Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Production: Moon Over Buffalo
The Moon Over Buffalo production team — press representative Adrian Bryan-Brown, designer/producer Heidi Landesman, producer Elizabeth Williams, general managers Wendy Orshan and Jeffrey M. Wilson of 101 Productions, and Serino Coyne advertising representative Ruth Rosenberg — discuss the process of bringing Ken Ludwig’s play to Broadway, from the first reading, casting Carol [...]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Robert Whitehead and Brian Clark
In April of 1986, the day after their play The Petition, staring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, began its short lived run on Broadway, writer/producer Brian Clark and producer/director Robert Whitehead sat down with colleague Robert Pesola to discuss bringing serious work to Broadway. The two frame the discussion somewhat ominously; [...]
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Design Awards
The design team of The Heiress — scenic designer John Lee Beatty, lightning designer Beverly Emmons, costume designer Jane Greenwood, director Gerald Gutierrez and actor Cherry Jones — discuss the interwoven details of their production, from natural period lighting for the enclosed sets, to background colors complementing the costumes, and the advantages of [...]
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Directing Shepard
Fritz Ertl sat down with George Ferencz to discuss Sam Shepard at New Dramatists in January of 1985. The conversation begins dominated by questions concerning the musicality of Shepard’s earlier work and Ferencz’s collaboration with Jazz legend Max Roach to stage them for the ShepardSets in the mid-eighties. The questions drift from [...]
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
At Work and Play: Lead Actors 2009
Beginning the discussion with the question of when, or if, work becomes fun, our guests, lead actors all–Jane Alexander, Bill Irwin, Angela Lansbury, Cynthia Nixon, and Geoffrey Rush–also talk about how they choose roles and whether they’d consider playing smaller roles on the stage today; what they feel from [...]
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