Diane Paulus
Director of the 40th Anniversary Concert Production of Hair.
Diane Paulus, director of the acclaimed 40th anniversary revival of the musical Hair in Central Park, talks about her long-standing love of the musical — despite the fact that she’d never actually seen it — and how she indoctrinated her youthful cast with the spirit of the 60s. Paulus also discusses her development as a theatre artist, from her collegiate days at Harvard to staging a show in a New York City community garden to her sojourn in Wisconsin to her return to New York for graduate school at Columbia; how she created The Donkey Show and why she often turns to Shakespeare for source material for her work; what she knew of Laura Nyro before directing Eli’s Coming; and her plans for her new role as the artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre Cambridge.
Original airdate – September 5, 2008.
Running time – 58:40.
For more information, to listen online, or to download the episode go to Downstage Center’s Diane Paulus program page.
You can also download directly the Diane Paulus program (mp3).
Posted on Monday, September 8th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
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