It's holiday time in Times Square and the biggest holiday show on Broadway this year is "Irving Berlin's White Christmas," a musical adaptation of the beloved Hollywood film, which draws on Berlin's overflowing songbook. Host Robert Viagas goes backstage to interview stars Melissa Errico, Tony Yazbek and Mara Davi (MAH-ruh DAHV-ee), plus choreographer Randy Skinner and director Walter Bobbie. He asks them to identify what's at the heart of this heartfelt show.
Brian Stokes Mitchell, the Tony-winning star of "Kiss Me, Kate" and the original Coalhouse Walker in "Ragtime" visits Playbill Radio to tell what it was like to perform before a live audience of 21,000 in Salt Lake City while making his new holiday CD and DVD "Ring Christmas Bells," and he describes the genesis of his new children's book, "Lights on Broadway: A Theatrical Tour from A to Z."
Pulitzer-winning playwright David Mamet has written a new Broadway drama,
"Race" that looks behind both black and white attitudes toward prejudice
in the 21st century. Host Robert Viagas interviews the entire four-member
cast: David Alan Grier, Richard Thomas, James Spader and Kerry Washington.