BROADWAY NATION

BROADWAY NATION

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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.

Recent Episodes

  • Episode 156: Hammerstein Invents The Musical, part 1

    1 week ago
  • Episode 155: SHOWMANCE — A New Broadway Novel

    2 weeks ago
  • Episode 154: TikTok and the Broadway Musical, part two

    3 weeks ago
  • Episode 153: TikTok Broadway — Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age, part 1.

    1 month ago
  • Episode 152: Forty Years of Forbidden Broadway!

    1 month ago
  • Episode 151: More Songs Of The Season

    1 month ago
  • Episode 150: Song of The Season — Outstanding Broadway Songs Since 1891, part 1

    2 months ago
  • Episode 149: "A Song About Hope" — A Conversation with BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL

    2 months ago
  • Season Preview — A Special Message from Broadway Nation

    3 months ago
  • Episode 148: Julian Eltinge In Hollywood!

    4 months ago