Stagecraft with Gordon Cox

Dec 24 2024 241 ep. 36 mins 105
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Behind the scenes with the biggest stars on Broadway, Off Broadway and beyond. Hosted by Gordon Cox.

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How Joy Woods Became a "Gypsy" Superfan

Dec 24 2024 35 mins  
Woods, a rising star of the New York stage, never thought much about "Gypsy" because she never thought there'd be a role for her in the landmark 1959 musical. Now she's appearing opposite Audra McDonald in the new Broadway revival — and finding ways to make the role of Louise her own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Branagh, Sondheim and Fiennes, All Under One Roof

Dec 10 2024 38 mins  
The Shed, a relatively new multidisciplinary arts institution in Manhattan, has already made a habit of presenting buzzy theater productions — including the current, sold-run of "King Lear" starring Kenneth Branagh. Artistic director Alex Poots talks about how that show grew out of a years-along rapport with Branagh, and how the Shed's theater work fits into the broader landscape

How to Sing Like Louis Armstrong

Nov 26 2024 41 mins  
The Tony-winning actor James Monroe Iglehart on how he nails the legendary voice of Louis Armstrong in the new Broadway bio-musical “A Wonderful World” – and why he hopes his involvement as co-director of the show leads to more directing gigs in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Megan Hilty & Jennifer Simard: Death Becomes Them

Nov 12 2024 31 mins  
The stars of the new Broadway musical adaptation of "Death Becomes Her" talk comic timing, macabre special effects, and why Hilty always knew "Death Becomes Her" would make a great musical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Playing Robots, Being Human

Oct 29 2024 39 mins  
Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen, the stars of the new Broadway musical "Maybe Happy Ending," on cross-cultural storytelling, navigating their show's technologically complex set, and why robots are uniquely suited to telling a very human story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicole Scherzinger, Jim Parsons and More From the Business of Broadway 2024

Oct 15 2024 78 mins  
In this supersized episode of Stagecraft, we bring you three conversations from Variety's Business of Broadway breakfast, featuring the stars, creators and producers behind some of the biggest shows on Broadway this fall. In our first conversation, Erik Piecuch of City National Bank moderates a discussion with the producers Hunter Arnold ("Maybe Happy Ending," "Othello"), Carolin

Jez Butterworth & Sam Mendes Hike ‘The Hills of California’

Oct 01 2024 43 mins  
The Tony-winning playwright and Oscar and Tony-winning director talk memory, loss and making “The Hills of California,” their latest Broadway play. Plus: the joys and pitfalls of franchise moviemaking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daniel Dae Kim Wants to Make You Laugh

Sep 17 2024 37 mins  
The "Lost" and "Hawaii Five-0" actor takes listeners behind the scenes of his return to Broadway, portraying a flawed, fictionalized version of the playwright David Henry Hwang in Hwang's comedy of mistaken racial identities, "Yellow Face." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How a Theatermaker Makes Opera

Sep 03 2024 34 mins  
Jeanine Tesori, the Tony winning composer of “Kimberly Akimbo” and “Fun Home,” talks about her upcoming Metropolitan Opera debut, “Grounded,” and what it’s like when a musical theater composer finds herself working with an 80-piece orchestra and 60-voice ensemble. Also discussed: the launch of the “Kimberly Akimbo” national tour, the revisions she and David Lindsa

My Reading With the Hirschfeld Broadway Tarot

Aug 20 2024 38 mins  
There's a new tarot deck that brings Broadway to the tarot through the work of legendary caricaturist Al Hirschfeld — and I got a taste of the deck in action with a reading from its creator, Emily McGill, in a conversation about the spirituality of theater, the "casting" of theatrical icons as specific tarot cards, and how theater fans might use the deck for insight and self-refl