NEW EPISODE Working in the Theatre: Producing Broadway |
What is the role of a producer? That was the question that started the discussion among four of Broadway's top producers - Roger Berlind, Margo Lion, Jeffrey Richards and Jeffrey Seller - as the conve...
Posted by American Theatre Wing on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:39:00 PST |
Gypsy’s Laura Benanti on Downstage Center |
Broadway's newest Gypsy Rose Lee, Laura Benanti, talks about playing the title role in Gypsy both last summer at City Center and again this year on Broadway, including her thoughts on formidable auth...
Posted by American Theatre Wing on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:36:00 PST |
Actress Laura Linney on Downstage Center |
Actress Laura Linney talks about returning to Broadway as the Marquise de Merteuil in the Roundabout production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses and whether she thinks her character is truly evil. She als...
Posted by American Theatre Wing on Wed, 28 May 2008 05:52:00 PST |
Sherie Rene Scott on Downstage Center |
The Little Mermaid's Sherie Rene Scott talks about creating the role of Ursula in the stage version of the beloved animated film, including what she believes the character thinks of herself. She also ...
Posted by American Theatre Wing on Wed, 28 May 2008 05:48:00 PST |
Downstage Center interviews Patrick Stewart |
Shakespeare veteran Patrick Stewart talks about finally having the opportunity to play the title role in Macbeth, some 50 years after he first memorized the play's great speeches, and chronicles the p...
Posted by American Theatre Wing on Mon, 12 May 2008 01:58:00 PST |
Downstage Center episode200: Harold Prince |
Legendary producer and director Harold Prince surveys his career from his start in 1948 working for another legendary theatrical figure, George Abbott, to his newest project, the musical Paradise Foun...
Posted by American Theatre Wing on Mon, 05 May 2008 01:50:00 PST |
New episode of WORKING IN THE THEATRE: Performing Musicals |
Actors Roger Bart (Young Frankenstein), Brian d'Arcy James (Next To Normal), Priscilla Lopez (In The Heights) and Sherie Rene Scott (The Little Mermaid) -- collectively veterans of more than 30 Broadw...
Posted by American Theatre Wing on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:40:00 PST |
Lyricist David Zippel interviewed on Downstage Center |
Lyricist David Zippel discusses the development of Pamela's First Musical, the challenges posed by the untimely passing of two of his collaborators on the project -- composer Cy Coleman and author Wen...
Posted by American Theatre Wing on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:38:00 PST |
Downstage Center interviews playwright Paul Rudnick |
Playwright Paul Rudnick discusses his evening of one-act plays, The New Century, currently playing at Lincoln Center Theatre, including how he came to combine characters originally written for separat...
Posted by American Theatre Wing on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:35:00 PST |
JAMES EARL JONES interviewed on Downstage Center |
In a startlingly candid interview, actor James Earl Jones talks about what drew him to playing the role of Big Daddy in the current revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and his views on the play being per...
Posted by American Theatre Wing on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:32:00 PST |
