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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Peter’s trip to London where he saw Oliver!, The Devil Wears Prada, Les Mis, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Richard II, My Masterbuilder, Here We Are (Sondheim), and The Comedy About Spies. Back on stateside, Peter saw A Little Night read more The post This Week on Broadway for May 18, 2025: Peter’s London Trip appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Tatianna Córdoba and Real Women Have Curves Company Photos By Julieta Cervantes / @j_cervantes Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Real Women Have Curves, Dead Outlaw, Broadway Dream Roles (BroadwayCares), Seth Rudetsky’s The Broadway Sitzprobe Experience: Pippin, Salome @ The Met, Wonderful Town @ City Center, Just read more The post This Week on Broadway for May 4, 2025: Real Women Have Curves appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, BOOP! The Musical, The Last Five Years, NYTW’s production of Becoming Eve, and Marilyn Maye @ 54 Below “This Week on Broadway” has been coming to you every week since 2009. It is the longest-running running Broadway read more The post This Week on Broadway for April 13, 2025: BOOP! appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, Jena Tesse Fox, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Theatre People @ Westport Country Playhouse, Good Night, and Good Luck, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Glengarry Glen Ross George Clooney celebrates the opening of Good Night, and Good Luck on Broadway. Photo: Emilio Madrid “This Week read more The post This Week on Broadway for April 6, 2025: Good Night, and Good Luck / The Picture of Dorian Gray appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Buena Vista Social Club, Othello, Purpose, Love Life @ Encores!, Vanya @ Lucille Lortel, Scott Siegel’s Broadway By The Season: 1934/35 & 1946/47 @ Merkin Hall, and 11th Anniversary High School Theatre Festival for NYC Public Schools @ the Shubert Theatre read more The post This Week on Broadway for March 30, 2025: Buena Vista Social Club appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Operation Mincemeat, Maybe Tomorrow @ A.R.T./New York Theatres, Amerikin @ 59e59, Last Call @ New World Stages, and Grangeville @ Signature Operation Mincemeat: Jak Malone, Zoë Roberts Photo by Julieta Cervantes “This Week on Broadway” has been coming to you every read more The post This Week on Broadway for March 23, 2025: Operation Mincemeat appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Ghosts @ LCT, A Streetcar Named Desire @ BAM, The Triumph of Love @ The Huntington Theatre (Boston), The Jonathan Larson Project @ at the Orpheum Theatre, Have You Met Jane Goodall and Her Mother? @ Ensemble Studio Theatre, What Makes read more The post This Week on Broadway for March 16, 2025: Ghosts appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Clubbed Thumb’s Deep Blue Sound @ The Public, Conversations with Mother @ Theater 555, The Irrepressible Magic of the Tropics @ Intar, Out of the Box Theatrics production of As Time Goes By @ Theatre 154, After Endgame: A Comedy Show read more The post This Week on Broadway for March 9, 2025: Deep Blue Sound appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Dakar 2000 @ MTC, In The Heights @ Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, Second Stage production of Evolutionary Function of Shame @ Signature Center, Mint Theater Company’s production of Garside’s Career, The New Group’s production of Curse of the Starving Class read more The post This Week on Broadway for March 2, 2025: Dakar 2000 appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, Jena Tesse Fox, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Redwood, Mint Theater Company’s production of Garside’s Career, Conversations with Mother @ Theatre 555, and The Last Time I Saw Caileigh @ The Tank. Idina Menzel Redwood Portrait – Photo Credit Lensed by Emma Anderson “This Week on read more The post This Week on Broadway for February 23, 2025: Redwood appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Jan Simpson talk about The Antiquities @ Playwrights Horizons, Still @ The Sheen Center, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre production of My Man Kono @ Art-NY, Maiden Mother Crone @ The Flea, My First Ex Husband @ MMAC Theater, and Henry IV @ Theatre for a read more The post This Week on Broadway for February 16, 2025: The Antiquities @ Playwrights Horizons appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Urinetown @ Encores!, The Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre, 121 Project, Schmigadoon! @ The Kennedy Center, and National Symphony Orchestra (NSO): Opera in Concert: Noseda conducts Barber’s Vanessa. Schmigadoon! Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman. “This Week on Broadway” has read more The post This Week on Broadway for February 9, 2025: Urinetown @ Encores! appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about the Broadway production English, Dangerous Corner @ ActorsNET in Morrisville, PA, Kowalski @ The Duke on 42nd Street, Dear Jack, Dear Louise @ 59e59, Bent @ Out/Play Studio Theater, and Harry Connick Jr: A Celebration of Cole Porter @ The Metropolitan read more The post This Week on Broadway for February 2, 2025: English appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Jan Simpson talk about Forrest Malloy’s Nina @ Theaterlab, Gary Gulman’s Grandiloquent @ the Lucille Lortel Theatre, Kowalski @ The Duke on 42nd Street, Target Margin Theater’s Show/Boat: A River @ NYU Skirball, National Asian American Theatre Co’s Cymbeline @ at the Lynn F. Angelson read more The post This Week on Broadway for January 26, 2025: Forrest Malloy’s Nina @ Theaterlab appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about The Giggling Granny, Miss Julie 1925 New Year's @ Theater for the New City, New York Philharmonic, Stutzmann conducts Wagner’s Ring Without Words, and Vinny DePonto’s Mindplay @ The Greenwich House. “This Week on Broadway” has been coming to you every read more The post This Week on Broadway for January 19, 2025: Vinny DePonto’s Mindplay appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
In Episode 19, Mark and David return from the holidays, kicking off the year with Stephen Dolginoff and his book Thrill Maker: The Story of My Musical 'Thrill Me' alongside moderator Peter Filichia. Dolginoff's Off-Broadway musical Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story was hailed as “breathtaking” by The New York Times. His thirty-year journey with the show began in 1994, leading to unexpected twists—from self-produced NYC readings to international openings. Tune in for behind-the-scenes stories, secrets, and surprises from his incredible creative journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum @ Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA, Eureka Day, Julie Halston @ Birdland, 54 Sings Broadway's Greatest Hits! @ 54 Below, Book Review: King of Broadway by Dan Elish, and High Spirits: read more The post This Week on Broadway for January 12, 2025: Gypsy appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about the Best of 2024. “This Week on Broadway” has been coming to you every week since 2009. It is the longest-running running Broadway and theatrical podcast with hundreds of shows giving thousands of reviews and interviews. Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in Apple read more The post This Week on Broadway for January 5, 2025: Best of 2024 appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Jennifer Ashley Tepper about The Jonathan Larson Project, which is opening at the Orpheum Theatre on February 14, 2025. We also talk about Jennifer Tepper’s new book, Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy That the History Books Left Out. “This Week on read more The post This Week on Broadway for December 29, 2024: Jennifer Ashley Tepper appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Ron Fassler about his new book, The Show Goes On: Broadway Hirings, Firings and Replacements. Ron joins us with his review of Gypsy. Other reviews include Eureka Day, Cult of Love, Red Bull Theater Benefit Concert of Two Gentlemen of Verona, read more The post This Week on Broadway for December 22, 2024: Gypsy appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Adam Lambert in Cabaret, Understudies.org, Duality @ A.R.T./New York Theatres, Ben Jones @ Birdland, Bedlam’s production of Music City: A New Musical, The Beautiful Land I Seek @ Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Michael’s YouTube Finds, News on the West Bank Cafe, read more The post This Week on Broadway for December 15, 2024: Adam Lambert in Cabaret appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about The Light and The Dark (the life and times of Artemisia Gentileschi) @ 59e59, Wicked Movie, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol by Neil Bartlett @ Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, White Christmas @ Paper Mill Playhouse, Never Too Late @ STAR read more The post This Week on Broadway for December 8, 2024: The Light and The Dark @ 59e59 appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about The Merchant of Venice @ Classic Stage Company, SHIT. MEET. FAN. @ MCC Theater, Room 1214 @ 59e59, Mama, I’m a Big Girl Now @ New World Stages, Bad Kreyòl @ The Irene Diamond Stage (Signature Theatre), and Ann Hampton Callaway read more The post This Week on Broadway for December 1, 2024: Room 1214 @ 59e59 appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Death Becomes Her @ Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Swept Away @ Longacre Theatre, Tammy Faye @ Palace Theatre, Elf @ Marquis Theatre, We Are Your Robots @ Polonsky Shakespeare Center (Theatre for a New Audience), Communion @ The Cell, and The Blood Quilt read more The post This Week on Broadway for November 24, 2024: Death Becomes Her appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk about Maybe Happy Ending, King Lear @ The Shed, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical, La Bohème @ the Met Opera, Orson's Shadow @ Theater for the New City, and Second Stage Theater's production of Walden Helen J Shen, Darren Criss read more The post This Week on Broadway for November 17, 2024: Maybe Happy Ending appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk about Second Stage Theater's production of Walden, DRAG: The Musical, Ragtime @ New York City Center, Teeth @ New World Stages, and Mama, I’m a Big Girl Now. Emmy Rossum and Zoë Winters in WALDEN “This Week on Broadway” has been coming read more The post This Week on Broadway for November 10, 2024: Walden @ Second Stage appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk with Dick Scanlan about his new show Cockeyed Optimist: Where Hammerstein Found His Hope @ 92y Lyrics. Reviews include The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee @ The Kennedy Center, Primary Trust @ Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA), Hold On To Me Darling read more The post This Week on Broadway for October 20, 2024: Dick Scanlan appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk about Our Town, The Hills of California, The Counter @ the Laura Pels Theatre, InunDATEd @ York Theatre Company, Mint Theater Company’s production of Sump’n Like Wings, Safety Not Guaranteed @ BAM’s Harvey Theater, and Richard Greenberg’s new adaptation of the Philip read more The post This Week on Broadway for October 13, 2024: Our Town appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk about Yellow Face, The Hills of California, McNeal, Preview – The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee @ Kennedy Center, TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence) at NYC’s oldest and longest producing theater company’s 50th Anniversary Gayla, The Lineup with Susie Mosher read more The post This Week on Broadway for October 6, 2024: Yellow Face appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk with Chad Beguelin about his debut novel, SHOWMANCE. Reviews include Scotland PA @ Theater Latté Da (Minneapolis, MN), The Roommate, Fatherland @ New York City Center Stage II, The Beacon @ Irish Repertory Theatre, and Monte Cristo (Staged Reading) “This Week on read more The post This Week on Broadway for September 29, 2024: Chad Beguelin appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review The Roommate, Lifeline @ The Pershing Square Signature Center, Richard II @ Smith Street Stage, Santino Fontana: By Request, feat. Lilli Cooper, Erika Henningsen, & more! @ 54 Below, That Parenting Musical @ Theatre Row, and A Diamond As Big As The read more The post This Week on Broadway for September 15, 2024: The Roommate appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review Table 17 @ MCC Theater, Young Frankenstein @ Elmwood Playhouse, and Once Upon A Mattress. Discussions include Understudies.org website, Off-Broadway Musical “Between the Lines” on Broadway HD, Helen Hayes vs Hayes Theater, Carole Rothman leaves 2nd Stage, and ATG (nee: Jujamcyn) profits read more The post This Week on Broadway for September 8, 2024: Table 17 @ MCC appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Billy Recce. Michael reviews Cats: The Jellicle Ball. Peter reviews Unentitled @ 59e59, The Bleeding Class @ 59e59, and Pretty Perfect Lies @ The Flea Theater. “This Week on Broadway” has been coming to you every week since 2009. It is read more The post This Week on Broadway for September 1, 2024: Billy Recce appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Neil Berg about his latest show The Sabbath Girl: A New Musical. “This Week on Broadway” has been coming to you every week since 2009. It is the longest-running running Broadway and theatrical podcast with hundreds of shows giving thousands of read more The post This Week on Broadway for August 25, 2024: Neil Berg appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Nine at The Kennedy Center, Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise @ Penguin Rep, a brief chat with Dorian Harewood, Odd Man Out @ Sheen Center, The Meeting: The Interpreter @ Theater at St. Clements, and a chat about the announcements read more The post This Week on Broadway for August 11, 2024: Nine at The Kennedy Center appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Charles Busch. Reviews include The Sabbath Girl: A New Musical @ 59e59, Job @ Hayes Theater, and Summertime: Awa Sal Secka Sings Ladies of Jazz @ Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA) “This Week on Broadway” has been coming to you every week read more The post This Week on Broadway for August 4, 2024: Charles Busch appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere, and Matt Tamanini talk to Forrest Mallard about his documentary “Disney Theatrical Productions – An Origin Story” and Michael discusses ‘Nine’ at the Kennedy Center with Steven Pasquale. They also talk about ‘Jeff Harnar: Sings Sammy Cahn The Second Time Around,’ ‘Inspired by True Events’ from read more The post This Week on Broadway for July 28, 2024: Forrest Mallard, Steven Pasquale appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Gatsby @ A.R.T. (American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA), Lucie Arnaz: I GOT THE JOB! @ 54 Below, South Pacific @ Goodspeed, West Bank Cafe / Laurie Beechman Theatre Closing, The Online Books Page presents serial archive listings for Theatre Arts, and read more The post This Week on Broadway for July 21, 2024: Gatsby @ A.R.T. appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Stephen McKinley Henderson. Reviews include EMPIRE: The Musical @ New World Stages, Oh, Mary!, Much Ado About Nothing @ The Gene Frankel Theatre, A Midsummer Night’s Dream @ The Classical Theatre of Harlem, and Compagnia de’ Colombari: KING LEAR @ La read more The post This Week on Broadway for July 14, 2024: Stephen McKinley Henderson appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Aaron Lazar About His New Album: An ‘Impossible Dream Come True!'. Reviews include Oh, Mary! @ Lyceum Theatre, Liz Callaway and Jason Graae: Happily Ever Laughter @ 54 Below, and Clowns Like Me @ DR2 “This Week on Broadway” has been read more The post This Week on Broadway for July 7, 2024: Aaron Lazar appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review N/A – The Play, A Little Night Music In Concert, Dark Noon @ St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Welkin @ Linda Gross Theater, Robeson @ The Amph on Little Island, Winesday @ The Theater Center, Tin Pan Alley Popular Music Evening with Steve read more The post This Week on Broadway for June 30, 2024: A Little Night Music In Concert appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review Follies in Concert @ Carnegie Hall, Cats: The Jellicle Ball @ PAC NYC, American Popular Song Society’s Tribute to Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire at The Cutting Room, National Asian Artisist Project’s production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really read more The post This Week on Broadway for June 23, 2024: Follies in Concert @ Carnegie Hall appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review Titanic @ Encores, Home @ Todd Haimes Theatre, and Little Shop of Horrors @ Westside Theatre. Discussions include the Theatre World Awards, Drama Desk, and outstanding performances and productions beyond Broadway over the past year. Frederick Barrett (Ramin Karimloo) prepares to board read more The post This Week on Broadway for June 16, 2024: Titanic @ Encores appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about their predictions for the Tony Awards next Sunday evening. Also, Michael reviews Ben Platt: Live at the Palace. “This Week on Broadway” has been coming to you every week since 2009. It is the longest-running running Broadway and theatrical podcast with read more The post This Week on Broadway for June 9, 2024: Our Tony Awards Picks and Predictions appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Laura Winters, Ashley Brooke Monroe, Madison Ferris, Florencia Lozano, Kyra Sedgwick, Lily Mae Harrington, Danny J. Gomez and Brian Morabito at the first rehearsal of All of Me. Photo by Natalie Powers. Peter Filichia, Jena Tesse Fox, and James Marino talk about Peter’s trip to London where he saw Opening read more The post This Week on Broadway for May 26, 2024: The New Group’s production of All of Me appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, Jena Tesse Fox, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about the Tony Awards nominations, Cabaret, Hell’s Kitchen, Sally & Tom @ The Public Theater, tick, tick…BOOM! @ George Street Playhouse, and Backstage Babble Celebrates Joe Allen Restaurant @ 54 Below CABARET Eddie Redmayne as the Emcee in CABARET read more The post This Week on Broadway for May 5, 2024: Cabaret appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Stereophonic, Uncle Vanya, Suffs, The Wiz, Patriots, Mary Jane, and The Heart of Rock and Roll (Inspired by the Songs of Huey Lewis and The News) “This Week on Broadway” has been coming to you every week since 2009. It is read more The post This Week on Broadway for April 28, 2024: Stereophonic (and many others!) appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Suffs, The Outsiders, Hell’s Kitchen, Lempicka, MasterVoices production The Grapes of Wrath, “This Week on Broadway” has been coming to you every week since 2009. It is the longest-running running Broadway and theatrical podcast with hundreds of shows giving thousands of read more The post This Week on Broadway for April 21, 2024: Suffs appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about The Outsiders, Oh, Mary! @ The Lucille Lortel, Teeth @ Playwrights Horizons, Dead Outlaw @ Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre, Patti LuPone: A Life in Notes @ Carnegie Hall, NYU Broadway Orchestra, Las Borinqueñas @ Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Trial by Jury read more The post This Week on Broadway for April 14, 2024: The Outsiders appeared first on BroadwayRadio.
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about the passing of Christopher Durang. Reviews include Tuesdays with Morrie @ Sea Dog Theater, The Who’s Tommy, Teeth @ Playwrights Horizons, Brynolf & Ljung in Stalker, Corruption @ Lincoln Center Theater, Appropriate @ Belasco, Spring Awakening @ The Center at West read more The post This Week on Broadway for April 7, 2024: Tuesdays with Morrie @ Sea Dog Theater appeared first on BroadwayRadio.