Podcast appearances and mentions of Richard Frankel

In this episode long time friends and collaborators, Drs. Richard Frankel and Victor Krebs carry on a decade long conversation in person and in google docs resulting in the book, Human Virtuality and Digital Life, a delightful and rich discussion of the philosophical understandings of virtuality as well as implications for the psyche. Their discussions are far reaching and deep leveraging myths, critical thought, important philosophers and psychoanalytic theorists. In the end we discuss AI, thinking, dreaming, and the generational divide and post-truth political landscape that is fueled by technology. For additional resources please see: Dreaming in the Digital Age, Thoughts on the Technological Pharmakon. POLIGRAFI , 28 (109/110), pp. 59-82.: http://ojs.zrs-kp.si/index.php/poligrafi/article/view/404 Digital Animism. Towards a New Materialism, Religions 2023, 14(2), 264; https://www.mdpi.com/2140582 The Power of Ghosts, Jung Journal Culture and Psyche September 2013 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272120809_The_Power_of_Ghosts Frankel, R. “Dreaming Life in the Digital Age” in Goodman, D and Clemente, M. (eds). (2024) The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology. London: Routledge. Frankel, R. "New Introduction to the Classic Edition of The Adolescent Psyche” in Frankel, R. (2023) The Adolescent Psyche: Jungian and Winnicottian Perspectives. London: Routledge. Frankel, R. “Digital Melancholy” in Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche. 2013, Vol. 7, No. 4.

How is technology changing our minds and existential experience? What do phones have to do with shame, power, narcissism, and death? How can we think about the difference between virtuality and reality? Is there really even a difference? Why are we not more comforted by our phones when we're addicted to them? In this AP-level episode of Help Existing, we delve into these questions and more, thinking about technology on both a philosophical and psychoanalytic level. My guests are philosopher Victor Krebs and psychologist Richard Frankel, authors of the new book Human Virtuality and Digital Life: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations. Krebs is a professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a philosophical curator. Frankel is a faculty member and supervisor at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and a teaching associate and supervisor at Harvard Medical School. This was a fascinating conversation I studied up for and wanted to bring my A-game to. I hope you learn as much as I did, and that maybe after this conversation, you'll have some different lenses to think from a psychoanalytic and philosophical perspective about your relationship with technology. 

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Drs. Victor J. Krebs & Richard Frankel to the podcast! They are here to discuss their new book Human Virtuality and Digital Life: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations (Routledge, 2021): https://www.routledge.com/Human-Virtuality-and-Digital-Life-Philosophical-and-Psychoanalytic-Investigations/Frankel-Krebs/p/book/9781138505155 They are currently working on a second volume exploring the effects of digital technology on psychic life with tentatively entitled: Dreaming (in) the Digital. You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/7iOO9yMte0Q Richard Frankel, Ph.D. is a faculty member and supervisor at The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is a teaching associate and supervisor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His books include The Adolescent Psyche: Jungian and Winnicottian Perspectives, soon to be re-published as part of the the Routledge Classic Series. He has also authored "Digital Melancholy" and "Fantasy and Imagination in Winnicott's Work" amongst other papers. He lectures widely and teaches seminars on comparative psychoanalysis, Winnicott, Bion, dreams, and the interface of continental philosophy and psychoanalytic thought. https://mipboston.org Victor J. Krebs (B.A., summa cum laude, Vanderbilt University; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) is currently Full Professor of Philosophy at the Humanities Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Perú. Before returning to Perú, where he was born, he lived in and studied in the US (Nashville, South Bend and Boston), and worked in London, before moving to Caracas in 1993, where he taught at Simón Bolívar University. Back in Perú in 2003, he founded the Jungian Circle of Perú (2010) and VJK Curaduría Filosófica, a philosophical experiment in art-curatorship. His current research centers on technology, film, psychoanalysis and pop philosophy. His books include: La Imaginación Pornográfica. Contra el escepticismo en la cultura (Lima, 2015), La Recuperación del Sentido. Ensayos sobre Wittgenstein la filosofía y lo trascendente (Caracas, 2007) and Del Alma y el Arte. Reflexiones en torno a la cultura, la imagen y la memoria (Caracas,1998). He is also contributing co-editor (with William Day) of SeeingWittgenstein Anew (2010, Cambridge University Press). He lives in Lima, Peru. https://vjk5555.wixsite.com/portafolio Follow him at Twitter: https://twitter.com/synchronicity23 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/synchronicity23/ The work of Wim Wenders is mentioned in this episode: https://www.wim-wenders.com Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair: www.drvanessasinclair.net Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 The song at the end of the episode is “This is the Subconscious (Your Own Adventure)” from the album "Conceive Ourselves” by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy available digitally on Bandcamp from Highbrow Lowlife: https://vanessasinclairpetemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/conceive-ourselves Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: book cover

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Ann Fangio helps divorced Christians heal, love themselves, and find new love (all without going to hell).  Ann is smart, kind, thoughtful, educated, experienced and a ton of fun to talk too.  She will give you insights into relationships, boundaries, limiting beliefs, and of course spirituality.  I'm not a christian, but I'm curious and I like to ask questions, so we get after it.  I literally had a hard time keeping track of all the books, authors, experts and modalities she has in depth knowledge with.  No matter what side of the fence you fall on, if you keep an open mind, you will be more enlightened for listening.Ann Fangio just wrote a book “Intelligent Dating” which is good for Christians and non-Christians alike.  Find Anns stuff here!:https://intelligentdatingbook.comhttps://intelligentdatingmasterclass.comhttps://betterbeliefsnow.comShow notes:Go to Ann's FB page and you will see Lasting Love Ministries and a counselor.  Ann is a devout Christian.  There is a lot of hurting Christians that need guidance…  Tell me about that.  The man rules and the women submits and that is not what the bible says.  The Jewish laws are very kind to the women and women were looked after very well.  This mentality we seem to have in the Christian community…  is very oppressive, and it hurts the relationship.  Men are being harmed just as much as women are being harmed and the kids.  …I, as a divorced Christine, want to help do is spread the word that god doesn't hate you…She is fluent in scripture and verses…  Ann's message is, “How do we bring peace back to (divorced Christians) people?  “When I first got divorced I thought I was going to burn in hell.”  “Literally.”I (Mischa) don't have a religious back ground I'm more of a recovery/12 step frame of reference.“BTW I'm a Christian counselor who cusses.”  Her opinion of the 12 steps.  It's God without the bible.  It's the purest form of religion.  30 yrs ago an older women (65 or 70 yrs old) hands her a book.  And it gave her god back.  It explained how divorce is not the ultimate sin…  The author, it was a Church of Christ preacher going against everything (Christians) have been taught.  It was a very profound moment for her.  Another fun book she recommends… Gretchen Baskerville, “The Life Saving Divorce”.  Divorce is a system, it's a game…  And not designed for the financial good of couple.  Prenups are good, set them up when you are in love and you'll be much kinder to each other.Be willing to tell your partner of your attractions to others if attractions pop up…  Once you speak it out loud it takes a lot of the power away.  “I have to be able to tell you, and you have to be able to tell me, and if we can't there is a problem in our trust.”  “Do I need to tell my husband every single thing that comes into my head?  No.  But I should be able to.”  She talks about that in her book, “Intelligent Dating”.  “Wouldn't you want someone to leave you upfront?”  Intelligent Dating is a blueprint to finding a proper partner…  and it came from experience.  How many divorces and counting?  4!  “Coupling is probably the hardest thing you will ever do in your life.”  What was the book that changed your perception?  James Edward is the author she thinks.  An in depth study of marriage and divorce.  (Turns out it is John Edwards: An in depth study of marriage and divorce).She references friends whom have killed themselves coming out of divorces…  “It's hell on earth or is it hell later?”  “Or are you staying in the relationship and it's hell.”My heart was broken by that last relationship.  “I had a dream and the dream was lost”.…she re-discovers German new medicine.Breaking down the scripture and how it says divorce is actually ok…Christians, Marriage, and Divorce…  What a trip!  Christians have some radical dogma to deal with.The final straw of her last relationship…  She took the paper off of the printer too soon.  “Children live what they learn… You show them a lack of temperance, compassion and understanding and guess what they are going to grow up and do the same thing.”You cannot work with someone who thinks that you have to be good enough.  You will always fail to them you will always be short in their eyes…  And she had that habit herself.  How'd she break it?  It was a movie.  “The Banger Sisters”, it made her realize I have to let my kids make their own mistakes.  And she has a cool story with her daughter around it.  What is your main malfunction when it comes to relationships?  Turns out she's always had choices… Her pattern, it was how she viewed money.  And having “physically bonded” with them before getting married.  Watch out if they kiss good!  Her good senses go out the window if she gets physical too fast.  Don't bond physically until you know they are a good fit for you.  “When I bond my wisdom takes a hike.  No matter how smart I am.”Men bond through sex…  Women bond through everything that gets you to sex.  Another book she references John Gottman: The Seven Principles for Making Marriages Work.  (No religious stuff in this one BTW she says.) “You are either moving that person towards you or away from you.”“If you start begging someone or asking someone to treat you right, or you have to teach them how to treat you right.  Just leave.  It isn't getting any better”.Marriage myth: “the second marriage must work”.Boundaries.  You have a vision of what love is?  Yes… (references M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled).  “Love is an action, love is a verb…”  “If I wouldn't treat you that way I should not allow you to be treating me that way.”  “Love is Kind, compassionate, thoughtful, setting good healthy boundaries.”  “The Al-Anon people know how to set boundaries!”  “I used to never say no.  People walked all over me.”  “Now it's only my husbands that do that!”At my age “I'm more focused on helping people then I am on this one thing I always wanted which was a great relationship.  “I have that great relationship with god now…”On to the German New Medicine…  Deals with emotional trauma.  “Our bodies are dying to get our attention to address these things.”  “High level control” if we think we're sick, we will take their pill.  Ryke Geerd Hamer.  Kyle Cease, Kylego.  She talks some ‘Beliefs”.  What she loves about Kyle is he's all about the “What if”.  “He uses his gift to bring a message to the world instead of just making money.”  Her book - Gives you 3 Values Assessments - Her favorite one  helps you find your top ten values, you define what does that value mean to you?  What does it look like when it's healthy?  What does it look like when it's unhealthy?  etc… Richard Frankel, Mans Search For Meaning, Logotherapy, Freud, Alfred Adler birth order.  From all of this, if we are living are meaning then we are happy, because happiness is a byproduct of living your meaning.  Soma, Psyche, πνεύμα.  “What values am I addressing and what values am I ignoring?  What can you implement today? What can you implement this week or this month to start living that value again?  You will find that your happiness is greatly increased.”  She screwed up a lot as a parent…  But being a parent was the biggest blessing in her life.  “I didn't see it as an accomplishment because I new that I could do it.”I ask her about Muscle testing and Psych K.  She riffs on that a little bit.  “This is the missing piece from talk therapy”.  “The subconscious beliefs actually drive our behaviors”.  “Thats all they ever said, they didn't tell us how to find them.  They didn't tell us how to change them…”.  “If we don't change what's in our subconscious that it doesn't matter what we intellectually know, nothing else is going to change.”  We talk some burning in hell :).  This is some real woo woo stuff.  She's asked: “What is the biggest loss you've experienced in this life?”  “Tears just started stream down my face…  the pain that my poor decisions have caused my children.”  “I release my pain from the past and eagerly await all the good that awaits me now.”  “I hadn't been connecting, …I had just been hiding all this time.”  “We just cast off that  limiting belief and we command on the empowering belief in a matter of seconds.”“I can have the relationship of my dreams and I don't care!”Start podcasting!  Get the Shure MV88 mobile mic, you can literally take it anywhere on the fly https://amzn.to/2Mnba3QAccess my “Insiders Guide to Finding Peace” here: https://belove.media/peace    See more resources at https://belove.media/resources.   Email me: contact@belove.media   For social Media:      https://www.instagram.com/mrmischaz/  https://www.facebook.com/MischaZvegintzov     Subscribe and share to help spread the love for a better world!As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

The psychologist Erik Erickson's theory of psychosocial development makes some essential observations about the period of adolescence and identifies the questions at this phase of life as “Who Am I?” and “What can I Be?”. Sasha and Stella examine this developmental period and ask how the concept of gender identity lays atop the teenage struggle for belonging, individuation, sexual development, and autonomy. Links: https://www.amazon.com/Adolescent-Psyche-Winnicottian-Perspectives-Routledge/dp/041516799X (The Adolescent Psyche: Jungian and Winnicottian Perspectives, by Richard Frankel  ) https://www.amazon.com/Untangled-Guiding-Teenage-Transitions-Adulthood/dp/0553393073/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=untangled&qid=1613252941&s=books&sr=1-1 (Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood, by Lisa Damour, Ph.D.) https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Your-Kids-Parents-Matter/dp/0375760288 (Hold on to Your Kids: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood, by Gordon Neufeld & Gabor Maté) https://quillette.com/2018/07/20/trans-activisms-dangerous-myth-of-parental-rejection/ (“Trans Activism's Dangerous Myth of Parental Rejection,” by Lisa Marchiano) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DI29D8M/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 (Childhood and Society, by Erik H. Erikson) Extended Notes The process of growing up; although it looks different across cultures, we all have to go through it. Stella shares the coming of age ceremonies she did for her children. There are 8 stages of “growing up” that we do, according to Erik Erikson: Infancy Toddler Early childhood Middle childhood Adolescence 20s–30s — Seeking intimacy 40s–60s — Stagnation 60s+ — Your legacy It's so important for children to do things with a sense of conviction. Why are the adolescent years so turbulent? Erik Erikson was the person who coined the phrase, “Identity crisis.” Up until 12 years old, everything a parent says is considered “law.” After 12, they turn it off and take in outside influences. This makes sense. Children need this process. Children reject everything you stand for because they don't want to be a clone of you. As a mother, Stella says there is nothing that strikes terror in our hearts more when our children are unhappy. Once our children are teenagers, is there nothing we can do to help them through this process? Parents need to have a working knowledge of what their teenagers are swimming in. This is a vital time to build a stronger relationship with the child, not disconnect from them. Do you want to understand where your children are coming from? Make the effort to learn what they're into. Teenagers are agonizing over what to call themselves. It's difficult. There are a lot of categories to choose from. As our sexuality develops, there is some shame around our feelings. When it comes to becoming transgender, children are not good at making judgments about long-term things. Teenagers sometimes can get wrapped up in the fantasy of blaming someone else for their developmental confusion. No one has perfect parents. There is a common thread on online forums that parents reject trans children, so it sets the child up to be defensive when they get ready to reveal their true identity. So many people are lost in their 20s. That sense of being “lost” is a very vital time in finding yourself. Stella shares the differences between parents and their financial commitments in Ireland vs. the U.S. It appears U.S. children need more of their parents' financial support throughout their mid-20s. There is a struggle for children to become independent from their parents in the West. This podcast is partially sponsored by ReIME, Rethink Identity Medicine Ethics: https://rethinkime.org/ (Rethinkime.org) Learn more about our show: https://linktr.ee/WiderLensPod (Linktr.ee/WiderLensPod) Support this podcast

In this podcast, Dr. Richard Frankel stops by and we talk about a varied number of sociological factors that physicians have to face - in terms of their training, their eventual job, and other factors outside their job. Dr. Frankel is a professor of medicine and geriatrics at the Indiana School of Medicine, and he researches organizational culture change, face-to-face communication, and the role of technology and its effect on the human dimensions of healthcare, especially empathy.  In addition to his research interests he has been a medical educator for the past 35 years. He was the co- director of the internal medicine residency program at Highland Hospital/University of Rochester and also served as co-director of the Program and Fellowship in Advanced Biopsychosocial Medicine. From 2003-2013, he was the statewide director of Indiana University School of Medicine’s professionalism competency and responsible for both curriculum and remediation in this arena. We talked about his experiences in academia and his interests around medicine, and how I could learn from different perspectives outside of just the clinical aspects of medicine.

Tom Viertel has produced a wide range of plays and musicals on and off Broadway, in London and on tour for over 30 years, including Hairspray, The Producers, A Little Night Music, The Encounter, Young Frankenstein, Little Shop of Horrors, The Weir, The Sound of Music, Smokey Joe’s Café, Driving Miss Daisy, and many others. He is a member of the Board of Governors, Government Relations, and Tony Management Committees of The Broadway League and a Trustee of the Equity-League Pension Funds. With his partners, Richard Frankel, Steve Baruch, and Marc Routh, he owns Feinstein’s/54 Below, Broadway’s Supper Club. He is the Executive Director of the Commercial Theater Institute, which provides a comprehensive curriculum in producing for Broadway.  We talked about how producing has changed over the years as well as: What’s wrong with Off Broadway today? And can it be fixed? How to learn from the shows that don’t work. The most important skill a Broadway Producer must have. The advantages of taking small investors and how he built his database. What real estate and Broadway producing have in common. This week's episode is brought to you by Broadway Roulette, the fun and easy way to see a Broadway show. You pick the day and eliminate up to 6 shows you've already seen or don't want to see. Then they send you to a surprise show that fits your criteria. Check it out at: www.broadwayroulette.com. Keep up with me: @KenDavenportBway www.theproducersperspective.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Frankel is one of Broadway's most respected producers and is one of the co-owners of Feinstein's/54 Below, arguable the most influential cabaret space in the world. As a producer, his passion for theater led to audiences discovering such theatrical pieces as Penn & Teller, Driving Miss Daisy, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune, Stomp, Angels in America, The Producers, Hairspray, and revivals of The Sound of Music, A Little Night Music, Company, Sweeney Todd, and so many others. Richard pulls back the curtain on his career to discuss how his beginnings in theater were shaped at La Mama, what was it like creating the incomparable Feinstein's/54 Below, and why El Grande De Coca Cola is more important than we think! Also, Richard shines the spotlight on Penn & Teller, Mel Brooks, and Ellen Stewart! Become a sponsor of Behind The Curtain and get early access to interviews, private playlists, and advance knowledge of future guests so you can ask the legends your own questions. Go to: http://bit.ly/2i7nWC4 To book a room at Shetler Studios, head on over to: https://www.shetlerstudios.com

Bill Ritter interviews Therapist Darby Fox and Former FBI Agent-in-Charge Richard Frankel on the Kavanaugh hearings on "Up Close" for Sunday, September 30, 2018.

Richard Frankel is the guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show.    He is a professor of history at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette and the author of numerous articles as well as the book Bismarck's Shadow: The Cult of Leadership and the Transformation of the German Right, 1898-1945. Frankel's work can also be read at Newsweek and the History News Network.  During this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show, Professor Frankel and Chauncey discuss how the rise of Donald Trump and the movement he represents have clear parallels with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, why so many historians are afraid to speak that truth, and how wasting precious time debating Donald Trump's threat to democracy and if he is a fascist (or not) is a recipe for disaster. Professor Frankel also explains how "regular" "everyday people" are necessary for evil to take place on a massive scale. In this week's episode, Chauncey DeVega survives another heat wave, is excited to see an early screening of BlacKkKlansman, and recommends the new film Puzzle. Chauncey also explains Donald Trump's next move in the Russia collusion scandal and proudly accepts an amazing award from a white supremacist website.  And at the end of this week's show Chauncey shares more interesting and titillating discoveries about the sexual kink proclivities of the bigots and hate mongers in the "alt-right" movement towards My Little Pony and "furries".

Richard Frankel is a six-time Tony-winning Theatrical Producer and General Manager who has been producing and managing on and off-Broadway since 1970. He has been working in partnership with Tom Viertel, Steve Baruch, and Marc Routh since 1985. In 1985, he formed Richard Frankel Productions and produced Penn & Teller's first off-Broadway show. In 1991, Marc Routh was added as a producing partner and they together produced a string of successful Off-Broadway shows including Driving Miss Daisy, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Love Letters. In 1994 Richard Frankel Productions and Marc Routh, along with others, produced Stomp. In 2000, Frankel and his partners were selected by Mel Brooks to serve on the team of producers for The Producers. The musical would go on to break the all-time Tony Awards records by earning twelve awards in 2001, winning the Tony Award in all categories for which it was eligible. In 2012, he and his partners announced plans to build and produce a new cabaret space 54 Below which opened on June 2, 2012. Richard came up through the ranks of Broadway, before winning his six Tonys for shows like The Producers, Hairspray, and Company. And he sat down with me to talk to me about just how he built his company, as well as . . . How he and his partners raised money for their first show in an afternoon. Why he prefers to do things (GM, booking, etc.) in house. How he got Mel Brooks to give him the chance to produce The Producers (and it was a lot easier than you think). Why he prefers small investors to big investors. The origins of the premium ticket and why it’s important to have them. Keep up with me: @KenDavenportBway www.theproducersperspective.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frequent ODwire.org contributor Dr. Richard Frankel discusses how ODs can profit from the Affordable Care Act, and the nuts-and-bolts of joining an Accountable Care Organization (ACO), which is a critical program for expanding your patient base & ensuring you won’t be left behind. *** IMPORTANT: The deadline for clinicians joining an ACO & participating in 2015 [...] The post Profiting From the Affordable Care Act & Joining an ACO [#R036] appeared first on ODwire.org.

Richard Frankel, like many high school kids, worked in the Catskills, at the Raleigh Hotel. He worked lights in the hotel's giant theater, and later, in high school and college theaters. So begins a career: Richard Frankel Productions.

Ann Hampton Callaway is a Platinum Award winning singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger and songwriter whose songs are featured on six of Barbra Streisand's recent CD's.  She s best known for her Tony-nominated performance in the hit Broadway musical Swing! And for her jazz-cabaret singing as a solo performer and with her sister, Liz Callaway, in the award-winning show Sibling Revelry.  Tonight she speaks with Richard Frankel about her 54Below show, the "Streisand Songbook" (September 25-29th) a tribute to iconic singer and performer, Barbara Streisand, as well as her life growing up in Chicago, her dutiful “greatness training” as a young, aspiring performer, and the formative influence of her family including sister and co-star, Liz Callaway. 

Vy Higgenson is a proud Harlemite and New Yorker known for a many significant firsts in the entertainment industry: The first black female radio personality in the prime time New York City market on WBLS.  First woman to host a morning show on New York radio at WWRL. The first black woman to produce a drama on Broadway with Joe Tuner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson. The first black female writer, producer, director of the longest-running, Off-Broadway musical in the history of American theatre with Mama, I Want to Sing. Tonight she talks with Richard Frankel about another first, creating a cabaret show for 54Below.  The show, following the roots and evolution of Gospel music, will kick off a series of Saturday Gospel brunches on August 25th. For more information and tickets, visit 54below.com

Victor Garber is one of the most respected and talented actors of his generation, with six Emmy and four Tony nominations for memorable roles on the Broadway stage and big and small screen in shows like "Noises Off" the original "Sweeney Todd", on T.V. in "Alias" and "Eli Stone," and famous movies including "Milk" and "Titanic".  But his show at 54 Below, his debut cabaret performance, is the first time audiences can see Victor Garber playing only himself.  Tonight, in his conversation with Richard Frankel, hear why this accomplished star finds the cabaret stage so terrifying.  Hear about James Cameron's legendary "Titanic"...behind the scenes, Garber's turn as a rock star in a 60's Toronto-based band called The Sugar Shoppe, and how Sondheim inspired him early in his career. Plus, an exclusive preview from the first Sold Out show at the club on August 13th. More information at 54below.com

Richard Frankel talks to Andrea McArdle, the original Annie from the 1977 hit Broadway musical "Annie". McArdle was the youngest actress to be nominated for a Tony for best lead actress in a Musical for the role. She's since performed leading roles in Les Miserables, Starlight Express, Beauty & the Beast (Belle), Cabaret (Sally Bowles), and returned to Annie as Miss Hannigan. 

Richard Frankel talks to Broadway legend and Tony Award winner Ben Vereen about his journey from Brooklyn to Broadway, working with legend Bob Fosse, "Hair" in the 60s, and and his newest hit show, Steppin' Out with Ben Vereen, at 54 Below July 10 - 21. Vereen is known to most theatre audiences for his Tony and Drama Desk winning performance in Pippin, Vereen has also appeared on Broadway in Wicked, Chicago, Fosse and Jelly's Last Jam. Television audiences will remember him from his celebrated portrayal of Chicken George in Roots, along with recent appearances on How I Met Your Mother, Grey's Anatomy (Prism Award) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In January, 2012, Mr. Vereen was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. More information at 54below.com

We’ve come a long way since the days of Dr. Kildare and Marcus Welby, MD. When men were doctors and we just sat in the office when DOCTOR was ready, and listened. Now times have changed and the stakes are much higher. It’s no surprise that many patients are discouraged, upset and confused after leaving […] The post Brain-Body Breakthroughs – Doctor-Patient Communication — How to get the most out of your 20 minutes, and walk away happy! An interview with Dr. Richard Frankel. appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

Prolific producer Tom Viertel, who with his partners Richard Frankel, Steve Baruch and Marc Routh have been responsible for such shows as "The Producers", "Hairspray", and the John Doyle-directed "Company" and "Sweeney Todd", talks abut producing on Broadway and the pending closing of the long-running "Hairspray". He relates his own theatrical heritage -- his grandfather was a contractor who built the Mark Hellinger Theatre, among many others, and his father was a playwright -- and how he began his own theatrical career as a hobby while working at the family real estate concern. Among the shows he discusses are his first theatrical foray with two magicians he first saw in a 50 seat theatre in Los Angeles -- Penn and Teller; the extraordinary auditions of two now well-known actresses, Donna Murphy and Laura Benanti, for "Song of Singapore" and "The Sound of Music" respectively; the counterintuitive decisions that led him to produce Theatre de Complicite's "Mnemonic" as a commercial production and to revive "Gypsy" with Patti LuPone on Broadway only five years after the prior production; the travails of producing "Smokey Joe's Cafe"; and why in his spare time he's so committed to his volunteer role as chairman of Connecticut's Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Original air date - October 31, 2008.

Prolific producer Tom Viertel, who with his partners Richard Frankel, Steve Baruch and Marc Routh have been responsible for such shows as "The Producers", "Hairspray", and the John Doyle-directed "Company" and "Sweeney Todd", talks abut producing on Broadway and the pending closing of the long-running "Hairspray". He relates his own theatrical heritage -- his grandfather was a contractor who built the Mark Hellinger Theatre, among many others, and his father was a playwright -- and how he began his own theatrical career as a hobby while working at the family real estate concern. Among the shows he discusses are his first theatrical foray with two magicians he first saw in a 50 seat theatre in Los Angeles -- Penn and Teller; the extraordinary auditions of two now well-known actresses, Donna Murphy and Laura Benanti, for "Song of Singapore" and "The Sound of Music" respectively; the counterintuitive decisions that led him to produce Theatre de Complicite's "Mnemonic" as a commercial production and to revive "Gypsy" with Patti LuPone on Broadway only five years after the prior production; the travails of producing "Smokey Joe's Cafe"; and why in his spare time he's so committed to his volunteer role as chairman of Connecticut's Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Original air date - October 31, 2008.

Prolific producer Thomas Viertel (winner of a Tony Award for the 2001 revival of The Producers, among others), who with his partners Richard Frankel, Steve Baruch and Marc Routh have been responsible for such shows as The Producers, Hairspray, and the John Doyle-directed Company and Sweeney Todd, talks abut producing on Broadway and the pending closing of the long-running Hairspray. He relates his own theatrical heritage -- his grandfather was a contractor who built the Mark Hellinger Theatre, among many others, and his father was a playwright -- and how he began his own theatrical career as a hobby while working at the family real estate concern. Among the shows he discusses are his first theatrical foray with two magicians he first saw in a 50 seat theatre in Los Angeles -- Penn and Teller; the extraordinary auditions of two now well-known actresses, Donna Murphy and Laura Benanti, for Song of Singapore and The Sound of Music respectively; the counterintuitive decisions that led him to produce Theatre de Complicite's Mnemonic as a commercial production and to revive Gypsy with Patti LuPone on Broadway only five years after the prior production; the travails of producing Smokey Joe's Cafe; and why in his spare time he's so committed to his volunteer role as chairman of Connecticut's Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.

The production and creative team for the musical "The Producers" - press representative John Barlow, creator and producer Mel Brooks, producer Richard Frankel, general manager Laura Green, book writer Thomas Meehan, and director and choreographer Susan Stroman - discuss taking the cult film to the Broadway stage, including the out-of-town run in Chicago, budgeting a huge musical, and the overwhelming interest from producers, investors, publicists, and ticketbuyers.

The production and creative team for the musical The Producers -- press representative John Barlow, creator and producer Mel Brooks (who won a Tony for The Producers), producer Richard Frankel (Tony Award winner for the 2007 revival of Company), general manager Laura Green, book writer Thomas Meehan (Tony Awards for Annie, The Producers and Hairspray), and five-time Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Susan Stroman (for Crazy for You, Showboat, Contact, and 2 awards for The Producers) -- discuss taking the cult film to the Broadway stage, including the out-of-town run in Chicago, budgeting a huge musical, and the overwhelming interest from producers, investors, publicists, and ticketbuyers.

The creative team behind the Broadway musical Hairspray, producers Richard Frankel (Tony Award winner for the 2007 revival of Company) and Margo Lion (Tony Awards for Hairspray in 2003 and Elaine Stritch at Liberty in 2002), co-book writer Thomas Meehan (Tony Awards for Annie, The Producers and Hairspray), choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Tony winner for the 2005 revival of La Cage aux Folles), director Jack O'Brien (Tony Winner for Hairspray, Henry IV in 2004 and The Coast of Utopia), co-book writer Mark O'Donnell (Tony Award for Hairspray) andTony winning-composer/lyricist team Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (for Hairspray) outline the journey the piece took from being a John Waters and Divine cult movie to hitting the Broadway stage; offer a peek at the process that created this smash hit and discuss the social messages that the show sends, both in its content and it's non-traditional casting.

The creative team behind the Broadway musical "Hairspray", producers Richard Frankel and Margo Lion, co-book writer Thomas Meehan, choreographer Jerry Mitchell, director Jack O'Brien, co-book writer Mark O'Donnell, composer Marc Shaiman and lyricist Scott Wittman outline the journey the piece took from being a John Waters and Divine cult movie to hitting the Broadway stage; offer a peek at the process that created this smash hit and discuss the social messages that the show sends, both in its content and it's non-traditional casting.