This week's Getting Curious is a show like no other, since Jonathan is joined by the iconic Tony, Grammy, and Emmy award winner Audra McDonald. She and Jonathan discuss the critical work she's doing as the co-founder of Black Theatre United, an organization that is advocating for equity in the theater world and the nation. They also discuss how theatergoers ... Show More
Jul 20
Air Quality, Acceptance vs. Spiraling, Hair Transplants, Madonna’s “Confessions II”
This week we’re talking: USA Air Quality, Erie, PA True Crime, Sculptra in South Korea, Getting Better at accepting where we’re at, hair transplants, Internet Spelling Bee Words, Jonathan Van News Desk, coming out in your 30s, and Madonna’s new album. Wanna see JVN on stage? Get ... Show More
27m 23s
Jul 15
From Conservative Christian Pop Singer to to LGBTQ+ Ally | The Education of Julianna Glasse
Can someone really change their mind? This week on Getting Better, Jonathan sits down with singer, author, speaker, and activist Julianna Glasse to look at what it means to question everything you’ve ever believed. Julianna opens up about growing up in an evangelical Christian co ... Show More
1h 2m
May 2022
A Theater Director and a Dramaturg on Reviving Black Plays
This week, host Isaac Butler talks to theater director Awoye Timpo and dramaturg Arminda Thomas. In the interview, Awoye and Arminda start by defining the roles of director and dramaturg and explaining why they work so well together. They also discuss their group CLASSIX, which a ... Show More
52m 54s
Jan 2022
Hopeful Vocal Fry w/ Rayne Fisher-Quann *TEASER*
In this episode, Eliza is joined by activist, music journalist, and last redeeming TikTok creator Rayne Fisher-Quann. Together, they discuss Adrienne Marie Brown's "We Will Not Cancel Us," and move through a conversation about online activism, cancel culture, the "dirtbag left," ... Show More
3m 41s
Jun 2024
The Sisters Reunion Part 3: Top Culture & Beyond
<p>Join the sisters as they discuss Columbia’s People’s Graduation, the new Keith Haring exhibit, Lovecraft Country, Charlotte Day Wilson, Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish, Cowboy Carter, claiming space in the historic, moving slowly as an artist, social media as activism or not, dra ... Show More
1 h
Jun 2024
592. How to Make the Coolest Show on Broadway
<p>Hit by Covid, runaway costs, and a zillion streams of competition, serious theater is in serious trouble. A new hit play called <i>Stereophonic — </i>the most Tony-nominated play in history — has something to say about that. We speak with the people who make it happen every ni ... Show More
1h 5m
May 2024
Adria Arjona, Jon Lovett & BBMAK?
Hello Wholigans! On today's Who's There, our weekly call-in show, we take your comments about Judge Judy and ANOTHER Schwartzman brother before answering your many fabulous questions about Kelly Rowland's horrible Cannes experience, Adria Arjona's slow and steady rise to fame, Jo ... Show More
1h 17m
Jun 2022
Tonys Roundtable - Hugh Jackman, Ruth Negga, Mary-Louise Parker, Sam Rockwell & Jesse Williams
Five Broadway standouts — nominated for 'The Music Man,' 'Macbeth,' 'How I Learned to Drive,' 'American Buffalo' and 'Take Me Out,' respectively — discuss theater in the time of COVID, the challenges of eight shows a week, stage versus screen acting, exorbitant ticket prices, unr ... Show More
1h 46m
<p>in this conversation <a href="https://www.instagram.com/michelle4jt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>Michelle Mascarenhas</strong></a> and adrienne discuss how we are, a time of endings, frameworks for understanding how change happens and how we harness it, a ... Show More
