The Roundtable with Robert Bannon

What happens when a lifetime of music, memories, and a few stories that probably should have stayed at the bar become a musical? You get After All These Years: The Musicals of Al Tapper! Composer, lyricist, and producer Al Tapper joins Robert Bannon on The Roundtable to celebrate his new Off-Broadway production, now playing at AMT Theater in New York City. Part concert, part comedy, and part affec...

Palm Springs is about to get a whole lot more fabulous! Reality television favorite, entrepreneur, and LGBTQ+ advocate Rose Garcia joins Robert Bannon on The Roundtable to celebrate the next chapter of The Dinah, the legendary music festival and celebration of queer women that has been bringing people together for 35 years. Best known to audiences from Showtime's The Real L Word, Rose has been par...

SHOWBIZ, BABY! 🎤 The one, the only, the hardest-working middle-aged man in show business, MURRAY HILL, joins Robert Bannon for an unforgettable conversation on The Roundtable! The legendary comedian, actor, entertainer, and star of HBO's Somebody Somewhere is pulling back the curtain with his highly anticipated debut memoir, Showbiz! My Life as a Middle-Aged Man, arriving October 6 from Gallery B...

Music, theater, and a little bit of magic come together on an all-new episode of The Roundtable with Robert Bannon! This week, Robert welcomes the incomparable Rufus Wainwright and seven-time GRAMMY-nominated composer, arranger, and conductor Chris Walden for a special conversation celebrating their album, I’m a Stranger Here Myself – Wainwright Does Weill. Known for his unmistakable voice, theatr...

What happens when a fifth-grade history presentation goes completely off the rails? You get LBJ: The Play — a wildly campy, queer, and wonderfully unhinged theatrical adventure! Broadway favorite Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen, No Hard Feelings), comedian and producer Jo Firestone, and creator and star Sunny Zimmerman join Robert Bannon on The Roundtable for a hilarious conversation about...

Lauren Ambrose is back on the New York stage — and we’re talking all about it on The Roundtable! Tony Award winner Lauren Ambrose leads the cast of THE UNBELIEVERS, a poignant, funny, and deeply human new play from Tony and Olivier Award-nominated playwright Nick Payne, directed by Tony nominee Knud Adams. Ambrose stars as Miriam, a mother living with the unimaginable: the unexplained disappearanc...

What happens when the deeply personal journey to become a parent collides with bureaucracy, money, body image, race, ethics—and an adoption system that can feel almost impossible to navigate? On this episode of The Roundtable with Robert Bannon, acclaimed comic storyteller, cartoonist, writer and performer Phoebe Potts joins us to talk about her award-winning one-woman show, Too Fat for China. Wri...

Things are getting SCARY at The Roundtable! Actor, rocker and producer Kurt Deimer joins Robert Bannon to talk all things HELLBILLY HOLLOW, the new horror film hitting theaters September 25! Deimer stars as Bull and also serves as a producer on the film, which follows a team of paranormal YouTubers who head deep into the Alabama backwoods to investigate a haunted attraction — only to discover that...

We’re heading to the Dominican Republic on this episode of The Roundtable with Robert Bannon as director Frank Pavich and Bachata musician, producer and mentor Mártires de León join us to talk about the powerful new documentary AGRIDULCE. From Pavich, the director behind Jodorowsky’s Dune, AGRIDULCE follows a group of aspiring young Bachata artists searching for answers about love, life and their...

It’s a family affair at The Roundtable! 🎭 Rebeca Robles joins us to talk all about the new Off-Broadway play HUMAN THINGS — and playwright (and husband!) Joshua Owen joins the conversation too! We get into the journey of bringing this new work to the stage, where the story came from, what Rebeca saw in the piece as both an artist and producer, and what it’s really like creating something this per...

Emmy and Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris joins Robert Bannon for a special conversation about his new film Sunny Dancer — and we’re sitting down with the film’s writer/director George Jaques too! Neil talks about stepping into the world of Sunny Dancer, what drew him to the film and his character Patrick, while George reveals what Neil brought to the role that wasn’t necessarily on the page....

Claybourne Elder is having one busy theatrical season! The Broadway favorite joins Robert Bannon on The Roundtable to talk about heading to The Cape Playhouse to direct the 25th anniversary production of the Tony Award-winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Claybourne opens up about taking on the beloved musical from the director’s chair, what makes Spelling Bee continue to co...

Daniel and Patrick Lazour — the award-winning brother songwriting team known as The Lazours — join Robert Bannon on The Roundtable to talk about their moving new musical, Night Side Songs. Inspired by Susan Sontag’s idea of illness as “the night side of life,” the folk-infused theatrical work brings together the perspectives of patients, caregivers, doctors and researchers, exploring what happens...

What happens when modern dating becomes completely unhinged? Jon Rudnitsky, Delilah Napier and Lucy Powers join me at The Roundtable to talk about FLOATING CAROUSEL, the award-winning dark comedy taking on love, sex and the absolute insanity of dating in modern-day New York City. Inspired by real-life dating disasters — including the incredible discovery that Delilah and Lucy had BOTH gone on a fi...

Before Margaritaville became an empire, before Parrot Heads became a culture, and before Jimmy Buffett became one of music’s most beloved icons, there was a group of musicians helping create a sound — and a lifestyle — unlike anything else. On this episode of The Roundtable with Robert Bannon, filmmaker John H. Cunningham joins Robert to talk about his new feature documentary, Occupational Hazard:...

Broadway powerhouse Julia Murney is back at the Cape Playhouse — and this time, she’s ringing the bell at one of musical theatre’s funniest competitions! On this episode of The Roundtable with Robert Bannon, Julia joins Robert to talk about starring as Rona Lisa Peretti in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, now playing at the historic Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts through Septem...

What happens when three strangers head into the woods looking for an escape—and find connection, loneliness, laughter, and a little Britney Spears instead? Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based playwright Stephen Sheffer joins Robert Bannon on The Roundtable to talk about his new play, Lean-To, making its world premiere Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters in New York City. Presented by New Light Theater Projec...

Few groups captured the sound, style, and energy of late-’80s and early-’90s pop quite like Exposé. With Jeanette Jurado, Gioia Bruno, and Ann Curless, the groundbreaking trio became one of the defining female groups of the era, blending pop, dance, freestyle, and powerhouse vocals into a sound that helped shape a generation. Their debut album, Exposure, became a massive success and made Billboard...

Robert was back to school for his first day, so Adrienne Garzillo jumped into the host seat for a very special Roundtable! Broadway favorite Jelani Remy is here to talk about the 5th annual NextGen Spotlight, the one-night-only Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefit he is directing and hosting at The Green Room 42 on September 17. Jelani shares what it means to help shine a light on Broadway’s...

Myles Erlick has spent his career doing a little bit of everything — Broadway, television, film, dance, and now country music! After starring in Billy Elliot the Musical, The Next Step, and Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, Myles is stepping into the spotlight as a singer-songwriter with his new album, HANDCRAFTED. Myles joins Robert on The Roundtable to talk about the new record, finding his so...

What a life. What a career. And OH, does he have stories! Two-time Tony Award nominee Bill Russell — the brilliant writer behind Side Show, Pageant, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens and so much more — joins The Roundtable to talk about his brand-new memoir, Still, Bill: Gay Adventures From Cowboyland to Broadway. From growing up an effeminate gay kid in the Black Hills of South Dakota s...

What happens when Broadway gets louder, heavier, and a whole lot more punk? Matt Copley is about to show us! The Michigan-based recording artist, theatrical producer, and creator behind the viral Broadway Does Punk series is taking the phenomenon from your screen to the stage for the first time ever! Copley has built a massive following by taking songs from shows like Wicked, The Phantom of the Op...

What the world needs now… is a little more Burt Bacharach! On this episode of The Roundtable with Robert Bannon, we are celebrating one of the greatest songbooks in American music with John Pagano and Adrian Galante from the acclaimed musical revue Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon. John Pagano has a connection to this music that very few people can claim. For 26 years, he was the featured mal...

You have definitely seen him on your feed — and now Daniel Coffman is at The Roundtable! Daniel Coffman has become a social media sensation thanks to his wildly entertaining “Bathroom Broadway” videos, transforming a simple three-panel bathroom mirror into his own personal stage. His singing, dancing, comedy, and unapologetic joy have connected with a massive online audience, with his Instagram fo...

Yuriy Sardarov, Laura Lapidus, and Tedra Millan join The Roundtable with Robert Bannon to talk all about To Have & To Hold! The trio takes us inside the project, what first drew them to the story, and the chemistry that makes it all work. They talk about finding the humor and humanity in the material, building relationships between their characters, and what audiences can expect. Yuriy also talks...