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Monday, March 17, 2008

Michael Cumpsty (#193) - March, 2008 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

"Sunday in the Park with George"'s Michael Cumpsty talks about the challenges of performing in the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical, how the script and score match the pointillism of Ge…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:12PM
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Critics - September, 1999 by American Theatre Wing and Cuny

The panel of theatre critics -- "New York Post"'s Clive Barnes, "Variety"'s Charles Isherwood, "New York Times"' Peter Marks, "NY1"'s Roma Torre, and "Newsday"'s Linda Winer -- discuss the d…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 06:52PM
Monday, March 10, 2008

Kathleen Chalfant (#192) - March, 2008 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

Tony Award nominee Kathleen Chalfant talks about doing double duty on New York stages right now: as the mother of the title character in "Dead Man's Cell Phone" at Playwrights Horizons and a…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 05:40PM
Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Directors on Directing - February, 2008 by American Theatre Wing and Cuny

Our distinguished panel of theatre directors - Anne Bogart, Scott Ellis and Daniel Sullivan - discuss their early influences in theatre and how that impacted their work as directors, why the…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:09AM
Monday, March 3, 2008

Alice Ripley (#191) - February, 2008 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

Alice Ripley, star of the new musical "Next To Normal" at New York's Second Stage Theatre, talks about the challenge of playing the emotionally disturbed mother of a "typical" American famil…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:36PM
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Playwright, Director and Choreographer - September, 1999 by American Theatre Wing and Cuny

The panelists -- playwright Douglas Carter Beane ("As Bees In Honey Drown"), director/choreographers Kathleen Marshall ("Kiss Me Kate") and Rob Marshall ("Damn Yankees", "She Loves Me"), dir…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:13PM
Monday, February 25, 2008

Nathan Lane (#190) - February, 2008 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

Tony Award-winning actor Nathan Lane charts the course of his career, from touring New Jersey schools in the historical musical "Jerz" to starring on Broadway as the President of the United …

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:33PM
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Michael Rupert (#189) - February, 2008 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

"Legally Blonde"'s resident legal shark Michael Rupert talks about why his role as that musical's unsavory Professor Callahan is consistent with other roles he often plays and talks about be…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:20AM

Production: Contact - September, 1999 by American Theatre Wing and Cuny

Producer/Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater André Bishop, Marketing Director and Director of Special Projects for Lincoln Center Theater Thomas Cott, Executive Producer of Lincoln…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:04AM
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Design - September, 1999 by American Theatre Wing and Cuny

This broad panel of designers - lighting designer Michael Chybowski ("Moby Dick and Other Stories", "Wit"), scenic designer David Hays, sound designer Abe Jacob ("Pippin", "Evita"), special …

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:05PM
Monday, February 11, 2008

Edward Albee (#188) - February, 2008 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

Multiple Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee talks about the "inadvertent festival" of his works in the New York area, explaining why he declined to allow any synopsis of "Me, …

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:49PM
Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Performance - September, 1999 by American Theatre Wing and Cuny

Performers Bryan Batt ("Saturday Night Fever"), Kristin Chenoweth ("Epic Proportions"), Boyd Gaines ("Contact"), Marin Mazzie ("Kiss Me Kate"), Tom Wopat ("Annie Get Your Gun") and Deborah…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:42PM
Monday, February 4, 2008

Richard Easton (#187) - February, 2008 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

Tony Award-winning actor Richard Easton talks about his role in David Ives' play "New Jerusalem" and why he didn't spend much time trying to parse Spinoza's philosophy in preparation for the…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:10PM
Thursday, January 31, 2008

Playwright, Director and Choreographer - April, 2000 by American Theatre Wing and Cuny

Director David Esbjornson ("The Ride Down Mt. Morgan"), director David Leveaux ("The Real Thing"), playwright Becky Mode ("Fully Committed"), director Richard Nelson ("James Joyce's The Dead…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:26AM
Monday, January 28, 2008

Tom Stoppard (#186) - January, 2008 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

Multiple Tony Award-winning playwright Sir Tom Stoppard talks about his latest work to appear on Broadway, "Rock 'n' Roll", including why he feels the play's love story, not its intellectual…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 09:24PM
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Featured Performers - January, 2008 by American Theatre Wing and Cuny

Our panel of stage performers -- Helen Carey, Elizabeth Franz, Jayne Houdyshell and Zeljko Ivanek -- discuss their roles as featured actors and actresses, the range of work available to the…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:58PM

Frances Sternhagen (#185) - January, 2008 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

Two-time Tony-winner Frances Sternhagen surveys her six-decade career in the theatre, ranging from her decision to stop teaching "dramatics" to schoolchildren to her most recent Broadway app…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:54PM
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Off-Broadway Companies - January, 2008 by American Theatre Wing and Cuny

The Artistic Directors of four off-Broadway not-for-profit theatre companies -- Douglas Aibel of Vineyard Theatre, Charlotte Moore of Irish Repertory Theatre, Tim Sanford of Playwrights Hori…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:14AM
Monday, January 14, 2008

Norbert Leo Butz (#184) - January, 2008 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

Tony Award-winner Norbert Leo Butz talks about his first reaction on being approached about appearing in a "new" Mark Twain play, "Is He Dead?", and about the construction of farce and how …

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 03:44PM
Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Performance - April, 2000 by American Theatre Wing and Cuny

Actors Jennifer Ehle (Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing"), Cherry Jones ("Moon for the Misbegotten", "The Heiress"), Adam Pascal ("Aida", "Rent"), Tonya Pinkins ("The Wild Party", "Jelly's Last…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:37AM
Monday, January 7, 2008

Tony Walton (#183) - January, 2008 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

Designer turned director Tony Walton talks about his work directing the plays of George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward for New York's Irish Repertory Theatre; considers how his wo…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:53PM
Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Playwright, Director and Choreographer - September, 2000 by American Theatre Wing and Cuny

Playwrights David Auburn ("Proof") and Charles Busch ("The Tale of the Allergist's Wife"), director/choreographer George Faison ("For Colored Girls"), choreographers David Marques ("The Adve…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:59PM
Monday, December 31, 2007

John Cullum (#182) - December, 2007 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

Actor John Cullum, currently appearing in the title role of Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" at Lincoln Center Theater, but better known for his musical performances, talks about his experiences in…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 04:13PM
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Composers and Lyricists - December, 2007 by American Theatre Wing and Cuny

A panel of acclaimed, Tony Award-winning composers and lyricists - Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, William Finn and Adam Guettel - discuss their first theatrical experiences, the process of w…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:16AM
Monday, December 24, 2007

Alan Menken (#181) - December, 2007 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

Alan Menken, composer of both the film and Broadway musical versions of "The Little Mermaid" and "Beauty And The Beast", talks about going "under the sea" with Ariel so many years after writ…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 12:14PM
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Production: The Full Monty - September, 2000 by American Theatre Wing and Cuny

The creative and production team of the Broadway musical "The Full Monty" -- producer Thomas Hall, press representative Michael Hartman, producer Lindsay Law, director Jack O'Brien, general …

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:26AM
Monday, December 17, 2007

Jack O'Brien (#180) - December, 2007 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

Director Jack O'Brien announces his new title as Artistic Director Emeritus at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre and charts his quarter-century tenure as Artistic Director from his hiring in 198…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:19PM
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

From New Dramatists - December, 2007 by American Theatre Wing and Cuny

A panel of current New Dramatists playwrights -- Carlyle Brown, David Grimm, Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lucy Thurber -- talk about their differing styles of playwriting, what inspired them to…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 10:26AM
Monday, December 10, 2007

David Henry Hwang (#179) - December, 2007 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

Playwright David Henry Hwang talks about putting a version of himself -- and his father -- onstage in his new play "Yellowface" and why he doesn't want to reveal what in the play is fact and…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 01:56PM
Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Composer and Lyricist - September, 2000 by American Theatre Wing and Cuny

Oscar, Emmy and five-time American Theatre Wing Tony Award winner, Peter Stone moderates this discussion with lyricist Susan Birkenhead ("Triumph of Love", "Jelly's Last Jam"), composers/lyr…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 11:54AM
Monday, December 3, 2007

André Bishop (#178) - November, 2007 by American Theatre Wing and Xm Satellite Radio

Lincoln Center Theater artistic director André Bishop talks about the selection of "Cymbeline" and "South Pacific" for the current season and the thread that unifies the work on the company…

SOURCE: American Theatre Wing at 02:05PM

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