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Laura Heywood Interviews Nick Cordero (From the Archives)
Laura Heywood Interviews - April 13, 2020 15:35 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsNick Cordero is a Tony nominated actor (Bullets Over Broadway, Waitress, A Bronx Tale). I sat down with him a few years ago at Build Series in New York City. I chose this interview from the archives because I want you to know how great Nick is, and for you to keep him in your thoughts. Because...
Laura Heywood Interviews Kyle Jarrow (Whisper House, Spongebob)
Laura Heywood Interviews - March 18, 2020 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsNOTE: WHISPER HOUSE WAS CANCELED THE DAY BEFORE ITS FIRST PREVIEW DUE TO COVID-19. WE ARE ALL HOLDING HOPE THAT IT WILL BE PRODUCED AT A LATER DATE. Kyle Jarrow was nominated for a Tony Award for his brilliant, fully original book of a musical for Spongebob Squarepants: The Musical. His curre...
Laura Heywood Interviews Steven Sater (Spring Awakening, Alice By Heart)
Laura Heywood Interviews - March 16, 2020 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsSteven Sater is a Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award winning lyricist, librettist, writer, poet and much more. He is the man responsible for Spring Awakening, the show that inspired the passion that led to Laura Heywood's online alter ego, @BroadwayGirlNYC. His new novel, Alice By Heart, is a gorge...
From the Archives: "The Girl From the North Country" off-Broadway cast
Laura Heywood Interviews - March 10, 2020 03:11 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsFeaturing the music of Bob Dylan, with a book and direction by Connor Macpherson, The Girl From the North Country is now playing at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway. In Fall 2018, Laura Heywood sat down with three of the original principals from the Public Theater’s production of the show — the...
Laura Heywood Interviews Ben Crawford (Phantom of the Opera)
Laura Heywood Interviews - March 02, 2020 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsBen Crawford is currently and creepily embodying Broadway’s favorite malformed and maladjusted romantic hero: The Phantom of the Opera.Is hero the right word? He’s certainly the leading man. But that Phantom, he’s a dark dude. And I can’t wait to dig into his complexities with the actor who brin...
Laura Heywood Interviews Tamar Greene and Fergie Philippe (Hamilton)
Laura Heywood Interviews - February 24, 2020 21:03 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsTamar Greene and Fergie Philippe are two of the newest cast members in HAMILTON on Broadway! Tamar, with a deep baritone and linebacker physique, is playing the larger-than-life George Washington — and Fergie is James Madison, our country’s fourth president, as well as a youthful, hilarious Herc...
Laura Heywood Interviews Morgan James (Memphis Magnetic)
Laura Heywood Interviews - February 19, 2020 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsMorgan James has five Broadway credits, five solo albums — including her newest, “Memphis Magnetic” — and literally tens of millions of views on YouTube. Her most impressive trait, however, is that she never assumed that talent was enough. There is zero entitlement in this woman — instead of tak...
Laura Heywood Interviews Ann Harada (Emojiland, Avenue Q)
Laura Heywood Interviews - February 17, 2020 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsAnn Harada's resume is, without a doubt, impressive. On Broadway she has sung Rodgers and Hammerstein, Boublil & Schonberg, Dolly Parton, Ahrens & Flaherty, and Robert Lopez, plus appeared in David Henry Hwang’s celebrated play M. Butterfly in her Broadway acting debut. On screen she has appeare...
Laura Heywood Interviews Eden Espinosa (Lempicka, The Green Room 42)
Laura Heywood Interviews - February 12, 2020 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsEden Espinosa is known for playing Elphaba in Wicked, Brooklyn in Brooklyn: The Musical, and Maureen in the closing company of Rent. She recently returned from playing Trina on the National Tour of Falsettos and is originating the title role of the polish painter Lempicka in a new musical by Mat...
Laura Heywood Interviews Benjamin Salka (Story Pirates)
Laura Heywood Interviews - February 10, 2020 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsStory Pirates “pairs the best actors, comedians and musicians in the world with some of the most creative educators, and puts them together to create real collaborations with kids.” Original stories, written entirely from kids’ imaginations, become huge-scale production numbers — sketch comedy s...
Laura Heywood Interviews Lesli Margherita (Emojiland: The Musical)
Laura Heywood Interviews - February 05, 2020 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsIf Broadway had a poster child for living out loud, it would be Lesli Margherita, currently starring as The Princess of Emojiland in Emojiland: The Musical. Never had there been a fiercer, more outspoken advocate for living your truth, owning your weirdness, and ruling your own kingdom. There’s ...
Laura Heywood Interviews Jim Caruso (Broadway at Birdland)
Laura Heywood Interviews - February 03, 2020 19:27 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsJim Caruso made his Broadway debut alongside none other than Liza Minnelli in Liza’s At The Palace in 2008, which won a Tony Award for Best Special Event and also earned a Grammy nomination. He has performed at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and in Times Square for a crowd of 100...
Laura Heywood Interviews Jen Wheeler Kahn (Scenery Bags)
Laura Heywood Interviews - February 03, 2020 16:58 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsJennifer Wheeler Kahn is the founder of Scenery Bags, a sustainable fashion company that uses reclaimed curtains, backdrops and stages from Broadway and touring shows to create purses, clutches, totes and other accessories beloved by theatre fans and fashionistas alike. A portion of every sale g...
Laura Heywood Interviews Norbert Leo Butz ("The Long Haul")
Laura Heywood Interviews - January 27, 2020 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsTwo-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz has appeared on Broadway in My Fair Lady, Catch Me If You Can, Wicked, Rent, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Big Fish, Dead Accounts, Enron, Is He Dead, and Speed the Plow. The Last Five Years off-Broadway provided an equally pivotal role. In addition to hi...
Laura Heywood Interviews Mykal Kilgore ("A Man Born Black")
Laura Heywood Interviews - January 20, 2020 14:21 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsMykal Kilgore has appeared on Broadway in Motown, The Book of Mormon, and Hair; on TV, in The Wiz and Jesus Christ Superstar; and in the gorgeous City Center production of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for A New World, which you can find on all music streaming services. After growing up in Florida ...
Laura Heywood Interviews Jamison Stern ("After Forever")
Laura Heywood Interviews - January 20, 2020 14:14 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsJamison Stern is a life-long actor who works constantly and puts everything he has into his characters. From one-man onstage triumphs like his recent “Fully Committed,” to full-body transformations such as his turn as Tracy in “The Legend of Georgia McBride,” Jamison commands an audience. His cu...
Laura Heywood Interviews Sam Maher (YesBroadway.com)
Laura Heywood Interviews - January 13, 2020 05:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsSam Maher is one of the most passionate, dedicated, informed consumers of theatre in New York. His website, YesBroadway.com, is designed to help you sort through the noise that’s prevalent on other sites — it’s quality, not quantity, of articles & features that matter. Two of the website’s big...
Laura Heywood's Holiday Hamilton Supershow
Laura Heywood Interviews - January 06, 2020 18:58 - 7 hours ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsLin-Manuel Miranda. Leslie Odom, Jr. Phillipa Soo. Daveed Diggs. Renee Elise Goldsberry. Christopher Jackson. Okierete Onaodowan. Anthony Ramos. Alex Lacamoire. David Korins. Javier Muñoz. Rory O'Malley. Mandy Gonzales. James Monroe Iglehart. Daniel Breaker. Morgan Marcell. Lexi Lawson. Welcome ...
Laura Heywood Interviews Daryl Roth, live at NAMT 2019
Laura Heywood Interviews - December 23, 2019 17:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsDaryl Roth is one of the most prolific, influential producers in the history of New York theatre. Her mission is to champion thought-provoking, inspiring work onstage, and she is honored to hold the singular distinction of producing 7 Pulitzer Prize-winning plays: Anna in the Tropics; August: Os...
Laura Heywood Interviews Tony Vincent (PCG Theatrical, American Idiot, RENT)
Laura Heywood Interviews - December 19, 2019 04:06 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsTony Vincent is a Rock/Broadway hybrid creature, having charted six songs before making his Broadway debut in RENT. He went on to appear in the film and Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, We Will Rock You in London, American Idiot both pre- and on-Broadway, and Rocktopia. He was also a ...
Laura Heywood Interviews Tony Vincent (PCG Theatrical, American Idiot)
Laura Heywood Interviews - December 19, 2019 04:06 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsTony Vincent is a Rock/Broadway hybrid creature, having charted six songs before making his Broadway debut in RENT. He went on to appear in the film and Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, We Will Rock You in London, American Idiot both pre- and on-Broadway, and Rocktopia. He was also a ...
Laura Heywood Interviews John Robert Allman ("A is for Audra"
Laura Heywood Interviews - December 16, 2019 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsJohn Robert Allman is the author of "A is for Audra: Broadway's Leading Ladies from A to Z." This book is a quintessential must-have gift for everyone on your holiday list. I’m talking everyone. It’s a picture book — so you can get it for the little ones — and many people may see “A is for Audra...
Laura Heywood Interviews Marty Thomas ("Slow Dancing with a Boy"
Laura Heywood Interviews - December 11, 2019 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsMarty Thomas has basically been a star since he was a child. His first Broadway credit was when he was only eleven years old, in The Secret Garden; since then he has appeared in Xanadu and Wicked, and has created and performed hundreds if not thousands of shows on New York stages as a stalwart o...
Laura Heywood Interviews Vivek Tiwary (producer, Jagged Little Pill)
Laura Heywood Interviews - December 09, 2019 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsVivek Tiwary is a lead producer of Jagged Little Pill, the new musical inspired by and featuring songs from the iconic Alanis Morissette album. JLP is a powerhouse rock show that is also an intimate family portrait, with a brand new story by the Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody and directe...
Laura Heywood Interviews Josh Lamon (Josh Swallows Broadway)
Laura Heywood Interviews - December 02, 2019 20:24 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsJosh Lamon is one of Laura's longest-lasting friends in the Broadway industry. Seen most recently in the Tony-nominated musical The Prom, his Broadway credits include Groundhog Day, Finding Neverland, Elf and Hair -- plus notable off-Broadway productions including A New Brain at City Center, Lit...
Laura Heywood Interviews Julie Taymor and Eve Ensler (from the archives)
Laura Heywood Interviews - December 02, 2019 18:45 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsLaura revisits conversations with two of her theatrical heroes, Julie Taymor and Eve Ensler. Taymor redefined both Disney and Broadway with her vision of The Lion King; she spoke to Laura in the summer of 2018 about the cinematic re-release of Across The Universe, the glorious film featuring the...
Laura Heywood Interviews Wes Taylor and Alex Wyse (Indoor Boys)
Laura Heywood Interviews - November 04, 2019 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsBroadway actors Wesley Taylor (Spongebob Squarepants, The Addams Family, Rock of Ages) and Alex Wyse (Waitress, Spring Awakening, Lysistrata Jones) have teamed up on the short-form fictional series "Indoor Boys," an award-winning web-based sitcom that follows two homebody roommates as they try t...
Laura Heywood Interviews Kyle Post (Kinky Boots, The Weirdo's Way)
Laura Heywood Interviews - October 28, 2019 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsKyle Post performed over 2000 times in Kinky Boots on Broadway, achieving his life's greatest dream. He then realized his purpose was to coach others to live their own. Kyle Post Life Coaching is the answer, and his newest program, The Weirdo's Way, is designed for for self-identified oddballs. ...
Laura Heywood Interviews Kooman and Dimond (The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes)
Laura Heywood Interviews - October 14, 2019 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsMichael Kooman (music) and Christopher Dimond (book & lyrics) are a New York City-based writing team for the stage and screen. The world premiere recording of their musical "The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes" is out now. Their most recent musical, Romantics Anonymous, debuted to rave review...
Laura Heywood Interviews Christian Dante White (My Fair Lady; Hello, Dolly!)
Laura Heywood Interviews - October 11, 2019 22:57 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsFresh off of the Broadway productions of My Fair Lady — where he played Freddy Einsford Hill and Hello Dolly, where he understudied — and often went on for — the Tony Award winning role of Cornelius Hackel, Christian Dante White is here! The two of us originally met over social media — the first...
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