STAGE TUBE: Preview Billy Porter's BROADWAY AND SOUL Concert; Airs Friday on PBS!

Live From Lincoln Center - the pioneering, award-winning performing arts series - continues its 40th anniversary season with "Billy Porter: Broadway and Soul" Friday, April 3, 2015 on PBS.

The incredibly talented Pittsburgh-native Billy Porter is a singer, composer, actor, playwright and director. He starred as Lola in the Broadway hit Kinky Boots, a role that won him 2013 Tony, Grammy, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. His other theater credits include Miss Saigon, Five Guys Named Moe, Grease, Smokey Joe's Café, Dreamgirls, Angels in America, The Merchant of Venice, Radiant Baby, Birdie Blue, Songs for a New World, Ghetto Superstar (one-man show), Topdog/Underdogand King Lear. Porter has appeared in films and on television, including Law & Order: SVU, So You Think You Can Dance (as a guest judge) and The Big C among other shows, and will appear in the upcoming film The Humbling, starring Al Pacino. Porter's solo albums include his first CD, Untitled, on A&M records, At the Corner of Broadway + Soul - LIVE on Sh-K-Boom Records and his most recent recording, Billy's Back on Broadway, on Concord Records.

This episode of Live from Lincoln Center, taped on January 28, 2015, features music direction by James Sampliner and directed for television by Andrew C. Wilk. Song selections include: "But the World Goes 'Round" (Fred Ebb and John Kander); Don't Rain on My Parade" (Bob Merrill and Jule Styne"; Kinky Boots Medley (Cyndi Lauper); and "I'm Not My Father's Son" (Cyndi Lauper). For more information on Billy Porter, please visit: billyporter.com

Check out the clips below for a preview of his concert, as well as Porter discussing growing up listening to gospel, how he found his place on Broadway, and his pride in being black, Christian, gay, and out.