This Week on Broadway for September 13, 2015: Rory Max Kaplan

Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere chat with Rory Max Kaplan. Kris Vire joins us to talk about Time Out Chicago’s 2015 Theater Awards. Reviews this week include Whorl Inside a Loop, The Legend of Georgia McBride, and Desire, An Evening of Plays Based on Six Stories by Tennessee Williams. Peter discusses the press preview for Dames at Sea and Michael attended the Metropolitan Opera's screening of Il Trittico.   ---------------------------------- This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every week (mostly) since March 16, 2009 and is the longest running Broadway and theatrical podcast with more then 300 shows giving thousands of reviews and hundreds of interviews. Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. ---------------------------------- If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Panel: Peter Filichia | peter@broadwayradio.com | Facebook PETER FILICHIA is a theater journalist and historian with a number of books, his most recent is, "The Great Parade", available everywhere. His columns appear at MTI, Kritzerland, Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select and many other places. James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Twitter | Facebook BroadwayStars Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook MICHAEL PORTANTIERE is a theater reviewer and essayist, whose work appears at TalkinBroadway, The Sondheim Review and BroadwayStars. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other major publications. You can see his photography work at FollowSpotPhoto.com. Notes and links for the podcast.   Guest: Rory Max Kaplan http://www.rorymaxkaplan.com/ Flashback: Michael reviews Rory in :Nothing But Trash" in this episode: This Week on Broadway for March 16, 2014: Jason Robert Brown and Sean McDermott A native New Yorker, and currently performing in Jersey Boys Broadway, Rory Max Kaplan has been a passionate creative since the beginning. Be it classical dance, cartoon voices, acting on screen, picking up a new instrument, or singing in the studios for a new single, Rory seeks only to follow the hunger that propels him forward. An artist to the core, he'll settle for nothing less in this lifetime than constant growth and expansion working his dharma, his innate calling: creative expression. Rory thrives in the fire of a challenge-- transformation and interpretation ignite his spirit.   Special: Kris Vire / Time Out Chicago Theater Awards 2015 Time Out Chicago Theater Awards 2015   Kris Vire (rhymes with fire) is Senior Editor and Chief Theater Critic at Time Out Chicago and regularly writes for American Theater. Roche Schulfer, the Goodman Theatre’s Shrewd Steward by Kris Vire Since joining the theatre’s staff four decades ago, he’s helped guide the Chicago theatre to national flagship status. It wasn’t an easy or inevitable climb.     Reviews: PF: Whorl Inside a Loop @ Second Stage Theater, Tony Kiser Theatre, 305 W 43rd Street, through September 27, 2015 Recommendation: Theater People Podcast: Episode 43 (Bonus Episode): Whorl Inside A Loop (interview with Michael Mayer and Dick Scanlan) MP + PF: MCC's production of The Legend of Georgia McBride @ Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street through October 4, 2015 MP: Desire, An Evening of Plays Based on Six Stories by Tennessee Williams @ 59e59, 59 East 59th Street, through October 11, 2015 PF: Press preview: Dames at Sea MP: Met free screening in the plaza of Il Trittico Only 3,100 free seats available. http://nycfreeconcerts.com/   News:  Television:  Tours:  Recordings:  Post Script: Next Week:  Explicit: No Music: Three tracks provided by Rory Max Kaplan from his upcoming release: Fear of Letting Go Helpless Little Child The Game Goes On   Contact Info: Email addresses: see above Phone / Voicemail: +1-888-285-4666 BroadwayStars: Twitter | Facebook Subscribe: Stitcher: Stitcher App iPhone/iPod: iTunes Listen on BroadwayWorld Radio Wednesdays at noon, Thursdays at 7pm and Saturdays at 2pm We need Listener Volunteers to help out with a few projects. If you have a few hours and would like to help out, contact james@broadwayradio.com. YouTube Transcript: (Beta)