Ep.30 Broadway Producers Drew Desky and Dane Levens speak about how they find and enable new artists.

Sondheim's "Company" Opens Friday with Megan McCormick and Stevie Nichols

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2392426/fan_mail/new] Broadway recently dusted off Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Company”. As one of the earliest musicals of the 20th century that featured a large group of main characters with intertwining stories, Company has been called Shakespearean yet truly modern in its New York storytelling.  This June, Albuquerque Little Theatre debuts Company to close out its 96th consecutive season. Cast members Megan McCormick and Stevie Nichols take AlternateStages behind the scenes of Company’s opening week. tickets: Https://AlbuquerqueLittleTheatre.org [https://albuquerquelittletheatre.org/] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2392426/support]

Ep.30 Broadway Producers Drew Desky and Dane Levens speak about how they find and enable new artists.

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2392426/fan_mail/new] For the second season of the Alternate Stages podcast, we'll be talking to some influential theater leaders at the national level, including Broadway, academic theater, creative writers, and many others. Don't worry, we'll still continue to bring local theater artists from the Albuquerque area in future episodes and continue to promote Albuquerque and New Mexico-based live theater. We're just broadening our lens to include more of the creative process of brand new show development, including producers and writers. If you're a paid subscriber, you'll have access to bonus episodes including snippets of brand new plays written by community writers. Sign up for the paid tier now so you don't miss these new works. Today on Alternate Stages, I'm joined by Emmy Award, Drama League, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle winning producers, Drew Desky and Dane Levens of DrewAndDane.com [https://drewanddane.com]. They've produced past Broadway shows, Dear Evan Hansen, Be More Chill, Merrily We Roll Along, Catch Me If You Can, and Allegiance with George Takei and Lea Salonga. To see the collection of Drew and Dane's many current exciting producing projects, check out drewanddane.com. The following interview was recorded on September 3rd, 2025 before the 2025-2026 Broadway season got fully underway. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2392426/support]

Ep.29 Be my Valentine, Surely!

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2392426/fan_mail/new] Jessica Osbourne chats with us about playing Shirley Valentine this month for West End Productions at North Fourth Arts Center video version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/tHua9cEB26s [https://youtu.be/tHua9cEB26s] Aaand We’re Back! (Post hiatus announcements and upcoming special episodes). Buy Theatre Tickets at: https://www.westendproductions.org/buytickets/ [https://www.westendproductions.org/buytickets/] Contact the podcast team by messaging us above on the Send Us Fanmail button Follow Jessica on YouTube and Instagram: https://www.youtube.com/@funkymonty1 [https://www.youtube.com/@funkymonty1] https://www.instagram.com/JessicaOsbourne [https://www.instagram.com/JessicaOsbourne] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2392426/support]

Ep.28_City of Angels goes in-Zane (Barker)! Plus sneak Preview of Lenora Inez Brown

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2392426/fan_mail/new] This week, everybody’s favorite stage dad and “Quintuple Threat” Zane Barker stops by Alternate Stages podcast to share his thoughts on City of Angels, performing with immediate family members and raising kids backstage, coaching stage combat safely, and creating a positive theatre environment for the next generation of theatre-makers via his important leadership work with the New Mexico High School Musical Theatre Awards, also known as the annual Enchantment Awards ceremony that sends a few local winners to compete in the Jimmy Awards in NYC. Find more information about volunteering for the Enchantment Awards at NMHSMTA.org [http://NMHSMTA.org] https://www.nmhsmta.org/ And we include a short preview of our next long-form interview with a national theatre expert, which we do several times a year here on Alternate Stages. Upcoming episodes will feature topics on fundraising, producing for the commercial theatre, playwriting and how technology has changed designing for the theatre. Last month we sat down for a deep dive with national dramaturgy expert Lenora Inez Brown, author of two books on dramaturgy: “The Art of Active Dramaturgy” and “New Play Development” both available from HackettPublishing.com [http://HackettPublishing.com]. The full episode will be available next week https://hackettpublishing.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=lenora+inez+brown [https://hackettpublishing.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=lenora+inez+brown] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2392426/support]

Ep27: City of Angels, Part 2 "The Leading Men"

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2392426/fan_mail/new] This Week on Alternate Stages, Ron Gallegos and Michael Finnegan, the two  leading men of Albuquerque Little Theatre’s jazz musical City of Angels   stop by to talk about the art of singing a male duet while fighting, how to deliver iconic film noir acting on a live stage, the pressures of Hollywood, how to enact stunt violence live onstage without getting injured, their origin stories (hint: they went to the same high school!) and their own bucket list shows. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2392426/support]