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Sunday, March 23, 2025

This Week on Broadway for March 23, 2025: Operation Mincemeat by James Marino

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 Grangevil…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, March 16, 2025

This Week on Broadway for March 16, 2025: Ghosts by James Marino

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 Proj…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, March 9, 2025

This Week on Broadway for March 9, 2025: Deep Blue Sound by James Marino

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 Tropi…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, March 2, 2025

This Week on Broadway for March 2, 2025: Dakar 2000 by James Marino

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 Sh…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, February 23, 2025

This Week on Broadway for February 23, 2025: Redwood by James Marino

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, …

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, February 16, 2025

This Week on Broadway for February 16, 2025: The Antiquities @ Playwrights Horizons by James Marino

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, Mai…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, February 9, 2025

This Week on Broadway for February 9, 2025: Urinetown @ Encores! by James Marino

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 Symp…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Friday, February 7, 2025

Today on Broadway: Friday, February 7, 2025 by James Marino

Clooney shares the stage with Ilana Glazer, Clark Gregg, and others, Broadway loves Pedi, Review Roundup: URINETOWN, Guettel and Landau in their 20s, and Burgess is Mary Todd. Oliver Roth ch…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:00AM
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Today on Broadway: Thursday, February 6, 2025 by James Marino

Broadway Poster Artist David Edward Byrd Passes Away, LaChanze’s Vision for Broadway, Lin-Manuel Miranda wanted to be a Munchkin in ‘Wicked’, Stranger Illusions, and video of URINETOWN…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:00AM
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Today on Broadway: Wednesday, February 5, 2025 by James Marino

LEAGUE says we all gettin older, Grammys Down 12%, Patrick Wilson is a ‘Big Fish’, Jimmy Fallon Grosses $2 mil, and Museum of Broadway celebrates Black storytellers. Since 2016, “Today…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:00AM
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Today on Broadway: Tuesday, February 4, 2025 by James Marino

NYC to Break Tourism Record, Long Day’s Journey Into Film, Happy Ending for Understudies, SCHMIGADOON! @ KenCen, and Matt Wolf previews the London Stage Since 2016, “Today on Broadway”…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:00AM
Monday, February 3, 2025

Today on Broadway: Monday, February 3, 2025 by James Marino

Hell’s Kitchen wins the Grammy, Cole / Cats / Salesman bring home 2025 Obie Awards, JLo KISSed at Sundance. After the news, Matt chats with Gracie Hyland and Gretchen Cryer about the upcom…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:00AM
Sunday, February 2, 2025

This Week on Broadway for February 2, 2025: English by James Marino

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 Ja…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, January 26, 2025

This Week on Broadway for January 26, 2025: Forrest Malloy’s Nina @ Theaterlab by James Marino

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,…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, January 19, 2025

This Week on Broadway for January 19, 2025: Vinny DePonto’s Mindplay by James Marino

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 Wagne…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Class Notes: Jenny Lyn Bader “Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library” by James Marino

Listen: Lauren Class Schneider talks to Jenny Lyn Bader, Playwright of “Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library” at WP Theater. Jenny Lyn Bader – photo by Peter Bellamy “Class …

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 03:03PM
Sunday, January 12, 2025

This Week on Broadway for January 12, 2025: Gypsy by James Marino

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 @ Birdlan…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, January 5, 2025

This Week on Broadway for January 5, 2025: Best of 2024 by James Marino

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…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, December 29, 2024

This Week on Broadway for December 29, 2024: Jennifer Ashley Tepper by James Marino

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 als…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Stagecraft: Michael Griffo on “Pen Pals” by James Marino

The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway. For a transcript of t…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AM
Sunday, December 22, 2024

This Week on Broadway for December 22, 2024: Gypsy by James Marino

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 …

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, December 15, 2024

This Week on Broadway for December 15, 2024: Adam Lambert in Cabaret by James Marino

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…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, December 8, 2024

This Week on Broadway for December 8, 2024: The Light and The Dark @ 59e59 by James Marino

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 Ca…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, December 1, 2024

This Week on Broadway for December 1, 2024: Room 1214 @ 59e59 by James Marino

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…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, November 24, 2024

This Week on Broadway for November 24, 2024: Death Becomes Her by James Marino

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,…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, November 17, 2024

This Week on Broadway for November 17, 2024: Maybe Happy Ending by James Marino

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’…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, November 10, 2024

This Week on Broadway for November 10, 2024: Walden @ Second Stage by James Marino

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, an…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, November 3, 2024

This Week on Broadway for November 3, 2024: Ragtime @ City Center by James Marino

Sarah (Nichelle Lewis) and Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Joshua Henry) are ready to ride on “The Wheels of a Dream.” Photo by Joan Marcus Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere tal…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, October 27, 2024

This Week on Broadway for October 27, 2024: Sunset Boulevard by James Marino

Nicole Scherzinger as ‘Norma Desmond’ in SUNSET BLVD on Broadway at the St. James Theatre. Photo Credit Marc Brenner Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk about Sunse…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Sunday, October 20, 2024

This Week on Broadway for October 20, 2024: Dick Scanlan by James Marino

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 Annu…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PM
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Class Notes: Gavin Gregory from “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical” by James Marino

Listen: Lauren Class Schneider talks to Gavin Gregory, cast member of “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical” at Studio 54. “Class Notes” actively covers New York’s curren…

SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:00PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre