John Hodgman -- humorist, author, writer and podcast host -- joins Laura in-studio to discuss his upcoming book, "Medallion Status," in addition to his work on "The Tick," "The Daily Show," those famous "I'm a Mac / I'm a PC" commercials (He was the PC), The Judge John Hodgman podcast, his previous books and navigating the intersection between John Hodgman the character and John Hodgman the person. 

Be More Chill's Joe Iconis, Joe Tracz, Stephen Brackett & Chase Brock joined Laura Heywood at the world-famous Guggenheim Museum for their "Works & Process" series. 

Writers Iconis and Tracz, director Brackett, and choreographer Brock discussed their creative process in this special edition of Laura Heywood Interviews. In a twist, Dr. Robert Klitzman, Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University, joins them to explore the bioethical implications of the musical.

Ali Stroker (Oklahoma!) and The Prom's Beth Leavel, Brooks Ashmanskas and Caitlin Kinnunen are all nominated for 2019 Tony Awards for their performances on Broadway! 

Ilana Levine, Broadway Actress ("You're A Good Man Charlie Brown") and host of Little Known Facts, joins Laura Heywood instudio for a conversation about passion, striving, achieving and celebrating those around us. 

Sammi Cannold is on the cutting edge of what theatre is becoming — a place where there are no boxes to think inside of, no limitations on the scope of productions, no ideas too bold or too ridiculous to consider. As a theatre director and innovator, at age 25, she is one of Forbes’ magazine’s 30 under 30, an honor that named her “one of brashest entrepreneurs across the United States and Canada,” a “bold risk-taker putting a new twist on the old tools of the trade.”

Jon Hoche, an experienced singer, dancer, actor and puppeteer (War Horse, Soft Power, Vietgone, Little Shop of Horrors), combines his skills into the biggest role on Broadway -- the voice of King Kong! 

Brittain Ashford of "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812" talks her upcoming album "Drama Club," which reinvents classic showtunes by stripping them down and excavating hidden darkness within. 

Julie Halston, currently starring as producer Rita Marshall in "Tootsie: The Musical" on Broadway alongside Tony nominees Santino Fontana and Lilli Cooper, joins Laura Heywood in studio to talk Tootsie, Sex and the City, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, her hilarious one-woman shows, and the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, for which she and her late husband, the beloved newscaster Ralph Howard, have raised millions of dollars.

John Cameron Mitchell, known best for creating Hedwig and the Angry Inch, is now the writer and star of the star-studded "Anthem: Homunculus," a musical podcast that is also a podcast musical!

April Kidwell, writer & star of I, NOMI -- a one-woman satire based on SHOWGIRLS and I, TONYA -- joins Laura Heywood in studio.

But I had SEEN her onstage years before, when she played Jesse Spano in “BAYSIDE: The Saved by The Bell musical.”

She embodied Elizabeth Berkley’s character SO well that she has gone on to make a career out of playing the actress — not just in her squeaky clean morning television persona but more & more as the firey, misunderstood dancer Nomi Malone in Showgirls.

She portrayed Nomi in “Showgirls: The Musical” off-Broadway for more than two years, and has since created  her own one-woman show, “I, Nomi” — which ran to rave reviews in San Francisco and begins a New York run at the Laurie Beechman theatre in July!