Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Production: Love! Valour! Compassion!
The production team of Love! Valour! Compassion! - general manager Victoria Bailey, press representative Helene Davis, managing director Barry Grove, director Joe Mantello, playwright Terrence McNally, and artistic director Lynne Meadow - discuss giving playwrights a home at Manhattan Theatre Club, director and playwright working together for the first time, transferring [...]
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Ellen Stewart
Off-Off Broadway pioneer Ellen Stewart gave a candid interview to SDCF Executive Director David Diamond for a packed audience of theatre artists at ArtsConnection on June 13, 1994. The central focus of the interview is her founding and continued artistic leadership of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. She begins at the beginning, [...]
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Regional Theatre: Goodspeed Opera House
Goodspeed Opera House’s team - director/lyricist Martin Charnin (Annie), press representative Max Eisen, associate producer Sue Frost, musical supervisor Michael O’Flaherty, director Charles Repole (Gentleman Prefer Blondes), and general manager Howard Sherman - discuss Goodspeed’s history and focus on the American musical, the business aspects of a regional theatre, being a [...]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Performance
The panel of performers - Betty Buckley (Sunset Blvd), Liz Callaway (Cats), Valerie Harper (Death Defying Acts), Brian Murray (Racing Demon), Roger Rees (Tom Stoppard’s Indiscretions), Frances Sternhagen (The Heiress) - talk about the different ways they started in the business, training at the Royal Shakespeare Company, notable acting teachers, how to prepare for auditions, [...]
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
Gillian Lynne
On February 4, 1996 the Drama League Directors Project co-hosted with SDCF a moderated discussion between Director/Choreographer Gillian Lynne and musical Director/Arranger Marvin Laird. In this candid discussion of Gillian’s life in the theatre - the prolific dancer, choreographer, director of musicals and straight plays speaks of the mentors who helped her develop her [...]
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