All Episodes

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Big New Broadway Show is “Birthright” – July 7, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Three Different Kinds of Shows – June 30, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: “Celebrity Autobiographies” is Closing Already – June 24, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: LA Traffic and Getting to the Show– June 16, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Tonys Have Come and Gone – June 9, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Remember Last Week … – June 2, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: More About John Lithgow – May 26, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: “Giant” Going to the Big Screen – May 20, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Tony Nominations/Omissions and Snubs – May 12, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Tony Nominations Are Out – May 5, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Meryl Streep Coming Back to Broadway? – April 28, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Still on the West Coast – April 21, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: News About the Tonys – April 14, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Reporting From the West Coast Now – April 7, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Starting with the Public Theater – March 31, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Lots of Shows Opening Slowly On and Off Broadway – March 24, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: More Familiar Names Heading to Our Stages – March 17, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: I Went Off-Broadway This Week – March 10, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Lots Going On and Off Broadway – March 3, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Getting Back to Normal After the Storm – February 24, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Starting with Casting Updates – February 17, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Current News and Show Closings – February 10, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: 79th Tony Awards Coming on June 7 – February 3, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Lots of Casting News – January 27, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Shows I Have Seen This Week – January 20, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: An Off Broadway Week – January 13, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: “Ragtime” at the Lincoln Center – January 6, 2026

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Heading into a New Year – December 30, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Back on the East Coast for a Couple of Closings – December 23, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Another Early Closing on Broadway – December 17, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Starting With New York Happenings – December 9, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Prominent Death– December 2, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Since We Last Spoke, I Was in London– November 26, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Seven Shows, as Promised – November 18, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Back in NYC for 7 Shows – November 4, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Broadway Strike Averted; Some New Shows Coming to the Stage – October 28, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: On Again, Off Again Broadway Strike and other Stage News – October 21, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Oops! There Still Might Be a Walkout on Broadway – October 14, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Good News! No Walkout on Broadway – October 7, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Watching the Facts and Figures of Broadway – September 30, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Dozen New Shows, or New Versions of Old Ones – September 23, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The First “Made in New York” Awards– September 16, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Coming, Changing, and Closing – September 9, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Good Time to Catch Shows Before They Close – September 2, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Lot Coming to Our Stages Here, There, and Everywhere – August 26, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Jellicle Ball is Heading to Broadway – August 19, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: New York Theater News, of Course – August 12, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Top Broadway News is “Liberation” – August 5, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Mixed Bag, Starting with Documentaries – July 29, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Emmy Nominations Are Out – July 22, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: That In-Between Period – July 15, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Broadway; What’s New and What’s Coming – July 8, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Again, Even More Post-Tonys News – July 1, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Even More Post-Tonys News – June 24, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Post-Tonys News – June 17, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Tony Awards Have Finally Happened – June 10, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Interesting Stage News and Some Tony Predictions – June 3, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Week Starts and Ends with Hugh Jackman – May 27, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: “Good Night, and Good Luck” to Air Live on CNN June 7 – May 21, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Cuts to the Arts; Back in New York – May 13, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Tony Nominations and More – May 6, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Tonys are Getting Closer – April 29, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: All Over the Place – April 22, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Greetings From the Other Coast – April 15, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Final Spring Shows – April 8, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Theaters are Alive and Buzzing – April 1, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Illness, and Other News Off-Broadway – March 25, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Three Important New Shows – March 18, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: On Broadway – March 11, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Three Off-Broadway Plays; Oscars; Mourning a Great Actor – March 4, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Time to Start Talking Tony Awards – February 25, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Arts and Politics Again? – February 18, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Politics in the Way of the Arts? – February 11, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Off-Broadway Awards – February 5, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Film-Focused Week – January 28, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Relatively Strong Broadway – January 21, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Openings, Closings, Extensions, and a Temporary Strike – January 14, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Let’s Begin with an Ending – January 7, 2025

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Broadway Slows Down a Bit

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: “Gypsy” Revival

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: “Swept Away” Gets a Reprieve

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Let’s Open with a Closing

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Holiday Time

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Five More …

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Seven Shows

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Five Shows as Promised

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Numbers Going Into the Holidays

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: From “And Juliet” to “Plus Juliet”

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: “Sunset Boulevard” Coming to Broadway

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: “Our Town” Opens on Broadway

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Eight Shows in One Week

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Star-Studded Shows for the New Season

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Back From London

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Greetings From London

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Some Off-Broadway Openings

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Interesting and Much Discussed

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Oh Mary!

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Back in New York

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Olympics – A Good Time to Go to the Theater

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Leaving the West Coast

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Cross-Culture Casting News

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Hodgepodge of a Report

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Second Post-Tonys Casualty

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The First Post Tonys’ Casualty

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Tonys Have Come and Gone

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Tonys Week

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Headline News – Audra McDonald in “Gypsy”

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Coming to You From the Other Coast

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Things to Look Forward to

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Big Casting News This Week

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Closer Look at the Tony Awards

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Few Headlines That Struck Me

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: 5 New Politics-Themed Shows and Their Deeper Meanings

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Comings and Goings on Broadway

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Key Indicators on Broadway are Strong

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Show Themes; Men Reflecting on Their Lives

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: From Off- to On- Broadway: “Illinoise”

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Revival on Broadway and More

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Lot on the Plate

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Pre-Tony Nominations Period

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Dark Winter on Broadway

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Premature Closings on Broadway

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Two New (Old) Broadway Shows

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The New Year 2024

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The End of the Year 2023

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Hell’s Kitchen Going to Broadway

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Busy Time in the Theatre World

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Happening, Coming, and Closing

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Actual Theater News

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Actual Theater News

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Writers Go Back to Work; Theater Activities on Both Coasts

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: “Days of Wine and Roses” on Broadway

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Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Small Stages

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: California Dreaming

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Broadway is Alive, But Not Well

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: An Interesting and Precarious Time for the Theater

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Few Reviews; The Tony Nominations are Sealed

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Camelot; Phantom of the Opera; Sweeney Todd

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Michele is Back with Reviews

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Fate of “Room”

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Some Interesting News

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: “Funny Girl” Announcement

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Full Season

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Here We Go Again! Show Openings and Closings

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens – Monday February 13, 2023

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: February 7, 2023

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens – Monday January 30, 2023

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens – January 23, 2023

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Back in New York City

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Last Week on the West Coast

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Happy Holidays!

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: An Interesting Week on and Off-Broadway

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: On the Coast

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Theater Attendance

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Strange Moment in Time

Stage Right….or Not with Michele Willens: Almost Famous

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens – Monday October 31, 2022

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Busy Schedule – Including a Double Header!

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Major Loss on Broadway

Stage right…or Not with Michele Willens – Monday October 10, 2022

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens – Monday October 3, 2022

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: In London

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Few Thoughts on the Queen

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Another Week, and More Numbers

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Incoming: A Slow Time, But a Lot to Talk About

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Fall Openings & Closings

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Ojai Playwrights’ Conference; Back to Broadway

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Slow Time on Broadway

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: More Reviews From LA

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens – Monday July 25, 2022

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: 2 of 5 Shows in LA

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Quiet Season on Broadway; Keep an Eye on “Into the Woods”

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Review From California

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: It’s Going to Be an Interesting Summer

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: COVID Strikes Jackman a Second Time

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The Tonys Have Come and Gone!

Stage Right….or Not with Michele Willens: Covid and the Tonys

Stage Right…or Not with Michelle Willens: Shows Awaiting the Tony Nominations

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Live, From the Airport!

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Second Thoughts on the Tony Nominations

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: Tony Nominations

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: A Lot of News to Report Today!

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: The End of Masks is Coming

Stage Right…or Not with Michele Willens: An Interesting Week