Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Barbara Gaines
Artistic Director, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.
Barbara Gaines, founder and artistic director of the newly Tony-recognized Chicago Shakespeare Theater, talks about the company’s evolution from a classical acting workshop to a major institution with an impressive home on Chicago’s Navy Pier. She discusses her own background, including training at Northwestern University and an acting stint [...]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Production: Contact
Producer/Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater André Bishop, Marketing Director and Director of Special Projects for Lincoln Center Theater Thomas Cott, Executive Producer of Lincoln Center Theater Bernard Gersten, director/choreographer Susan Stroman and playwright John Weidman discuss the Tony Award winning Contact; from Lincoln Center Theater’s invitation to Stroman and Weidman to develop [...]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Off-Broadway Companies
The Artistic Directors of four off-Broadway not-for-profit theatre companies — Douglas Aibel of Vineyard Theatre, Charlotte Moore of Irish Repertory Theatre, Tim Sanford of Playwrights Horizons and Jim Simpson of The Flea Theater — share their thoughts about attracting audiences to their shows, the cost of keeping their theaters going, the challenges they [...]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Jack O’Brien
Artistic Director, The Old Globe.
Director Jack O’Brien announces his new title as Artistic Director Emeritus at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre and charts his quarter-century tenure as Artistic Director from his hiring in 1981; reveals his original plans to be a musical comedy writer and star; describes his apprenticeship as a director in the [...]
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
André Bishop
Artistic Director, Lincoln Center Theater
Lincoln Center Theater artistic director André Bishop talks about the selection of Cymbeline and South Pacific for the current season and the thread that unifies the work on the company’s two stages; explains why its unlikely we’ll see certain types of plays in their Lincoln Center complex; recalls his start [...]
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