Monday, July 30, 2007
Actor Stephen Lang describes his process developing the book "Beyond Glory" for the stage, why he was drawn to portray eight recipients of the Medal of Honor, and how his tribute is perceive…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Actors Frank Langella ("Fortune's Fool"), John Lithgow ("Sweet Smell of Success"), Andrea Martin ("Oklahoma!"), Estelle Parsons ("Mornings at Seven"), Mercedes Ruehl ("The Goat, Or Who Is S…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:22AM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2007
Producer Dori Berinstein discusses the process behind creating the film "ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway", her unprecedented chronicle of the 2003-2004 theatrical season, including how sh…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Actors Julie Harris ("The Belle of Amherst"), Marilu Henner ("The Tale of the Allergist's Wife"), Richard Kind ("The Tale of the Allergist's Wife"), Hal Linden ("Cabaret"), Brad Oscar ("The …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:34AM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2007
Director Michael Wilson discusses his work on the first Broadway revival of John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance" at the Roundabout and why the play is so different than the Bette Davis film;…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Director and lyricist Martin Charnin ("Annie"); director and choreographer Graciela Daniele ("Annie Get Your Gun"); lyricist and book writers Rupert Holmes ("Say Goodnight, Gracie") and Mich…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:12AM[SHARE]Monday, July 9, 2007
Actress Vanessa Redgrave explains why, despite the character name in the program, she's not specifically playing "Joan Didion" in Broadway's "The Year Of Magical Thinking"; explores the tran…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Set designer John Arnone ("The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?"), costume designers Jane Greenwood ("Morning's at Seven") and Martin Pakledinaz ("Thoroughly Modern Millie"), set designer Scott Pask …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:43AM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2007
Three-time Tony Award-winning costume designer Catherine Zuber talks about the process of costume design and the nature of the collaboration between designers and a director; explains how sh…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Actors John Cullum ("Urinetown"), Edie Falco ("Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune"), Lea Salonga ("Flower Drum Song"), Stanley Tucci ("Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune"), Marissa…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:43AM[SHARE]Monday, June 25, 2007
Playwright Douglas Carter Beane talks about how his fascination with Greek myths dovetailed with a producer's overture to adapt a famously bad movie, resulting in the new musical "Xanadu"; d…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2007
The creative team behind the Broadway musical "Hairspray", producers Richard Frankel and Margo Lion, co-book writer Thomas Meehan, choreographer Jerry Mitchell, director Jack O'Brien, co-boo…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:55AM[SHARE]Monday, June 18, 2007
Revered stage veteran Marian Seldes touches upon a few of the highlights of her storied career, from her current role on Broadway opposite Angela Lansbury in "Deuce" (a role written specific…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Director Bob Balaban ("Y2K"), playwrights Richard Greenberg ("Take Me Out") and Suheir Hammad ("Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam"), choreographer Luis Perez ("Man of La Mancha") and director D…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:34AM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2007
Guthrie Theatre Artistic Director Joe Dowling talks about the company's move from its historic home into a brand new facility, including the reaction of the Minneapolis audiences to the shif…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 6, 2007
The artistic directors of four major not-for-profit companies - Susan V. Booth of the Alliance Theatre, Oskar Eustis of The Public Theater, Emily Mann of the McCarter Theatre Center and Mich…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:44AM[SHARE]Monday, June 4, 2007
Tony nominee Mary Louise Wilson discusses her journey from workshop to Broadway with the musical "Grey Gardens"; recalls her Broadway debut in the troubled Judy Holliday vehicle "Hot Spot"; …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 30, 2007
The extraordinary legacy of playwright August Wilson and his 10-play cycle of African-American life in the 20th Century is explored in a two-part program. First, a panel of Wilson's collabo…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:35AM[SHARE]Monday, May 28, 2007
David Hyde Pierce talks about joining in the development of the long-aborning "Curtains" and how he faced the challenge of a full-fledged character-driven musical on Broadway; recalls the ci…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Four acclaimed leading men - Jeff Daniels ("Blackbird"), Brian Dennehy ("Inherit the Wind"), Liev Schreiber ("Talk Radio") and Kevin Spacey ("A Moon for the Misbegotten") - discuss a wide a…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 17, 2007
Frank Langella talks about the challenge of making the character of Richard Nixon in "Frost/Nixon" more than just a caricature, and whether it was easier to develop his performance as such a…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Musical director, orchestrator and arranger Jason Robert Brown, book writer Aaron Latham, producer Chase Mishkin, director Lonny Price, press representative Pete Sanders and producer Leonard…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:47AM[SHARE]Monday, May 14, 2007
Tony Award-winning choreographer Jerry Mitchell talks about taking on the dual roles of director and choreographer for the first time with "Legally Blonde" and charts the development of the …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Costume designer Suzy Benzinger ("Movin' Out"), lighting designer Beverly Emmons ("Jekyll and Hyde"), scenic designer Adrianne Lobel ("A Year With Frog and Toad"), sound designer David Mesch…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:17AM[SHARE]Monday, May 7, 2007
The team of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil talk about why they broke from their usual practice of originating their own projects and took on writing "The Pirate Queen"; how they …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Actors from both sides of the Atlantic - Sutton Foster ("Thoroughly Modern Millie"), Clare Higgins ("Vincent in Brixton"), Eddie Izzard ("A Day in the Death of Joe Egg"), Brian Stokes Mitche…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:44PM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2007
Richard M. Sherman and George Stiles, the film and stage composers of "Mary Poppins", come together for a special program that explores the creation of the original film score and how it was…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Four actors from the 42-member "The Coast of Utopia" company -- Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, Ethan Hawke and Amy Irving -- talk about the experience of appearing in Tom Stoppard's triptych …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:44PM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2007
Jeff Daniels talks about his return to the New York stage after a 14 year absence in David Harrower's Olivier Award-winning "Blackbird" at Manhattan Theatre Club, including how he works hims…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 07:47PM[SHARE]Friday, April 20, 2007
Playwright Lee Blessing talks about his play "Going to St. Ives" with its theme, of politics, women, and motherhood, and its similarities to his best-known play "A Walk In The Woods". Bless…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Director Jeff Calhoun, actor Phyllis Frelich, actor Tyrone Giordano, producer Todd Haimes, actor Daniel Jenkins and producer Bill O'Brien explain how Deaf West Theatre Company, a sign langua…
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