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Stagecraft with Gordon Cox — 257 episodes

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Stars Shine at Variety's Business of Broadway

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Meet Lincoln Center Theater's New Leader

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'Hamilton' at 10

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Adam Lambert Was Always a Musical Theater Kid

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‘Viola’s Room,' Videogames and the Future of Punchdrunk

6

How the Muny in St. Louis Celebrated Its Tony Win

7

'Purpose' Was a Race to the Finish

8

Bob Odenkirk's 30-Year Road to 'Glengarry Glen Ross'

9

'Real Women' Have Songs by Joy Huerta

10

Climbing ‘Redwood’ With Idina Menzel

11

The Stage Frights of Broadway's 'Stranger Things'

12

Bringing Broadway's 'Boop' to Life

13

From Real Housewife to Broadway Producer

14

This Olivier-Winning Musical is Stranger Than Fiction

15

Speaking 'English' With Sanaz Toossi and Marjan Neshat

16

Sins and Star Wars with Leslye Headland

17

How Joy Woods Became a "Gypsy" Superfan

18

Branagh, Sondheim and Fiennes, All Under One Roof

19

How to Sing Like Louis Armstrong

20

Megan Hilty & Jennifer Simard: Death Becomes Them

21

Playing Robots, Being Human

22

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

23

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

24

Daniel Dae Kim Wants to Make You Laugh

25

How a Theatermaker Makes Opera

26

My Reading With the Hirschfeld Broadway Tarot

27

Sutton Foster Gets Unhinged

28

'Cats' Meets Drag Ball Culture

29

Tony Awards Telecast Producers Promise to Wow You

30

Sarah Paulson Gets Real About Tony Season

31

Backstage With Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin

32

Jessica Lange Feels 'Wild and Liberated' in 'Mother Play'

33

Talking 'Lempicka' With Tony Nominees Eden Espinosa and Amber Iman

34

For Grant Gustin, The Hard Parts Are His Favorite Parts

35

Bernadette Peters Wants to Play Sweeney Todd

36

From 'Succession' to 'Stereophonic' With Juliana Canfield

37

Love, Loss, Time, and Lots of Onstage Rain

38

How To Be A Theater Influencer

39

How 'Ilinoise' Takes a Page From 'A Chorus Line'

40

The ‘Reservation Dogs’ Creators Wrote a Play

41

The 21 Year Backstory of 'Days of Wine and Roses'

42

Stephen Schwartz is a Busy Guy

43

'Waitress' Changed How Sara Bareilles Writes Songs

44

The 'Spamalot' Cast Can't Keep a Straight Face

45

Sierra Boggess and Warren Carlyle Make 'Harmony'

46

How Patrick Page Summons Shakespeare's Devils

47

Stars Come Out for Variety's Business of Broadway

48

Leslie Odom, Jr. is the Happiest He's Ever Been

49

Rachel Bloom's Death-Defying Act

50

The Hidden Art and Craft of Broadway Video Design

51

This Musical is a Videogame

52

Theater Is (Not) Doomed

53

Jason Alexander Has So Much Theater in the Works

54

How Theater Kids Improvised an Entire Movie

55

Conrad Ricamora Hates to Break Up the Party

56

Busy in Theater, On Strike in TV

57

Jessica Chastain is Trapped in 'A Doll's House'

58

Ben Platt Had Tony Advice for Micaela Diamond

59

Corey Hawkins Chose Fearlessness

60

“The Thanksgiving Play” is Just the Beginning

61

The Secrets and Tricks of Broadway's 'Life of Pi'

62

Tom Stoppard's Wine of Life

63

Nathan Lane Shares His Acting Secrets

64

‘Rent,’ ‘Star Trek’ and the Art of Reliving Loss

65

National Black Theater and the Antidote We All Needed

66

How Stephen McKinley Henderson Hears the Music in a Playwright

67

How Audra McDonald's Art and Activism Came Together for 'Ohio State Murders'

68

Why Deirdre O'Connell's Tony Award Hasn't Changed Her Life

69

How Joshua Dela Cruz Brought Broadway to 'Blue's Clues'

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How to Produce a Museum of Broadway

71

‘The Lion King’ Turns 25

72

The Business of Broadway with Samuel L. Jackson, LaChanze, Lee Daniels and Many More

73

'Topdog/Underdog' Has a Superpower

74

Getting Intimate in ‘Cost of Living’

75

How Patina Miller Made ‘Into the Woods’ Her Own

76

Meaner, Funnier, Even More Revealing

77

How Cornelius Smith Jr. Sings Frederick Douglass to Life

78

How Amir Arison Learned to Love "The Kite Runner"

79

The Bestselling Novelist Who's Now a Prolific Musical Theater Writer

80

Winning the Pulitzer Made James Ijames Braver

81

How Joaquina Kalukango Celebrated Her Tony Win

82

‘How I Learned to Drive’ in the Rearview

83

Jesse Williams is a Theater Guy Now

84

'A Strange Loop' is Tony-Nominated and We Have Thoughts. All Six of Them.

85

Debra Messing Will Always Defend Her 'Smash' Scarves

86

Why ‘Suffs’ is More Than Just ‘Hermilton’

87

Meet the Musician Breaking Broadway Barriers With ‘Macbeth’

88

How New Science Can Keep Broadway Voices Healthier

89

From Understudy to History Maker

90

Lynn Nottage Wants to Replace Judgment With Curiosity

91

Dominique Morisseau Always Has Nine Irons in the Fire

92

Robin de Jesús Was Always Playing The Long Game

93

Why Peter Dinklage Didn’t Want a Fake Nose for ‘Cyrano’

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How The Cast of 'Company' Learned of Stephen Sondheim's Death

95

Uzo Aduba's New Broadway Role Reminds Her of Jaws

96

How Edie Falco's Handprint Inspired Her New Play

97

'Caroline, or Change,' Then and Now, with Anika Noni Rose and Samantha Williams

98

Andrew Lloyd Webber Talks Industry Advocacy, Taylor Swift and Trans Performers

99

Norm Lewis' New Rhythms

100

The 'Playwriting Sisters' Bringing Shows Back After the Shutdown

101

'Broadway Will Not Look The Same'

102

Inside Disney Theatrical’s Global Restart

103

Broadway's COVID Expert on Returning to Theater Safely

104

What Theater Needs Now

105

How 'Pass Over' is Making 'Precedent-Level Changes' to Broadway

106

Blurring the Lines Between Theater and Ritual

107

Why 'Rent' is Still a Revolution

108

'In the Heights': The Cuts, The Changes, The Ropa Vieja

109

Launching Broadway's Future Black Leaders

110

The Theater Tour That Became a Movie

111

Making Digital Theater is Like Shooting 'Star Wars'

112

How Theater Makers Have Mobilized to Stop Asian Hate

113

BONUS: Meet the Squabbling Producers of 'Avvatar: The Musical'

114

The Gonzo Journalism Preserving Broadway History

115

How Blair Underwood Found New Colors in ‘Paradise Blue’

116

The Case for a New Federal Theater Project

117

Broadway Gave Mike Nichols His Juiciest Backstage Stories

118

The Oscar Winner Helping Off Broadway Find Life on Screen

119

From 'Slave Play' to Marvel Superhero

120

The New York Native Who Found Playwriting Success in L.A.

121

The August Wilson Expert Who Brought 'Ma Rainey' to the Screen

122

Ariana DeBose Has a Date With "The Prom"

123

The Legacy Black Theater Transforming to Meet the Times

124

This Dramatic Thriller Stars Half of Broadway

125

Baz Luhrmann & His Broadway Team on Making 'Moulin Rouge'

126

Why Ashley Park Calls Darren Star the Sondheim of TV

127

The New Voices of Broadway

128

How One Entrepreneur is Making the Change She Wants to See

129

Theater Laid the Foundation for Kenny Ortega’s Hollywood Success

130

How One London Theater is Thriving During the Pandemic

131

Harvey Fierstein on the Timely Lessons of AIDS, Gay Rights and Bella Abzug

132

How Theater Meets Activism With the Broadway Advocacy Coalition

133

Sarah Jones' New Theater is Instagram

134

How One Theater Leader Practices Anti-Racism

135

The Overlooked Composer Who Inspired Broadway's Rising Stars

136

What Does Anti-Racist Theater Look Like?

137

Swerving to Serve a Theater Community in Lockdown

138

Michael R. Jackson Has Finally Accepted He’s a Composer

139

Lockdown Theater’s Most In-Demand Director

140

Brian Stokes Mitchell's Fight to Help the Whole Industry Get Better

141

'Moulin Rouge!,' 'King Kong' and the View from Down Under

142

Alex Newell is Destined for Effie

143

What Pandemic Theater Can Sound Like

144

Binge-Watching Broadway

145

Broadway's Always Been Edgy

146

How Off Broadway Copes With the Coronavirus Shutdown

147

Karen Olivo on 'Moulin Rouge!' and Life in the Broadway Shutdown

148

What Lois Smith Learned From the Greats

149

How 'Six' Conquered the World

150

Katori Hall's 'Quiet Revolution'

151

How 'Cambodian Rock Band' Became One of the Most Produced Plays in the U.S.

152

Duncan Sheik Created a Monster

153

Vampires, Cowboys and Stealth Diversity

154

"Mrs. Doubtfire," Live From BroadwayCon

155

Why Not Do The Crazy Thing?

156

What Laura Linney Learns From Bad Shows

157

Sometimes Theater Is Just Like Football

158

The Surreal Spectacle of ‘Cats,’ Explained

159

Lucas Hnath's Own Play Gave Him Nightmares

160

Let's Talk About Sex Onstage

161

How To Be The Most-Produced Playwright in America

162

Jonathan Groff Knows He’s a Spitter

163

Brian Cox on Shakespeare, 'Succession' and the Crisis We're In

164

How 'The Lightning Thief' Hopes to Open Up Broadway

165

The Impact of 'For Colored Girls,' Then and Now

166

The 'Soft Power' of Musicals to Change Minds

167

How 'Jagged Little Pill' Will Rock Broadway

168

Kristin Chenoweth Wants to Write a Broadway Musical

169

The Broadway Controversies and Coups of Two Acting Greats

170

Why Tom Hiddleston Thinks Everyone Should Play Hamlet

171

Derren Brown Spills His Broadway 'Secret'

172

How Joel Grey Made 'Fiddler' New Again

173

Jake Gyllenhaal is his 'Best Self' in the Theater

174

What Rita Rudner Learned From Broadway Greats

175

The Special Sauce in Broadway's 'Moulin Rouge!'

176

Plays for Your Ears

177

New List, New Leaders for The Kilroys

178

Audra McDonald Faces Her Fear in 'Frankie and Johnny'

179

How Disney Taught a Generation to Love Musicals

180

Why Tony Rehearsals Make James Corden Cry

181

Rosemary Harris' Tony Has a Typo

182

Bryan Cranston on the Exhausting Joys of Broadway

183

Santino Fontana's 'Tootsie' For Our Time

184

Why Aaron Sorkin Cut His Favorite Scene From 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

185

How John Cameron Mitchell's 'Anthem' Fits Into the Mitchellverse

186

Kelli O'Hara Brings #MeToo to 'Kiss Me, Kate'

187

The 'Dumb Joke' Hidden in 'White Noise'

188

'Beetlejuice' and the Biggest Taboo

189

Kidding Around in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

190

How Phoebe Waller-Bridge Shocked Herself

191

The Balls-Out Theatricality of Sam Mendes

192

Secrets of Sound Design

193

Bringing 'Oklahoma!' and Alanis to Broadway

194

Building 'Hadestown'

195

Laura Benanti

196

Adam Shankman

197

Jeremy Pope

198

Making 'The Prom'

199

Ethan Hawke

200

Heidi Schreck

201

Jason Robert Brown

202

Tyne Daly & Tim Daly

203

Daniel Radcliffe

204

The Cher Show

205

Ep53 - Joan Allen

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Michael C. Hall

207

Glenn Close

208

Sasson Gabay

209

Stockard Channing

210

'Dear Evan Hansen': The Novel

211

Aasif Mandvi

212

Power of Broadway

213

Conor McPherson

214

Theresa Rebeck & Janet McTeer

215

Andy Karl

216

Joe Iconis

217

Michael Mayer & Spencer Liff

218

Zachary Quinto

219

Tatiana Maslany

220

'Once On This Island' Producer on His Surprising Tony Win

221

BD Wong

222

Ep36 - Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells / The Boys in the Band

223

Ep35 - Basil Twist

224

Ep34 - Andrew Garfield

225

Ep33 - Tina Fey, Jeff Richmond & Nell Benjamin

226

Ep32 - LaChanze

227

Ep31 - Lauren Ambrose & Harry Hadden-Paton

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Ep30 - Lynn Nottage

229

Ep29 - Tom Hiddleston & William Shakespeare

230

Ep28 - Chris Evans

231

Ep27 - Jamie Parker

232

Ep26 - Joshua Jackson & Lauren Ridloff

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Ep25 - Billie Piper

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Ep24 - Billy Crudup

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Ep23 - Robert Greenblatt

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Ep22 - Lee Pace

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Ep21 - Casey Nicholaw

238

Ep20 - Gillian Jacobs & Thomas Kail

239

Ep19 - The Stars and Creators of Broadway's "Frozen"

240

Ep18 - Jake Shears & Kirstin Maldonado

241

Ep17 - Lea Salonga

242

Ep16 - Victor Garber

243

Ep15 - John Lithgow

244

Ep14 - Keegan-Michael Key

245

Ep13 - Stephen Adly Guirgis

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Ep12 - Rachel Bloom / Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

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Ep11 - John Leguizamo / Latin History for Morons

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Ep10 - Julie Taymor & David Henry Hwang / M. Butterfly

249

Ep9 - Creators and Stars of "SpongeBob Squarepants"

250

Ep8 - Beau Willimon

251

Ep7 - Ayad Akhtar

252

Ep6 - Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty

253

Ep5 - Jonathan Groff

254

Ep4 - Harvey Fierstein & Michael Urie of "Torch Song"

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Ep3 - Tracy Letts

256

Ep2 - Tony Shalhoub, Katrina Lenk & the Creators of "The Band's Visit"

257

Ep1 - Harold Prince / "Prince of Broadway" & "Sense of Occasion"