Episodes

Seth Rozin, the founder and artistic director of InterAct Theatre, shares wonderful stories about his life and art.

A conversation with actor Tom Teti about his life, his career in Philadelphia theater, and his long association with People's Light and Theatre Company in Malvern.

Director Blanka Zizka and stage manager Patreshettarlini Adams talk about their decades of work. And they agree that "Theater is Music."

The history of Philadelphia's Wilma Theater during the 1990s, including its move to a new theater on Broad Street.

The voices of Jiri and Blanka Zizka help to narrate the history of Philadelphia's Wilma Theater during the 1980s.

A conversation with Dr. Marcia Ferguson about the impact that Blanka and Jiri Zizka had on the Philadelphia theater scene in the 1980s and 90s.

Charlie Gilbert returns to talk about the music theater and musicals being created and developed in Philadelphia during the 1980s and 90s.

Johnnie Hobbs and Patricia Scott Hobbs talk about their experiences at the North Philadelphia institution which both served and shaped the city's African American community.

Director and Producer Joe Canuso sits down with us to talk about his life and career in Philly theater.

A conversation with Sara Garonzik, the Producing Artistic Director Emeritus of the Philadelphia Theatre Company.

Our interview with teacher, writer and director Robert Hedley - the former Chair of the Theater Departments of both Villanova and Temple Universities.

"Cato: A Tragedy" was a famous 18th Century play - supposedly the favorite play of George Washington himself!

The story of three small ambitious cutting-edge Philadelphia theater companies of the 1970s. Why did some survive - and some falter?

The Bicentennial Year of 1976 gave young and ambitious Philadelphia theater artists a boost in their careers - with jobs in "historical re-enactment" and patriotic storytelling.

An interview with the director, writer and artist Tom Bissinger, in which we talk about his work in the 1960s and 70s, including his all-too-brief term as the final Artistic Director of the Theatre of the Living Arts.

An interview with the director Mary B. Robinson, about the time she spent as the final Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Drama Guild.

Gregory Poggi successfully led the Philadelphia Drama Guild throughout the decade of the 1980s. He talked with us about his tussles with board members, battles with critics, fundraising triumphs and the growing audience support for professional nonprofit theater companies

The sudden success of the Drama Guild - a former amateur theater group transformed into a professional local powerhouse - finally fulfills the promise of giving Philadelphia a flagship nonprofit theater company.

January 1, 1800: Philadelphia's premiere theater company rang in the New Year with their production of the spectacular Romance entitled "Blue Beard, or Female Curiosity."

Three new Philadelphia theater complexes are built for the mid-century modern era - funded by wealthy philanthropists.

A re-edited, reduced and remixed account of the entire history of the Theatre of the Living Arts – the first major professional theater company in Philadelphia's modern era.

Our first episode of Season Four - introducing our plans and hopes for the upcoming year on the podcast!

Like the ghost of Hamlet's father, the body of John Barrymore would not stay still . . . one dark night it suddenly appeared in the Philadelphia.

An encore presentation of a chapter from Thomas Keels' "Wicked Philadelphia: Sin in the City of Brotherly Love."