Posted on March 2nd, 2010 at 11:37 am
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Liv Ullmann
Film actress Liv Ullmann talks about what she’s found in the title character of Anna Christie and how the audience reacts to Eugene O’Neill’s modern play.
Running time – 03:45.
For more information, to listen online, or to download the episode go to TBL This Is Broadway’s Liv Ullmann program page.
You can also download directly the Liv Ullmann program (mp3).
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Posted on March 1st, 2010 at 11:44 am
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The panel of performers – Hinton Battle (Miss Saigon), Roy Dotrice (The Homecoming), Timothy Hutton (Babylon Gardens), Mary Louise Parker (Babylon Gardens), Teresa Wright (On Borrowed Time), Stephanie Zimbalist (The Baby Dance) – discuss working in regional and repertory theatre; where they started out in show business, if it was a family profession; the process of getting an agent; how the stage compares to television and film; and how different theatre spaces, sets, and stage sizes affect a show.
Original airdate – September 1, 1991.
Running time – 1:30:00.
For more information, to watch online, or to download the episode go to Working in the Theatre’s Performance program page.
You can also download directly the Performance program (mp4).
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Posted on February 24th, 2010 at 9:24 am
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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 on Broadway. Mosher also discusses his journey through three institutions of higher education, including the acting program at The Juilliard School — all without once graduating; his failed efforts post-college to even get unpaid employment in New York or at the country’s major regional theatres; his migration to Chicago, where as assistant to William Woodman at The Goodman Theatre, he did everything from casting to producing their Stage 2 season; his ascension to artistic director and the challenges he faced securing the rights to new plays at a time when Chicago theatre wasn’t yet “on the map”; his working relationship with David Mamet on the original production of American Buffalo and other plays — as well as the one Mamet play he rejected and how that turned out; his tenure as artistic director of the new regime at Lincoln Center Theater beginning in 1985, including his early pilgrimage to meet with Peter Brook to understand how to make the Beaumont stage “work” and the LCT show that proved most surprising and rewarding in its success; what prompted his departure from LCT in the early 90s; his unsuccessful attempt to revitalize Circle-in-the-Square in 1997 and the 1998 season that was planned but never produced; and his leadership of the Columbia University Arts Initiative, how that program came to be and how to measure its success five years in.
Original airdate – February 24, 2010.
Running time – 1:04:56.
For more information, to listen online, or to download the episode go to Downstage Center’s Gregory Mosher program page.
You can also download directly the Gregory Mosher program (mp3).
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Posted on February 23rd, 2010 at 10:00 am
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Tom Courtenay
English actor Tom Courtenay who is making his Broadway debut in Simon Gray’s comedy Otherwise Engaged shares what the play is about, and his experience in The Norman Conquests in the West End.
Running time – 03:42.
For more information, to listen online, or to download the episode go to TBL This Is Broadway’s Tom Courtenay program page.
You can also download directly the Tom Courtenay program (mp3).
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Posted on February 22nd, 2010 at 10:30 am
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The panel of actors – Alan Alda (Neil Simon’s Jake’s Women), Jodi Benson (Crazy For You), Roscoe Lee Brown (August Wilson’s Two Trains Running), Glenn Close (Death and the Maiden), Richard Dreyfuss (Death and the Maiden), Harry Groener (Crazy For You), Tracy Pollan (Neil Simon’s Jake’s Women), and Lynn Redgrave (Ibsen’s The Master Builder) – discuss how they got started in the business and their big break, the significance of the rehearsal process, keeping a role fresh and not repeating the same performance, doing classic plays and if they are influenced by seeing different versions, and the difference between London and New York stages.
Original airdate – April 1, 1992.
Running time – 1:30:00.
For more information, to watch online, or to download the episode go to Working in the Theatre’s Performance program page.
You can also download directly the Performance program (mp4).
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