Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Design
The panel – actress Brenda Braxton (Jelly’s Last Jam), Mettawee River Theatre Company puppet/costume designers Casey Compton and Ralph Lee (Wichikapache Goes Walking), producer/lighting designer Jules Fisher (Two Shakespearean Actors), director Michael Greif (Pericles), and costume designer Toni-Leslie James (Jelly’s Last Jam) – discuss the significant roles of lighting and costume design, the relationship between [...]
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Julie Taymor
On March 12, 1997, eight months before the opening of Lion King on Broadway, Julie Taymor was interviewed by author and collaborator Alexis Greene at Fordham University. In this One-on-One conversation Ms. Taymor reflects on her history as a performer in the collaborative theatre companies of the late 60’s and 70’s. She speaks about [...]
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Production: Avenue Q
Members of the creative team of the Tony-winning musical Avenue Q — Robert Lopez (Composer/Lyricist), Rick Lyon (Puppet Designer/Actor), Jeff Marx (Composer/Lyricist),and Jeff Whitty (Book Writer) — along with producers Robyn Goodman and Jeffrey Seller explain how the pieces came together to create this unique puppet musical, the journey from its early days [...]
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
Puppetry and Theatre
With puppetry turning up in, or serving as the main focus of, numerous shows in recent seasons, Pam Arciero (O’Neill Puppetry Conference), Cheryl Henson (The Jim Henson Foundation), Rick Lyon (Avenue Q), Roman Paska (Dead Puppet Talk) and Basil Twist (Symphonie Fantastique) discuss the intersection of puppet and human theatre.
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
Stephanie D’Abruzzo and John Tartaglia
From Avenue Q.
Before Avenue Q’s Tony Awards triumph, original cast members Stephanie D’Abruzzo and John Tartaglia chronicle the show’s journey from workshop to Broadway, share their own paths to leading roles in an unlikely hit musical, and talk about their hopes that they’ll be seen as actors — separate from the [...]
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