Monday, June 16, 2008
Tony-winner Priscilla Lopez talks about what drew her to the new musical "In The Heights" and talks about her patience and faith that by the time it reached Broadway, she'd have her own song…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:36PMThursday, June 12, 2008
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 …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:52PMMonday, June 9, 2008
Tony-winner Harriet Harris talks about being "the adult" in a company of kids in the Broadway musical "Cry-Baby" and reveals which of the musical numbers in the show convinced her that she n…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 06:26PMWednesday, June 4, 2008
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 - a…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:23AMMonday, June 2, 2008
Broadway's newest Gypsy Rose Lee, Laura Benanti, talks about playing the title role in "Gypsy" both last summer at City Center and again this year on Broadway, including her thoughts on form…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:14PMWednesday, May 28, 2008
"The Lion King" production team -- press representative Chris Boneau, composer Lebo M, advertising representative Rick Elice, producers Peter Schneider and Thomas Schumacher, and director, c…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:48AMTuesday, May 27, 2008
Actress Laura Linney talks about returning to Broadway as the Marquise de Merteuil in the Roundabout production of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" and whether she thinks her character is truly ev…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:36PMWednesday, May 21, 2008
Playwright Jeff Baron ("Visiting Mr. Green"), director/playwright Moises Kaufman ("Gross Indecency"), playwright Warren Leight ("Side Man"), director Michael Mayer ("Side Man"), actor/direct…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:36PMMonday, May 19, 2008
"The Little Mermaid"'s Sherie Rene Scott talks about creating the role of Ursula in the stage version of the beloved animated film, including what she believes the character thinks of hersel…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:08PMWednesday, May 14, 2008
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 physica…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:22AMMonday, May 12, 2008
Shakespeare veteran Patrick Stewart talks about finally having the opportunity to play the title role in "Macbeth", some 50 years after he first memorized the play's great speeches, and chro…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 06:27PMWednesday, May 7, 2008
Lyricist Lynn Ahrens, producer Garth Drabinsky, composer Stephen Flaherty, director Frank Galati, book writer Terrence McNally, and advertising representative Jon Wilner discuss the journey …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:02PMMonday, May 5, 2008
Legendary producer and director Harold Prince surveys his career from his start in 1948 working for another legendary theatrical figure, George Abbott, to his newest project, the musical "Pa…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:23PMWednesday, April 30, 2008
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 m…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:01PMMonday, April 28, 2008
Lyricist David Zippel discusses the development of "Pamela's First Musical", the challenges posed by the untimely passing of two of his collaborators on the project -- composer Cy Coleman an…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:32PMThursday, April 24, 2008
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 Northwes…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:57PMMonday, April 21, 2008
Playwright Paul Rudnick discusses his evening of one-act plays, "The New Century", currently playing at Lincoln Center Theatre, including how he came to combine characters originally written…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 06:07PMWednesday, April 16, 2008
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. B…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:39PMTuesday, April 15, 2008
In a startlingly candid interview, actor James Earl Jones talks about what drew him to playing the role of Big Daddy in the current revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and his views on the pl…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:04AMWednesday, April 9, 2008
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 ("T…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:38PMMonday, April 7, 2008
Lighting designer Ken Billington, veteran of more than 80 Broadway productions ranging from the original "Sweeney Todd" to the current "Sunday in the Park with George", discusses the art of …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:55PMWednesday, April 2, 2008
Playwright David Ives talks about his many acts of "literary ventriloquism," channeling the voices of the authors of classic musicals for City Center's Encores series, including the current …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:25PMThe panel -- director Scott Ellis ("That Championship Season"), director Robert Falls ("Death of a Salesman"), playwright David Marshall Grant ("Snakebit"), director/choreographer Robert Lon…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:45PMWednesday, March 26, 2008
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 Ensemb…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:54AMMonday, March 24, 2008
Director Leigh Silverman talks about the development of the Off-Broadway "Beebo Brinker Chronicles" and its transition from an Off-Off-Broadway space to a larger venue; how she juggles so ma…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:05PMThursday, March 20, 2008
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 re…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:56AMMonday, March 17, 2008
"Sunday in the Park with George"'s Michael Cumpsty talks about the challenges of performing in the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical, how the script and score match the pointillism of Ge…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:12PMWednesday, March 12, 2008
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 d…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 06:52PMMonday, March 10, 2008
Tony Award nominee Kathleen Chalfant talks about doing double duty on New York stages right now: as the mother of the title character in "Dead Man's Cell Phone" at Playwrights Horizons and a…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:40PMWednesday, March 5, 2008
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 the…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:09AMMonday, March 3, 2008
Alice Ripley, star of the new musical "Next To Normal" at New York's Second Stage Theatre, talks about the challenge of playing the emotionally disturbed mother of a "typical" American famil…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:36PM 
