Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Playwright and Director
The panel – playwright/director P.J. Barry (A Distance From Calcutta), lyricist Susan Birkenhead (Jelly’s Last Jam), playwright/director Horton Foote (The Roads To Home), agent Wiley Hausam (International Creative Management), musical adaptor Luther Henderson (Jelly’s Last Jam), playwright/director George C. Wolfe (Jelly’s Last Jam) – discuss how and why they got started in [...]
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
Stephen Sondheim
Award-winning Composer/Lyricist.
Legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim is the guest for the 250th Downstage Center interview. He discusses a wide range of topics, including whether, as many have asserted, he actually dislikes giving interviews and why; his experiences doing Q&A sessions with Frank Rich around the country; how the upcoming Sondheim on Sondheim [...]
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Production: Kiss of the Spider Woman
The Kiss of the Spider Woman production team – producer Garth Drabinsky, lyricist Fred Ebb, composer John Kander, playwright Terrence McNally, director Harold Prince, and actor Chita Rivera – discuss adapting the novel and film, starting as a “New Musicals” development at SUNY Purchase through productions in Toronto and [...]
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Regional Theatre: Goodspeed Opera House
Goodspeed Opera House’s team – director/lyricist Martin Charnin (Annie), press representative Max Eisen, associate producer Sue Frost, musical supervisor Michael O’Flaherty, director Charles Repole (Gentleman Prefer Blondes), and general manager Howard Sherman – discuss Goodspeed’s history and focus on the American musical, the business aspects of a regional theatre, being a [...]
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
New Writers, New Musicals: Jonathan Larson® Grants 2009
Our guests – 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant® recipients Mark Allen, Dave Malloy, Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore – tell us what these Grants and others mean to them and their work; how they became involved in musical theatre; the programs and workshops that helped their work move forward; [...]
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