Playwright and Director (WIT #107)

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Playwright and Director Playwright Brian Clark (The Petition), playwright/director Emily Mann (The Execution of Justice), playwright Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman), literary agent Gilbert Parker, director Norman René (Precious Sons), and director John Tillinger (Loot and The Perfect Party) discuss the division of responsibilities between playwright and director, how casting effects the original script, [...]

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James Lapine (SDCF #53)

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

James Lapine In March of 1985, during the original Broadway run of Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, Susan Einhorn interviewed Tony Award-winning librettist and director James Lapine about how a director keeps a show in shape. In this seventy-five-minute interview, Lapine discusses replacements, understudies, stage managers and his relationship with the cast after [...]

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Sarah Ruhl (DSC #273)

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Sarah Ruhl Author of In The Next Room (or the vibrator play). Playwright Sarah Ruhl, whose Passion Play made its New York City debut with the Epic Theater Center, talks about the roots of that play during her graduate work at Brown University, what initially got her musing on the story of the people who [...]

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Hye-Young Choi (TIB #47)

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Hye-Young Choi Actress Hye-Young Choi who portrayed Lady Thiang in the 1977 Broadway revival of The King And I compares theatre in Korea to Broadway; audiences enjoy traditional Asian performances, Western-style plays, and European operas that are translated into Korean; and notes that musicals are not yet performed in Korea. Running time – 03:41. var [...]

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Production: Precious Sons (WIT #109)

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Production: Precious Sons The Precious Sons production team – producers Marty Bell and Roger Berlind, legal respresentative Patricia Crown, press representative Joshua Ellis, advertising representative Peter LeDonne, and general manager Peter Neufeld – discuss the steps taken to bring the show to Broadway such as obtaining rights, building a creative team, the casting process, Broadway [...]

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