Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The "resident character woman" of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Rondi Reed, talks about her current stint as Madame Morrible in the Broadway juggernaut "Wicked", a role she origina…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Film director Frank Perry who spent the first 10 years of his career directing for the stage, returns to Broadway to direct "Ladies at the Alamo". Perry explains why he has returned to Broa…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:03PM[SHARE]Monday, March 8, 2010
The panel of performers - Jane Alexander ("Shadowlands"), Stockard Channing ("Six Degrees of Separation"), Sarah Jessica Parker ("The Substance Of Fire"), Jonathan Pryce ("Miss Saigon"), Ron…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:41AM[SHARE]Friday, March 5, 2010
Theatre Design Specialist Roger Morgan talks about how his education in scenic and lighting design and backstage experience helped determine his focus in the field of architecture. He works…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 4, 2010
At the 2003 SDC Directing Symposium, Scott Elliott, Artistic Director of The New Group and Callaway Award winner for Excellence in Directing, spoke to a room full of young directors for 90 m…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Turnabout is fair play, as actor Richard Thomas is the guest host for a conversation with Howard Sherman, Executive Director of the American Theatre Wing. The longtime friends discuss the ch…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Film actress Liv Ullmann talks about what she's found in the title character of "Anna Christie" and how the audience reacts to Eugene O'Neill's modern play.
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:12AM[SHARE]Monday, March 1, 2010
The panel of performers - Hinton Battle ("Miss Saigon"), Roy Dotrice ("The Homecoming"), Timothy Hutton ("Babylon Gardens"), Mary Louise Parker ("Babylon Gardens"), Teresa Wright ("On Borrow…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Gregory Mosher, director of the current Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge", talks about how he initiated the production himself, personally approached Liev Schreibe…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 23, 2010
English actor Tom Courtenay who is making his Broadway debut in Simon Gray's comedy "Otherwise Engaged" shares what the play is about, and his experience in "The Norman Conquests" in the Wes…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:55AM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2010
The panel of actors - Alan Alda (Neil Simon's "Jake's Women"), Jodi Benson ("Crazy For You"), Roscoe Lee Brown (August Wilson's "Two Trains Running"), Glenn Close ("Death and the Maiden"), R…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:23AM[SHARE]Friday, February 19, 2010
Stage Automation Engineer Chuck Adomanis designs the modern automated system for moving theatrical scenery. He demonstrates the control system on the new set built for the "Billy Elliot" to…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 18, 2010
In 1999, after receiving SDC's "Mr. Abbott Award," director/playwright/actress Vinnette Carroll spoke with SDC Executive Director David Diamond about her life as the first African American w…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Veteran scenic designer John Lee Beatty, currently represented in New York by "Time Stands Still", "A View from the Bridge" and "Venus in Fur", talks about why he thinks all American drama i…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Constance Towers who plays Anna in the revival of "The King and I" talks about working with Yul Brynner and the authentic casting of the 1977 production.
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 10, 2010
One of "God of Carnage"'s current combatants on Broadway, Christine Lahti, talks about playing the range of emotions that consume her character over the course of the play's mere 80 minutes,…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2010
English director Peter Yates talks about Steve Tesich's basketball play "Passing Game" playing at the American Place Theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:57AM[SHARE]Monday, February 8, 2010
What was "The Play That Changed Your Life"? Not only the title of a new American Theatre Wing book, which posed that question to 19 of America's most distinguished playwrights, but the start…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:36AM[SHARE]Friday, February 5, 2010
The aerial choreographer, Paul Rubin, creates flying sequences for the stage from start to finish. During a rehearsal of a new production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", R…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 4, 2010
In this Directors Training Symposium from 1996, Lincoln Center Theater's artistic director Andre Bishop talks about his responsibilities as an artistic director, the qualities he looks for w…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 3, 2010
The panelists - playwright Jon Robin Baitz ("The End of the Day"), playwright Charles Grodin ("One of the All-Time Greats"), director Mark Lamos ("The End of the Day"), playwright Ken Ludwig…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Martin Charnin, director/lyricist of "Annie", discusses the challenges of child labor laws and age/height restrictions for the orphans in the cast.
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:18PM[SHARE]Monday, February 1, 2010
The multi-talented Andre De Shields describes the development of his new one-man show, "Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: From Douglass to Deliverance", and why it may be a work-in-progress for…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The production team of "Crazy For You" - advertising representative Nancy Coyne, press representative Bill Evans, general manager Tyler Gatchell, casting director Julie Hughes, and producer …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The "Man of La Mancha" Richard Kiley recreated his Tony Award-winning title role in the Broadway revival 12 years later, followed by a national tour.
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:53AM[SHARE]Monday, January 25, 2010
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award honored playwright Doug Wright discusses his virtually genetic passion for theatre and how that matched up with his conservative Texas childhood; his escape to …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:04AM[SHARE]Friday, January 22, 2010
In May of 1988, Peter Van Zandt moderated a talk with director and Lincoln Center Theatre artistic director Gregory Mosher, just weeks after the opening of the Broadway production of David M…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:44AM[SHARE]Textile Artisan Gene Mignola works closely with costume designers, taking patterns and creating fabric that ultimately conveys their vision. He explains how printing fabric has evolved over…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 21, 2010
The panel consisting of casting director Jay Binder ("Lost In Yonkers"), and actors Lucie Arnaz ("Lost In Yonkers"), Hallie Foote ("The Roads to Rome"), Gregory Hines ("Jelly's Last Jam"), …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Director Dennis Rosa talks about the unique look of "Dracula" by set designer/illustrator Edward Gorey.
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:20AM[SHARE]Monday, January 18, 2010
As she celebrates her 20th season as artistic director of Princeton's McCarter Theatre, Emily Mann recalls the factors she considered when taking on the job; counsel she received at the time…
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