Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Critics
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 difference between television and print media, writing styles, the change in opening night review deadlines, audience reactions, unbiased reviews, reading plays prior to attending plays, how the [...]
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Kathleen Chalfant
From Vita and Virginia and Dead Man’s Cell Phone.
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 as the latter of the two title characters in Vita And Virginia at the [...]
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Directors on Directing
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 they have such a strong and emotional reaction to the idea of “concept” in the directing process, their opposing opinions on the role [...]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Alice Ripley
From Next To Normal.
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 family and describes how the show’s music drives both the character and her performance. She also talks about her parallel [...]
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