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…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:03AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2007
Two-time Tony-winning actress Judith Ivey talks about her transition to directing; why she was drawn to direct Lee Thuna's "Fugue" at the Cherry Lane Theatre rather than play the leading rol…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:18AM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2007
Acclaimed director Michael Blakemore discusses his ongoing collaboration with playwright Michael Frayn during the Broadway run of "Democracy" and explores his famed virtuosity staging both p…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Choreographer Jonathan Butterell ("The Light In The Piazza", "Nine"), director Moises Kaufman ("The Laramie Project", "Gross Indecency"), playwright Arthur Kopit ("Nine", "Oh Dad, Poor Dad..…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:10PM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2007
John Mahoney talks about returning to Broadway after a 20-year hiatus in the Roundabout Theatre production of "Prelude to a Kiss", including why he had to be conscious of not making his stag…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:59PM[SHARE]Friday, April 6, 2007
Dominic Chianese, who plays Lou Wolf in Woody Allen's play "A Second Hand Memory", discusses Allen's style of directing, his character's anger and family conflicts, and compares Lou Wolf to …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Members of the creative team of the Tony-winning musical "Avenue Q" -- Robert Lopez (Composer/Lyricist), Rick Lyon (Puppet Designer/Actor), Jeff Marx (Composer/Lyricist),and Jeff Whitty (Boo…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:02AM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2007
Author and actor Eric Bogosian explains why he left the text of "Talk Radio" essentially unchanged for its current Broadway revival, but made more significant rewrites in "subUrbia" for its …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:53AM[SHARE]Friday, March 30, 2007
Prolific playwright Jeffrey Hatcher talks about seeing one of his recent plays "Compleat Female Stage Beauty" come to the screen as "Stage Beauty"; his years developing plays at Connecticut'…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Scenic Designer David Gallo ("Thoroughly Modern Millie"), Lighting Designer Donald Holder ("Little Shop Of Horrors"), Scenic Designer Anna Louizos ("Avenue Q"), Scenic and Costume Designer G…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:57AM[SHARE]Monday, March 26, 2007
Director and actor Walter Bobbie talks about returning to the acting stage in the "Encores!" production of "Face The Music", and how he feels preparing to act in the famously brief "Encores"…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:15PM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2007
Tovah Feldshuh discusses her role in William Gibson's one-woman play "Golda's Balcony", including her research into the life of Israeli premier Golda Meir and her passion in presenting 100 …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Casting Directors Tara Rubin ("Spamalot", "The Producers"), Laura Stanczyk ("Translations", "Sweet Charity"), Daniel Swee ("The Coast of Utopia", "The Vertical Hour"), and Bernie Telsey ("Wi…
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