In my conversations with the original creative team of The Addams Family, I was learning how the show was refined and restructured to become a success on tour and around the world. But this …
Darryl Strawberry steps into The Batter's Box for Episode 69! Beloved by both Mets and Yankee fans during his time on Broadway, the New York baseball legend has just authored a new book Turn…
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, arts leader and visionary, is Vice President for Cultural Affairs for Arizona State University and Executive Director of ASU Gammage. In this inspiring and warm …
Rehearsals for Carrie the Musical continue in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. But as the show hurtles towards its opening night, the cast soon feel like they're working on two very different s…
As you know, we've spent a lot of our lives performing on stage. But this week was extra special. This week, Bret was invited to perform his solo show Charming: A Tale of an American Prince …
How John Ridley ("12 Years a Slave," "American Crime") and theater veteran Scott Elliott got together for the starry "grand experiment" of The New Group Off Stage.
After winning the award for best actor at the National High School Musical Theater Awards (the Jimmy Awards), he joined the cast of Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway in the title role before he c…
In which we welcome President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. and Vice President Kamala Harris into their new ivory home with a discussion of transitions, change... and scalping Nazis.
Happy 2021, listeners! We took January to refuel (also Dana moved to Wisconsin for a couple months) but we are BACK with a new series: Broadway Blindspot! We all have one so once a month Ste…
Part 2 - The coach of so many award winning artists, my coach and one of the smartest most profound artists I know.
The 53rd Annual Tony Awards were held at the Gershwin Theatre on June 6, 1999. Unlike every other award ceremony we've discussed in this miniseries, the show did not have a formal host. Head…
The time has come for an OG! JILL ZARIN graces us with her presence on THE TAKE ON and this OG RHONY housewife gets down to business! Jill dives into whether or not she'll come back to Bravo…
Maybe best known for his starring role as Mark St. James on Ugly Betty (opposite Vanessa Williams), Michael Urie is not only a star of the stage and screen, but also a director and executive…
"I was so embarrassed, but I was also so hungry."
Kicking off our Black History Month celebration, actress turned director, writer, (and mother), Schele Williams knows the value of being a storyteller, how it is our obligation to the art fo…
The coach of so many award winning artists, my coach and one of the smartest most profound artists I know.
What is Clubhouse? Leroy Church, associate producer on the Clubhouse production of Dreamgirls, gives us an inside look at creating theatre on an emerging app with some on Broadway's greatest…
Heroes aren't born, they're made. This is the epic tale of Jack Kirby, the most famous cartoonist you never heard of: Born in the Lower East Side slums, veteran of the battlefields of France…
There is no greater representation of modern Broadway than three-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane. His ability to transition from theatre to film, comedy to drama, tear-inducing laughter t…
Tim goes through the process that eventually led to the creation of Pity The Child, beginning with a Benny instrumental and a Bjorn vocal. The song is perhaps the most challenging in the Che…
Justin Guarini's robust performance career launched with the first season of American Idol in 2002. His stage and screen appearances since then include Broadway productions of American Idiot…
In this episode, Ben and Daniel discuss Barbra Streisand's 2006 concert, filmed during her record setting tour, Streisand: The Tour. The concert was co-conceived and directed by past Broken …
Elyse Niederee / @elyseniederee was on BFTS Podcast a little over a year ago to talk about her Broadway debut in KING KONG. Since then, Elyse has become the head of our FLOW program at Built…
On this week's episode, we dive into the complicated world of pornography while being in a committed relationship, how to handle total disgust with Potato salad, and marijuana. It's a fun ep…
We continue our journey this week, with Angela Kennedy, one of the standbys from Come From Away Australia. We get a little emotional as we discuss what this show and theatre means to us and …