What's Up Broadway?
32 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 13 ratingsYour weekly premier audio destination for everything buzzworthy happening on the Great White Way. From show openings, and what’s trending on “theatre Twitter,” to Broadway star interviews and up to date health and safety protocols, What’s Up Broadway? will be a one-stop-shop for all your Broadway news and chatter. Hosted by Ayanna Prescod (she/her) Martín Acuña (he/him) and Christian Lewis (they/them/theirs). Presented by the Broadway Podcast Network.
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#27 - Lots of TONY Awards Stuff!
March 23, 2022 15:45 - 13 minutesYour Broadway news and trending theater social mentions in a New York Minute! Episode run-down: Tons of Tony Awards eligibility notes. Hadestown & Dear Evan Hansen Broadway casting update! A musical based on the life of Steven Spielberg? A Soldier's Play & MJ the Musical go on tour. ....and of-course lots happening over on theater socials! Find co-hosts on Twitter at @AyannaPrescod, @CLewisReviews, and @TheMartinAcuna. Subscribe To BPN's newsletter HERE. Follow @BwayPodNetwork on Twitter...
#26 - A Broadway Minute!
March 18, 2022 21:15 - 14 minutesNew Layout: Broadway news in a New York Minute! NEWS: “Kimberly Akimbo” will transfer to Broadway this fall. The new musical, with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori, will start previews on Oct. 12, ahead of a Nov. 10 opening. The new musical KPOP has its eye on a fall Broadway bow! It was previously announced that the show was set to come to Broadway within the year, but according to an Equity casting notice, the production is now expected for Fall 2022. Hug...
RED CARPET INTERVIEWS - The Music Man
February 26, 2022 17:16 - 16 minutesOpening night (Feb 10, 2022) interviews with the stars on the red carpet! We hear from Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster, Jayne Howdyshell, and so many more! Follow @BwayPodNetwork on Twitter. Find co-hosts on Twitter at @AyannaPrescod and @CLewisReviews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#25 - Oh, Oh, Oh, Opening Nights!
February 24, 2022 19:29 - 26 minutesBroadway News: Mrs. Doubtfire will reopen on Broadway April 14 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. The Tony Award-winning musical Jagged Little Pill is expected to make its London debut in November. Pop superstar Ariana Grande attended the Broadway production of Wicked February 19, and shared praise for co-stars Brittney Johnson and Lindsay Heather Pearce on Instagram. Shows set to open in April on Broadway: Plaza Suite - March 28; Paradise Square - April 3; Take Me Out - April 4; Beetlejuic...
#24 - Casting, Casting, Casting & Cast Albums
February 17, 2022 04:02 - 28 minutesBroadway News: Brittney Johnson made history as the first Black Glinda on Broadway on Valentine's Day! Broadway theaters will still require audience members to wear masks and show proof of vaccination for entry through April 30. “American Utopia” has extended its Broadway run through April 3. This is the final extension of the show, which has been playing the St. James Theatre since Sept. 17, 2021. “American Utopia” was originally scheduled to run through March 6. Cast albums by release d...
#23 - Another Oscar Nomination
February 11, 2022 17:22 - 25 minutesBroadway News: Ariana DeBose was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Anita in West Side Story. DeBose's nomination follows Rita Moreno's historic 1961 Oscar win, playing the same role in the earlier film adaptation. Lin-Manuel Miranda received a Best Song nomination for his "Dos Oruguitas" from Encanto, a nod that could achieve EGOT status. Miranda's screen adaptation of Jonathan Larson's biomusical tick, tick...BOOM! was recognized, with Broadway alum Andrew Garfield gett...
#22 - Who's Bad? with special guest Kelli O'Hara
February 03, 2022 13:46 - 33 minutesBroadway News: MJ The Musical is now open on Broadway and to celebrate their opening and Black History Month, the team and Playbill have collaborated to release four collectable Playbill covers, for the first time in Playbill's 138-year history. The Playbills will be distributed to ticket holders throughout the month of February at the Neil Simon Theatre. These collectable Playbills, each featuring a different illustration of an iconic Michael Jackson pose by world-renowned illustrator, Nate...
#21 - Big Theater Kid Energy!
January 26, 2022 20:01 - 24 minutesWe all have theater kid energy! Broadway News: Starting this season, Tony Awards voters must complete unconscious bias training in order to vote in any categories. The news, sent to voters last Friday, requires members to take a free, online training session led by inclusion strategist Vernā Myers. The course is meant to teach viewers how to identify unconscious or implicit bias in their own decision-making processes and how to correct it, according to the course description. Producers Ste...
#20 - Let Theater Artists Host SNL!
January 19, 2022 08:00 - 31 minutesThe best SNL. Ever. Broadway News: The Broadway cast of A STRANGE LOOP will feature Jaquel Spivey, in his Broadway debut, as Usher. He joins original cast members Antwayn Hopper (Thought 6), L Morgan Lee (Thought 1), John-Michael Lyles (Thought 3), James Jackson, Jr. (Thought 2), John-Andrew Morrison (Thought 4), and Jason Veasey (Thought 5). A Strange Loop follows Usher: a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer. The Pu...
#19 - New Year, New Season
January 12, 2022 08:00 - 33 minutesDon't forget to catch Ariana DeBose hosting SNL on Sat, Jan 15th 2022! Broadway News The Broadway League has updated its vaccination and mask policies to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as cases and hospitalizations continue to rise due to the Omicron variant. The biggest change is that children ages 5-11 will need to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination, beginning January 29. The current vaccination and mask policy for adults and children over the age of 12 will remain in effect through April...
#18 - A Bit Of A Year, featuring Robin de Jesús!
December 07, 2021 08:00 - 1 hourIt's the end of a season. The final episode of What's Up Broadway? features a surprise interview with Robin de Jesús, who stars as Michael in tick, tick...BOOM steaming now on Netflix! All three co-host Ayanna Prescod, Christian Lewis, and Martín Acuña wrap up theater memories of 2021 and what we look forward to in 2022. See you in January 2022! Follow @BwayPodNetwork on Twitter. Find co-hosts on Twitter at @AyannaPrescod, @CLewisReviews, and @TheMartinAcuna. Learn more about your ad choices....
#17 - Happy Trails, Stephen Sondheim
November 30, 2021 08:00 - 30 minutesA Broadway titan is gone but not forgotten. Broadway News Second Stage Theater is partnering with Assemble Stream to offer simulcasts of its current Broadway production of Lynn Nottage’s play, CLYDE’S, for the final two weeks of its run. Those dates are January 4 – 16, 2022. Girl from the North Country was the only Broadway musical nominated for a 2022 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Chicken & Biscuits, Is This A Room and Dana H. close on Broadway. American composer, Stephen ...
#16 - 'Revival Red' is on The Music Man Marquee
November 25, 2021 04:24 - 34 minutesBroadway News The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS, which airs from 9 AM until noon, will feature live performances from the casts of Broadway's Chicago and Waitress. Kinky Boots Tony Award winner Billy Porter has landed a spot on Insider's 100 People Transforming Business, which "profiles 100 business leaders across 10 distinct sectors who are innovating, sparking trends, and tackling global challenges." The Broadway veteran has also made a splash on television, winning an Emmy Award for his...
#16 - 'Revival Red' is on the Music Man Marquee
November 25, 2021 04:24 - 34 minutesBroadway News The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS, which airs from 9 AM until noon, will feature live performances from the casts of Broadway's Chicago and Waitress. Kinky Boots Tony Award winner Billy Porter has landed a spot on Insider's 100 People Transforming Business, which "profiles 100 business leaders across 10 distinct sectors who are innovating, sparking trends, and tackling global challenges." The Broadway veteran has also made a splash on television, winning an Emmy Award for his...
#15 - I Wanna be in the BOOM Where it Happens
November 16, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutesAndrew Garfield is dynamite! Get it? Because Tick... Tick... BOOM? Awe, never mind. Broadway News: Producers announced on Thursday that Chicken & Biscuits will play its final performance on Nov. 28. The news comes after the new play announced an extended cancellation of performances through Nov. 18 due to COVID-19 cases in the company. The production will now resume performances on Nov. 19. An HBO documentary following the making of tonight's sold-out, one-night-only, reunion concert of Spr...
Nollywood Dreams - Live interview with playwright Jocelyn Bioh
November 12, 2021 20:00 - 20 minutesJoin Ayanna Prescod of What’s Up Broadway? live in conversation with playwright Jocelyn Bioh. Prescod chats with Bioh about her latest play, Nollywood Dreams, bringing African comedy to New York City, and how she is constantly changing and elevating traditional theater. This conversation took place on Thursday, November 4, 2021 and is brought to you by Broadway Podcast Network and MCC Theater. Photos by Daniel J Vasquez. More info via http://bpn.fm/wub and https://mcctheater.org/. Watch the...
#14 - So Much Waitress News
November 09, 2021 08:00 - 25 minutesI mean, who doesn't love Cynthia Erivo and Arianna Grande!? Broadway News: Patrick Page returns to Hadestown on November 9, 2021. The newly imagined Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will return to the Lyric on Friday, November 12th. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child originally cast a spell over the world as an epic two-part event. Now, the show has been boldly restaged as one singular performance by the award-winning creative team for its return to North America. With just one ticket in h...
#13 - Audra No. 7
November 02, 2021 07:00 - 24 minutesYou're never too old to make your Broadway debut! Broadway News: Emilie Kouatchou made her debut as the first Black Christine Daaé on Broadway in The Phantom of The Opera. She will play Christine this week on Wednesday, November 3rd, Thursday, November 4th, and Saturday November 6th’s matinee. Next week she’ll lead on Monday November 8th, Thursday the 11th’s matinee and Saturday the 13th’s matinee. The following week she’ll play on Monday November 15th, Thursday the 18th and Saturday the 20t...
#12 - Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
October 26, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutesWe need to rally as a community. If two of the best reviewed shows since the pandemic are closing early, Broadway isn't back yet. Broadway News: Lackawanna Blues extends again! The Broadway premiere production starring Ruben Santiago-Hudson has extended for the final time. The Manhattan Theatre Club staging will now play through November 12. The solo show was forced to cancel several performances and twice delay opening night due to a back injury sustained by Santiago-Hudson, who wrote, dire...
#11 - Schitt is coming to Broadway
October 19, 2021 23:12 - 25 minutesDana H. has opened! Red carpet interviews and more inside this episode! Broadway News: Manhattan Theatre Club announced a one-week extension of “Lackawanna Blues,” following the cancellation of several performances. The play starring Ruben Santiago-Hudson was put on pause for a few days after Hudson sustained a back injury. So happy that this show is extending for a bit. I still have yet to see it. “Lackawanna Blues” will now play the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre through Nov. 7. Davon Willi...
RED CARPET INTERVIEWS - Chicken & Biscuits, and SIX
October 13, 2021 05:02 - 34 minutesThis episode feature interviews from SIX and Chicken & Biscuits Opening Nights. Follow @BwayPodNetwork on Twitter. Find co-hosts on Twitter at @AyannaPrescod and @CLewisReviews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#10 - Divorced, Beheaded, Fried
October 13, 2021 05:00 - 35 minutesOctober is the month for show openings, it seems! Broadway News: The Broadway revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo, starring Emmy and Tony winner Laurence Fishburne, Oscar and Golden Globe winner Sam Rockwell, and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Darren Criss, will begin previews at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre the week of March 22, 2022. The limited 16-week engagement was in rehearsal when Broadway was shuttered due to COVID-19. Pass Over also closed on Broadway on Sunday, Octo...
#9 - Broadway En Español
October 05, 2021 07:00 - 31 minutesBroadway Flea-sized bits if information for you this time... Broadway News: Lin Manuel shared the opening track to his next musical film adaptation, Tick Tick Boom, called 30/90. The song is sung by Andrew Garfield, Joshua Henry, Vanessa Hudgens, Robin De Jesus, Alexndra Shipp and MJ Rodriguez. Aladdin has suspended performances until October 12 due to COVID-19 breakthrough cases detected in the cast. They released a statement that said “We apologize for the disappointment and inconvenienc...
#8 - You Can Can Can Win 10 TONYS!
September 28, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutesMoulin Rouge sweeps the 2020 Tony Awards. Broadway News: In partnership with the YMCA of Greater New York, Thoughts of a Colored Man hosted a Youth and Community event at the Castle Hill YMCA in the Bronx and the North Brooklyn YMCA where there was a Mobile Barbershop ready to treat community members to free haircuts. Community members were also treated to a BBQ food truck, merchandise from the play, and free tickets to see Thoughts of a Colored Man on Broadway. Jeremy O. Harris' Slave Play...
#7 - Back to 'Square One'
September 21, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutesAnd the award for leaking the creation of a show before you're supposed to goes to... Nathan Lane! Broadway News: Recap of Curtain Up!, a three day outdoor theater festival that took place in the heart of Times Square. TDF's TKTS ticket booth, located in Times Square at Broadway and 47th Street, reopened last Tuesday. TKTS sells same-day discount tickets to matinee and evening performances as well as next-day tickets to matinee performances to Broadway and Off-Broadway productions for up t...
#6 - The Whole Being Dead Thing
September 14, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutesSay my name 3 times. It must be spoken, unbroken. Curtain Up!, a three day outdoor festival taking place in the heart of Times Square. Curtain Up! will takeover Broadway stretching between 45th and 48th Streets. 22 unique events will take place on stages in Duffy Square and between 45th & 46th Streets. BPN will kick off the festival everyday that weekend with Wake Up, Broadway!. What's Up Broadway? host Ayanna Prescod and co-host Christian Lewis will be setting the tone before introducing yo...
#5 - I'm Not Throwin' Away My Proshot
September 07, 2021 07:00 - 24 minutesJust like [re]born Broadway, I'm young, scrappy and hungry... Broadway News: Playbill, in partnership with The Broadway League and the Times Square Alliance have announced Curtain Up!, a three day outdoor festival taking place in the heart of Times Square. Curtain Up! will takeover Broadway stretching between 45th and 48th Streets. 22 unique events will take place on stages in Duffy Square and between 45th & 46th Streets. BPN will kick off the festival everyday that weekend with Wake Up, Bro...
#4 - The Wicked Concert...is an Audition?
August 31, 2021 07:00 - 29 minutesIt's all Wicked and Phantom from here... Notable News: Micki Grant, a Broadway trailblazer who was the first woman to write and star in a musical with the 1972 Black musical revue, Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope has died at the age of 92. Broadway League launches This Is Broadway campaign a historic initiative to welcome theater lovers back to Times Square following the industry's 18-month shut down. The campaign features a short film narrated by Oprah Winfrey, and a new contest called Win al...
#3 - This Could Be Huge...
August 24, 2021 07:00 - 27 minutesNotable News: Pass Over had their official opening night on Sunday and the reviews are in! Broadway World's Christian Lewis said, “If we can follow the lead of this production, Broadway can pass over into something different, something better, something more equitable and diverse, something more political.” NY Daily News's Chris Jones said, “Pass Over” is a Biblically moralistic work that calls out white America, declares that Black lives matter, and demands structural change, especially r...
#2 - You're The One That I Want... To Get Vaccinated
August 17, 2021 07:00 - 28 minutesTheater Twitter was on fire this week.... Notable News: The Museum of Broadway has announced the museum will open in Summer 2022. The first museum dedicated to telling the history of Broadway will open at 145 West 45th Street, next door to the Lyceum Theatre. The TONY Awards will be held at the Winter Garden Theatre. PASS OVER will open three weeks earlier on Sunday, Aug 22, 2021. Camille A. Brown will direct and choreograph an upcoming Broadway production of for colored girls who have c...
#1 - Broadway is Back!
August 12, 2021 02:35 - 30 minutesYes, first and foremost Broadway is back! Notable News: The play Chicken and Biscuits, starring Michael Urie, Norm Lewis, and Cleo King, is making history by having the youngest Black director in Broadway history and 18 artists of color will be making their Broadway debuts with that show. 2019 TONY Award are set for September 26. The Notebook Musical and K-Pop will have pre-Broadway runs. Currently scheduled openings: Pass Over - August Wilson Theatre on Wednesday, Aug 4th Lackawanna ...
Podcast Trailer
August 03, 2021 02:47 - 47 secondsYour weekly premiere audio destination for everything buzzworthy happening on the Great White Way. From show openings, and what’s trending on “theatre Twitter,” to Broadway star interviews and up to date health and safety protocols, What’s Up Broadway? will be a one-stop-shop for all your Broadway news and chatter. Hosted by Ayanna Prescod (she/her) Martín Acuña (he/him) and Christian Lewis (they/them/theirs). Presented by the Broadway Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...