Kate Mulgrew
From Love, Loss, and What I Wore.
Downstage Center welcomes its second starship captain as actress Kate Mulgrew visits during her stint in the Off-Broadway comedy Love, Loss, and What I Wore. She talks about being raised in an Iowa household that groomed her for an acting career, even though she saw little theatre and had no TV growing up; getting her big breaks in theatre and TV simultaneously, playing Emily in Our Town at the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford CT and debuting on Ryan’s Hope; her participation in the first workshop of Wendy Wasserstein’s Uncommon Women and Others at the O’Neill Theater Center; playing Desdemona in Stamford CT and Tracy Lord in Anchorage AK; why Hedda Gabler was the hardest role she’s ever tackled, why she wishes she could do it again, and why it was a relief to be performing it in rep with The Real Thing at L.A.’s Center Theatre Group; the particular challenges of the “stew” that is Titus Andronicus, which she did in Central Park; the lonely but rewarding experience of playing Katharine Hepburn in Tea At Five around the country; her joy at having Marian Seldes play her mother in The Royal Family; her feelings about having only appeared on Broadway twice in her 35 year career; and her excitement at finally playing the queen in Antony and Cleopatra, her dream role, this coming season at Hartford Stage.
Original airdate – August 25, 2010.
Running time – 1:01:58.
For more information, to listen online, or to download the episode go to Downstage Center’s Kate Mulgrew program page.
You can also download directly the Kate Mulgrew program (mp3).
Posted on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at 7:42 am
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