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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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
At Work and Play: Lead Actors 2009
Beginning the discussion with the question of when, or if, work becomes fun, our guests, lead actors all–Jane Alexander, Bill Irwin, Angela Lansbury, Cynthia Nixon, and Geoffrey Rush–also talk about how they choose roles and whether they’d consider playing smaller roles on the stage today; what they feel from [...]
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
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Broadway performers Patti Cohenour, Michael Crawford, and Judy Kaye from The Phantom of the Opera; Blythe Danner (A Streetcar Named Desire); M. Butterfly’s John Lithgow and B.D. Wong; and agent Erica Spellman (ICM) discuss auditioning, preparing special skills for unique roles, crossing over from drama to musicals to opera, and working on different types of [...]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Performance
The actors - David Dukes (M Butterfly), Anne Jackson (Cafe Crown), Sylvia Miles (Tea with Mommy and Jack), Kate Nelligan (Spoils of War), Eli Wallach (Cafe Crown), and Paul Winfield (Checkmates) - discuss how they first became interested in acting, auditions, and performing in front of an audience.
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Stage Veterans 2009
With more than 200 years of combined theatre experience among them, our guests - stage veterans Philip Bosco, John Cullum, Marian Seldes and Carole Shelley - discuss the breaks that got each of their careers started; how they handle the situation on stage when they or their co-stars forget their lines; how they [...]
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