Thelionking Podcasts

Meet the dynamic ensemble of actors who play the Thoughts of a young queer Black man in the Tony-nominated Broadway musical "A Strange Loop": Antwayn Hopper, James Jackson Jr., John-Michael Lyles, Jason Veasey and Tony nominees L Morgan Lee and John-Andrew Morrison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Now on Broadway in 'Birthday Candles,' the actor talks aging 90 years in 90 minutes, live studio audiences and what she knows about what's next for 'Smash.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Actors Phillipa Soo and Jenn Colella on singing American history, filming musicals and acting in the moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Singer-songwriter and disability advocate Gaelynn Lea on accessibility, growing up in a theater and making moody tunes for Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Two experts hope a “vocal Fitbit” can change Broadway’s voice health practices. With Professors Ana Flavia Zuim and Celia Stewart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Broadway's first Black Glinda on her landmark first show, her advice for young performers and what she learned from being a swing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

The "MJ" and "Intimate Apparel" writer talks operas vs. musicals, artistic legacy vs. personal legacy, and why she's not reading reviews right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

The “Skeleton Crew” writer on lifting up Detroit, the influence of August Wilson, the closing of “Ain’t Too Proud” and the advice she got from Chadwick Boseman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

The Tony-nominated actor, now in “Tick, Tick… Boom!,” talks honoring his ancestors and shares the setbacks that kept him humble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

The “Game of Thrones” actor talks singing, Cyrano, great theater roles and filming on the side of an active volcano. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Director Marianne Elliott and actor Matt Doyle on hearing the news backstage, paying tribute to the composer's talent, and singing "Getting Married Today." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

The star of Lynn Nottage's 'Clyde's' talks second chances, sandwich nirvana, and why Clyde is like Jaws. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Falco, Blair Brown and Marin Ireland reveal the Easter eggs and secrets behind the new play "Morning Sun." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Two actors with a shared connection to the Broadway musical discuss the timely return of the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

A keynote conversation with Webber and a panel featuring on-the-rise producers, both recorded live at Variety's Legit! The Return to Broadway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

The Broadway fan favorite on "Phantom of the Opera," the freedom of starring in a play, and... mushroom coffee? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Playwrights Jocelyn Bioh ("Nollywood Dreams") and Martyna Majok ("Sanctuary City") discuss returning, 18 months later, to plays the pandemic had paused. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Gennean Scott, the Broadway League's first Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, on the initiatives she's leading to ensure the industry's evolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Producer Thomas Schumacher and Anne Quart on opening 23 shows in 7 months, from Broadway to London to Mexico City to Tokyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Broadway's leading COVID advisor, Dr. Blythe Adamson, talks epidemiology, economics, safety and the delta variant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Jesse Cameron Alick’s new Sundance Institute study reveals how influential artists and leaders imagine the future of theater and live performance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Playwright-producer Antoinette Nwandu and director Danya Taymor on how they're doing things differently -- both onstage and behind the scenes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

How playwright Aleshea Harris and director Whitney White conduct an orchestra of Black experience in "What to Send Up When It Goes Down." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Talking with Andy Señor Jr., the former Angel behind the new documentary "Revolution Rent." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Writer Quiara Alegría Hudes on going big, and getting intimate, with the movie version of 'In the Heights.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

How the new Theatre Leadership Project aims to welcome emerging Black professionals to the theater industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Behind the transformation of Heather Christian's 'Animal Wisdom' into a boundary-blurring new film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Director Lileana Blain-Cruz and producer Jim Glaub on “The Baltimore Waltz” and why virtual theater is a lot more complicated than it looks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Artist-activists Christine Toy Johnson and Leslie Ishii on how theater can be an important part of the movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Lillias White and James Monroe Iglehart play the bickering backers of a massive, controversial, and entirely fictional Broadway musical version of "Avatar." Recorded in collaboration with the audio comedy As The Curtain Rises. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Historian and producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper on the latest volume of her theater-by-theater chronicle, The Untold Stories of Broadway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Behind the scenes of the new audio adaptation of Dominique Morisseau’s play, with Underwood and Mandy Greenfield, the artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Nataki Garrett, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, on getting the theater industry the support it deserves during the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

The author of "Mike Nichols: A Life," Mark Harris, on the director's life and influential work -- and the dramas behind the scenes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

"WandaVision" actor Teyonah Parris on moving from an Off Broadway buzzmagnet into one of the biggest franchises in Hollywood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Writer Kemp Powers on adapting his play "One Night in Miami" into a buzzy new film, and why L.A. was more welcoming to his work than New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

One of the foremost interpreters of Wilson's work, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, on how he crafted his screenplay for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

The Tony-nominated actor ("Hamilton," "West Side Story") is having a screen moment with stage musicals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Sarah Bellamy, the artistic director of Penumbra in St. Paul, Minn., on making theater the centerpiece of a new center for racial healing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Writer-director-actor Arian Moayed on how the theater community turned out for his starry screen thriller, “The Accidental Wolf.” "The Accidental Wolf” on Topic: http://go.topic.com/varietytaw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Luhrmann and the creators of the stage musical talk putting the show together, shutting it all down, and why its message feels more relevant than ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

The "Mean Girls" Tony nominee talks "Emily in Paris" and how she'll help make "Thoroughly Modern Millie" a musical for everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

How playwrights Katori Hall, Jeremy O. Harris and Matthew López think about shaping the future of Broadway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

ChiChi Anyanwu braved the pandemic to launch a management company focused on diverse talent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

How to craft dances for screens, with the director of “High School Musical” and Netflix’s upcoming “Julie and the Phantoms.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Lynette Linton, artistic director of the Bush Theatre, on reopening, responding and why now is the time for new work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

The Broadway favorite reveals how his work, including new Audible release “Bella Bella,” speaks to the current moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

Co-founders Adrienne Warren and Zhailon Levingston on BAC's work at the intersection of arts and activism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network

The writer-performer gets both personal and political on her new Instagram Live show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Broadway Podcast Network