Production: The Civil War (WIT #280)

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Production: The Civil War
The production team for The Civil War — producer Pierre Cossette, producers Gary Gunas and Scott Zieger of Pace Theatrical, lyricist Jack Murphy, composer Frank Wildhorn, and marketing representative Norman Zagier — cover the musical’s journey from inception at Houston’s Alley Theatre, through two studio albums, readings and workshops, to the Broadway [...]

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Playwright, Director and Choreographer (WIT #282)

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Playwright, Director and Choreographer
The panelists — playwright Douglas Carter Beane (As Bees In Honey Drown), director/choreographers Kathleen Marshall (Kiss Me Kate) and Rob Marshall (Damn Yankees, She Loves Me), director Vivian Matalon (Morning’s At Seven), and playwright John Pielmeier (Agnes of God) — discuss the impact of efficient cast sizes, casting for multi-talented performers, respectfully [...]

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Production: Contact (WIT #283)

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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Edward Albee (DSC #188)

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Edward Albee
Award-winning American Playwright.
Multiple Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee talks about the “inadvertent festival” of his works in the New York area, explaining why he declined to allow any synopsis of Me, Myself and I for its production at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre, whether The American Dream and The Sandbox at New York’s Cherry [...]

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Playwright, Director, Choreographer (WIT #286)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Playwright, Director and Choreographer
Director David Esbjornson (The Ride Down Mt. Morgan), director David Leveaux (The Real Thing), playwright Becky Mode (Fully Committed), director Richard Nelson (James Joyce’s The Dead), and director/choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett (Swing!) discuss how they became theatre professionals, their work ethic, and their reasons for remaining and working in theatre.
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