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Welcome to The Drama Book Show! Join hosts David Rigano, Mark-Eugene Garcia, and Dylan Glick- seasoned playwrights and close friends, as they engage in interviews with a diverse array of guests spanning from Broadway to Off-Broadway and beyond. Recording before a live audience at the Drama Book Shop, each week features a theater expert delving into realms both on and off the stage.Follow @dramabookshowpodcast on instagram, check Eventbrite for events, and join our lively audience at the book shop, where drama unfolds!Music by Paul Rigano
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- Today54 min
The Antiracist Theatre with Nicole Brewer and Ann James
In this episode, we talk with Nicole Brewer, theater director, educator, and originator of the internationally recognized Antiracist Theatre (ART) model, about her book The Antiracist Theatre and reimagining how artists collaborate. Brewer’s book combines memoir, self-exploration, and practical tools to examine power, privilege, accountability, and care in theatrical spaces. Rooted in transformative justice, she offers a framework for disrupting harmful practices and building healthier, more humane, and more liberatory creative environments. Joining the conversation is moderator Ann James, an Intimacy and Sensitivity Specialist and the first Black Intimacy Coordinator on Broadway. Together, they explore what it means to build greater awareness, responsibility, and care into the creative process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Yesterday43 min
Cold War Choir Practice with Ro Reddic
In this episode, we talk with playwright, songwriter, and educator Ro Reddick about her darkly comedic play Cold War Choir Practice, winner of the 2026 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Set in Ronald Reagan’s America, the play follows a young girl caught up in family intrigue when her estranged uncle, a prominent Black conservative, brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays. Blending music, comedy, espionage, roller disco, cults, and choir practice, Cold War Choir Practice offers a wildly unconventional look at family, politics, and life in the shadow of the Cold War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 days ago48 min
Acting Heightened Text: The Basics - With Catherine Weidner
In this episode, we talk with Catherine Weidner, actor, director, educator, and author of Acting Heightened Text: The Basics, about bringing heightened language to life onstage. Weidner’s book offers actors, directors, students, and teachers practical tools for working with verse and prose, from text analysis and playing actions to auditions, rehearsals, rhetorical arguments, and rhyming couplets. We explore how curiosity, rigor, and techniques like “hooking” can help performers make dynamic, textually supported choices and connect with heightened language in a truthful, contemporary way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 days ago1h 8m
Launch Party for The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume III
In this episode, we explore the third volume of the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays, featuring nine new works by trans playwrights and centered on young trans characters, from age twelve through their late twenties. The collection highlights a wide range of voices, genres, and theatrical styles while exploring coming of age, family, relationships, athletics, dating, and navigating challenging social and political environments. Each play is accompanied by an introductory essay offering additional context and insight into the work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 4 days ago49 min
Quick Bright Things with Michael Golding
In this episode, we talk with novelist and actor Michael Golding about new novel, Quick Bright Things, a love letter to Broadway’s Golden Age. Set in New York in 1948, the novel follows a young rehearsal pianist, a visionary director, and his Girl Friday as they race toward opening night with a musical adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Drawing on Golding’s own experiences in the theatre, Quick Bright Things celebrates the colorful, talented, and sometimes chaotic people who keep Broadway humming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 5 days ago49 min
Latinidad in Musical Theatre with Stefan Sittig
In this episode, we talk with Stefan Sittig, director, choreographer, educator, performer, and author of Latinidad in Musical Theatre, about the lasting influence of Latine artists, music, dance, and choreography on the American musical. From Carmen Miranda to Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sittig traces a century of Latine contributions through shows including West Side Story, Bye Bye Birdie, In the Heights, and Hamilton, while exploring the careers of artists such as Chita Rivera and Graciela Daniele. The conversation looks at how Latine artists have moved from being represented through stereotype and appropriation toward owning and shaping their own narratives within musical theatre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 6 days ago54 min
Feminist Approaches in Musical Theatre
In this episode, we talk with Paige Allen and Stacy Wolf, authors of Feminist Approaches in Musical Theatre, about the relationship between feminism, spectatorship, and the musical theatre canon. Using shows including The Music Man, Evita, Fun Home, and SIX, the book explores how feminist theory can help us understand and analyze musicals, particularly the contradictions of an art form beloved by women audiences while historically dominated by male artists and producers. Joining the conversation as moderator is Jill Dolan, theater scholar, critic, and author of The Feminist Spectator as Critic and Utopia in Performance. Together, they explore how a feminist perspective can reshape the way we watch, interpret, and understand musical theatre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago56 min
Queer Musicals with Robert W. Schneider and Patrick Hinds
In this episode, we talk with Robert W. Schneider, artistic director of J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company, producer at 54 Below, and host of Behind the Curtain: Broadway’s Living Legends, about his book Queer Musicals. Taking a chronological look at queer musicals from the second half of the twentieth century through today, the book explores how these shows were created, produced, received, and understood within the larger history of Broadway. Schneider traces the evolution of queerness in musical theatre and examines how queer stories moved from the margins toward becoming an increasingly visible part of the art form. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
About The Drama Book Show!
Welcome to The Drama Book Show! Join hosts David Rigano, Mark-Eugene Garcia, and Dylan Glick- seasoned playwrights and close friends, as they engage in interviews with a diverse array of guests spanning from Broadway to Off-Broadway and beyond. Recording before a live audience at the Drama Book Shop, each week features a theater expert delving into realms both on and off the stage.Follow @dramabookshowpodcast on instagram, check Eventbrite for events, and join our lively audience at the book shop, where drama unfolds!Music by Paul Rigano
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