Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Donna McKechnie
From A Chorus Line and author of Time Steps.
With her autobiography Time Steps now in bookstores, Donna McKechnie reminisces about coming to New York in the late 50s with dreams of being a ballet star; her first Broadway show, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, with choreographer Bob Fosse and dance captain [...]
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
Off-Broadway
Five off-Broadway artistic directors—Tisa Chang of Pan Asian Repertory, Loretta Greco of The Women’s Project, Eduardo Machado of INTAR, James C. Nicola of New York Theatre Workshop and Neil Pepe of the Atlantic Theatre Company—join with Virginia Louloudes of ART/NY for a discussion of the state of Off-Broadway’s institutional theatres.
Original airdate - February 10, 2005.Running [...]
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Friday, October 6th, 2006
Musicals: Directors and Choreographers
Choreographer Rob Ashford, director Chris Ashley, director/choreographer John Carrafa and choreographer Gillian Lynne talk about making musicals speak, move and sing.
Original airdate - March 10, 2005.Running time - 90 minutes.
For more information see Working in the Theatre’s Musicals: Directors and Choreographers program page.You can also download the Musicals: Directors and Choreographers program [...]
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
Eve Ensler
Author of The Treatment and The Vagina Monologues.
Activist-author-actress Eve Ensler discusses her newest work, The Treatment, part of the Impact Festival at The Culture Project in New York, and the place of political theatre in today’s America; recalls the phenomenal success of her signature work, The Vagina Monologues; talks about the experience of leading [...]
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
Simon Callow
Author of Hello Americans.
Renaissance man Simon Callow talks about Hello Americans, the second book in his multi-volume biography of Orson Welles and his ongoing inquiry into Welles’ life; explains how writing was his first passion, long before he began acting; considers how his manifesto against a director-driven theatre in his book Being an Actor [...]
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