Alex is a dramaturg, writer, and arts administrator in the Washington, D.C. area and she’s here for Jonathan Larson’s musical bout turning 30 in 1990 that she discovered when she was 14 after h...
2021-01-26 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Was Ratatouille a watershed?
2021-01-19 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Music theatre historian and YouTube educator par-excellence, Emily Clark is here for a show so fine! In three-quarter time!
Topics Include: Cats, Frid, Hermione Gingold, Cats 2021-01-12 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Ratticle songs for radical rats.
2021-01-05 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Recorded in front of a live (at home on their computers) audience!
2020-12-29 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
From Janet to Judy to Barbra to Gaga! We made it!!
2020-12-27 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A meandering journey from Assassins to The Frogs to Bounce and back again.
2020-12-22 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Actor/podcaster Jen Bevarelli is here for the semi-autobiographical music about not-Marvin Hamlisch and not-Carole Bayer Sager with a book by actually Neil Simon.
2020-12-15 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A voice memo about Amy Adams and a DISCOVERY!
2020-12-08 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Creative force of nature Morgan Smith (Averno Township) is here to talk about two of Patrick’s favorite topics: Heathers and the state of theatre in America.
Topics Include: why th...
2020-12-01 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s the ultimate Disney movie that made Amy Adams a household name! With Beth Amann (Wicked) and Megan Bunn (The Band’s Visit).
2020-11-27 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.
2020-11-24 05:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Director/theatre artist Meg Bunn is here for a show that revitalized her theatre exhaustion.
Topics Include: the glory of low stakes, the luscious voice of Katrina Lenk, the beauty of simplic...
2020-11-17 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Drinking White Russians and holding to the ground as the ground keeps shifting.
Ted is president of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, co-founder of Encores!, and many other things. But his biggest claim to fame came while he was in college and got a job as a gopher o...
2020-11-03 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Mary Myers (Songs for a New World) and Chris Stinson (The Real Thing) are here for a dystopian musical about the dark future of 1994 made in 1980. Anything else I type here would ...
2020-10-27 04:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Keepin’ it calm in late 2020.
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2020-10-27 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Filmmaker Jeremy O’Keefe is with us this week to talk about a musical that I disparaged on the show 2 weeks ago. So that’s karma for you.
Topics Include: Wilmington, Delaware, being afrai...
2020-10-20 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re talking about the new musical Einstein’s Dreams and your reaction to the episode on 1776.
2020-10-13 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
From the Buried Broadway podcast, actor Mikey Bevarelli is here for a musical by an Aussie based on an American movie by ...
2020-10-06 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m away this week so here’s some an excited portion from my conversation with Serena Berman about Hair. Mainly deleted because I talk a lot. I had a lot to say about Hair. 2020-09-29 04:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Barbra!
Fatigue is setting in.
Barbra!!
Will we make it?
Barbra!!!
This one really threw us.
BARBRA!!!!
2020-09-27 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Journalist Theresa J. Beckhusen is here for a musical adaptation of a half-heard history lesson retold through the lens of “everything’s fine!”
Topics Include: not-so-bad-for-1969...
2020-09-22 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Two big musical discoveries made recently but I’m saving one so here’s the other!
2020-09-15 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Performer-writer-singer-mentor Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is here for a Tony-winning revue of 30s music staged in the 80s but that lives forever.
Topics Include: songs about weed, Billy Porter,...
2020-09-08 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Intermissions are back! But in a slightly different format! Exclamation! I hate Grease!!
2020-09-01 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Casey Erin Clark (Little Women) and Courtney Laine Self (Crazy for You) join us for a movie that is really two movies: the first is a historical fiction romance and the s...
2020-08-27 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Music theatre writer Michael Finke is here for Bill Finn’s song cycle about death. . . It’s not as much of a bummer as it may sound.
Topics Include: Hell’s Kitchen, Joe Papp, Jack Eric ...
2020-08-25 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Strathmore artist-in-residence singer/songwriter Christian Douglas is here for a musical by another singer/songwriter. Christian’s written and recorded an album during our time inside and just go...
2020-08-18 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post