Wednesday, August 26, 2009
The "Beauty and the Beast" production team - press representative Chris Boneau, producer Michael David, associate producer Donald Frantz, production supervisor Jeremiah Harris, producer Robe…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:47PMMonday, August 24, 2009
Douglas Aibel, artistic director of New York's Vineyard Theatre, reflects upon the six year run and impending closing of the Broadway musical "Avenue Q", which made its Off-Broadway debut at…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:32AMWednesday, August 19, 2009
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"…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:36AMMonday, August 17, 2009
"9 to 5" star Allison Janney talks about her transformation into a musical comedy performer, and why the dancing didn't worry her but the singing did. She also discusses her theatrical educ…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:10AMThursday, August 13, 2009
In June of 1995, SDCF brought one of Broadway's most beloved directors to New Dramatists for a conversation about comedy. Collaborators are quoted as saying "I would like to be surgically a…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:30PMWednesday, August 12, 2009
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 T…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:41PMMonday, August 10, 2009
"Shrek"'s big green hero, Brian d'Arcy James, talks about the opportunities and limitations of creating the title character in the Broadway musical drawn from the first of the blockbuster an…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:24AMThursday, August 6, 2009
Renowned stage and film actor and Tony nominated stage director Austin Pendleton made time for an interview in April of 1999 with former SDCF Executive Director David Diamond. This 90 minut…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:12PMWednesday, August 5, 2009
The "Damn Yankees" production team - legal counsel Robert Barandes, press representative Peter Cromarty, advertising representative Rick Elice, producers Mitchell Maxwell and Victoria Maxel…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:21AMMonday, August 3, 2009
Gregory Jbara traces his stage career from his first grade appearance as the title role in "Frosty the Snowman" all the way to his Tony Award-winning turn in the current Broadway musical "Bi…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:35AMThursday, July 30, 2009
Days before the close of 1986's Tony Award winner for "Best Reproduction of a Play or Musical" "Hay Fever", Director Brian Murray sat down with Ada Brown Mather to discuss Mr. Coward's retur…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:04PMWednesday, July 29, 2009
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 t…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:25PMThursday, July 23, 2009
Just two months after the opening of his Tony Award winning production of "The House of Blue Leaves", Director Jerry Zaks spoke to a packed house at Westside Arts Theater in the first instal…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:07PMWednesday, July 22, 2009
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 Ou…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:41PMThursday, July 16, 2009
SDCF's James Furlong sat down with two preeminent stage directors who also design, Richard Foreman and Wilford Leach, for a 90 minute discussion about navigating the often contentious relati…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:27PMWednesday, July 15, 2009
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 pr…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:33PMThursday, July 9, 2009
At St. Mary's Church in Manhattan on September 19, 1986 SDCF hosted the second installation in a series of interviews with "Actors Who Direct". This interview moderated by Ike Schambelan, f…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:31AMWednesday, July 8, 2009
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 …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:48PMWednesday, July 1, 2009
The production team of "Love! Valour! Compassion!" - general manager Victoria Bailey, press representative Helene Davis, managing director Barry Grove, director Joe Mantello, playwright Ter…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:17PMFriday, June 26, 2009
Off-Off Broadway pioneer Ellen Stewart gave a candid interview to SDCF Executive Director David Diamond for a packed audience of theatre artists at ArtsConnection on June 13, 1994. The cent…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:54PMWednesday, June 24, 2009
Goodspeed Opera House's team - director/lyricist Martin Charnin ("Annie"), press representative Max Eisen, associate producer Sue Frost, musical supervisor Michael O'Flaherty, director Charl…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:34PMWednesday, June 17, 2009
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 "Indiscretion…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:56PMFriday, June 12, 2009
On February 4, 1996 the Drama League Directors Project co-hosted with SDCF a moderated discussion between Director/Choreographer Gillian Lynne and musical Director/Arranger Marvin Laird. In …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:32AMWednesday, June 10, 2009
The multi-disciplined panelists -- director/choreographer Jeff Calhoun ("Busker Alley"), director/playwright Michael Leeds ("Swinging on a Star"), actor/playwright Anne Meara ("After-Play"),…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:04PMFriday, June 5, 2009
Fresh off of the successful opening of "Driving Miss Daisy" starring Dana Ivey and Morgan Freeman, Director Ron Lagomarsino sat down with SDCF's Steve Kaplan in January of 1988 to discuss di…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:07PMWednesday, June 3, 2009
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 wor…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:39PMWednesday, May 27, 2009
The "Moon Over Buffalo" production team -- press representative Adrian Bryan-Brown, designer/producer Heidi Landesman, producer Elizabeth Williams, general managers Wendy Orshan and Jeffrey …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:24AMFriday, May 22, 2009
In April of 1986, the day after their play "The Petition", staring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, began its short lived run on Broadway, writer/producer Brian Clark and producer/director Rob…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:06AMWednesday, May 20, 2009
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 -- …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:51PMFriday, May 15, 2009
Fritz Ertl sat down with George Ferencz to discuss Sam Shepard at New Dramatists in January of 1985. The conversation begins dominated by questions concerning the musicality of Shepard's ea…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:52PMWednesday, May 13, 2009
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 …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:40AM 
