Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Performance
Actors John Cullum (Urinetown), Edie Falco (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune), Lea Salonga (Flower Drum Song), Stanley Tucci (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune), Marissa Jaret Winokur (Hairspray) and Charlayne Woodard (In Real Life) meet and discuss the changes taking place in the theatre world today; how they came to [...]
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
Douglas Carter Beane
Author of Xanadu and The Little Dog Laughed
Playwright Douglas Carter Beane talks about how his fascination with Greek myths dovetailed with a producer’s overture to adapt a famously bad movie, resulting in the new musical Xanadu; describes his years of making ends meet by staffing the hearing device booths at Broadway theatres, and [...]
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Production: Hairspray
The creative team behind the Broadway musical Hairspray, producers Richard Frankel and Margo Lion, co-book writer Thomas Meehan, choreographer Jerry Mitchell, director Jack O’Brien, co-book writer Mark O’Donnell, composer Marc Shaiman and lyricist Scott Wittman outline the journey the piece took from being a John Waters and Divine cult movie to hitting the Broadway [...]
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
Marian Seldes
From Deuce.
Revered stage veteran Marian Seldes touches upon a few of the highlights of her storied career, from her current role on Broadway opposite Angela Lansbury in Deuce (a role written specifically for Ms. Seldes by Terrence McNally) to her earliest Broadway appearances with luminaries like Judith Anderson and John Gielgud; her longstanding association [...]
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
Playwright, Director and Choreographer
Director Bob Balaban (Y2K), playwrights Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out) and Suheir Hammad (Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam), choreographer Luis Perez (Man of La Mancha) and director David Petrarca (A Year With Frog and Toad) discuss the condition of American theatre both in New York and around the country, and some of [...]
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