Stagecraft with Gordon Cox

Mar 04 2025 245 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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From Real Housewife to Broadway Producer

Mar 04 2025 35 mins  
Kandi Burruss, the former Real Housewife of Atlanta, is now a regular Broadway producer of shows including “The Piano Lesson” and the current “Othello” starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal. Here’s how she hopes her work is helping to make a new Broadway for everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Olivier-Winning Musical is Stranger Than Fiction

Feb 18 2025 38 mins  
Get to know the complete cast of the West End hit "Operation Mincemeat" — David Cumming, Claire-Marie Hall, Natasha Hodgson, Jak Malone, and Zoë Roberts — all now on Broadway in the New York transfer of the award-winning musical comedy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Speaking 'English' With Sanaz Toossi and Marjan Neshat

Feb 04 2025 31 mins  
With Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy "English" now on Broadway, the playwright and her lead actor, Neshat, talk translation, Trump, representation, the power of comedy, and the one audience reaction that makes Toossi really, really mad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sins and Star Wars with Leslye Headland

Jan 21 2025 44 mins  
Join the playwright, screenwriter and director for a wide-ranging conversation about her Broadway debut “Cult of Love,” the “gift” of her Seven Deadly Plays cycle, her thoughts on character vs. genre, her Star Wars series “The Acolyte,” the fans’ reaction to it, the seismic upheaval of motherhood, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice

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