Monday, 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 06:07PMTuesday, 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 11:04AMMonday, 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 04:25PMMonday, 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 10:05PMMonday, 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 05:12PMMonday, 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 05:40PMMonday, 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 04:36PMMonday, 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 10:20AMMonday, 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 03:49PMMonday, 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 04:10PMMonday, 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
Two-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 01:54PMMonday, 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 03:44PMMonday, 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 01:53PMMonday, 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 04:13PMMonday, 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 12:14PMMonday, 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 02:19PMMonday, 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 01:56PMMonday, 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 02:05PMMonday, 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 04:45PMMonday, 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 01:09PMMonday, November 12, 2007
Judy Kuhn reflects on returning to the cast of "Les Misérables" 20 years after appearing in the original Broadway cast and how her perspective has changed now that she's playing Fantine, th…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:06PMMonday, November 5, 2007
Kevin Chamberlin talks about his role in the Roundabout Theatre revival of Terrence McNally's "The Ritz", including whether his "midwestern" looks match up to his character of Gaetano Proclo…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:56PMMonday, October 29, 2007
The new artistic director of California's La Jolla Playhouse, Christopher Ashley, talks about his plans for the theatre, including whether he sees himself continuing or departing from the re…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:04PMMonday, October 22, 2007
F. Murray Abraham talks about his role as a dangerous yet avid stamp collector in Theresa Rebeck's "Mauritius", a role he compares to Shakespeare's Mercutio; describes his transition from ga…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:04PMMonday, October 15, 2007
Kristen Johnston talks about her nightly mantra that prepares her to go on stage in the current Atlantic Theatre Company production of Lucy Thurber's "Scarcity"; recalls her early years as d…
SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:03PM 
