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…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The creative team behind the hit musical "Next To Normal" - Director Michael Greif, Composer Tom Kitt, Producer David Stone and Book Writer/Lyricist Brian Yorkey - discuss the unique road th…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Cecilia Hart while starring in Tom Stoppard's "Dirty Linen", reveals how she shed her self-consciousness of appearing scantily clad in front of audiences; how her costume helped to enhance h…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:47AM[SHARE]Monday, January 11, 2010
With Theresa Rebeck's "The Understudy" soon to close at the Roundabout and Douglas Carter Beane's "Mr. and Mrs. Fitch" beginning rehearsals at Second Stage, director Scott Ellis discusses hi…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 7, 2010
In January of 1987, noted director, educator and SDC Board Member Mary Robinson met with directors Mark Lamos and Nagle Jackson to discuss running regional theatres. At the time, these two …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 6, 2010
The panel - playwright/director P.J. Barry ("A Distance From Calcutta"), lyricist Susan Birkenhead ("Jelly's Last Jam"), playwright/director Horton Foote ("The Roads To Home"), agent Wiley …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Composer Cy Coleman, during the run of "I Love My Wife", talks about how the show slipped into town after appearing out of town, and how he recieved the good news of his rave reviews from al…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:03AM[SHARE]Monday, January 4, 2010
Legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim is the guest for the 250th "Downstage Center" interview. He discusses a wide range of topics, including whether, as many have asserted, he a…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 30, 2009
The "Jelly's Last Jam" production team - general manager Michael David, advertising representative Rick Elice of Serino Coyne, press agent Richard Kornberg, producers Pamela Koslow and Margo…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer talks about his revue "Hold Me", based on his cartoon work; the selection process; how each skit, while different, is connected thematically; and the…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:52AM[SHARE]Monday, December 28, 2009
"Mamma Mia!"'s newest leading lady, Beth Leavel, talks about slipping into the polyester disco gear of Donna Sheridan, describing the rare opportunity of joining a long-running production an…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Our panel of actors -- Danny Burstein, Malcolm Gets, Bill Pullman and John Douglas Thompson -- share the particular moment when they realized they wanted to be actors; how the language of a …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 22, 2009
In May of 1988, esteemed Shakespearean acting teacher Ada Brown Mather discussed the bard's work with three of its contemporary master directors: Zoe Caldwell, Gerald Freedman, and Stuart Va…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:52AM[SHARE]Marge Redmond, at the time co-starring with her husband Jack Weston in Neil Simon's "California Suite", tells why she likes working on stage, and how it takes more work to act on stage than …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:40AM[SHARE]Monday, December 21, 2009
Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer of Lincoln Center Theater, takes listeners on a highly condensed tour of his 60-year career in the theatre, including his joining Maurice Evans' US Army S…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The panel of union and guild representatives - Jean Dalrymple, member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers (ATPAM); Alan Eisenberg, Executive Secretary of Actors' Equit…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 15, 2009
As "Chicago"'s original Billy Flynn, Jerry Orbach is careful not to fit into any one mold, turning down roles too similar to previous ones, and instead showing his versatility in musicals an…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:26PM[SHARE]Monday, December 14, 2009
Actor Jim Norton, Tony and Olivier Award winner for "The Seafarer" and now on Broadway in the notably sunnier current revival of "Finian's Rainbow", discusses how the Irish view that Irish-i…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2009
The panel - actress Brenda Braxton ("Jelly's Last Jam"), Mettawee River Theatre Company puppet/costume designers Casey Compton and Ralph Lee ("Wichikapache Goes Walking"), producer/lighting …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Award-winning actor James Earl Jones talks about portraying the real-life historical actor and political artist in the solo play "Paul Robeson" which toured before arriving on Broadway.
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:40AM[SHARE]Monday, December 7, 2009
"Ordinary Days"' Hunter Foster talks about performing a musical in such an intimate space (Roundabout Underground's black box) and why the unusually close proximity makes the audience into t…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 3, 2009
In March of 1994, not long after the close of her hit Broadway production of "The Secret Garden", Susan H. Schulman sat down with Director Melvin Bernhardt to discuss her life in the theatre…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The expansion of the Broadway brand to Asian markets was among the topics discussed by our panel: Simone Genatt, Chairman of Broadway Asia, Robert Nederlander, Jr, President and CEO of Neder…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 1, 2009
While starring as Bunny in Albert Innaurato's "Gemini", Jessica James outlines the journey the show made from workshop to Long Island to Circle Rep and finally Broadway; and how word of mout…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:57AM[SHARE]Monday, November 30, 2009
America's leading practitioner of "documentary theatre," Anna Deavere Smith, discusses her newest work, "Let Me Down Easy", and how it developed from its original commission by the Yale Medi…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 25, 2009
The "Anna Christie" production team - scenic designer John Lee Beatty, O'Neill biographer Barbara Gelb, Artistic Director of Roundabout Theatre Todd Haimes, actors Anne Meara, Liam Neeson, N…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Joseph Abaldo, magician and actor discussed his role in "The Magic Show"; replacing Doug Henning; his life long interest in magic; the extraordinary effort to learn the role; and the secrecy…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:48AM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2009
Guest host Ted Chapin, chairman of the board of the American Theatre Wing, talks with director Robert Longbottom about his current Broadway production of "Bye Bye Birdie" at The Roundabout, …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2009
In this discussion with Director-Choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett in February of 2000, listen to a two-time Tony nominee share her research into the complex history and techniques of compe…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The role of Regional Theatre in supporting and presenting new works to their communities was among the topics discussed by our panel: Christopher Ashley, Artistic Director of La Jolla Playho…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Character actor Lou Jacobi, appearing in Neil Simon's "Cheaters" on Broadway, talks of his admiration of the author's words; sticking to the script; and how actors are kept in check to avoid…
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