Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Performance
Actors Kate Burton (Hedda Gabler), Christine Ebersole (42nd Street), Peter Gallagher (Noises Off), Valerie Harper (The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife), and Robert Sean Leonard (The Music Man) discuss performing on Broadway with respect to humor, the truth in acting, analyzing a script, building a character, acting influences, auditions, training, directors, pre-performance preparations, and […]
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Design
The panelists — lighting designer Ken Billington, costume and set designer Robert Jones, costume designer William Ivey Long, scenery designer Thomas Lynch, costume and scenery designer Tony Walton, and costume designer David C. Woolard — discuss the fields of study that led them to design; perceptible styles; the design of Six Degrees of Separation; […]
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Carole Shelley
From Wicked on Broadway.
Upon her return to the Broadway production, Wicked’s original Madame Morrible, Carole Shelley, talks about whether she’s hissed as a villain by fans on the street; explains how a childhood incident almost kept her off the musical stage; recalls her “trifecta of success” in The Odd Couple, appearing in the […]
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Ever hungry for theatrical news, I’m a big fan of websites that help me to find my way to features and reviews from around the country, and I like to keep tabs on London as well. Consequently, my day usually starts with visits to two key sites: American Theater Web and ArtsJournal. The […]
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
It is not unusual to hear actors talk about the nature of audiences on different nights of the week, as if a crowd of a thousand people can suddenly have a singular personality. But actors swear that they do: Saturday nights audiences are particularly lively (perhaps because the crowd had time for drinks […]
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