Theater

Lithgow, 80, plays an intelligence agent in the FX action series The Old Man, and he's currently starring in the Broadway production of Giant, about a troubling side of children's author Roald Dahl.

Delroy Lindo, an actor whose presence has shaped film and theater for more than 50 years. From West Indian Archie in Spike Lee's "Malcolm X" to the charming and cruel drug kingpin in "Clockers" to a father guarding an unspeakable secret in "The Cider House Rules," for me, Delroy's characters often feel lived in, complicated and hard to shake. In Ryan Coogler's latest film "Sinners," Lindo plays Delta Slim, a hard-drinking, deeply knowing blues harmonica player in 1930s Mississippi.

"Every now and then you bump up against a part that presses you to the wall of your ability," Hawke says of his Oscar-nominated stint as lyricist Lorenz Hart. Originally broadcast Nov. 13, 2025.

Stoppard, who died Nov. 29, wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Thing, and the screenplays for Empire of the Sun and Shakespeare in Love. Originally broadcast in 1991.

Paul Tazewell, an Academy Award-winning costume designer whose career includes designing for "Hamilton," "West Side Story," "The Color Purple" and now "Wicked: For Good."

A filmed version of the live production of Merrily We Roll Along will open in theaters on Dec. 5. We listen back to a '24 interview with revival director Maria Friedman and actor Jonathan Groff.

Johansson and Squibb discuss their new film, about a 94-year-old woman who claims her dead friend's Holocaust story as her own. "It's rare to feel surprised when you read a script," Johansson says.

Stamp, who died Aug. 17, was part of a wave of working-class British actors who came up in the 1960s. His films include Billy Budd, The Limey and two Superman films. Originally broadcast in 2002.

My guest, Jeffrey Seller, produced "Rent" with his business partner. Seller's own company produced "Hamilton." He was also a producer of Lin-Manuel Miranda's first musical, "In The Heights," as well as the satirical adult puppet musical "Avenue Q" and the recent revival of Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," starring Josh Groban as Sweeney.

The Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! is an intentionally ridiculous reimagining of first lady Mary Todd Lincoln. It portrays her as having become addicted to alcohol, not because of the Civil War, but because she's desperately yearning to become a cabaret star. For playwright and actor Cole Escola, the show is deeply personal.