Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Playwright, Director and Choreographer This panel of artists – playwright/actress Pamela Gien, playwright/director/actor Lonny Price, choreographer/director Randy Skinner, director Rebecca Taylor, playwright August Wilson, and director Joel Zwick – who provide the creative heart of the theatre and breathe life into their stage productions discuss their work, backgrounds, and education; becoming a choreographer; building a [...]
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Were I a lazy blogger (as opposed to the intermittent one I appear to have become), I would awaken every day and simply point readers in the direction of the blog from the Guardian newspaper in England. With an array of commentators both in the U.K. and on occasion here in the U.S., this site [...]
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Christopher Ashley Artistic Director, La Jolla Playhouse. 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 repertoire of his predecessor, Des McAnuff; explains how he found himself with an agent by age 22; describes his long-standing [...]
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
F. Murray Abraham From Mauritius, Manhattan Theatre Club. 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 gang punk to aspiring actor in his Texas youth — including the accent he had to lose; remembers [...]
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Performance Six leading performers – Alan Cumming (Design For Living), Daniel Davis (Tom Stoppard’s Invention Of Love), Heather Headley (Aida), Faith Prince (Bells Are Ringing), Maximilian Schell (Judgement At Nuremberg), and Lily Tomlin (The Search For Intelligent Life In The Universe) – talk about their training; audition experiences; and their drive, passion and knowledge needed [...]
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