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Kate Mulgrew
Downstage Center welcomes its second starship captain as actress Kate Mulgrew visits during her stint in the Off-Broadway comedy Love, Loss, and What I Wore. She talks about being raised in an Iowa household that groomed her for an acting career, even though she saw little theatre and had no TV growing up; getting her big breaks in theatre and TV simultaneously, playing Emily in Our Town at the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford CT and debuting on Ryan's Hope; her participation in the first workshop of Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others at the O'Neill Theater Center; playing Desdemona in Stamford CT and Tracy Lord in Anchorage AK; why Hedda Gabler was the hardest role she's ever tackled, why she wishes she could do it again, and why it was a relief to be performing it in rep with The Real Thing at L.A.'s Center Theatre Group; the particular challenges of the "stew" that is Titus Andronicus, which she did in Central Park; the lonely but rewarding experience of playing Katharine Hepburn in Tea At Five around the country; her joy at having Marian Seldes play her mother in The Royal Family; her feelings about having only appeared on Broadway twice in her 35 year career; and her excitement at finally playing the queen in Antony and Cleopatra, her dream role, this coming season at Hartford Stage.
Original air date - August 25, 2010
Running Time - 1:01:58
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