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 …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:08AMHaving recently steered "Driving Miss Daisy" to Broadway, director David Esbjornson discusses what it's like to direct a "brand," why he thinks older actors can play younger much more easily…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:37AMFounding artistic director of both the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Robert Brustein discusses how each of those organizations came int…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:22AMA 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 pa…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:45AMIn June 2002, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation hosted a panel discussion on how Broadway directors and choreographers got their starts as part of its 3-day Musical Theatre S…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:51AMStephen Ouimette, who plays Bejart in the current Broadway revival of "La Bête", talks about what it takes to hold the stage, with little dialogue, throughout the show's fabled 30 minute op…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:20AMExecutive Director of the Theatre Communications Group (TCG), Teresa Eyring, talks about the work of the 50 year old service organization which boasts membership if some 500 of the country's…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:21AMIn November 1992, SDC Foundation hosted a conversation with the creative team behind "Jelly's Last Jam" on Broadway: George C. Wolfe (book and direction), Hope Clarke (choreography), Susan B…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:38AM"Lombardi"'s leading lady Judith Light talks about her research into both the role and the real-life Marie Lombardi, and whether she thinks "Lombardi" is a "football play." She also talks ab…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:19AM"The Divine Sister"'s Teutonic nun Alison Fraser talks about her role, her prior work -- and sharing a dressing room -- with playwright/actor Charles Busch. She also discusses her musical th…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:36AMScenic Charge Artist Jason Edwards paints walls, backdrops, and props to create the visual surface details of a show's set. At the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Edwards works with each pr…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:31AMOn Tuesday, March 29, 1988, Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation and New Dramatists hosted a seminar on the director-playwright relationship with directors Tony Giordano, Pam Berlin…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:36AMCalled "the most powerful man in English theatre" by "The Stage", co-CEO (with his wife, Rosemary Squire) and creative director of the Ambassador Theatre Group, Howard Panter, talks about th…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:26AMOur 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; …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:53PMJim Simpson, artistic director of New York's Off-Off-Broadway The Flea Theater, charts the company's 15 year journey from a collective meant to last for only five years to an ongoing institu…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:18AMThe panelists - President/Executive Director of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization Ted Chapin, President of the American Theatre Producers Cy Feuer, writer/critic Martin Gottfried, ac…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:35AMAt the SDC Foundation's Choreography Symposium in 1986, choreographers Wayne Cilento (Tony Award for "The Who's Tommy"), Graciela Daniele (8 Tony nominations for Best Choreography), Janet Wa…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:18AMSouth African playwright Athol Fugard discusses his newest work, "The Train Driver", during rehearsals at the Long Wharf Theatre, and explains why this play marks the end of a stage in his w…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:54AMThe 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 ("Takin…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:32AMOne of the greatest classical actors of his generation, Sir Ian McKellen reflects on his more than 50 years on stage, explaining that he's really only qualified to voice his opinion on two t…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:47AMThe 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")…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:23AMOn December 15, 1986, director Tony Giordano, designers Hugh Landwehr and Dennis Parichy and actors Michael Fischetti, Jennifer Van Dyck and Diane Martella spoke with moderator Amy Saltz at …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:00AMPlaywright Alfred Uhry recalls the original production of "Driving Miss Daisy" in 1987 at Playwrights Horizons, lists the actresses he's had the opportunity to see play the title role - base…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:17AMPlaywright Jules Feiffer, perhaps best known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, explains why he sees little difference between his comic work, screen work and stage work, as well as why…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:52AMActress Liv Ullmann who starred in Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" talks about the different techniques required for stage acting versus film acting, particularly with respect to the eyes a…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:35PMThe panel of performers - Karen Akers ("Nine"), Christine Baranski ("Sally and Marsha"), actor/playwright Harvey Fierstein ("Torch Song Trilogy"), Ben Harney ("Dreamgirls"), Lonny Price ("Ma…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:28PMIn April 2010, Edie Cowan moderated an hour-long roundtable discussion with Broadway choreographers Kathleen Marshall and Jerry Mitchell and dance arrangers David Chase and Mark Hummel. They…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:35AMVeteran director Daniel Sullivan talks about his suddenly busy 2010-11 Broadway season, which will see transfers of his productions of "Time Stands Still" from Manhattan Theatre Club, "The M…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:11AMComposer Stephen Schwartz talks about bringing "Pippin" to New York after a school production at Carnegie Tech, writing songs for "Godspell" off-Broadway after runs at Carnegie Tech and Cafe…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:26AMThe 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 …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:59AMWest End musical theatre star Elaine Paige discusses her three month sojourn in New York, including the recording of a new album of duets with artists ranging from Paul Anka to Sinead O'Conn…
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