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 137: Broadway Melody — A Novel Approach to Broadway History

    1 week ago
  • Carolyn, Dorothy, David, and More: Cy Coleman's Lyricists with special guest David Zippel

    2 weeks ago
  • Encore Episode: Patricia Zipprodt and the Women Who Invented Broadway

    3 weeks ago
  • Special Encore Episode: Irene Sharaff And The Women That Invented Broadway

    1 month ago
  • Episode 136: THE MUSICALS THAT NEVER CAME TO BROADWAY

    1 month ago
  • Episode 135: GO INTO YOUR DANCE: The Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes, part 3

    1 month ago
  • Episode 134: Before GYPSY there was STAGE MOTHER — The Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes, part 2

    2 months ago
  • Episode 133: 42nd STREET & the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes

    2 months ago
  • Special Encore Episode: The Black Musical Returns!

    2 months ago
  • Episode 132: MARY & ETHEL & STEPHEN COLE

    2 months ago