Silver Age Of Broadway Episodes

May 6, 2024

Episode 140: The "Rigorous Creative Science" of the American Musical

With BEN WEST author of The American Musical —Evolution of an Art Form

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March 7, 2024

Episode 135: GO INTO YOUR DANCE: The Queer Backstage Novels of Bradfo…

With MAYA CANTU author of GREASEPAINT PURITAN: Boston to 42nd Street In The Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes

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Feb. 29, 2024

Episode 134: Before GYPSY there was STAGE MOTHER — The Queer Backstag…

With MAYA CANTU author of GREASEPAINT PURITAN: Boston to 42nd Street In The Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes

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Feb. 22, 2024

Episode 133: 42nd STREET & the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Rop…

With MAYA CANTU author of GREASEPAINT PURITAN: Boston to 42nd Street In The Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes

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Nov. 30, 2023

Episode 128: The Lives of NOEL COWARD, part 4

Design For Living, Tonight At 8:30 and World War Too, with OLIVER SODEN author of MASQUERADE — The Lives of NOEL COWARD

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Nov. 23, 2023

Episode 127: Private Lives, Gertrude Lawrence & The Lives of Lives of…

With OLIVER SODEN author of MASQUERADE — The Lives of Lives of Noel Coward

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Aug. 24, 2023

Episode 118: Adapting Broadway to Hollywood, part 1

with special guest Geoffrey Block author of A Fine Romance — Adapting Broadway To Hollywood in the Studio System Era

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Dec. 9, 2021

Episode 49: 100 YEARS OF SHUFFLE ALONG!, part 3

With RICHARD CARLIN & KEN BLOOM, the authors of EUBIE BLAKE: RAGS, RHYTHM, AND RACE

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