Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Playwright, Director and Choreographer
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), and director/choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett (Swing!) discuss how they became theatre professionals, their work ethic, and their reasons for remaining and working in theatre.
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Tom Stoppard
Author of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
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 themes, ultimately drove the shape of the story and whether there’s truth to the rumor that he wanted to cut [...]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Featured Performers
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 them, how they become their characters, dealing with stage fright and forgetting their lines, the audition process, performing in regional theater and how [...]
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Frances Sternhagen
Tony Award winning Actress.
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 appearance in Edward Albee’s Seascape. In between she talks about her time in such illustrious theatre companies as Washington DC’s Arena Stage and New [...]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Off-Broadway Companies
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 Horizons and Jim Simpson of The Flea Theater — share their thoughts about attracting audiences to their shows, the cost of keeping their theaters going, the challenges they [...]
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