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Episode 112
Serving up Titus Andronicus with Jesse Berger and Red Bull Theater
Jesse Berger, founder of Red Bull Theater, discusses one of today’s preeminent producers of early modern English drama and their new production of Shakespeare’s gruesome Titus Andronicus.
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Episode 111
Warning: Armed Women! with Dr. Sarah Burdett
Dr. Sarah Burdett returns to discuss arms-bearing women on the British stage during the Age of Revolution and her book The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre, 1789–1815.
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Episode 110
Scrolling TikTok on Broadway with Dr. Trevor Boffone
Dr. Trevor Boffone explores how TikTok transformed musical theatre fandom between 2018 and 2022, from the Ratatouille musical to the Grammy-winning Bridgerton phenomenon.
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Episode 109
Going Beyond Ridiculous with Dr. Ken Elliott
Dr. Ken Elliott tells the story of Theatre-in-Limbo, the groundbreaking gay theatre company he co-founded with Charles Busch in 1980s New York.
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Episode 108
Stirring Up Sheffield with Tedd George
Tedd George shares the inside story of the battle to build Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre — an unconventional venue that became a landmark in UK theatrical history.
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Episode 107
Tracing the Rise of the Professional Scenic Designer with Dr. David Bisaha
Dr. David Bisaha explores how scenic designers carved out their own distinct professional role in American theatre, separate from scene painters and carpenters.
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Episode 106
Staging Latinx Shakespeares with Dr. Carla Della Gatta
Dr. Carla Della Gatta joins us to discuss Latinx Shakespeare productions and her book Latinx Shakespeares: Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater.
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Episode 105
The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama with Professor Fiona Macintosh
Professor Fiona Macintosh of Oxford discusses the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama and how ancient theatre has shaped performance for millennia.
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Episode 104
Elise Harris Helps Us Look Into Sidney Brustein’s Window
Lorraine Hansberry’s overlooked masterwork gets its due — Elise Harris explains why The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window is far more than a footnote.
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Episode 103
Special Guest Episode: Peter Schmitz and Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia
Peter Schmitz tells the story of Jasper Deeter, whose pioneering work had an impact on not only Philadelphia theatre, but the American stage as a whole.
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Episode 102
Celebrity Pregnancies on the 18th-Century English Stage with Dr. Chelsea Phillips
Dr. Chelsea Phillips traces how pregnancy intersected with the rise of celebrity culture on the 18th-century London stage.
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Episode 101
Visiting the Museum of Broadway with Ben West
Curator Ben West introduces the Museum of Broadway and explains how it brings the theatrical past to life for a new generation of visitors.
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Episode 100
Robert E. Sherwood’s There Shall Be No Night and the Specter of War in Eastern Europe
Dr. Thomas F. Connolly discusses Sherwood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the Soviet invasion of Finland — and its striking contemporary resonance.
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Episode 99
Canons, Black Performance, and the Classix Project
Dominique Rider and Arminda Thomas discuss the Classix project’s mission to explode the classical canon through an exploration of Black performance history.
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Episode 98
Abie’s Irish Rose, a Forgotten Hit Comedy of the American Stage
Eric Grode examines a play reviled by critics that became the longest-running show in Broadway history — and has since vanished from memory.
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Episode 97
Discovering Kunqu with Dr. Dongshin Chang
Dr. Dongshin Chang introduces the fascinating world of kunqu, one of the great cultural treasures of Chinese theatre and a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Episode 96
The Legacy of Ntozake Shange with Dr. Kim Hall
Dr. Kim F. Hall of Barnard College discusses the life, work, and enduring legacy of Ntozake Shange, author of for colored girls.
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