Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Linda Lavin From Collected Stories. Collected Stories star Linda Lavin discusses why she’s playing the role of Ruth Steiner in Donald Margulies’ play for a fourth time, likens the two-character play to a duet that changes with each new co-star, and explains why she turned the role down the first time she had the opportunity [...]
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Michael Stewart Book Writer/Lyricist Michael Stewart of Tony Award-winning Best Musicals Bye Bye Birdie and Hello, Dolly!, and the new musical comedy I Love My Wife, talks about his new novel Belle, and how connecting with an individual reader compares with collaborating on a big Broadway musical. Running time – 03:48. var addthis_pub = “AmericanTheatreWing”; [...]
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
Performance The panel of performers – Vondie Curtis-Hall (Raisin In The Sun), Ossie Davis (I’m Not Rappaport), Swoosie Kurtz (The House of Blue Leaves), Jean Stapleton (Arsenic and Old Lace, and Loretta Swit (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) – discuss how they got started in the business, Stapleton’s experience working at the Stage Door Canteen [...]
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
Scenic Designer Scenic designer Riccardo Hernandez creates sets built from the text of a production, creating an honest space for actors and ideas to work within. Hernandez knew he wanted a career designing opera sets by age 10, went on to study at Yale with Ming Cho Lee, and later broadened his work to theatre. [...]
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
B.H. Barry Fight Director. Progenitor of fight direction in America and 2010 Tony Honor recipient B.H. Barry talks about his decades of developing and staging fights across the country, starting with Hamlet in 1978 at Arena Stage and continuing with countless productions for the New York Shakespeare Festival, such Broadway shows as the fabled 1981 [...]
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