Baring It All with Call Me Adam
As a kid with starry ambitions of working in the entertainment industry, Adam Rothenberg found a way to go behind-the-scenes with celebrities from the worlds of Film, Television, Theatre & Music for the past 15 years. Adam is the creator of the entertainment platform Call Me Adam and host of the podcast Baring It All with Call Me Adam. His unique style of interviewing has given him the opportunity to conduct more than 1,500 interviews. Adam makes his guests feel comfortable and at ease, which allows them to talk about life behind-the-curtain, sometimes revealing things they have never talked about before.
Episodes
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today, in this LIVE Interview Replay, I am catching up with My Entertainment Idol Alt Pop Singer Songwriter Rachael Sage who is getting to ready to drop her latest album, Canopy!
In this NEW interview, Rachael is once again Baring It All with Call Me Adam, but this time around, she talks about:
- The making ...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today I am catching up with Actress Jennifer Bassey, who you know for her over 30-year run as man-hungry nymphomaniac Marian Colby on ABC's hit soap opera, All My Children.
In 2017, Jennifer & I did an interview together where she briefly spoke about putting together a cabaret show. Now, 8 years late...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today I am catching up with Marissa Jaret Winokur, who you know for winning the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for starring as Tracy Turnblad in the Tony Award winning musical Hairspray.
In 2023, Marissa was a featured guest performer in the Off-Broadway musical Exorcistic: The Rock Mus...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today I am catching up with Actress Michelle Clunie, who you know for portraying Melanie Marcus on Showtime's hit Television Series Queer As Folk.
The last time Michelle Clunie was on the New York Stage was in 2012 when she starred in her Off Broadway play US.
In this NEW intervi...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today I am catching up with Actress Nancy McKeon, who you know as Jo Polniaczek, from the beloved & long running 1980s series The Facts of Life.
Nancy is kicking off the return of Michael Griffo's play Pen Pals, when she steps back into the role of Bernie, beginning August 15, 2025.
In this NEW i...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today I am catching up with Motown Singer & Songwriter Charlene Oliver, who you know as the songstress behind the #1 song, "I've Never Been To Me," written by Ron Miller & featured in one of my favorite movies, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Charlene & I last spoke in 2020 and now I am th...
If you weren't able to attend the LIVE talkback after Crystal Skillman's play OPEN at WP Theater in NYC on Friday, July 18, 2025, you can listen to the replay here!
This talkback was Hosted by Call Me Adam's Adam Rothenberg, and Featured Playwright Crystal Skillman & OPEN Star, Actress Megan Hill.
Crystal & Megan went Behind-...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today I am catching up with three-time Emmy Award Winner Cady McClain, who you know for playing Dixie Martin on ABC's Soap Opera All My Children & more recently, Pamela Curtis on CBS' Daytime Drama, Beyond The Gates!
Cady & I last spoke in 2024 when she was starring in Austin Pendleton’s play Orson’s Shadow and...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today I am catching up with Steve Burns, who you know as the original sleuth finding host of Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues.
I first interviewed Steve in 2017 when he released his album Foreverywhere (alongside Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips).
From 1996-2002, on camera, Steve Burns was entertaining millions of kids as the...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today I am speaking with musical sensations Bucky Heard & Tim D. Lee, who are part of the iconic musical duo, The Righteous Brothers, alongside original member Bill Medley.
Tim has recorded and toured with The Righteous Brothers for over 35 years &am...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today I am speaking with Emmy Winning Producer Dan Watt, whose Emmy Winning documentary EVERYBODY DANCE is a heartfelt trip inside the everyday challenges and blessings of kids living with neurological disabilities, following 5 kids, their families and dance teacher on a journey through life and toward their danc...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today I am speaking with Jason ‘Bea’ Schmidt, one of my favorite & arguably the world’s premier Bea Arthur impersonator.
Jason is heading off to Provincetown this summer to present his new show Bea Arthur’s Brat Summer: A Drag Pop Broadway Fantasia.
In this NEW interview, Jason is Baring It All with Call Me Ada...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today I am speaking with Actor Andrew Keegan whose role as Kevin in the gay romantic comedy, The Broken Hearts Club, was very instrumental in my own coming out journey as I saw myself reflected in him.
Now, Andrew is trading in romance for revenge in the new psychological thriller Healing Towers where Andrew ...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today I am speaking with Tony, Emmy & SAG Nominated Actor Norm Lewis whom I last interviewed in 2019 when he was getting ready to perform at 54 Below.
Now, Norm is once again lighting up the New York Stage, in the Off-Broadway production of Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, which has not had a NYC production in almo...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today I got to speak with Actress Nancy McKeon whom I grew up watching on the hit TV series The Facts of Life, and also enjoyed watching her on Lifetime TV's The Division and CBS Style & Substance (co-starring Jean Smart).
Now, Nancy is making her Off-Broadway debut in the new play Pe...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today, I am going back in time and Behind-The-Curtain to bring you this blast from the past, my 2013 interview with Nicki French, award-winning international recording artist, known for her smash hit dance version of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart."
In this interview, Nick...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
A few weeks ago, I conducted an e-mail interview with Alt/Pop Singer-Songwriter Rachael Sage about her new reimagined album Another Side.
Today, I am so excited to dive even deeper into the release of this album.
In this interview, Rachael Sage is Baring It All with Call Me Adam about:
- Running her...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today, I am going back in time and Behind-The-Curtain to bring you this blast from the past, my 2010 interview with Jo Dee Messina, 2-time Grammy Award nominee, and Country Music Superstar.
In this interview, Jo Dee is Baring It All with Call Me Adam about:
- Whom she ...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today, I am going back in time and Behind-The-Curtain to bring you this blast from the past, my 2010 interview with then 3-time Tony nominated Broadway Actress Kelli O'Hara.
Now, here’s a little Behind-The-Curtain Story….
In 2010, I got to attend the opening night of Kelli O’Hara’s one-woma...
This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.
Today, I am going back in time and Behind-The-Curtain to bring you this blast from the past, my 2019 interview with Olivia Newton-John, 4-time Grammy award winner and Sandy from the mega hit movie musical Grease.
This was my third, and what turned out to be my final time intervie...
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