Friday, January 7, 2011
Lighting Supervisor Dan Montano facilitates the lighting designs created for productions at Two River Theater Company. Previously an actor, Montano took a 10-day job as a carpenter, then st…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 5, 2011
From his home base in Scarborough, England, playwright and director Sir Alan Ayckbourn makes a return visit to "Downstage Center" during the run of his 74th play, "Life of Riley". He discuss…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:55AM[SHARE]Monday, January 3, 2011
At its 3-day Musical Theatre Symposium in June of 2002, SDCF hosted a panel on assembling creative teams moderated by Arthur Bartow. Speakers included producers Marty Bell ("Ragtime") and Sa…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Composer John Kander talks about his decades-long collaboration with Fred Ebb, with particular focus on the four projects that were not fully completed before Ebb's death in 2004: "The Scott…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 23, 2010
The panel of producers, presenters and bookers -- Meredith Blair, Mike Isaacson, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Steven Schnepp and Allan Williams -- discuss what works and what doesn't on the …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Having recently steered "Driving Miss Daisy" to Broadway, director David Esbjornson discusses what it's like to direct a "brand," why he thinks older actors can play younger much more easily…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Founding artistic director of both the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Robert Brustein discusses how each of those organizations came int…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:22AM[SHARE]Monday, December 13, 2010
A panel of directors - Stafford Arima, Anne Kauffman, Rebecca Taichman and Henry Wishcamper - discusses the dynamic between themselves and the playwrights with whom they work; their first pa…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 9, 2010
In June 2002, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation hosted a panel discussion on how Broadway directors and choreographers got their starts as part of its 3-day Musical Theatre S…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Stephen Ouimette, who plays Bejart in the current Broadway revival of "La Bête", talks about what it takes to hold the stage, with little dialogue, throughout the show's fabled 30 minute …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Executive Director of the Theatre Communications Group (TCG), Teresa Eyring, talks about the work of the 50 year old service organization which boasts membership if some 500 of the country's…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 24, 2010
In November 1992, SDC Foundation hosted a conversation with the creative team behind "Jelly's Last Jam" on Broadway: George C. Wolfe (book and direction), Hope Clarke (choreography), Susan B…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:38AM[SHARE]"Lombardi"'s leading lady Judith Light talks about her research into both the role and the real-life Marie Lombardi, and whether she thinks "Lombardi" is a "football play." She also talks ab…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 17, 2010
"The Divine Sister"'s Teutonic nun Alison Fraser talks about her role, her prior work -- and sharing a dressing room -- with playwright/actor Charles Busch. She also discusses her musical th…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:36AM[SHARE]Friday, November 12, 2010
Scenic Charge Artist Jason Edwards paints walls, backdrops, and props to create the visual surface details of a show's set. At the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Edwards works with each pr…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 11, 2010
On Tuesday, March 29, 1988, Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation and New Dramatists hosted a seminar on the director-playwright relationship with directors Tony Giordano, Pam Berlin…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Called "the most powerful man in English theatre" by "The Stage", co-CEO (with his wife, Rosemary Squire) and creative director of the Ambassador Theatre Group, Howard Panter, talks about th…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:26AM[SHARE]Monday, November 8, 2010
Our panel of choreographers - Christopher Gattelli, Liza Gennaro, Ken Roberson and Sergio Trujillo - discuss their childhood and early adult life and how it influenced their start in dance; …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Jim Simpson, artistic director of New York's Off-Off-Broadway The Flea Theater, charts the company's 15 year journey from a collective meant to last for only five years to an ongoing institu…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 2, 2010
The panelists - President/Executive Director of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization Ted Chapin, President of the American Theatre Producers Cy Feuer, writer/critic Martin Gottfried, ac…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 28, 2010
At the SDC Foundation's Choreography Symposium in 1986, choreographers Wayne Cilento (Tony Award for "The Who's Tommy"), Graciela Daniele (8 Tony nominations for Best Choreography), Janet Wa…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 27, 2010
South African playwright Athol Fugard discusses his newest work, "The Train Driver", during rehearsals at the Long Wharf Theatre, and explains why this play marks the end of a stage in his w…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:54AM[SHARE]Monday, October 25, 2010
The panel of performers - Jessica Boevers ("A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"), Jim Dale ("Barnum", "Candide"), Justin Kirk ("Love! Valour! Compassion!"), Daniel Massey ("Takin…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 20, 2010
One of the greatest classical actors of his generation, Sir Ian McKellen reflects on his more than 50 years on stage, explaining that he's really only qualified to voice his opinion on two t…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:47AM[SHARE]Monday, October 18, 2010
The panel of playwrights - Edward Albee ("The Lady From Dubuque"), Eve Merriam ("The Club"), Samm-Art Williams ("Home"), Lanford Wilson ("Talley's Folly"), and Ruth Wolff ("The Abdication")…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 14, 2010
On December 15, 1986, director Tony Giordano, designers Hugh Landwehr and Dennis Parichy and actors Michael Fischetti, Jennifer Van Dyck and Diane Martella spoke with moderator Amy Saltz at …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Playwright Alfred Uhry recalls the original production of "Driving Miss Daisy" in 1987 at Playwrights Horizons, lists the actresses he's had the opportunity to see play the title role - base…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Playwright Jules Feiffer, perhaps best known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, explains why he sees little difference between his comic work, screen work and stage work, as well as why…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:52AM[SHARE]Monday, October 4, 2010
Actress Liv Ullmann who starred in Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" talks about the different techniques required for stage acting versus film acting, particularly with respect to the eyes a…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:35PM[SHARE]The panel of performers - Karen Akers ("Nine"), Christine Baranski ("Sally and Marsha"), actor/playwright Harvey Fierstein ("Torch Song Trilogy"), Ben Harney ("Dreamgirls"), Lonny Price ("Ma…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 30, 2010
In April 2010, Edie Cowan moderated an hour-long roundtable discussion with Broadway choreographers Kathleen Marshall and Jerry Mitchell and dance arrangers David Chase and Mark Hummel. They…
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