Wednesday, November 4, 2015
David Hareis one of Britain's best-known screenwriters and dramatists. He's the author of more than thirty acclaimed plays, and he wrote the screenplays for the hugely successful films The H…
SOURCE: WNYC at 09:52PM[SHARE]Actor and playwright Jesse Eisenberg is perhaps best known for his acting roles in 'The Social Network' and 'The Squid and the Whale,' and he talks about his fiction debut. Bream Gives…
SOURCE: WNYC at 09:52PM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2015
Tony nominee Michael John LaChiusa discusses his new musical, "First Daughter Suite," along with actors Alison Fraser, and Caissie Levy. The show imagines the inner lives and dreams of Ameri…
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:44AM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
The legendary Julie Andrews discusses her many roles on stage and screen! She'll also discuss motherhood, and her latest children's book, The Very Fairy Princess: A Spooky, Sparkly Halloween…
SOURCE: WNYC at 06:28PM[SHARE]Friday, October 16, 2015
In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James of Scotland, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed, and it ma…
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2015
Playwright Robert O'Hara and actors Tamberla Perry and Samantha Soule talk about their new play, "Barbecue." The play revolves around the O'Mallery family, who stage …
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:13PM[SHARE]Mint Theater artistic director Jonathan Bank discusses the new production of Harold Chapin's "The New Morality,"Â along with star Brenda Meaney. The play takes us aboard a houseboat on a f…
SOURCE: WNYC at 10:53AM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2015
Since his first play, "And Things That Go Bump in the Night," which premiered in 1965, Terrence McNally has proven himself to be a trailblazing figure in American theater, known for his e…
SOURCE: WNYC at 09:38AM[SHARE]Friday, August 28, 2015
Lear deBessonet conceived and directed the community-based Public Works musical adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey at The Public Theater. Inspired by the historical pageantry movement of t…
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Louise Kerz Hirschfeld discusses the work of her late husband, Al Hirschfeld, along with David Leopold, who organized "The Hirschfeld Century: The Art of Al Hirschfeld" at the New-York Histo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 09:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Actor Patrick Stewart discusses the new series he stars in, "Blunt Talk," along with the show's creator and show runner, Jonathan Ames. The show follows Walter Blunt (Stewart), a British imp…
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 30, 2015
Playwright Joshua Harmon talks about his play "Significant Others," with stars Gideon Glick and Lindsay Mendez. A young man searches for love while supporting his friends, and finds it…
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:35PM[SHARE]Monday, July 27, 2015
Martin Short talks about his life, career, and new memoir, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend. Once a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada, he transformed himself into one of Hollywoo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 10:44PM[SHARE]Colin Quinn discuss the new off-Broadway play he wrote and stars in, "Colin Quinn The New York Story."Â Based on his book The Coloring Book and directed by Jerry Seinfeld, the play has Qui…
SOURCE: WNYC at 10:44PM[SHARE]Before he was cast in "The Defiant Ones," with Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis " a role for which he would be nominated for an Academy Award, the Austrian-born Theodore Bikel told director St…
SOURCE: WNYC at 10:44PM[SHARE]Friday, July 24, 2015
Penn Jillette joined us to talk about coming back to Broadway with his partner Teller. He also let us in on some of his favorite music, TV shows, and foods.
What have you read or seen ove…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 23, 2015
Penn Jillette talks about his Broadway engagement with partner in magic, Teller. The show includes both elements of their Las Vegas show and classics from their repertoire, and marks t…
SOURCE: WNYC at 06:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2015
The Bronx-born E.L. (Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow made the past come alive through his many novels "among them Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, World Fair, and Loon La…
SOURCE: WNYC at 02:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 15, 2015
The Welsh-born actor Roger Rees may be familiar to fans of "Cheers" and "The West Wing." But he was primarily a denizen of the stage " where he won both an Olivier and Tony awards for his le…
SOURCE: WNYC at 01:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Playwright Anne Washburn and actor Thomas Jay Ryan discuss their production, "10 Out of 12." In it, a company of theatre artists is engaged in the task of making a new play. Based on notes W…
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2015
The Public Theater kicked off their free Shakespeare in the Park season with a production of "The Tempest." Sam Waterston who is playing the character of Prospero alongside…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:50AM[SHARE]Friday, June 19, 2015
Director John Collins talks about the new staging of William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury,"Â along with stars Kaneza Schall and Vin Knight. The production is a staging of the first s…
SOURCE: WNYC at 09:46PM[SHARE]Monday, June 15, 2015
Jesse Eisenberg talks about "The Spoils," the play he wrote and stars in, along with co-star Michael Zegen, about Ben, a moody ex-graduate student who lives off his parents' money and …
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 10, 2015
"The Two Gentlemen of Verona" may well have been Shakespeare's first play. A seemingly simple tale of shifting devotions among mismatched lovers, it helped launch the genre of…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:16PM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2015
We're taking a look at the new Lincoln Center production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The King and I" with star Kelli O'Hara! The show was recently nominated for nine Tony Awards in…
SOURCE: WNYC at 06:29PM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2015
On May 29, lyricist Sheldon Harnick was on the show to talk about writing for the legendary musical, "Fiddler on the Roof." While Harnick was responsible for show tunes like "Tradition" a…
SOURCE: WNYC at 06:36PM[SHARE]Actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, along with writer Nick Payne, discuss the play "Constellations." This story begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman (G…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:43AM[SHARE]Kenneth Lonergan talks about his critically acclaimed play "This Is Our Youth," set in New York in 1982. He's joined by Kieran Culkin, who stars in it. The play follows 48 hou…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:43AM[SHARE]Actors Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, along with writer David Hare, talk about the new Broadway production of "Skylight." On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Ho…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:43AM[SHARE]Matthew Broderick and Micah Stock discuss their roles in the Broadway premiere of Terrence McNally's "It's Only A Play." Broderick stars as the playwright Peter Austin, who is anxio…
SOURCE: WNYC at 07:43AM[SHARE]16 Grammy winner Sting tells us about his debut as a Broadway composer in "The Last Ship" a new musical inspired by his own childhood. In a close-knit English seafaring town, lif…
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