Monday, May 12, 2008
Shakespeare veteran Patrick Stewart talks about finally having the opportunity to play the title role in "Macbeth", some 50 years after he first memorized the play's great speeches, and chro…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 06:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Lyricist Lynn Ahrens, producer Garth Drabinsky, composer Stephen Flaherty, director Frank Galati, book writer Terrence McNally, and advertising representative Jon Wilner discuss the journey …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:02PM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2008
Legendary producer and director Harold Prince surveys his career from his start in 1948 working for another legendary theatrical figure, George Abbott, to his newest project, the musical "Pa…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Actors Roger Bart ("Young Frankenstein"), Brian d'Arcy James ("Next To Normal"), Priscilla Lopez ("In The Heights") and Sherie Rene Scott ("The Little Mermaid") -- collectively veterans of m…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:01PM[SHARE]Monday, April 28, 2008
Lyricist David Zippel discusses the development of "Pamela's First Musical", the challenges posed by the untimely passing of two of his collaborators on the project -- composer Cy Coleman an…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 24, 2008
The panel of performers talk about their training and when they decided to become actors. "Power Plays" co-stars Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss talk about working together at Northwes…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:57PM[SHARE]Monday, April 21, 2008
Playwright Paul Rudnick discusses his evening of one-act plays, "The New Century", currently playing at Lincoln Center Theatre, including how he came to combine characters originally written…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 06:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2008
With backgrounds rooted in rock and roll, television comedy and comics, our 4 guests have made the leap from their day jobs to the stages of Broadway and Off Broadway with their musicals. B…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2008
In a startlingly candid interview, actor James Earl Jones talks about what drew him to playing the role of Big Daddy in the current revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and his views on the pl…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 9, 2008
The five performers -- Matthew Broderick ("Night Must Fall"), Kathleen Chalfant ("Wit"), Brian Dennehy ("Death of a Salesman"), Elizabeth Franz ("Death of a Salesman"), and Swoosie Kurtz ("T…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:38PM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2008
Lighting designer Ken Billington, veteran of more than 80 Broadway productions ranging from the original "Sweeney Todd" to the current "Sunday in the Park with George", discusses the art of …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Playwright David Ives talks about his many acts of "literary ventriloquism," channeling the voices of the authors of classic musicals for City Center's Encores series, including the current …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:25PM[SHARE]The panel -- director Scott Ellis ("That Championship Season"), director Robert Falls ("Death of a Salesman"), playwright David Marshall Grant ("Snakebit"), director/choreographer Robert Lon…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Ranging from their start in a church basement in 1976 to their current Broadway production of "August: Osage County", Steppenwolf Theatre Company Co-Founder Jeff Perry and Steppenwolf Ensemb…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:54AM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2008
Director Leigh Silverman talks about the development of the Off-Broadway "Beebo Brinker Chronicles" and its transition from an Off-Off-Broadway space to a larger venue; how she juggles so ma…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 20, 2008
The production team for "The Civil War" -- producer Pierre Cossette, producers Gary Gunas and Scott Zieger of Pace Theatrical, lyricist Jack Murphy, composer Frank Wildhorn, and marketing re…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:56AM[SHARE]Monday, March 17, 2008
"Sunday in the Park with George"'s Michael Cumpsty talks about the challenges of performing in the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical, how the script and score match the pointillism of Ge…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The panel of theatre critics -- "New York Post"'s Clive Barnes, "Variety"'s Charles Isherwood, "New York Times"' Peter Marks, "NY1"'s Roma Torre, and "Newsday"'s Linda Winer -- discuss the d…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 06:52PM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2008
Tony Award nominee Kathleen Chalfant talks about doing double duty on New York stages right now: as the mother of the title character in "Dead Man's Cell Phone" at Playwrights Horizons and a…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Our distinguished panel of theatre directors - Anne Bogart, Scott Ellis and Daniel Sullivan - discuss their early influences in theatre and how that impacted their work as directors, why the…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:09AM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2008
Alice Ripley, star of the new musical "Next To Normal" at New York's Second Stage Theatre, talks about the challenge of playing the emotionally disturbed mother of a "typical" American famil…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The panelists -- playwright Douglas Carter Beane ("As Bees In Honey Drown"), director/choreographers Kathleen Marshall ("Kiss Me Kate") and Rob Marshall ("Damn Yankees", "She Loves Me"), dir…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:13PM[SHARE]Monday, February 25, 2008
Tony Award-winning actor Nathan Lane charts the course of his career, from touring New Jersey schools in the historical musical "Jerz" to starring on Broadway as the President of the United …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2008
"Legally Blonde"'s resident legal shark Michael Rupert talks about why his role as that musical's unsavory Professor Callahan is consistent with other roles he often plays and talks about be…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:20AM[SHARE]Producer/Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater André Bishop, Marketing Director and Director of Special Projects for Lincoln Center Theater Thomas Cott, Executive Producer of Lincoln…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2008
This broad panel of designers - lighting designer Michael Chybowski ("Moby Dick and Other Stories", "Wit"), scenic designer David Hays, sound designer Abe Jacob ("Pippin", "Evita"), special …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:05PM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2008
Multiple Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee talks about the "inadvertent festival" of his works in the New York area, explaining why he declined to allow any synopsis of "Me, …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Performers Bryan Batt ("Saturday Night Fever"), Kristin Chenoweth ("Epic Proportions"), Boyd Gaines ("Contact"), Marin Mazzie ("Kiss Me Kate"), Tom Wopat ("Annie Get Your Gun") and Deborah…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:42PM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2008
Tony Award-winning actor Richard Easton talks about his role in David Ives' play "New Jerusalem" and why he didn't spend much time trying to parse Spinoza's philosophy in preparation for the…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 31, 2008
Director David Esbjornson ("The Ride Down Mt. Morgan"), director David Leveaux ("The Real Thing"), playwright Becky Mode ("Fully Committed"), director Richard Nelson ("James Joyce's The Dead…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:26AM[SHARE]Monday, January 28, 2008
Multiple Tony Award-winning playwright Sir Tom Stoppard talks about his latest work to appear on Broadway, "Rock 'n' Roll", including why he feels the play's love story, not its intellectual…
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