Monday, 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 04:36PMWednesday, February 27, 2008
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"), dir…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:13PMMonday, February 25, 2008
Tony Award-winning actor Nathan Lane charts the course of his career, from touring New Jersey schools in the historical musical "Jerz" to starring on Broadway as the President of the United …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:33PMWednesday, February 20, 2008
"Legally Blonde"'s resident legal shark Michael Rupert talks about why his role as that musical's unsavory Professor Callahan is consistent with other roles he often plays and talks about be…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:20AMProducer/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…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:04AMWednesday, February 13, 2008
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 …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:05PMMonday, February 11, 2008
Multiple Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee talks about the "inadvertent festival" of his works in the New York area, explaining why he declined to allow any synopsis of "Me, …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:49PMWednesday, February 6, 2008
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…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:42PMMonday, February 4, 2008
Tony Award-winning actor Richard Easton talks about his role in David Ives' play "New Jerusalem" and why he didn't spend much time trying to parse Spinoza's philosophy in preparation for the…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:10PMThursday, January 31, 2008
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…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:26AMMonday, January 28, 2008
Multiple Tony Award-winning playwright Sir Tom Stoppard talks about his latest work to appear on Broadway, "Rock 'n' Roll", including why he feels the play's love story, not its intellectual…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:24PMWednesday, January 23, 2008
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 the…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:58PMTwo-time Tony-winner Frances Sternhagen surveys her six-decade career in the theatre, ranging from her decision to stop teaching "dramatics" to schoolchildren to her most recent Broadway app…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:54PMWednesday, January 16, 2008
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 Hori…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:14AMMonday, January 14, 2008
Tony Award-winner Norbert Leo Butz talks about his first reaction on being approached about appearing in a "new" Mark Twain play, "Is He Dead?", and about the construction of farce and how …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:44PMWednesday, January 9, 2008
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…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:37AMMonday, January 7, 2008
Designer turned director Tony Walton talks about his work directing the plays of George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward for New York's Irish Repertory Theatre; considers how his wo…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:53PMWednesday, January 2, 2008
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 Adve…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:59PMMonday, December 31, 2007
Actor John Cullum, currently appearing in the title role of Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" at Lincoln Center Theater, but better known for his musical performances, talks about his experiences in…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:13PMWednesday, December 26, 2007
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 w…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:16AMMonday, December 24, 2007
Alan Menken, composer of both the film and Broadway musical versions of "The Little Mermaid" and "Beauty And The Beast", talks about going "under the sea" with Ariel so many years after writ…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:14PMWednesday, December 19, 2007
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 …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:26AMMonday, December 17, 2007
Director Jack O'Brien announces his new title as Artistic Director Emeritus at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre and charts his quarter-century tenure as Artistic Director from his hiring in 198…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:19PMWednesday, December 12, 2007
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…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:26AMMonday, December 10, 2007
Playwright David Henry Hwang talks about putting a version of himself -- and his father -- onstage in his new play "Yellowface" and why he doesn't want to reveal what in the play is fact and…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:56PMWednesday, December 5, 2007
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/lyr…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:54AMMonday, December 3, 2007
Lincoln Center Theater artistic director André Bishop talks about the selection of "Cymbeline" and "South Pacific" for the current season and the thread that unifies the work on the company…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:05PMWednesday, November 28, 2007
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, t…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 08:49AMMonday, November 26, 2007
Shuler Hensley, the creature from "Young Frankenstein", talks about the development of his character in the new Mel Brooks musical, as well as his seeming affinity for playing monsters; sing…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:45PMWednesday, November 21, 2007
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…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:37AMMonday, November 19, 2007
Terrence McNally talks about "The Ritz" then (1975) and now (the current Roundabout revival) and reveals his own cameo performance at the show's first opening night; describes his emergence …
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:09PM 
