Podcast Series: Theatre History by Michael Lueger

Michael Lueger talks with Dr. Paul Gagliardi about It Can’t Happen Here.

Michael Lueger talks with Dr. Mac Test about his new translation of La monja alfèrez, or The Lieutenant Nun.

Michael Lueger talks with George Drance about Pedro Calderon de la Barca.

A conversation with Alejandro Garcia-Reidy about discovering a previously-unknown work by Spanish Golden Age playwright Lope de Vega.

Michael Lueger and Jeremy Morris discuss Bert Williams.

Michael Lueger interviews Dr. Charlotte Canning on her new book and US theatre artists in the mid-twentieth century who shared their work abroad.

Michael Lueger talks with Dr. Anita Gonzalez about a website that reconstructs historical performances.

Michael Lueger talks with Dr. Kyna Hamill about her research into the background of the holiday carol "Jingle Bells."

Michael Lueger talks with Fiona Coffey about women theatre artists in Northern Ireland

Michael Lueger talks with David Mandelbaum about a new production of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance.

Michael Lueger talks with Adam Roberts about using music theory to better understand the nuances of musical theatre.

Michael Lueger talks with Brian Herrera about contemporary and historical conversations around casting Latinx characters and actors.

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.

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

Michael Lueger talks with scholar and activist Jorge Huerta.

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

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 English-speaking audiences.

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

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

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

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

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.