226 Episodes

  1. Episode 163: George M. Cohan —The Man Who Owned Broadway, Part 2

    Published: 1/16/2025

  2. Episode 162: GEORGE M COHAN and the BROADWAY STAGE

    Published: 1/9/2025

  3. Special Encore Episode: WHO'S THE GREATEST STAR? — In Memory of Chita Rivera

    Published: 1/2/2025

  4. A Special Encore Episode: "White Christmas" — The Story Behind The World's Most Popular Song, part 2

    Published: 12/29/2024

  5. Special Encore Episode: The Story Behind White Christmas, part 1

    Published: 12/26/2024

  6. Episode 161: Fixing The Musical, Part 2

    Published: 12/19/2024

  7. Episode 160: Fixing The Musical — How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory

    Published: 12/12/2024

  8. Episode 159: Dance In Musical Theatre — A History of the Body in Movement

    Published: 12/5/2024

  9. Encore Episode: Transgressive Women —Major Themes of the Broadway Musical, part 1

    Published: 11/28/2024

  10. Episode 158: Hammerstein Invents The Musical, part 3

    Published: 11/21/2024

  11. Episode 157: Hammerstein Invents The Musical, part 2

    Published: 11/14/2024

  12. Episode 156: Hammerstein Invents The Musical, part 1

    Published: 11/7/2024

  13. Episode 155: SHOWMANCE — A New Broadway Novel

    Published: 10/31/2024

  14. Episode 154: TikTok and the Broadway Musical, part two

    Published: 10/24/2024

  15. Episode 153: TikTok Broadway — Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age, part 1.

    Published: 10/17/2024

  16. Episode 152: Forty Years of Forbidden Broadway!

    Published: 10/10/2024

  17. Episode 151: More Songs Of The Season

    Published: 10/3/2024

  18. Episode 150: Song of The Season — Outstanding Broadway Songs Since 1891, part 1

    Published: 9/26/2024

  19. Episode 149: "A Song About Hope" — A Conversation with BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL

    Published: 9/19/2024

  20. Season Preview — A Special Message from Broadway Nation

    Published: 8/13/2024

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A lively and opinionated cultural history of the Broadway Musical that tells the extraordinary story of how Immigrants, Jews, Queers, African-Americans and other outcasts invented the Broadway Musical, and how they changed America in the process.In Season One, host David Armstrong traces the evolution of American Musical Theater from its birth at the dawn of the 20th Century, through its mid-century “Golden Age”, and right up to its current 21st Century renaissance; and also explore how musicals have reflected and shaped our world -- especially in regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, and equality.