This Week on Broadway for July 19, 2015: Raul Esparza, Wild Party

James Marino, Michael Portantiere and Carey Purcell talk with Raul Esparza. Reviews include City Center's Wild Party, Shows for Days, Ruthless, Penn & Teller On Broadway, and a brief discussion about Jan Maxwell and the future of women on Broadway. ---------------------------------- This Week on Broadway has been coming to you (mostly) every week 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. Carey Purcell | cpurcell@playbill.com | Twitter | Website Carey Purcell is a staff writer and the features editor of Playbill.com. Her new column, "A Woman's World" focuses on covering women's issues, both on and Off-Broadway by highlighting successful women in the industry and the challenges they have faced. She can be followed on Twitter @PlaybillCarey and at her blog CareyPurcell.com.   Notes and links for the podcast.   Guest: Raul Esparza Raúl Esparza and Steven Skybell in rehearsal for Cymbeline, directed by Daniel Sullivan, running at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park July 23 through August 23. Photo credit: Tammy Shell. http://www.raulesparza.com/ http://publictheater.org/cymbeline/ Raúl Esparza Will Join Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe in Shakespeare in the Park Cymbeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Esparza http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=75718   Reviews: CP + MP + JM: Wild Party @ Encores! Off-Center, Jul 15 - 18, 2015 http://andrewlippa.com/the-wild-party/ Stephen Pasquale - Carousel (Chicago) on video Excerpt from Lyric's CAROUSEL CP + MP: Shows for Days @ Lincoln Center Theater - Mitzi E. Newhouse, 150 West 65th Street MP: Ruthless @ St. Luke's Theatre, 308 W 46th St CP: On Jan Maxwell retiring Jan Maxwell talks about her latest role Off Broadway—and why it will be her last One of New York’s greatest troupers is set to retire after she reprises a smashing role in Scenes from an Execution http://theatrewomen.org/   Joseph Mulry: Penn & Teller On Broadway @ Marquis Theatre, 1535 Broadway   News:    Television:    Tours:    Recordings:    Post Script:   Next Week:    Explicit: No   Music: Being Alive from Company King Of Sin from Leap of Faith Pinball Wizard from Tommy Jan Maxwell and Bernadette Peters perform "Waiting for the Girls Upstairs" in FOLLIES on Broadway   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.