Episodes

  • Stage Grok - Ken Glazer, author of Searching for Oedipus
    Dec 22 2019

    I talk with author Ken Glazer about his book Searching for Oedipus: How I Found Meaning in an Ancient Masterpiece.

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  • Stage Grok - Bonnie Comley, BroadwayHD Founder & CEO
    Dec 6 2019

    I talk with Broadway producer and BroadwayHD founder and CEO Bonnie Comley, about her career and about the BroadwayHD digital streaming service.

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  • Stage Grok - Composer-Lyricist Georgia Stitt, on Musical Theatre and Copyright
    Sep 4 2019

    I talk with composer, lyricist, and music director Georgia Stitt, about musical theatre and copyright in this new age of bootlegs, smart phones, YouTube, and other social media platforms. Georgia is the chair of the Copyright Advocacy Committee of the Dramatists Guild. She's also the founder of Maestra Music Inc, a support and advocacy organization for "female-identifying, non-binary, and gender non-conforming composers, music directors, orchestrators, arrangers, copyists, rehearsal pianists and other musicians who are an underrepresented minority in musical theater."

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  • Stage Grok - Author Andy Propst on Comden & Green
    Jul 22 2019

    I talk with author Andy Propst about his book They Made Us Happy: Betty Comden & Adolph Green's Musicals & Movies, about the legendary writing team that brought us Singin' in the Rain, On the Town, Wonderful Town, Bells Are Ringing, On the 20th Century, The Will Rogers Follies, and many more shows and films.

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  • Stage Grok - Composer-Lyricist Jason Robert Brown
    Feb 2 2019

    I talk with Broadway composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown, about his writing process, his work in musical theatre and on the solo stage, and his composer-lyricist wife Georgia Stitt.

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  • Stage Grok - Orchestrator Charlie Rosen, on Be More Chill
    Jan 23 2019

    I talk with Charlie Rosen, composer, performer, and orchestrator, about Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band, his 8-Bit Big Band, and his work as music supervisor and orchestrator for Be More Chill

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  • Stage Grok - Producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper, on Be More Chill
    Dec 23 2018

    I talk again with Jennifer Ashley Tepper, author, historian, and Broadway producer, about Be More Chill, which she's producing -- in addition to her three volume Untold Stories of Broadway, her concert series If It Only Even Runs a Minute, and her series of concerts at 54 Below in New York, where she is director of programming.

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  • Stage Grok - Actor Katlyn Carlson, Chloe in Be More Chill
    Dec 8 2018

    I talk with actor Katlyn Carlson, who plays Chloe in the Broadway musical Be More Chill, about the show and the incredible reception it has received around the world.

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