Featuring five episodes on a theme, each week curated by a different person

Podcasts For The Theater Lover 🎭

Curator:

Chris Adams

Why did you choose this theme?

The theater industry has been shut down for over a year. These podcasts will reignite your love for live theater!

Podcast Recommendations

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Out For Blood
Chapter 5: Act One: Cardboard Cars and Unitards

Two fans conduct a light-hearted deep dive into Broadway's greatest flop, “Carrie the Musical,” with extensive interviews with cast, crew, creators and some famous super-fans. In this episode, they walk you step by step through the first half of this infamous show.

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Black Hair in the Big Leagues
Broadway Ain’t Too Proud Nasia Thomas

Salisha Thomas sits down with badass Black women on Broadway and talks about all things hair! In this episode, she sits down with Nasia Thomas, a cast member of the Broadway and national casts of "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical." Thomas was also in the cast of "Ain't Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations." She makes the poignant point that embracing your natural hair is not and should never be a problem.

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Big Diva Energy
Gwen Verdon [With Robert Madge] Part 1

In this podcast, Holly Morgan and her husband, Tom, attempt to deconstruct a diva each episode with the help of an extra-special guest. This episode covers the legend Gwen Verdon with Twitter sensation Rob Madge.

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Broadway Backstory
Episode 9: Hamilton Part 1

The hosts of this pod explore the origins of a musical each week. This episode is a great exploration of Hamilton. Lin-Manuel Miranda is featured. Enough said.

You Can't Say That!
John Doyle (Part 1)

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Host Tonya Pinkins (a Tony award winner) invited John Doyle for a cup of tea after seeing his production of "The Color Purple." On this pod, Pinkins likes to get down and dirty with her peers about life on The Boards.

Sponsor

Planet and The People

Planet and The People is a climate change podcast where actor Tom Ward-Thomas talks to a range of experts to find out what can be done and what is being done to solve the climate crisis. This podcast aims to untangle what can often be a bleak and vast narrative around climate change.

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Classifieds

🗒️Podfluence is a as a platform for podcasters and bloggers to write and share about what they are listening to.

📊The Culture Bar is a panel discussion podcast exploring, dissecting and shedding light on important topics in the arts and music world which matter to you. Brought to you by international classical music agency HarrisonParrott.

Community

👩‍👧Julie Neale, host of A Mother's Quest, curated this list of motherhood-centric podcasts for the EarBuds blog. Read it here.

👶Shoutout to Bonus Babies podcast. We ran a consultation session with host Jayne Amelia Larson earlier this week. Learn more about our free consultation sessions here.

🌟MOST CLICKED: Last week's most clicked-on podcast recommendation of our Podcasts for Coffee Lovers theme was this one from Adventures in Coffee.

Spotlight

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Anything For Selena

On March 31, 1995, nine-year-old Maria Garcia came home to find her mother glued to the TV, tears rolling down her rosy cheeks. The phone kept ringing. Relatives in Mexico and the States wanted to know if Maria’s family was watching, too. American networks and Mexican programming aired the same top story: Selena Quintanilla, the Grammy-winning ascending Mexican American pop star had been killed — swiftly, violently — by the president of her fan club.