Playwright, Director and Choreographer (WIT #161)

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Playwright, Director and Choreographer
The panel of playwrights Vernel Bagneris (Further Mo’) and Tom Cole (About Time), lyricist John Driver (Shogun), director Tony Giordano (About Time & Handy Dandy), lyricist Sheldon Harnick (The Rothschilds), Executive Director of the Dramatists Guild David LeVine, and director Lonny Price (The Rothschilds) discuss how they got started in their [...]

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Playwright, Director and Choreographer (WIT #274)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Playwright, Director and Choreographer
The panel of theatre professionals - playwright Michael J. Chepiga (Getting and Spending), choreographer Graciela Daniele (Ragtime), playwright/director Christopher Durang (Sex and Longing), director Garry Hynes (The Beauty Queen of Leenane), and director Joe Mantello (Corpus Christi) - discuss how they got their start, auditioning actors, controversy surrounding a play, and taking [...]

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Playwright, Director and Choreographer (WIT #279)

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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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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