Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Jessica Hecht
From A View from the Bridge.
Jessica Hecht, now on Broadway as Eddie Carbone’s long-suffering but cleared-eyed wife Beatrice in the Broadway revival of A View From The Bridge, talks about her role in the play’s tragic love triangle and why her preparation for this performance was so different than her usual practice. She also [...]
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Rondi Reed
From August: Osage County and Wicked.
The “resident character woman” of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Rondi Reed, talks about her current stint as Madame Morrible in the Broadway juggernaut Wicked, a role she originated in the musical’s Chicago company, including why we’re suddenly seeing her in a big Broadway musical for the first time, [...]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Howard Sherman
Executive Director, American Theatre Wing.
Turnabout is fair play, as actor Richard Thomas is the guest host for a conversation with Howard Sherman, Executive Director of the American Theatre Wing. The longtime friends discuss the changes in the Wing since Sherman arrived in 2003, the unifying idea beyond the program expansion that has taken place [...]
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Gregory Mosher
Director of A View From The Bridge.
Gregory Mosher, director of the current Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, talks about how he initiated the production himself, personally approached Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson about appearing in it, then brought the project to a producer after 17 years away from directing [...]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
John Lee Beatty
Scenic Designer of A View From The Bridge & Time Stands Still.
Veteran scenic designer John Lee Beatty, currently represented in New York by Time Stands Still, A View from the Bridge and Venus in Fur, talks about why he thinks all American drama is about real estate, making set design particularly integral to [...]
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