Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Five time Tony-winner and new ATW Chairman William Ivey Long talks about his extensive career as one of Broadway's top costume designers, from his earliest days on stage -- living in a dress…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:12AM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2008
Two-time Tony nominee Jan Maxwell talks about whether she's been influenced by Carole Lombard and Anne Bancroft, her film predecessors as the leading ladies of "To Be or Not To Be", as well …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 07:57PM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2008
Prolific producer Tom Viertel, who with his partners Richard Frankel, Steve Baruch and Marc Routh have been responsible for such shows as "The Producers", "Hairspray", and the John Doyle-di…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 07:17PM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2008
Two-time Tony Award-winner James Naughton explains why he's at home in the Irish Repertory Theatre's "The Master Builder" and why it's his three Broadway musical appearances which are really…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:47PM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson discusses the creation of his famed "Talley trilogy," including "Fifth of July", which stemmed in part from his equating an Eskimo folk tale …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:12PM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2008
Multiple Tony nominee Gregg Edelman describes about the creation of the new Broadway musical "A Tale of Two Cities", including a song that was cut and that he misses terribly, and explains t…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:08PM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2008
Just after returning from a year-long sabbatical, Manhattan Theatre Club artistic director Lynne Meadow talks about what she did and didn't do during her hiatus and explains how she shared p…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 06:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Tony-winner B.D. Wong talks about his ongoing fascination with the 11-character, one-actor musical "Herringbone", from seeing the original production in 1981 through appearing in it for the …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:32PM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2008
Prolific Broadway casting director (and recent reality TV judge) Bernard Telsey discusses his parallel careers as the head of Telsey + Company and the artistic director of Off-Broadway's MCC…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 06:19PM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2008
Oscar-winner Estelle Parsons talks about taking on the role of the pill-popping Violet Weston in Broadway's "August: Osage County", noting that she's played many drinkers in her career but t…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:39PM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2008
Diane Paulus, director of the acclaimed 40th anniversary revival of the musical "Hair" in Central Park, talks about her long-standing love of the musical -- despite the fact that she'd never…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 06:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Michael Berresse, director of the musical "[title of show]", talks about the show's journey from speed-writing exercise to Broadway hit and whether the self-referential story ever included t…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:45AM[SHARE]Monday, August 25, 2008
Five time Tony-winner William Ivey Long talks about his extensive career as one of Broadway's top costume designers, from his earliest days on stage -- living in a dressing room at the Ralei…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:12AM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2008
As "Wicked" approaches its fifth anniversary on Broadway, producer David Stone talks about the ever-expanding life of the international hit musical, including how the show first came into be…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 07:02PM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2008
Veteran sound designer Tony Meola talks about the many issues involved in designing such musicals as "Wicked" and "The Lion King" on Broadway and around the world, dissecting such issues as …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 06:32PM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2008
Tony-winning actor John Glover talks about the revival of Christopher Durang's "The Marriage of Bette and Boo" at the Roundabout, and how he grappled with the distinctly unpleasant aspects o…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:27PM[SHARE]Monday, July 28, 2008
Tony Award winning actress Randy Graff talks about her role as Meg Boyd in the current Encores! revival of "Damn Yankees", including what she learned from reading the novel on which the show…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 06:46PM[SHARE]Monday, July 21, 2008
25 years after coming to New York's Roundabout Theatre Company, artistic director Todd Haimes talks about the company's growth from a financially troubled Off-Broadway group into one of the …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2008
"South Pacific"'s Tony Award-winning set designer Michael Yeargan discusses the visual approach taken for the first Broadway revival of this classic musical, including the negotiation behind…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:31AM[SHARE]Monday, July 7, 2008
Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Michael Boyd gives an overview of the company's work, including its acclaimed "Complete Works" Festival and the recent two-year journey of the "Hi…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:04PM[SHARE]Monday, June 30, 2008
On the eve of his fourth Tony Award win, actor Boyd Gaines talks about his busy year, including "Journey's End", "Pygmalion" and both the Encores and Broadway runs of "Gypsy". He also descr…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:11PM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2008
Barbara Gaines, founder and artistic director of the newly Tony-recognized Chicago Shakespeare Theater, talks about the company's evolution from a classical acting workshop to a major instit…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:49PM[SHARE]Monday, June 16, 2008
Tony-winner Priscilla Lopez talks about what drew her to the new musical "In The Heights" and talks about her patience and faith that by the time it reached Broadway, she'd have her own song…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:36PM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2008
Tony-winner Harriet Harris talks about being "the adult" in a company of kids in the Broadway musical "Cry-Baby" and reveals which of the musical numbers in the show convinced her that she n…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 06:26PM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2008
Broadway's newest Gypsy Rose Lee, Laura Benanti, talks about playing the title role in "Gypsy" both last summer at City Center and again this year on Broadway, including her thoughts on form…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Actress Laura Linney talks about returning to Broadway as the Marquise de Merteuil in the Roundabout production of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" and whether she thinks her character is truly ev…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:36PM[SHARE]Monday, May 19, 2008
"The Little Mermaid"'s Sherie Rene Scott talks about creating the role of Ursula in the stage version of the beloved animated film, including what she believes the character thinks of hersel…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:08PM[SHARE]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]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]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]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…
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