Podcast appearances and mentions of Samuel J Friedman

Yes, first and foremost Broadway is back!  Notable News: The play Chicken and Biscuits, starring Michael Urie, Norm Lewis, and Cleo King, is making history by having the youngest Black director in Broadway history and 18 artists of color will be making their Broadway debuts with that show. 2019 TONY Award are set for September 26. The Notebook Musical and K-Pop will have pre-Broadway runs. Currently scheduled openings: Pass Over - August Wilson Theatre on Wednesday, Aug 4th Lackawanna Blues - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Sept 14th. Chicken and Biscuits - Circle in the Square on September 23rd.  Thoughts of a Colored Man - John Golden Theatre on Oct 1st Is This A Room and Dana H. to play in repertory at the Lyceum Theatre (Is This A Room to begin previews on September 24th, and Dana H. to begin previews October 1s) Trouble in Mind - American Airlines Theatre on Oct 29 Clyde's - Helen Hayes Theatre on Nov 3 Skeleton Crew to follow Lackawanna Blues at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on December 21st Casting: Adrienne Warren is coming back to Tina: The Tina Turner Musical for a limited engagement Moulin Rouge has announced their new Satine. Replacing Karen Olivo is Natalie Mendoza Waitress also announced casting: Drew Gehling, Eric Anderson, Charity Angel Dawson, Christopher Fitzgerald, Caitlin Houlahan, Dakin Matthews and Joe Tippett will join Sara Bareilles when the show opens for a return engagement at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on September 2nd Concerts: PBS will present Wicked in Concert: A Musical Celebration of the Iconic Broadway Score on Sunday, August 29 at 9:00 p.m. EST. The evening will be co-hosted by Wicked's original Broadway stars Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel. Performances by Ariana DeBose, Cynthia Erivo, Rita Moreno, Isaac Powell, Amber Riley, Jennifer Nettle, Alex Newell, Ali Stroker, and more. More info via bpn.fm/whatsupbroadway.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Good morning theater fans! This is Caryn Robbins with The Broadway Scoop for Monday, March 2nd.The Broadway premiere of Rona Munro's MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON ended its limited run at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Saturday. Adapted from Elizabeth Strout's best-selling novel, the Manhattan Theatre Club production starred Tony nominee Laura Linney, who reprised her role from the show's acclaimed London engagement. Also wrapping up its limited run over the weekend was the Broadway premiere of Bess Wohl's GRAND HORIZONS. Among the cast members taking their final bows at the Hayes Theater on Sunday was Gotham star Ben McKenzie, who made his Broadway debut in the production.The new revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's COMPANY begins preview performances tonight at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, ahead of an official opening on March 22nd, the date of Sondheim's 90th birthday. Marianne Elliott’s gender-reversed production stars Tony winner Katrina Lenk alongside Tony winner Patti LuPone, who reprises her Olivier Award winning performance from the production’s West End premiere.And DIANA, the new musical about the late Princess of Wales, also begins previews tonight at Broadway's Longacre Theatre, ahead of an official opening on March 31. Directed by Tony winner Christopher Ashley, and featuring a score from the Tony-winning duo of Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, the bio musical stars Jeanna de Waal in the title role, alongside Tony winner Judy Kaye as Queen Elizabeth.And that's The Broadway Scoop for Monday, March 2nd.

On Episode 39 Of "Your Program Is Your Ticket" My Guest's Are Writer/Director Travis Russ And Composer Priscilla Holbrook Of Life Jacket Theatre! We Discuss Their Intriguing New Musical “America Is Hard To See”! In Addition We Divulge Our Favorite Christmas Showtunes (BONUS-Listen For Priscilla's Version Of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”)! Plus I Give A Recommendation To The Manhattan Theatre Club's Stunning Production Of Lucy Kirkwood's “The Children” – Now Playing At The Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Here In NYC! (Musical Intro And Outro By The Phenomenal North Coast, NYC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host and series executive producer Michael Kantor sits down with Ruben Santiago-Hudson, director of August Wilson’s Jitney, which makes its Broadway debut this week at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Santiago-Hudson discusses the impact that Wilson has made as one of the most prolific African-American playwrights of the 20th century. Tune in to your local PBS station for American Masters – August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand, which airs tonight, January 20th at 10 PM EST (Check your local listings).

While on the latest of her many supposed deathbeds, a "tart-tongued" mother, played by Tony-winner Linda Lavin, reveals to her children the details of a tryst from decades past that may resonate in the present in Richard Greenberg's "Our Mother's Brief Affair." The play, directed by Lynne Meadow, also features Kate Arrington, Greg Keller and John Procaccino. Lavin is "an occasion unto herself," says New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood, as he weighs in on the merits of this 11th collaboration between Greenberg and the Manhattan Theatre Club, which is currently running on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

What can happen when two people meet? The possibilities are endless, but every relationship winds up following a single path, better known as “what actually happened.” But what about all of those alternative possibilities, the relationship roads not taken, the places the relationship might have gone? We see some of those alternative realities in Nick Payne’s 2012 play, Constellations, now in its Broadway debut at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Relativity, quantum mechanics and string theory are involved in this story — both in the play’s underpinnings and in the words spoken onstage by actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson. So there are stars of several kinds in Constellations; New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood tells us if they shine brightly enough for Broadway.

"The lights will rise on a farmhouse kitchen in rural Ireland. If things go well, my longtime traveling companions, the audience, will share with me something of my Uncle Tony, my Aunt Mary and my cousin Anthony. I’m glad." —John Patrick Shanley, The New York Times Spend an evening with Tony- and Oscar-winning playwright, screenwriter and director John Patrick Shanley (Doubt, Moonstruck) as he discusses his influences, his career, and his new production, Outside Mullingar, which opened Jan. 23 at Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater. Introduction by GIH faculty member Linda Dowling Almeida.

She’s best-known to the world-at-large for her long-running role as Jackie, sister of the title character in the TV sitcom, “Roseanne.” But actress Laurie Metcalf has had a long and distinguished career as a stage actress. Metcalf was with the esteemed Steppenwolf Company in Chicago, and has appeared regularly on stages in New York and London – notably, across the pond, as Mary Tyrone in a recent production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Currently, she’s reclaimed the role of Juliana Smithton, a doctor turned pharmaceutical company representative whose well-controlled life is moving out of control, in Sharr White’s play The Other Place. Metcalf created the part in the play’s Off-Broadway production two seasons ago and returns to it for the play’s Broadway premiere, now running at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood has a review. And you can join Metcalf, her co-star Daniel Stern and the playwright, along with WQXR’s Elliott Forrest, for a conversation about The Other Place at 5 pm on Thursday, Jan. 17, in the Jerome L. Greene Performance. Watch a live video Webcast or get tickets here.