Monday, April 14th, 2008
James Earl Jones
From Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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 performed by African-American actors. He also charts [...]
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Performance
The five performers — Matthew Broderick (Night Must Fall), Kathleen Chalfant (Wit), Brian Dennehy (Death of a Salesman), Elizabeth Franz (Death of a Salesman), and Swoosie Kurtz (The Mineola Twins) — discuss their current and past acting roles, how research and real life experience shapes one’s portrayal of a character, how the audience completes the [...]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Ken Billington
Tony Award-winning Lighting Designer.
Lighting designer Ken Billington, veteran of more than 80 Broadway productions ranging from the original Sweeney Todd to the current Sunday in the Park with George, discusses the art of lighting design, including how lighting can be used to emotionally enhance the theatre experience, how he discovered his calling during a [...]
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Playwright, Director and Choreographer
The panel — director Scott Ellis (That Championship Season), director Robert Falls (Death of a Salesman), playwright David Marshall Grant (Snakebit), director/choreographer Robert Longbottom (The Scarlet Pimpernel), playwright Paul Rudnick (The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told), and director John Tillinger (Night Must Fall) — discuss working with rewrites, revisions and multiple versions [...]
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