Stage Management: "All the Wheel's a Stage"

The show must go on! Or must it…?After the director and the designers all leave and the house lights go down, the theater is the stage manager’s domain. They’re an air traffic controller and flight attendant in one. And without them, a production can quickly go south.When glass shatters on stage, when the stage floor must stay a spotless white night after night, when the director is re-blocking the show all the way up to opening night, how does the stage manager keep the plane in the air? ***This episode features Narda E. Alcorn (‘95, Faculty), Payton Gunner (‘27), A.K. Howard (‘13), Taylor Oliva (‘28), and Ben Pfister (‘17, Faculty).***Oh, the Drama! is written, produced, and edited by Zachary Goldberg and Isabel Robertson.Executive producers are Jill BC Du Boff and James Bundy.Episode art by Kiki Gordon (‘26).Original music by James Harrison Monaco.Additional music from Uppbeat:-  Recordings from backstage of King Lear (La Noche Llegará), a Shakespeare Repertory Project production adapted by Héctor Flores Komatsu and Thando Mangcu and directed by Héctor Flores Komatsu.Other shows referenced include the 2025 David Geffen School of Drama production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, directed by Destyne R. Miller, and the 2026 Yale Repertory Theatre production of Hedda Gabler, directed by James Bundy.