social distancing, with the co-founders of BroadwayHD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Broadway's Always Been Edgy
April 07, 2020 08:00 - 37 minutesSet during the Golden Age of Broadway, Emily Neuberger's new novel "A Tender Thing" reminds us musicals were made to push boundaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Off Broadway Copes With the Coronavirus Shutdown
March 31, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutesPlaywright Martyna Majok and theater executive Jeremy Blocker on "Sanctuary City" and surviving the shutdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Karen Olivo on 'Moulin Rouge!' and Life in the Broadway Shutdown
March 24, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutesThe "Moulin Rouge!" star talks shaping Satine, 'In the Heights' anticipation and the felting on her to-do list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Lois Smith Learned From the Greats
March 10, 2020 08:00 - 38 minutesThe actress, now in "The Inheritance," on the lessons of Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How 'Six' Conquered the World
March 03, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutes"Six" creators Toby Marlow, Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage on Tudor queens, pop icons and conference rooms in Edinburgh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Katori Hall's 'Quiet Revolution'
February 25, 2020 17:53 - 46 minutesThe playwright talks hot wings, Tina Turner, and Lil Bad Cousin, her rapping alter ego. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How 'Cambodian Rock Band' Became One of the Most Produced Plays in the U.S.
February 18, 2020 19:32 - 35 minutesBending genres, confronting history and rocking out, with playwright Lauren Yee and director Chay Yew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Duncan Sheik Created a Monster
February 11, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutesThe Tony-winning composer, whose latest musical "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" is now playing Off Broadway, talks the Buddhist mafia, his controversial thoughts about songs forwarding plot, and the trend he helped launch with "Spring Awakening." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Vampires, Cowboys and Stealth Diversity
February 04, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutesWriter Qui Nguyen, the co-founder of Vampire Cowboys Theater Company, talks stage superheroes, Comic-Con and his new play "Revenge Song," about historical badass Julie d'Aubigny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Mrs. Doubtfire," Live From BroadwayCon
January 28, 2020 09:00 - 52 minutesGender politics, quick changes and honoring Robin Williams: a live conversation with Rob McClure, Jerry Zaks and more, recorded at BroadwayCon 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why Not Do The Crazy Thing?
January 21, 2020 09:00 - 39 minutesWhy playwright Bess Wohl, now making her Broadway debut with “Grand Horizons,” keeps asking for the impossible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Laura Linney Learns From Bad Shows
January 14, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutesThe "Ozark" actress, now on Broadway in "My Name is Lucy Barton," on the lessons of failure, her favorite costars and why solo shows are "bonkers." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sometimes Theater Is Just Like Football
January 07, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutesActor-producer Nnamdi Asomugha traded in pro football for Broadway, where he’s now starring in “A Soldier’s Play.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Surreal Spectacle of ‘Cats,’ Explained
December 19, 2019 09:00 - 38 minutesDirector Tom Hooper talks digital fur, trailer reactions and the reason that only some cats wear shoes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lucas Hnath's Own Play Gave Him Nightmares
December 10, 2019 09:00 - 35 minutesThe playwright behind "The Thin Place" and "Dana H." talks mental remapping, performing trauma and why in ghost stories, less is more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Let's Talk About Sex Onstage
December 03, 2019 09:00 - 39 minutesHow Broadway's first intimacy director, Claire Warden, is helping to revolutionize how actors get intimate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How To Be The Most-Produced Playwright in America
November 26, 2019 09:00 - 36 minutesWriter Lauren Gunderson reveals the secrets to her success. Step 1: Write. A lot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jonathan Groff Knows He’s a Spitter
November 19, 2019 12:00 - 37 minutesThe star of "Mindhunter" and "Frozen 2" gets wet for his current gig in "Little Shop of Horrors." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brian Cox on Shakespeare, 'Succession' and the Crisis We're In
November 12, 2019 12:00 - 39 minutesWhy the actor, now on Broadway in 'The Great Society,' chases 'scripts of the now.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How 'The Lightning Thief' Hopes to Open Up Broadway
November 05, 2019 12:00 - 33 minutesThe musical's creative team talks pushing boundaries and sea changes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Impact of 'For Colored Girls,' Then and Now
October 29, 2019 18:15 - 32 minutesActress Adrienne C. Moore on Ntozake Shange, "Wonder Woman" and life after "Orange is the New Black." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 'Soft Power' of Musicals to Change Minds
October 22, 2019 19:54 - 32 minutesComposer Jeanine Tesori on how musicals can spur change, and how her latest changed her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How 'Jagged Little Pill' Will Rock Broadway
October 15, 2019 08:00 - 29 minutesMeet the creators and producers bringing Alanis to Broadway. Recorded at Variety's Business of Broadway breakfast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kristin Chenoweth Wants to Write a Broadway Musical
October 08, 2019 23:00 - 37 minutesThe Broadway favorite dishes on her new album, her worst flub, and the bucket-list musical she wants to write. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Broadway Controversies and Coups of Two Acting Greats
October 01, 2019 20:20 - 36 minutesEileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce, now in “The Height of the Storm,” reveal favorite roles, Broadway memories and the “Phantom” casting that never was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why Tom Hiddleston Thinks Everyone Should Play Hamlet
September 24, 2019 08:00 - 32 minutesHiddleston and his co-stars in "Betrayal," Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox, talk Pinter, dick-swinging and superheroes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Derren Brown Spills His Broadway 'Secret'
September 10, 2019 08:00 - 36 minutesThe mentalist and illusionist on the magic of theater, the theatrics of magic, and why he's banned from casinos all across the U.K. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Joel Grey Made 'Fiddler' New Again
August 27, 2019 21:41 - 38 minutesThe actor, director and photographer talks directing in a language he doesn't know, memories of Hal Prince, and sexy flowers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jake Gyllenhaal is his 'Best Self' in the Theater
August 13, 2019 08:00 - 37 minutesBehind the scenes at Broadway's "Sea Wall/A Life,' with Gyllenhaal and director Carrie Cracknell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Rita Rudner Learned From Broadway Greats
July 30, 2019 08:00 - 29 minutesThe comic, now starring in musical "Two's a Crowd," started out in some legendary Broadway shows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Special Sauce in Broadway's 'Moulin Rouge!'
July 16, 2019 08:00 - 34 minutesWriter John Logan and director Alex Timbers bring elephants, windmills, Baz and Beyoncé to Broadway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plays for Your Ears
July 02, 2019 08:00 - 30 minutesHow Jeremy McCarter acts locally but thinks globally with podcast series Make-Believe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
New List, New Leaders for The Kilroys
June 25, 2019 08:00 - 37 minutesPlaywrights Hilary Bettis and Caroline V. McGraw on how the collective will expand its push for parity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Audra McDonald Faces Her Fear in 'Frankie and Johnny'
June 18, 2019 08:00 - 36 minutesThe Tony-winning actress talks intimacy onstage, Broadway diversity and why she calls Michael Shannon "The Rev." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How Disney Taught a Generation to Love Musicals
June 11, 2019 08:00 - 30 minutesFrom early Broadway days to Marvel and Star Wars, with Disney Theatrical president Thomas Schumacher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why Tony Rehearsals Make James Corden Cry
June 07, 2019 08:00 - 38 minutesGet a backstage glimpse at the Tony Awards from this year's host. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rosemary Harris' Tony Has a Typo
May 28, 2019 08:00 - 41 minutesTales from the actress’ storied career, including that time she got discovered walking a gay dog. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices