Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Playwright and Director
The panelists – director Clinton Turner Davis (Two Can Play), playwright Herb Gardner (I’m Not Rappaport), playwright/lyricist Tom Jones (The Fantasticks), playwright Shirley Lauro (Open Admissions), lyricist/director Richard Maltby Jr. (Song and Dance), playwright Marsha Norman (Night Mother) and composer Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks) – discuss how a playwright chooses a director, the [...]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Jerry Zaks
Tony Award-winning Director.
Veteran director Jerry Zaks talks about his role as Creative Consultant on The Addams Family since joining the production after its opening in Chicago and the work he has planned for Sister Act as a result of seeing its current London staging. He also talks about his introduction to theatre while a [...]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Rob Ashford and Michael Mayer
In February 2010, director Michael Mayer, who won a Tony Award for Spring Awakening and recently directed American Idiot, and choreographer Rob Ashford, who won a Tony for Thoroughly Modern Millie and was nominated for The Wedding Singer, Curtains and Cry-Baby, were featured in a Director/Choreographer Network discussion on Working in [...]
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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, the [...]
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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 a [...]
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