Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
World Theatre
The international panel consisting of Valery Fokin (Artistic Director of The Meyerhold Centre in Moscow and the Alexandrinksy Theatre in St. Petersburg), Marita Gochman (writer/director, Nordic theatre), Fiona Shaw (Irish actress, Medea), Anatoly Smeliansky (writer/scholar/critic, Moscow Art Theatre), Elise Thoron (writer/director, Russian theatre), and Shu Xiao (Cultural Counselor, China) discuss the role of theatre [...]
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Monday, August 13th, 2007
Debra Monk
From Curtains on Broadway.
Actress Debra Monk talks about her six year journey through the development of the musical Curtains, and passionately reflects on the things she learned from the legendary team of Kander and Ebb on both Curtains and Steel Pier; recalls how she came to create both Pump Boys And Dinettes and Oil [...]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Playwright and Director
Playwrights Jon Robin Baitz (Hedda Gabler), John Guare (Sweet Smell of Success), Peter Parnell (Q.E.D.), and directors Gene Saks (Mr. Goldwyn), Daniel Sullivan (Proof), and Mary Zimmerman (Metamorphoses) discuss their approaches to writing, directing, and adaptations; the collaboration process with directors, writers, producers, sets, and actors; reactions to a production’s first preview; and [...]
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Monday, August 6th, 2007
John P. Connolly
Executive Director of Actors Equity Association.
John P. Connolly, the new executive director of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers, talks about the challenges and concerns facing the union and its members, chronicles his own professional career as an actor and how he became increasingly involved with union activities, [...]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Production: Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie’s creative and production team — choreographer Rob Ashford, general manager Nina Lannan, producer Hal Luftig, director Michael Mayer, book writer/lyricist Dick Scanlan and composer Jeanine Tesori — discuss the Tony Award winning musical’s journey to Broadway; obtaining the rights to the 1967 Universal Pictures film written by Richard Morris [...]
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