The Playbill Podcast: A Show on Broadway

Few shows on Broadway get to be considered a "breakout hit," but the original play Oh, Mary! at the Lyceum Theatre has officially hit the mainstream, hosting sold-out crowds and major celebrities like few other Broadway shows this season. Most surprising of all: it is a farce, a smash hit comedic play based on the mostly untrue story of Mary Todd Lincoln and her husband, former US President Abraha...

What would happen next if Shakespeare's Juliet decided not to take her own life? The story told each night at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre is an answer to that question. &Juliet came to Broadway in 2023 and has captivated the hearts of theatergoers with its infectious story and pop music hits, all produced by one person: Max Martin, the five-time Grammy Award winner who has worked with the lik...

In this episode, we talk to Idina Menzel, one of Broadway's brightest stars, about her musical Redwood. Co-created by Menzel and writer/director Tina Landau, Redwood the Musical is about finding inner peace within the beautiful Redwood Forest. Menzel talks about what it's meant to her to bring Redwood to the Nederlander Theatre, as well as how surreal it is to be back in that specific theatre, in...

This episode highlights one of the most captivating new Broadway shows today: Operation Mincemeat! Winner of London's Olivier Award for Best Musical in 2024, the show tackles the complex but exhilarating story of British intelligence officers in WWII fooling the most dangerous man in the world. Playbill Podcast host Alex Birsh brings on Natasha Hodson and Jak Malone, two stars of the show. Natasha...

When Broadway returned from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, it needed a jolt, a bolt of lightning. Happily, we did not just get one. We got SIX. In this episode, host Alex Birsh talks with Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, the creators of SIX: The Musical, to discuss how an idea developed in a university dorm room turned into a smash-hit musical that has played over 1,400 performances on Broadway and arou...

Could a show about robots be Broadway's best new love story? On this episode, we talk with Golden Globe winner Darren Criss (American Crime Story, Glee) who stars in Maybe Happy Ending, one of the buzziest new musicals on Broadway. He chats with Playbill's Alex Birsh about what the show means to him and what it's like bringing it to audiences each week. The episode also features an interview with...

Welcome to The Playbill Podcast! Join us for our inaugural episode as we chat about Hadestown, the fan-favorite Broadway show that won the 2019 Best Musical Tony Award. Alex Birsh hosts the episode with guests Merle Dandridge ( The Last of Us , Station 19 ) and Carlos Valdes ( The Flash , Up Here ) who currently play Persephone and Orpheus on Broadway. Our theater friend of the week is Margaret Ha...

Welcome to The Playbill Podcast! There are always so many choices of what to see on Broadway, and it's always hard to know if you're not...in the know. The Playbill Podcast is here to help. Hosted by Playbill's vice president, Alex Birsh, whose family has operated Playbill since the 1960's, each episode will focus on a currently running Broadway show and help you with the question: would this show...