Podcasts by ATW - Working In The Theatre
For more than 30 years the American Theatre Wing has been bringing together performers, directors, playwrights, designers, choreographers, producers and behind-the-scenes personnel from the American and international theatre, the seminars offer a rare opportunity for students and audiences to see the people who create theatre engaged in thoughtful conversation with one another. With more than 600 past guests, the seminars have become an unequalled archive of theatrical talk, a chance to hear from the people behind the characters, stories and productions that draw us to the theatre.
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Featured Performers 2012 - March, 2012 from 2023-12-14T06:37:23.102857
The point at which they knew they wanted to act was one of the first things discussed in our conversation with David Alan Grier, Judith Light and Condola Rashad. They also talked about the research...
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Directors: Process and Collaboration - April, 2012 from 2023-12-14T06:37:23.097073
Directors Sheryl Kaller, Pam MacKinnon and Stephen Wadsworth talked about their start in theatre; their process when beginning a new project; collaboration with playwrights and the challenges of ha...
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The Publicists' World - May, 2012 from 2023-12-14T06:37:23.092678
Super-Publicists Adrian Bryan-Brown and Rick Miramontez talk with moderator Thomas Schumacher about the new world of theatre publicity as it relates to social media; whether or not there's such a t...
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The Tony Awards: History, Highlights and Backstage - June, 2012 from 2023-12-14T06:37:23.088633
On a special Tony Awards edition of "Working in the Theatre" host Ted Chapin, Chairman of the American Theatre Wing, takes viewers behind the scenes with Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, Executive P...
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Exploring Musical Theatre - July, 2012 from 2023-12-14T06:37:23.083634
The challenges and triumphs facing musical theatre today, both on and off Broadway, are discussed by actress Heidi Blickenstaff, Tony award winning choreographer Christopher Gattelli and Tony award...
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America's New Theatre Companies - December, 2012 from 2023-12-14T06:37:23.079538
The 2012 National Theatre Company Grant Recipients share their thoughts on attracting and cultivating audiences; the importance of regional theatre across the country; their role in reaching out to...
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Theatre's Super Lawyers - January, 2013 from 2023-12-14T06:37:23.073185
Theatrical lawyers Elliot Brown, Seth Gelblum and Nancy Rose talk with Patrick Pacheco about the behind the scenes work they do from negotiating rights and contracts to deals with unions and licens...
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The Impact of Regional Theatre - February, 2013 from 2023-12-14T06:37:23.066544
Among the topics our guests Alan Brown, Cynthia Hedstrom and Howard Shalwitz talk with moderator Ben Cameron about are how you measure the value of art and its' impact on audiences; what's importan...
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The Anatomy of a Song - March, 2013 from 2023-12-14T06:37:23.060741
Host Thomas Schumacher gives us a unique look at a song – what it is, where it comes from, the process from idea to stage, and how it fits in a show. He’s joined by Tony, Oscar and Grammy award wi...
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Reimagining Musicals - April, 2013 from 2023-12-14T06:37:23.052869
Director/Choreographer Rob Ashford, President and Executive Director of Rodgers and Hammerstein Ted Chapin and Director Scott Ellis talk with moderator Patrick Pacheco about re-imagining musicals f...
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Critics and Social Media - May, 2013 from 2023-12-14T06:37:23.046072
From the pages of newspapers to tweets, blogs, chat rooms and twitter, the role of the theatre critic has been changing. Guests Lisa Fung, Charles Isherwood, Peter Marks and Elisabeth Vincentelli, ...
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Setting the Stage - June, 2013 from 2023-12-14T06:37:23.038728
Working In The Theatre goes on location to NYC's Public Theater as host Patrick Pacheco talks with designer David Rockwell about his set design for the theatre (including "The Normal Heart" and "Lu...
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Pop Music and the New Musical - September, 2005 from 2022-03-07T10:07:36.653014
Artists with their feet in both pop music and musical theatre—Stephen Bray and Allee Willis ("The Color Purple"), Rupert Holmes ("The Mystery of Edwin Drood"), Lucy Simon ("The Secret Garden") and ...
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Production: See What I Wanna See - October, 2005 from 2022-03-07T10:07:36.650238
An in-depth look at the creation of the Off-Broadway musical, with author Michael John LaChiusa, director Ted Sperling, musical stager Jonathan Butterell and actors Marc Kudisch and Mary Testa.
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Staging The Classics - November, 2005 from 2022-03-07T10:07:36.636429
Making classic work come alive for today's audiences is the topic for directors Anne Bogart, Barbara Gaines, Mark Lamos and Bartlett Sher.
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Producing Commercial Theatre - December, 2005 from 2022-03-07T10:07:36.603284
Five prolific commercial producers—Susan Gallin ("Woman Before a Glass"), Elizabeth McCann ("Well"), Kevin McCollum ("Avenue Q"), David Stone ("Wicked") and Tom Viertel ("Sweeney Todd")—explore the...
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Actors on Performing - December, 2005 from 2022-03-07T10:07:36.591669
A free-ranging conversation on the actors' life with Michael Cerveris ("Sweeney Todd"), Victoria Clark ("A Light in the Piazza"), Jill Clayburgh ("Naked Girl on the Appian Way"), George Grizzard ("...
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Critics - January, 2006 from 2022-03-07T10:07:36.588951
Some of the country's most read critics—Melissa Rose Bernardo of Entertainment Weekly, Michael Feingold of The Village Voice, Elysa Gardner of USA Today, Michael Kuchwara of the Associated Press an...
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The Playwright - February, 2006 from 2022-03-07T10:07:36.582514
The writers' life is the topic for authors Christopher Durang ("Miss Witherspoon"), Lisa Kron ("Well"), Marsha Norman ("The Color Purple"), John Patrick Shanley ("Defiance") and Diana Son ("Satelli...
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Production: The Drowsy Chaperone - April, 2006 from 2022-03-07T10:07:36.579968
Originally created as a skit for a bachelor party, "The Drowsy Chaperone" has traveled from Toronto to Los Angeles to Broadway, growing in size along the way without sacrificing its skewed view of ...
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Actors on Performing - April, 2006 from 2022-03-07T10:07:36.577806
Experiences on stage in America and England are the core of this conversation with actors Eileen Atkins ("Doubt"), Richard Griffiths ("The History Boys"), Jonathan Pryce ("Dirty Rotten Scoundrels")...
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Design - May, 2006 from 2022-03-07T10:07:36.575172
The creation of new worlds on stage and the work of their creators is explored with lighting designer Peggy Eisenhauer ("Assassins"), costume designer Jess Goldstein ("Jersey Boys"), set designer D...
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Exploring Summer Theatre - June, 2005 from 2022-03-07T10:07:36.570929
Far from the fabled days of summer stock, today's summer theatres are ambitious artistic institutions that aren't really just for summer anymore. A discussion with Sybil Christopher of the Bay Stre...
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Musicals: Directors and Choreographers - March, 2005 from 2022-03-07T10:07:36.555341
Choreographer Rob Ashford, Director Chris Ashley, Director/Choreographer John Carrafa and Choreographer Gillian Lynne talk about making musical speak, move and sing.
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Performance - December, 2004 from 2022-03-07T10:07:36.494288
Three distinguished actresses—Brenda Blethyn, Kathleen Chalfant and Randy Graff—discuss their craft and careers.
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Not-For-Profits of Broadway - November, 2004 from 2022-03-07T10:07:36.491292
With three of New York's major not-for-profit theatres now producing in Broadway venues, their leaders—Andre Bishop and Bernard Gersten of Lincoln Center Theatre, Lynne Meadow and Barry Grove of Ma...
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Playwrights - October, 2004 from 2022-03-07T10:07:36.476412
At the start of a theatre season which would see revivals of major works by each, authors Edward Albee ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"), Harvey Fierstein ("La Cage aux Folles"), Paula Vogel ("Th...
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Casting Directors 2012 - February, 2012 from 2012-01-30T16:48:23
Casting Directors David Caparelliotis, Tara Rubin and Daniel Swee and moderator Patrick Pacheco discuss the role of the casting director; their collaboration with directors; recasting shows; and wh...
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The Playwrights' Voice 2012 - January, 2012 from 2012-01-17T11:39:57
Playwrights Lydia R. Diamond, David Henry Hwang and Suzan-Lori Parks discuss their work and other American playwrights and how they influenced them; the moment each was aware they wanted to be writ...
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Producers: A Creative Approach - December, 2011 from 2011-12-19T12:19:16
Producers Jean Doumanian and Daryl Roth talk about creating a supportive environment for artistic teams bringing shows to the stage; collaborating with other producers; the benefits and challenges ...
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Regional Theatre - December, 2011 from 2011-12-05T12:34:19
Our guests -- representatives from theatres receiving the American Theatre Wing 2011 National Theatre Company Grants: Buntport Theater Company, FUSION, Mo´olelo Performing Arts Company, Pig Iron T...
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The State of Theatre: Institutions and Producers - November, 2011 from 2011-11-14T12:27:54
Thomas Schumacher talks with guests, Ben Cameron and Kevin McCollum, about the state of theatre today in a wide ranging conversation that highlights how theatre can survive during difficult economi...
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Behind The Curtain - October, 2011 from 2011-10-24T11:30:06
Disney Theatrical President and Producer Thomas Schumacher takes us behind the curtain and gives us an up close and personal view of how things work backstage. We'll meet the make up people from "T...
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Challenges and Triumphs: Actors 2011 - August, 2011 from 2011-08-22T11:38:08
Actors Nina Arianda, Nikki M. James, Arian Moayed and Bobby Steggert share what drew them to the theatre; the difference between training and actually being on stage; the audition process; what the...
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Directors 2011 - July, 2011 from 2011-07-18T10:18:58
Directors Jo Bonney, Sheldon Epps, Michael Halberstam and Gregory Mosher talk about how they got started in the business; choosing their projects; their process when starting a new show; how the du...
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Passion and Compassion: Actors 2011 - June, 2011 from 2011-06-06T10:48:46
Actors Bobby Cannavale ("The Motherf**ker with the Hat"), Renée Elise Goldsberry ("Good People"), Judith Light ("Lombardi"), Lia Williams ("Arcadia") and Tom Wopat ("Catch Me If You Can") talk abou...
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Theatre Journalism: Online and Off - May, 2011 from 2011-05-16T11:00:01
The opportunities and challenges of online arts journalism started off the discussion for our panel - Chris Caggiano, Scott Heller, David J. Loehr, Jan Simpson and Terry Teachout. They also discuss...
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Don't Be Afraid: Stage Veterans 2011 - April, 2011 from 2011-04-14T08:23:04
The panel of stage veterans - F. Murray Abraham, Stacy Keach, Estelle Parsons and Lois Smith - discuss the rehearsal and audition process; how they deal with rejection; the pros and cons of directi...
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The Characters Start Talking: Playwrights 2011 - March, 2011 from 2011-03-28T10:01:22
The panel of playwrights - Annie Baker, Rinne Groff, Karen Hartman and Alfred Uhry - talk about their writing process; the role of the dramaturg; writing adaptations; collaborating with directors; ...
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Through Their Eyes: Actors 2011 - February, 2011 from 2011-02-23T10:35:57
Actors Colman Domingo, Elizabeth Marvel, Michele Pawk, Daphne Rubin-Vega and David Zayas discuss the influence of their early training; how they challenge themselves for each role; their feelings a...
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Compelling Stories: Playwrights 2011 - January, 2011 from 2011-01-24T09:07:36
The panel of playwrights - Kristoffer Diaz, Kate Fodor, Rajiv Joseph, Young Jean Lee and Tarell Alvin McCraney - discuss how and why they became involved in theatre; whether their writing comes fro...
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Getting the Show on the Road - December, 2010 from 2010-12-23T09:08:09
The panel of producers, presenters and bookers -- Meredith Blair, Mike Isaacson, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Steven Schnepp and Allan Williams -- discuss what works and what doesn't on the road; t...
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Embracing Process: Directors 2010 - December, 2010 from 2010-12-13T09:45:07
A panel of directors - Stafford Arima, Anne Kauffman, Rebecca Taichman and Henry Wishcamper - discusses the dynamic between themselves and the playwrights with whom they work; their first paying jo...
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The Vocabulary of Dance: Choreographers 2010 - November, 2010 from 2010-11-08T11:53:49
Our panel of choreographers - Christopher Gattelli, Liza Gennaro, Ken Roberson and Sergio Trujillo - discuss their childhood and early adult life and how it influenced their start in dance; the amo...
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Revivals: Return to Broadway - April, 1996 from 2010-11-02T09:35:25
The panelists - President/Executive Director of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization Ted Chapin, President of the American Theatre Producers Cy Feuer, writer/critic Martin Gottfried, actor Nat...
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Performance - September, 1996 from 2010-10-25T10:32:34
The panel of performers - Jessica Boevers ("A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"), Jim Dale ("Barnum", "Candide"), Justin Kirk ("Love! Valour! Compassion!"), Daniel Massey ("Taking Sides...
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Playscript - April, 1980 from 2010-10-18T10:23:58
The panel of playwrights - Edward Albee ("The Lady From Dubuque"), Eve Merriam ("The Club"), Samm-Art Williams ("Home"), Lanford Wilson ("Talley's Folly"), and Ruth Wolff ("The Abdication") - disc...
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Performance - September, 1982 from 2010-10-04T16:28:38
The panel of performers - Karen Akers ("Nine"), Christine Baranski ("Sally and Marsha"), actor/playwright Harvey Fierstein ("Torch Song Trilogy"), Ben Harney ("Dreamgirls"), Lonny Price ("Master Ha...
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Production: Dancing In The End Zone - April, 1984 from 2010-09-27T08:59:54
The business team for the play "Dancing In The End Zone" - literary agent Mitch Douglas, producers Dasha Epstein and Morton Gottlieb, publicist Milly Schoenbaum, and general manager Richard Seader ...
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Performance - September, 1984 from 2010-09-20T10:03:46
The panel of actors - Sinead Cusack ("Cyrano De Bergerac"), Frank Langella ("After The Fall"), Joe Mantegna ("Glengarry Glen Ross"), Theresa Merritt ("Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"), and Sigourney Weav...
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Production: Hurlyburly - September, 1984 from 2010-09-13T12:21:24
The production team behind "Hurlyburly" - advertising representative Rick Elice, agent Milton Goldman, legal counsel Jay S. Harris, stage manager Peter Lawrence, press representative Sandra Manley,...
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Performance - April, 1985 from 2010-08-30T11:41:50
The panel of Broadway actors - Matthew Broderick ("Biloxi Blues"), Jim Dale ("Joe Egg"), Charles S. Dutton ("Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"), Rosemary Harris ("Pack of Lies"), Glenda Jackson ("Strange I...
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Playwright, Director and Choreographer - April, 1985 from 2010-08-23T12:33:05
The panelists - playwright P.J. Barry ("The Octette Bridge Club"), lyricist Ellen Fitzhugh ("Grind"), director John Going ("Inherit The Wind"), playwright Fay Kanin ("Grind"), playwright Jerome Law...
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Production: Grind - April, 1985 from 2010-08-16T13:17:48
The producing team of the 1985 Broadway musical "Grind" - advertising representative Jeffrey Ash, group sales executive Ronald S. Lee, executive producer Ruth Mitchell, and producers Michael Frazie...
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Performance - September, 1985 from 2010-08-10T15:16:21
The panel of actors - Don Correia ("Singin' in the Rain"), Tovah Feldshuh ("Springtime for Henry"), Glenne Headly ("Arms and the Man"), Judd Hirsch ("I'm Not Rappaport"), Barnard Hughes ("The Icema...
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Playwright and Director - September, 1985 from 2010-08-02T08:12:36
The panelists - director Clinton Turner Davis ("Two Can Play"), playwright Herb Gardner ("I'm Not Rappaport"), playwright/lyricist Tom Jones ("The Fantasticks"), playwright Shirley Lauro ("Open Adm...
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The Next Generation 2010 - June, 2010 from 2010-07-26T10:18:59
Our panel of some of Broadway's brightest new performers - Jennifer Damiano, Robin de Jesús, John Gallagher, Jr., Jon Michael Hill and Krysta Rodriguez - discuss the first professional show they ev...
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Design - September, 1985 from 2010-07-19T12:07:39
The 1985 Joseph Maharam Foundation Awards for Scenic, Costume, and Lighting Design are awarded to Lawrence Eichler, Charles Ludlam, and Everett Quinton for The Ridiculous Theatrical Company's "The ...
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Performance - April, 1986 from 2010-07-12T12:31:58
The panel of actors -- Glenn Close ("Benefactors"), Maurice Hines ("Uptown...It's Hot"), Aidan Quinn ("A Lie of the Mind"), Marlo Thomas ("Social Security") -- discuss working with directors, agent...
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Developing Musical Theatre - April, 2010 from 2010-06-28T11:12:29
The development and production of musical theatre was the focus of the discussion with our panel of producers - Sue Frost, Robyn Goodman, Paulette Haupt and Scott Sanders. They talk about what attr...
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Playwright and Director - April, 1986 from 2010-06-21T17:00:23
Playwright Brian Clark ("The Petition"), playwright/director Emily Mann ("The Execution of Justice"), playwright Arthur Miller ("Death of a Salesman"), literary agent Gilbert Parker, director Norma...
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Production: Precious Sons - April, 1986 from 2010-06-14T12:39:42
The "Precious Sons" production team - producers Marty Bell and Roger Berlind, legal respresentative Patricia Crown, press representative Joshua Ellis, advertising representative Peter LeDonne, and ...
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Equal Exchange: Actors 2010 - April, 2010 from 2010-06-07T11:19:36
Our panel of leading actors - David Alan Grier, Anthony LaPaglia, Laura Linney, Jan Maxwell and Alfred Molina - shared their process about what they look for in a script; the kind and extent of the...
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Roles for Ourselves: Playwrights 2010 - March, 2010 from 2010-05-24T11:37:30
Our distinguished panel of playwrights -- Charles Busch, David Ives, Donald Margulies and Suzan-Lori Parks -- discuss the moment when they realized they wanted to be writers; who influenced them in...
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Performance - September, 1986 from 2010-05-17T13:21:15
The panel of performers - Vondie Curtis-Hall ("Raisin In The Sun"), Ossie Davis ("I'm Not Rappaport"), Swoosie Kurtz ("The House of Blue Leaves"), Jean Stapleton ("Arsenic and Old Lace", and Loret...
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Playwright and Director - September, 1986 from 2010-05-10T14:06:07
The Playscript/Director panelists - Long Wharf Theatre artistic director Arvin Brown, playwright Howard Fast ("Citizen Tom Paine"), director/dramaturg Susan Gregg, playwright Israel Horovitz ("Tod...
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Waiting In The Wings - March, 2010 from 2010-05-03T10:39:58
Their roles as understudies on Broadway was the focal point for this panel of actors -- Tony Carlin ("Lend Me A Tenor"), Bryan Fenkart ("Memphis"), Corinne Melançon ("Mamma Mia"), Jay Russell ("Our...
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Production: House Of Blue Leaves - September, 1986 from 2010-04-26T14:14:37
The producing team of the 1986 Tony-nominated play "The House of Blue Leaves" - press representative Merle Debuskey, executive producer Bernard Gersten, playwright John Guare, advertising represen...
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Performance - April, 1987 from 2010-04-19T11:17:19
The panel of performers - Trazana Beverley ("Death and the King's Horseman"), Mark Hamill ("The Nerd"), George S. Irving ("Me and My Girl"), Linda Lavin ("Broadway Bound"), Lynn Redgrave ("Sweet S...
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Producing's New Voices - March, 2010 from 2010-04-12T12:07:57
Injecting new energy and a new perspective into both commercial and not for profit theatre was among the topics discussed by our panel of producers - Patrick Catullo, Eric Falkenstein, Jenny Gerste...
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Playwright and Director - April, 1987 from 2010-04-05T12:12:51
The panel - director Melvin Bernhardt ("The Beach House"), playwright Alice Childress ("Moms"), director Walter Dallas ("Moms"), playwright Nancy Donohue ("The Beach House"), playwright Patrick Mey...
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Production: Sweet Sue - April, 1987 from 2010-03-29T12:14:26
The production team of "Sweet Sue" - advertising representative Fred Golden, general manager Larry Goossen, playwright A.R. Gurney, casting director Donna Isaacson, and producer Arthur Whitelaw - d...
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Performance - September, 1987 from 2010-03-22T11:58:23
The panel of performers - from "Driving Miss Daisy", Morgan Freeman and Dana Ivey; Robert LuPone ("Late Night Comic"); John Malkovitch ("Burn This"); Jane Summerhays ("Me and My Girl"); and Courtne...
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Production: A Few Good Men - September, 1990 from 2010-03-15T08:05:23
The production team for "A Few Good Men" - producer David Brown; president of the Shubert Organization, Bernard Jacobs; Serino Coyne advertising representative Linda Lehman; and general manager St...
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Performance - September, 1991 from 2010-03-01T13:11:41
The panel of performers - Hinton Battle ("Miss Saigon"), Roy Dotrice ("The Homecoming"), Timothy Hutton ("Babylon Gardens"), Mary Louise Parker ("Babylon Gardens"), Teresa Wright ("On Borrowed Time...
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Performance - April, 1992 from 2010-02-22T09:23:06
The panel of actors - Alan Alda (Neil Simon's "Jake's Women"), Jodi Benson ("Crazy For You"), Roscoe Lee Brown (August Wilson's "Two Trains Running"), Glenn Close ("Death and the Maiden"), Richard ...
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The Play That Changed My Life - December, 2009 from 2010-02-08T10:36:52
What was "The Play That Changed Your Life"? Not only the title of a new American Theatre Wing book, which posed that question to 19 of America's most distinguished playwrights, but the start of a d...
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Playwright and Director - April, 1992 from 2010-02-03T09:05:42
The panelists - playwright Jon Robin Baitz ("The End of the Day"), playwright Charles Grodin ("One of the All-Time Greats"), director Mark Lamos ("The End of the Day"), playwright Ken Ludwig ("Craz...
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Production: Crazy For You - April, 1992 from 2010-01-27T10:42:38
The production team of "Crazy For You" - advertising representative Nancy Coyne, press representative Bill Evans, general manager Tyler Gatchell, casting director Julie Hughes, and producer Elizabe...
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Performance - September, 1992 from 2010-01-21T08:39:56
The panel consisting of casting director Jay Binder ("Lost In Yonkers"), and actors Lucie Arnaz ("Lost In Yonkers"), Hallie Foote ("The Roads to Rome"), Gregory Hines ("Jelly's Last Jam"), Tonya P...
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Next To Normal: The Road to Broadway - November, 2009 from 2010-01-13T08:57:38
The creative team behind the hit musical "Next To Normal" - Director Michael Greif, Composer Tom Kitt, Producer David Stone and Book Writer/Lyricist Brian Yorkey - discuss the unique road the show ...
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Playwright and Director - September, 1992 from 2010-01-06T10:14:31
The panel - playwright/director P.J. Barry ("A Distance From Calcutta"), lyricist Susan Birkenhead ("Jelly's Last Jam"), playwright/director Horton Foote ("The Roads To Home"), agent Wiley Hausam ...
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Production: Jelly's Last Jam - September, 1992 from 2009-12-30T07:46:45
The "Jelly's Last Jam" production team - general manager Michael David, advertising representative Rick Elice of Serino Coyne, press agent Richard Kornberg, producers Pamela Koslow and Margo Lion, ...
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Amazing Affinity: Actors 2009 - November, 2009 from 2009-12-23T08:05:11
Our panel of actors -- Danny Burstein, Malcolm Gets, Bill Pullman and John Douglas Thompson -- share the particular moment when they realized they wanted to be actors; how the language of a play in...
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Unions and Guilds - September, 1992 from 2009-12-16T10:12:49
The panel of union and guild representatives - Jean Dalrymple, member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers (ATPAM); Alan Eisenberg, Executive Secretary of Actors' Equity Assoc...
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Design - September, 1992 from 2009-12-09T11:55:03
The panel - actress Brenda Braxton ("Jelly's Last Jam"), Mettawee River Theatre Company puppet/costume designers Casey Compton and Ralph Lee ("Wichikapache Goes Walking"), producer/lighting designe...
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Beyond Broadway: International Theatre - October, 2009 from 2009-12-02T07:36:17
The expansion of the Broadway brand to Asian markets was among the topics discussed by our panel: Simone Genatt, Chairman of Broadway Asia, Robert Nederlander, Jr, President and CEO of Nederlander ...
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Production: Anna Christie - January, 1993 from 2009-11-25T07:48:08
The "Anna Christie" production team - scenic designer John Lee Beatty, O'Neill biographer Barbara Gelb, Artistic Director of Roundabout Theatre Todd Haimes, actors Anne Meara, Liam Neeson, Natasha ...
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Regional Theatre - October, 2009 from 2009-11-18T08:18:32
The role of Regional Theatre in supporting and presenting new works to their communities was among the topics discussed by our panel: Christopher Ashley, Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse, Go...
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Performance - April, 1993 from 2009-11-11T10:45:45
The panel of performers - Joan Copeland ("Another Time"), Jeff Daniels ("Redwood Curtain"), Christopher Durang (Sondheim's "Putting It Together"), Robert Foxworth ("Candida"), Robert Klein ("The Si...
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Playwright and Director - April, 1993 from 2009-11-04T09:28:48
The panelists - theatrical agent Joanne Nici, playwright Frank Pugliese ("Aven'U Boys"), director/writer Geraldine Fitzgerald ("Sharon"), choreographer Wayne Cilento ("Tommy"), and producer Frederi...
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Leading Ladies - September, 2009 from 2009-10-28T09:18:45
Our four Tony Award winning Leading Ladies -- Laura Benanti, Beth Leavel, Bebe Neuwirth and Alice Ripley - discuss performances they've seen that have made a lasting impact on them; the moment when...
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Production: Fool Moon - April, 1993 from 2009-10-21T16:22:02
The "Fool Moon" production team - producers Jeffrey Ash, Dori Berinstein, and James Freydberg, actor/creator Bill Irwin, press representative Jackie Green, general manager Robert Kamlot, company ma...
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Regional Theatre/New Play Development - April, 1993 from 2009-10-14T10:50:26
The panelists - theatre critic Howard Kissel, Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club Lynn Meadow, actor/director Zakes Mokae ("The Song Of Jacob Zulu"), producer/general manager Dorothy Olim, ...
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Performance - September, 1993 from 2009-10-07T11:18:56
The panel of performers - David Cassidy and Petula Clark from "Blood Brothers", Julie Harris ("The Fiery Furnace"), Jeff Hyslop ("Kiss of the Spider Woman"), and Joe Mantello and Stephen Spinellafr...
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Playwright and Director - September, 1993 from 2009-09-30T12:16:45
The panelists - playwright/director Edward Albee ("Marriage Play"), director Arvin Brown ("The Twilight of the Golds"), agent Joyce Ketay, playwright Tony Kushner ("Angels In America"), playwright ...
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Production: Kiss of the Spider Woman - September, 1993 from 2009-09-23T15:56:22
"The Kiss of the Spider Woman" production team - producer Garth Drabinsky, lyricist Fred Ebb, composer John Kander, playwright Terrence McNally, director Harold Prince, and actor Chita Rivera - di...
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Design - September, 1993 from 2009-09-16T11:58:23
The design panel - scenic designer John Arnone ("The Who's Tommy"), costume designer Elizabeth Fried ("Brother Truckers"), special effects designer Wendall K. Harrington ("The Who's Tommy"), lighti...
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New Play Development - April, 1994 from 2009-09-09T11:13:33
The resident theatre panelists - Randall Arney, Artistic Director of Steppenwolf Theatre; Zelda Fichandler, Artistic Director of the Acting Company; Emily Mann, Artistic Director of McCarter Theate...
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Playwright, Director and Choreographer - April, 1994 from 2009-09-02T11:45:29
The panel - director Martin Charnin ("The Flowering Peach"), "Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public" playwright Larry L. King and director/co-writer Peter Masterson, choreographer Rob Marshall ("Kiss ...
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Production: Beauty and the Beast - April, 1994 from 2009-08-26T14:47:36
The "Beauty and the Beast" production team - press representative Chris Boneau, producer Michael David, associate producer Donald Frantz, production supervisor Jeremiah Harris, producer Robert W. M...
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Performance - September, 1994 from 2009-08-19T10:36:31
The panel of performers - Michel Bell ("Show Boat"), Charlotte D'Amboise ("Damn Yankees"), Rosemary Harris ("An Inspector Calls"), Audra McDonald ("Carousel"), and Lonette McKee ("Show Boat") - dis...
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Playwright and Director - September, 1994 from 2009-08-12T11:41:38
The panelists - director/playwright Vernel Bagneris ("Jelly Roll!"), playwright David Ives ("All in the Timing"), actor Nancy Opel ("All in the Timing"), director Lawrence Sacharow ("Three Tall Wom...
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Production: Damn Yankees - September, 1994 from 2009-08-05T11:21:35
The "Damn Yankees" production team - legal counsel Robert Barandes, press representative Peter Cromarty, advertising representative Rick Elice, producers Mitchell Maxwell and Victoria Maxell, and ...
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Design - September, 1994 from 2009-07-29T16:25:38
The design panel - lighting designer Beverly Emmons, costume designer Ann Hould-Ward, and scenic designers David Schulder and Tony Walton - and co-moderater lighting designer Jules Fisher talk abo...
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Performance - April, 1995 from 2009-07-22T16:41:49
The panel of performers - Mary Alice ("Having Our Say"), Matthew Broderick ("How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying"), Alan Campbell ("Sunset Boulevard"), Gloria Foster ("Having Our Say")...
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First and Loudest: The Marketing of Broadway - June, 2009 from 2009-07-15T17:33:19
Our guests - John Barlow, Damian Bazadona, Nancy Coyne and Drew Hodges - discuss what is involved in marketing, advertising and publicizing a Broadway show; how they work one-on-one with producers...
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Playwright and Director - April, 1995 from 2009-07-08T16:48:17
The panel - playwright/actor Dan Butler ("The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me"), playwright Tom Dulack ("Breaking Legs"), director Scott Ellis ("A Month In The Country"), playwright Keith G...
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Production: Love! Valour! Compassion! - April, 1995 from 2009-07-01T16:17:35
The production team of "Love! Valour! Compassion!" - general manager Victoria Bailey, press representative Helene Davis, managing director Barry Grove, director Joe Mantello, playwright Terrence M...
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Regional Theatre: Goodspeed Opera House - April, 1995 from 2009-06-24T15:34:56
Goodspeed Opera House's team - director/lyricist Martin Charnin ("Annie"), press representative Max Eisen, associate producer Sue Frost, musical supervisor Michael O'Flaherty, director Charles Repo...
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Performance - September, 1995 from 2009-06-17T14:56:11
The panel of performers - Betty Buckley ("Sunset Blvd"), Liz Callaway ("Cats"), Valerie Harper ("Death Defying Acts"), Brian Murray ("Racing Demon"), Roger Rees (Tom Stoppard's "Indiscretions"), Fr...
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Playwright, Director and Choreographer - September, 1995 from 2009-06-10T12:04:34
The multi-disciplined panelists -- director/choreographer Jeff Calhoun ("Busker Alley"), director/playwright Michael Leeds ("Swinging on a Star"), actor/playwright Anne Meara ("After-Play"), direct...
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Fluidity and Change: Directors 2009 - May, 2009 from 2009-06-03T14:39:29
Five of the stage's most talented Directors - Thomas Kail, Moisés Kaufman, Bartlett Sher, Leigh Silverman and Kate Whoriskey - talk about how they work with, and interpret, the author's work; the ...
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Production: Moon Over Buffalo - September, 1995 from 2009-05-27T11:24:02
The "Moon Over Buffalo" production team -- press representative Adrian Bryan-Brown, designer/producer Heidi Landesman, producer Elizabeth Williams, general managers Wendy Orshan and Jeffrey M. Wils...
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Design Awards - September, 1995 from 2009-05-20T23:51:59
The design team of "The Heiress" -- scenic designer John Lee Beatty, lightning designer Beverly Emmons, costume designer Jane Greenwood, director Gerald Gutierrez and actor Cherry Jones -- discuss...
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At Work and Play: Lead Actors 2009 - April, 2009 from 2009-05-13T09:40:18
Beginning the discussion with the question of when, or if, work becomes fun, our guests, lead actors all--Jane Alexander, Bill Irwin, Angela Lansbury, Cynthia Nixon, and Geoffrey Rush--also talk ab...
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Playwright and Director - April, 1996 from 2009-05-06T16:21:32
The discussion panel - director Leonard Foglia ("Master Class"), director Michael Greif ("Rent"), playwright Betsy Howie ("Cowgirls"), lyricist Tom Jones ("The Fantasticks"), composer/lyricist Mar...
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For The Record: Inside Cast Albums - April, 2009 from 2009-04-29T12:14:34
Our guests -- Ted Chapin, Kurt Deutsch, Brian Drutman, and Thomas Z. Shepard -- take us inside the world of producing cast albums. Highlights of the discussion center on how these albums get made;...
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Playwright and Director - September, 1987 from 2009-04-22T17:12:46
The panel - playwright Allan Knee ("Late Night Comic"), director Ron Lagomarsino ("Driving Miss Daisy"), director Lloyd Richards ("Fences"), casting director Meg Simon ("Fences"), playwright Alfred...
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Crafting Worlds: Theatrical Design - March, 2009 from 2009-04-15T12:56:23
Our guests - Scenic Designer David Gallo, Sound Designer John Gromada, Costume Designer Susan Hilferty and Lighting Designer Peter Kaczorowski - discuss how a design team enhances a production; whe...
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New Writers, New Musicals: Jonathan Larson Grants 2009 - March, 2009 from 2009-04-01T13:16:14
Our guests - 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant® recipients Mark Allen, Dave Malloy, Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore - tell us what these Grants and others mean to them and their work; how they became involv...
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Design - September, 1987 from 2009-03-25T13:26:14
The 23rd annual American Theatre Wing Design Awards honor the best theatrical design in New York for the 1986-1987 season. The award winning designs are demonstrated by "Starlight Express" assista...
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Performance - April, 1988 from 2009-03-19T10:53:24
Broadway performers Patti Cohenour, Michael Crawford, and Judy Kaye from "The Phantom of the Opera"; Blythe Danner ("A Streetcar Named Desire"); "M. Butterfly"'s John Lithgow and B.D. Wong; and age...
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Consolation and Provocation: Playwrights 2009 - February, 2009 from 2009-03-11T11:06:10
Our guests - playwrights Gina Gionfriddo, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Tina Howe, Lisa Loomer and Christopher Shinn - explore whether they write to console or provoke an audience; to what degree current ...
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Playwright and Director - April, 1988 from 2009-03-04T15:44:23
Director Paul Benedict ("Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune"), playwright Timothy Crouse ("Anything Goes"), playwright David Henry Hwang ("M. Butterfly"), director Robert Kalfin ("Rashomon"), ...
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Production: M. Butterfly - April, 1988 from 2009-02-25T10:35:50
The production team of "M. Butterfly" - advertising representative Jeffrey Ash, stage manager Bob Borod, general manager Steve Goldstein, producer Stuart Ostrow, and press agent John Springer - tal...
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Performance - September, 1988 from 2009-02-18T13:17:11
The actors - David Dukes ("M Butterfly"), Anne Jackson ("Cafe Crown"), Sylvia Miles ("Tea with Mommy and Jack"), Kate Nelligan ("Spoils of War"), Eli Wallach ("Cafe Crown"), and Paul Winfield ("Che...
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Production: Spoils Of War - September, 1988 from 2009-02-11T08:49:14
The "Spoils Of War" production team - legal representative John Breglio, press representative Joshua Ellis, producer Robyn Goodman, producer David Mirvish, and general manager Peter Neufeld - discu...
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Stage Veterans 2009 - February, 2009 from 2009-02-04T11:14:07
With more than 200 years of combined theatre experience among them, our guests - stage veterans Philip Bosco, John Cullum, Marian Seldes and Carole Shelley - discuss the breaks that got each of the...
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Performance - April, 1989 from 2009-01-28T15:54:54
The panel of Broadway actors - Joan Allen ("The Heidi Chronicles"), Ed Asner ("Born Yesterday"), Philip Bosco ("Lend Me A Tenor"), Pauline Collins ("Shirley Valentine"), Nancy Dussault ("Into The W...
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Playwright, Director and Choreographer - September, 1988 from 2009-01-22T10:36:25
The creative teams of "Legs Diamond": director Robert Allan Ackermam, playwright Harvey Fierstein, and choreographer Alan Johnson, "Paul Robeson": playwright Phillip Hayes Dean and director Harold ...
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Making Ogre Broadway - January, 2009 from 2009-01-14T15:09:37
In a broadcast devoted to an in-depth look at one Broadway show, our guests are the creative team behind "Shrek The Musical" -- Book writer and Lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire, Producer Bill Damaschk...
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Playwright and Director - April, 1989 from 2009-01-07T12:23:14
Director Pamela Berlin ("Steel Magnolias", "Crossing Delancey"), playwright Cindy Lou Johnson ("Brilliant Traces"), playwright/director Garson Kanin ("Born Yesterday") and playwright Wendy Wasserst...
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Production: The Heidi Chronicles - April, 1989 from 2008-12-31T10:53:03
Playwrights Horizons artistic director Andre Bishop, legal counsel Marsha Brooks, stage manager Roy Harris, advertising representative Mike Mones, and producer James Walsh discuss Wendy Wasserstein...
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Performance - September, 1989 from 2008-12-24T16:47:08
Stage performers Blair Brown ("The Secret Rapture"), Kevin Conway ("Other People's Money"), Beth Fowler and Bob Gunton from "Sweeney Todd", Pamela Payton-Wright and Tony Randall from "M. Butterfly...
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Production: Orpheus Descending - September, 1989 from 2008-12-17T15:57:04
The production team of Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending" -- attorney John Breglio, advertising representative Nancy Coyne, general manager Barbara Darwall, press representative Joshua Ellis,...
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99 and Under - December, 2008 from 2008-12-11T11:51:47
Our guests -- Jonathan Bank, Artistic Director of The Mint Theater, Sarah Benson, Artistic Director of Soho Rep., Susan Bernfield, Artistic Director of New Georges and David Van Asselt, Artistic Di...
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Performance - April, 1996 from 2008-12-03T12:00:23
The panel of performers -- Mark Linn-Baker ("A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum"), John Cullum ("Show Boat"), Ann Duquesnay ("Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk"), Judith Ivey ("A Fa...
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Production: Master Class - April, 1996 from 2008-11-26T10:45:17
The production team of "Master Class" -- producer Lewis Allen, producing associate Doris Blum, actress Karen Day Cody, press agent Bill Evans, casting director Alan Filderman, stage manager Dianne ...
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Arias to Showstoppers: The Worlds of Opera and Theatre - November, 2008 from 2008-11-19T18:51:26
Composer Michael John LaChiusa, and directors Diane Paulus and Stephen Wadsworth have all worked in the once mutually-exclusive worlds of opera and theatre. They share their thoughts about the natu...
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Playwright, Director and Choreographer - September, 1996 from 2008-11-13T17:49:57
The panel - director Melvin Bernhardt ("The Blues Are Running"), playwright David Henry Hwang ("Golden Child", "M. Butterfly"), composer Mary Rodgers ("Once Upon A Mattress"), playwright Nicky Silv...
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Actors Words, Writers Voice - November, 2008 from 2008-11-05T10:25:25
Daniel Jenkins, Lisa Kron and David Pittu - who have appeared both on stage and written works for the stage - talk about how they balance these dual roles; what they learn about being playwrights f...
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Performance - April, 1990 from 2008-10-29T10:44
Kate Burton ("Some Americans Abroad"), Tyne Daly ("Gypsy"), Tom Hulce ("A Few Good Men"), Robert Morse ("Tru"), Kathleen Turner ("Cat On A Hot Tin Roof"), and Irene Worth ("Sweet Bird Of Youth") ta...
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Production: Fit To Be Tied - September, 1996 from 2008-10-23T15:59:55
Playwrights Horizons' production team for "Fit To Be Tied" -- production manager Chris Boll, production stage manager Carol Clark, casting director Janet Foster, general manager Lynn Landis, mana...
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Design - September, 1996 from 2008-10-15T14:44:33
The panel of American Theatre Wing Design Award-winners -- Julie Archer, special effects designer for "Mabou Mines"; Christopher H. Barreca, scenic designer of "Chronicle of a Death Foretold"; Ruth...
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Performance - April, 1997 from 2008-10-08T12:27:24
The panel of actors -- Nell Carter ("Annie"), Willem Dafoe ("The Hairy Ape"), Andre De Shields ("Play On!"), Paul Giamatti ("Three Sisters"), Joel Grey ("Chicago"), and Dana Ivey ("Last Night of Ba...
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Playwright, Director and Choreographer - April, 1997 from 2008-10-03T09:37:59
The panel of directors Walter Bobbie ("Chicago"), director/choreographer Wayne Cilento ("Dream"), Scott Elliott ("Present Laughter"), Ron Lagomarsino ("Last Night at Ballyhoo"), Gene Saks ("Barry...
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Production: Stanley - April, 1997 from 2008-09-24T18:14:42
The production team of "Stanley" -- press representative Bill Evans, producers Gregory Mosher and Edgar Rosenblum, and marketing representative Evan Shapiro -- discuss the process of bringing the p...
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Unions and Guilds - April, 1997 from 2008-09-17T12:03:59
The panelists -- Julianne Boyd (Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers); Dean Brown and Muriel Stockdale (United Scenic Artisis); Shirley Herz and Bernice Weiler (Assoc. of Theatrical Press ...
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Producing - April, 1990 from 2008-09-12T16:59:34
The panel -- "A Few Good Men"'s director Don Scardino and playwright Aaron Sorkin, director George C. Wolfe ("Spunk") and director Luke Yankee ("The Cherry Orchard") -- discusses their current prod...
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Production: Gypsy and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof - April, 1990 from 2008-09-04T16:31:51
The production team of "Gypsy" and "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" - publicist Shirley Herz, casting director Stuart Howard, playwright/director Arthur Laurents, general manager/associate producer Alecia P...
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Performance - September, 1990 from 2008-08-28T15:15:05
Stage actors Mike Hodge ("A Few Good Men"), Robin Morse ("Six Degrees of Separation"), Ron Perlman ("A Few Good Men"), Faith Prince ("Falsettoland"), Margaret Tyzack ("Lettice and Lovage"), and Jam...
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Playwright, Director and Choreographer - September, 1990 from 2008-08-21T11:56:39
The panel of playwrights Vernel Bagneris ("Further Mo'") and Tom Cole ("About Time"), lyricist John Driver ("Shogun"), director Tony Giordano ("About Time&Handy Dandy"), lyricist Sheldon Harnick (...
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Performance - April, 1994 from 2008-08-14T18:03:03
Broadway performers F. Murray Abraham ("Angels In America"), Susan Egan ("Beauty and the Beast"), Victor Garber ("Damn Yankees"), Nathan Lane ("Laughter on the 23rd Floor"), Michael Learned ("The S...
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Performance - September, 1997 from 2008-08-07T09:38:07
Broadway performers - Chuck Cooper ("The Life"), Robert Cuccioli ("Jekyll and Hyde"), Pat Hingle ("1776"), Pamela Isaacs ("The Life"), Jeff McCarthy ("Side Show"), and J. Smith-Cameron ("As Bees in...
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Playwright and Director - September, 1997 from 2008-07-31T11:35:48
The panel -- playwright Douglas Carter Beane ("As Bees In Honey Drown"), director Mark Brokaw ("As Bees In Honey Drown", "How I Learned To Drive"), playwright/lyricist Bill Russell ("Side Show") an...
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Production: Side Show - September, 1997 from 2008-07-24T12:11:50
The production team for the musical "Side Show" -- producer Emanuel Azenberg, press representative Bill Evans, and general manager Abbie M. Strassler -- talk about the show's journey from presentat...
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Design - September, 1997 from 2008-07-17T12:52:07
The panel -- Tony Award winning lighting designer Beverly Emmons for "Amadeus", "Passion" and "The Heiress"; costume designer Danny Gates ("When Pigs Fly"); 1997 Tony Award winners for Best Scenic ...
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Playwright, Director and Choreographer - September, 1998 from 2008-07-10T19:03:45
The panel of theatre professionals - playwright Michael J. Chepiga ("Getting and Spending"), choreographer Graciela Daniele ("Ragtime"), playwright/director Christopher Durang ("Sex and Longing"), ...
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Production: Side Man - September, 1998 from 2008-07-02T10:59:57
The "Side Man" production team -- general manager Roy Gabay, producer Jay S. Harris, advertising representative, Drew Hodges, producer Peter Manning, marketing representative Nancy Richards, and pr...
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Design - September, 1998 from 2008-06-25T16:29:42
The panel of lighting designers Jules Fisher ("Ragtime") and Donald Holder ("The Lion King"), scenic designers Eugene Lee ("Ragtime") and Ming Cho Lee (The Public Theater), and "The Lion King" as...
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Performance - December, 1998 from 2008-06-19T12:12:53
The international panel of performers -- Scottish actor Iain Glen ("The Blue Room"), Australian actress Nicole Kidman ("The Blue Room"), Irish actress Anna Manahan ("The Beauty Queen of Leenane"), ...
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Performance - April, 1998 from 2008-06-12T16:52:07
Actors Blythe Danner and Edward Herrmann both from "The Deep Blue Sea", Brian Stokes Mitchell ("Ragtime"), Alfred Molina ("Art"), Natasha Richardson ("Cabaret"), and John Vickery ("The Lion King") ...
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Producing Broadway - May, 2008 from 2008-06-04T11:23:29
What is the role of a producer? That was the question that started the discussion among four of Broadway's top producers - Roger Berlind, Margo Lion, Jeffrey Richards and Jeffrey Seller - as the c...
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Production: The Lion King - April, 1998 from 2008-05-28T10:48:39
"The Lion King" production team -- press representative Chris Boneau, composer Lebo M, advertising representative Rick Elice, producers Peter Schneider and Thomas Schumacher, and director, costume ...
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Playwright and Director - April, 1998 from 2008-05-21T14:36:14
Playwright Jeff Baron ("Visiting Mr. Green"), director/playwright Moises Kaufman ("Gross Indecency"), playwright Warren Leight ("Side Man"), director Michael Mayer ("Side Man"), actor/director Lonn...
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Demystifying the Classics - April, 2008 from 2008-05-14T10:22:21
A trio of classical theatre veterans - Kate Fleetwood, Peter Francis James and Laila Robins - share their thoughts about the importance of language in performing the classics and the physical conne...
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Production: Ragtime - April, 1998 from 2008-05-07T12:02:01
Lyricist Lynn Ahrens, producer Garth Drabinsky, composer Stephen Flaherty, director Frank Galati, book writer Terrence McNally, and advertising representative Jon Wilner discuss the journey of the ...
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Performing Musicals - April, 2008 from 2008-04-30T12:01:01
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 more tha...
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Performance - September, 1998 from 2008-04-24T16:57:51
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 Northwestern. ...
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Unexpectedly Theatre - March, 2008 from 2008-04-16T16:39:15
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. Ben Katc...
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Performance - April, 1999 from 2008-04-09T12:38:42
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 ("The Mine...
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Playwright, Director and Choreographer - April, 1999 from 2008-04-02T15:45:06
The panel -- director Scott Ellis ("That Championship Season"), director Robert Falls ("Death of a Salesman"), playwright David Marshall Grant ("Snakebit"), director/choreographer Robert Longbottom...
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Steppenwolf: From Chicago to Osage County - February, 2008 from 2008-03-26T10:54:16
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 Ensemble Memb...
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Production: The Civil War - April, 1999 from 2008-03-20T10:56:03
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 represent...
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Critics - September, 1999 from 2008-03-12T18:52:30
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 differen...
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Directors on Directing - February, 2008 from 2008-03-05T10:09:22
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 they have ...
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Playwright, Director and Choreographer - September, 1999 from 2008-02-27T12:13:46
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"), director V...
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Production: Contact - September, 1999 from 2008-02-20T10:04:20
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 Center ...
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Design - September, 1999 from 2008-02-13T15:05:24
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 effects...
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Performance - September, 1999 from 2008-02-06T13:42:39
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 Yates ...
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Playwright, Director and Choreographer - April, 2000 from 2008-01-31T10:26:14
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"), and...
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Featured Performers - January, 2008 from 2008-01-23T13:58:58
Our panel of stage performers -- Helen Carey, Elizabeth Franz, Jayne Houdyshell and Zeljko Ivanek -- discuss their roles as featured actors and actresses, the range of work available to them, how ...
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Off-Broadway Companies - January, 2008 from 2008-01-16T11:14:12
The Artistic Directors of four off-Broadway not-for-profit theatre companies -- Douglas Aibel of Vineyard Theatre, Charlotte Moore of Irish Repertory Theatre, Tim Sanford of Playwrights Horizons an...
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Performance - April, 2000 from 2008-01-09T10:37:03
Actors Jennifer Ehle (Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing"), Cherry Jones ("Moon for the Misbegotten", "The Heiress"), Adam Pascal ("Aida", "Rent"), Tonya Pinkins ("The Wild Party", "Jelly's Last Jam"),...
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Playwright, Director and Choreographer - September, 2000 from 2008-01-02T12:59
Playwrights David Auburn ("Proof") and Charles Busch ("The Tale of the Allergist's Wife"), director/choreographer George Faison ("For Colored Girls"), choreographers David Marques ("The Adventures ...
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Composers and Lyricists - December, 2007 from 2007-12-26T11:16:46
A panel of acclaimed, Tony Award-winning composers and lyricists - Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, William Finn and Adam Guettel - discuss their first theatrical experiences, the process of writing ...
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Production: The Full Monty - September, 2000 from 2007-12-19T10:26:05
The creative and production team of the Broadway musical "The Full Monty" -- producer Thomas Hall, press representative Michael Hartman, producer Lindsay Law, director Jack O'Brien, general manager...
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From New Dramatists - December, 2007 from 2007-12-12T10:26:35
A panel of current New Dramatists playwrights -- Carlyle Brown, David Grimm, Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lucy Thurber -- talk about their differing styles of playwriting, what inspired them to start w...
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Composer and Lyricist - September, 2000 from 2007-12-05T11:54:17
Oscar, Emmy and five-time American Theatre Wing Tony Award winner, Peter Stone moderates this discussion with lyricist Susan Birkenhead ("Triumph of Love", "Jelly's Last Jam"), composers/lyricists ...
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Performance - September, 2000 from 2007-11-28T08:49:49
Actors Len Cariou, Patrick Cassidy, Andre De Shields, Michael Learned, Mary Louise Parker, and Marian Seldes talk not only about their careers and their training, but also about the drive, the pass...
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Horton Foote's America - November, 2007 from 2007-11-21T09:37:34
In a one-on-one interview with playwright Horton Foote he talks about his early career as an actor, who was responsible for his becoming a playwright, how his connection to the past inspires his wr...
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The Next Generation - November, 2007 from 2007-11-14T10:37:26
Four of Broadway's newest and brightest stars - Ashley Brown ("Mary Poppins"), Jonathan Groff ("Spring Awakening"), Alison Pill ("Mauritius") and John Lloyd Young ("Jersey Boys") - discuss their ro...
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Production: Aida - April, 2000 from 2007-11-14T09:57:54
The production team of Elton John and Tim Rice's "Aida" - musical director Paul Bogaev, press representative Chris Boneau, director Robert Falls, book writer David Henry Hwang, vice president of cr...
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Playwright, Director and Choreographer - April, 2001 from 2007-11-02T12:05:41
This panel of artists - playwright/actress Pamela Gien, playwright/director/actor Lonny Price, choreographer/director Randy Skinner, director Rebecca Taylor, playwright August Wilson, and director ...
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Production: The Producers - April, 2001 from 2007-10-24T11:39:28
The production and creative team for the musical "The Producers" - press representative John Barlow, creator and producer Mel Brooks, producer Richard Frankel, general manager Laura Green, book wri...
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Performance - April, 2001 from 2007-10-17T09:03:32
Six leading performers - Alan Cumming ("Design For Living"), Daniel Davis (Tom Stoppard's "Invention Of Love"), Heather Headley ("Aida"), Faith Prince ("Bells Are Ringing"), Maximilian Schell ("Jud...
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Playwright, Director and Choreographer - September, 2001 from 2007-10-15T14:14:02
Choreographers Rob Ashford and Wayne Cilento, playwright Michael Frayn, playwright/lyricist Greg Kotis, and directors Sean Mathias and Lynne Meadow discuss various aspects of their respective craft...
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Production: Mamma Mia! - September, 2001 from 2007-10-03T10:24:10
The creative team of worldwide hit musical "Mamma Mia!" - press representative Adrian Bryan-Brown, producer Judy Craymer, book writer Catherine Johnson, director Phyllida Lloyd, and composer/lyrici...
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Performance - September, 2001 from 2007-09-26T10:53:03
Actors Kate Burton ("Hedda Gabler"), Christine Ebersole ("42nd Street"), Peter Gallagher ("Noises Off"), Valerie Harper ("The Tale of the Allergist's Wife"), and Robert Sean Leonard ("The Music Man...
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Design - September, 2001 from 2007-09-19T10:09:53
The panelists -- lighting designer Ken Billington, costume and set designer Robert Jones, costume designer William Ivey Long, scenery designer Thomas Lynch, costume and scenery designer Tony Walton...
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Women Producers - September, 2002 from 2007-09-12T10:34:12
This panel of producers (all of whom just happen to be women) -- Tisa Chang, Elizabeth Ireland McCann, Amy Nederlander, Daryl Roth, Fran Weissler, and Elizabeth Williams -- talks about the role of ...
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World Theatre - January, 2002 from 2007-08-15T11:42:01
The international panel consisting of Valery Fokin (Artistic Director of The Meyerhold Centre in Moscow and the Alexandrinksy Theatre in St. Petersburg), Marita Gochman (writer/director, Nordic the...
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Playwright and Director - April, 2002 from 2007-08-08T23:00:22
Playwrights Jon Robin Baitz ("Hedda Gabbler"), John Guare ("Sweet Smell of Success"), Peter Parnell ("Q.E.D."), and directors Gene Saks ("Mr. Goldwyn"), Daniel Sullivan ("Proof"), and Mary Zimmerma...
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Production: Thoroughly Modern Millie - April, 2002 from 2007-08-01T08:30:07
"Thoroughly Modern Millie"'s creative and production team -- choreographer Rob Ashford, general manager Nina Lannan, producer Hal Luftig, director Michael Mayer, book writer/lyricist Dick Scanlan a...
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Performance - April, 2002 from 2007-07-25T09:22:14
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 Sylvia?"...
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Performance - June, 2002 from 2007-07-18T11:34:57
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 Produce...
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Playwright and Director - September, 2002 from 2007-07-11T11:12:15
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 Michael Kun...
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Design - September, 2002 from 2007-07-04T09:43:14
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 ("Amour...
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Performance - September, 2002 from 2007-06-27T09:43:14
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 Jaret ...
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Production: Hairspray - December, 2002 from 2007-06-20T08:55:04
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-book write...
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Playwright and Director - April, 2003 from 2007-06-13T10:34:53
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 David Pe...
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Artistic Directors - June, 2007 from 2007-06-06T08:44:09
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 Michael Wil...
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August Wilson's Legacy - May, 2007 from 2007-05-30T10:35:16
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 collaborators ...
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Leading Men - May, 2007 from 2007-05-23T10:16:27
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 array of...
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Production: Urban Cowboy - April, 2003 from 2007-05-16T08:47:26
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 Solowa...
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Design - April, 2003 from 2007-05-09T11:17:22
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 Meschter ("M...
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Performance - April, 2003 from 2007-05-02T15:44:10
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 Mitchell ("Ma...
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Production: The Coast Of Utopia - March, 2007 from 2007-04-25T16:44:10
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 of 19th...
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Production: Big River - June, 2003 from 2007-04-18T10:03:26
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 language thea...
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Playwright, Director and Choreographer - September, 2003 from 2007-04-11T17:10:47
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..."), ch...
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Production: Avenue Q - September, 2003 from 2007-04-04T11:02:29
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 (Book Write...
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Design - September, 2003 from 2007-03-28T08:57:32
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.W. Mer...
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The Casting Director - February, 2007 from 2007-03-21T09:50:45
Casting Directors Tara Rubin ("Spamalot", "The Producers"), Laura Stanczyk ("Translations", "Sweet Charity"), Daniel Swee ("The Coast of Utopia", "The Vertical Hour"), and Bernie Telsey ("Wicked", ...
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Performance - September, 2003 from 2007-03-16T08:58:54
Tovah Feldshuh ("Golda's Balcony"), Marc Kudisch ("Thoroughly Modern Millie"), Swoosie Kurtz ("Frozen"), Rebecca Luker ("Nine"), Denis O'Hare ("Take Me Out") and Lewis J. Stadlen ("The Producers") ...
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New Plays and Playwrights - January, 2004 from 2007-03-07T11:33:32
Five of America's leading playwrights, Nilo Cruz ("Beauty of the Father"), Julia Jordan ("Boy"), Terrence McNally ("The Visit"), Paul Rudnick ("Valhalla") and Regina Taylor ("Drowning Crow") come t...
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The Evolution of Encores! - January, 2007 from 2007-02-27T11:30:56
On "The Evolution of Encores!", guests Judith E. Daykin (founder), Rob Fisher (music director from founding to 2006), David Ives (book adapter for 18 productions) and Jack Viertel (artistic directo...
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Performance - April, 2004 from 2007-02-23T12:04:25
In this interview a panel of actors - Anne Heche ("Twentieth Century"), Jefferson Mays ("I Am My Own Wife"), Martha Plimpton ("Sixteen Wounded"), Phylicia Rashad ("Gem Of The Ocean") and Richard Th...
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Production: Caroline, or Change - April, 2004 from 2007-02-12T10:50:54
The development of the musical "Caroline, or Change" and its move from The Public Theatre to Broadway is explored with Tony Kushner (writing a musical book and lyrics for the first time), composer ...
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Producing New Plays for Broadway - April, 2004 from 2007-02-05T14:33:25
The challenges and the rewards of producing new plays on Broadway are explored by press representative Michael Hartman ("Sixteen Wounded"), producers Robert LuPone ("Frozen"), Benjamin Mordecai ("S...
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The Playwright - December, 2006 from 2007-01-29T14:30:59
Playwrights Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa ("Dark Matters"), Douglas Carter Beane ("The Little Dog Laughed"), Kia Corthron ("Breath Boom"), Daisy Foote ("Bhutan") and Adam Rapp ("Red Light Winter") discuss...
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Leading Ladies - December, 2006 from 2007-01-16T09:10:26
"Leading Ladies" Blair Brown ("The Clean House"), Blythe Danner ("Suddenly, Last Summer"), Swoosie Kurtz ("Heartbreak House") and Julie White ("The Little Dog Laughed") share their thoughts on thei...
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Production: Grey Gardens - November, 2006 from 2006-12-21T15:30
The "Grey Garden"'s creative team, Scott Frankel (composer), Michael Korie (lyricist) and Doug Wright (book writer) discuss the genesis of this new, highly acclaimed Broadway musical - why they cho...
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Producing Commercial Theatre Off-Broadway - October, 2006 from 2006-11-21T09:24
The challenge of producing commercially Off-Broadway is the topic for producers and managers Ken Davenport, Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Marc Routh and Alan Schuster as they consider whether Off-Broadway is,...
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Puppetry and Theatre - October, 2004 from 2006-11-15T16:18
With puppetry turning up in, or serving as the main focus of, numerous shows in recent seasons, Pam Arciero (O'Neill Puppetry Conference), Cheryl Henson (The Jim Henson Foundation), Rick Lyon ("Ave...
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Humor in Performance - December, 2004 from 2006-10-24T16:15
Four performers noted for their performance in comedic roles—Mario Cantone ("Laugh Whore"), Julie Halston ("Hairspray"), Judy Kaye ("Souvenir") and Michael McKean ("A Second-Hand Memory")—talk abou...
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Stage Veterans - January, 2005 from 2006-10-18T15:15
Four actors with long and varied careers on stage—Richard Easton, Robert Prosky, Marian Seldes and Frances Sternhagen—recall their own experiences starting out in the business and offer a few tips ...
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Off-Broadway - February, 2005 from 2006-10-13T13:15
Five off-Broadway artistic directors—Tisa Chang of Pan Asian Repertory, Loretta Greco of The Women's Project, Eduardo Machado of INTAR, James C. Nicola of New York Theatre Workshop and Neil Pepe of...
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Interpreting Tennessee Williams - April, 2005 from 2006-09-26T11:30
A remarkable one-time-only meeting of cast members from two concurrent Williams revivals on Broadway—Natasha Richardson, John C. Reilly and Chris Bauer of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Jessica Lan...
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Production: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - April, 2005 from 2006-08-22T11:00
An in-depth look at the creation of the Broadway musical comedy with authors Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek, director Jack O'Brien, choreographer Jerry Mitchell and actors Norbert Leo Butz and Sheri...
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Performance - May, 2005 from 2006-08-16T12:20
A lively roundtable on the actors' craft with Billy Crudup ("The Pillowman"), Raúl Esparza ("Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"), Cherry Jones ("Doubt"), Marsha Mason ("Steel Magnolias") and David Hyde Pierc...
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Directing - June, 2006 from 2006-07-21T09:00
How an audience can discern the often invisible hand of the director is the starting point for this discussion with Scott Elliott ("The Threepenny Opera"), Doug Hughes ("Doubt"), Joe Mantello ("Wic...
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