The Joe D Show: Daily News Theater Podcast

Something to sing about: Broadway vocal coach Joan Lader receives a special Tony honor next month. She discusses how she went from performing and voiceover work (“I did one for toilet paper”) to teac…

Three-time Tony nominee Martha Plimpton discusses her role in the Broadway Acts for Women benefit at Feinstein’s/54 Below on Sunday, “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star Titus Burgess’s wine line (sh…

How did the “Hamilton” poster end up being black and gold? Who came up with the tagline “spread the word” for “The Vagina Monologues” advertising campaign?

Drew Hodges, founder of the ad agency SpotC…

The Queen of the Nile is having a major moment.

Ask Charles Busch, author and star of the play, "Cleopatra," now in a sold-out run at Theater for the New City though April 17.

"Cleopatra seems to be …

Is there a “Doctor” in the house?

David Tennant, of “Doctor Who” fame, stars in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s “Richard II,” now at Brooklyn Academy of Music. The royal drama is part of the RSC four…

Darron Cardosa a.k.a. 'The Bitchy Waiter' sits with Joe Dziemianowicz to talk about his blog and new book 'The Bitchy Waiter' based on his life as a waiter in New York City. 

Follow Joe here: @TheJoe…

Jazz Age star Florence Mills has been called “the Beyonce of that time.” Gertrude Saunders, her peer, was Bessie Smith’s husband’s mistress, which led to a public brawl.

Actress Adrienne Warren plays…

Kerry Butler (“Hairspray”) and Rachel York (“City of Angels”) share a dressing room and the stage at the Nederlander Theatre, where the musical comedy “Disaster!” is now in previews and opens March 8…

“White Rabbit Red Rabbit” is its own Off-Broadway species. For this solo play by Iranian writer Nassim Soleimanpour, there’s no rehearsal, director or set. The performer gets the script as he or she …

New York actor and author Colman Domingo has a lot on this plate. His new play “Dot,” about family grappling with Alzheimer’s, is at the Vineyard. He’s filming his juicy role in the zombie-infested “…

Dominic West’s plummy voice is its own theatrical special effect.

You don’t have to trek to London to get a taste of West and Janet McTeer acting up as manipulative former lovers in “Les Liaisons Dan…

Stephen Karam’s family drama “The Humans” was supposed to start previews on Saturday, but got hijacked by winter storm Jonas.

“It’s an understatement to say that it was a bit of a crazy event to have…

It’s  beginning to look — and sound — a lot like Christmas.

Michael Feinstein’s show of seasonal classics and evergreen standards runs Sunday to Dec. 30 Feinstein’s/54 Below.

Stephanie J. Block joins…

What’s it like working with your spouse?

For daredevils Jonathan and Katy Goodwin of “The Illusionists: Live on Broadway,” which will be featured in an NBC special on Dec. 9, it’s about shooting shar…

Don’t speak!

When actress Melissa Errico broke a small blood vessel in her throat in 2013 that became her reality — for 106 days.

“I couldn’t talk. I couldn’t whisper,” she says. “In an instant I was…

“The Joe D Show” welcomes actor John Benjamin Hickey, who’s in “Dada Papa Woof Hot,” and Bruce Jordan, director of“ Shear Madness.”

Peter Parnell’s “Woof” concerns the joys and jolts of having childr…

British star Mark Strong plays Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone in Ivo van Hove’s Olivier Award-winning production of “A View from the Bridge,” now in previews at the Lyceum Theatre.

Arthur Miller…

Four months after winning a Tony for “You Can’t Take It With You,” Annaleigh Ashford is back on Broadway playing the titular pooch in “Sylvia.”

Sylvia’s breed is unspecified in A.R. Gurney’s 1995 pla…

On TV and Broadway, rising-star actor Conrad Ricamora faces rocky romance.

“Pat Benatar had it right, love is a battlefield,” he says. “And that’s why there are so many stories of people wanting to b…