(Archive from 2012 to 2021) HowlRound Theatre Commons Podcasts

By Michael Lueger, Gibson Cima. Michael Lueger talks with Dr. Gibson Cima of Georgetown University about Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, it’s collaborators, and it’s lasting impact on South African political theatre.

By Michael Lueger, Susanne Shawyer. Michael Lueger talks with Dr. Susanne Shawyer of Elon University about the Democratic National Convention of 1968 and Theatre of Cruelty.

By Michael Lueger, Jorge Huerta. Michael Lueger talks with scholar and activist Jorge Huerta.

By Michael Lueger, Amy Brady. Michael Lueger kicks off a month of interviews about political theatre by talking with Amy Brady about the Federal Theatre Project.

By Michael Lueger, Barbara Fuchs. Michael Lueger and Barbara Fuchs discuss the plays written during Spain’s theatrical Golden Age, and Barbara’s Diversifying the Classic project, which aims to bring them back into prominence for En

By Michael Lueger, Joel Berkowitz. Michael Lueger talks with Joel Berkowitz about Yiddish theatre’s historical and present iterations.

By Michael Lueger, Joshua William Gelb. Michael Lueger talks with director and librettist Joshua William Gelb about The Black Crook, considered by some to be the first musical.

By Michael Lueger, Eric Sawnson. Eric Swanson and Michael Lueger discuss actor Edwin Booth, the brother of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin.

By Michael Lueger, Maya Cantu. Maya Cantu and Michael Lueger discuss how the musicals of the 1940s saw the emergence of a new figure: the “boss lady.”

By Michael Lueger, Max Shulman. Michael Lueger kicks off a new Theatre History podcast series with an interview with Max Shulman, discussing drugs in American theatre at the turn of the twentieth century.