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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Design (WIT #284)

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Design
This broad panel of designers - lighting designer Michael Chybowski (Moby Dick and Other Stories, Wit), scenic designer David Hays, sound designer Abe Jacob (Pippin, Evita), special effects designer Greg Meeh (Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Cirque du Soleil) and costume designer Ann Roth (Crucifer of Blood, The Royal Family, The House of Blue [...]

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Tony Walton (DSC #183)

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Tony Walton
Director of The Devil’s Disciple.
Designer turned director Tony Walton talks about his work directing the plays of George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward for New York’s Irish Repertory Theatre; considers how his work as a designer influences his work as a director — and vice versa; remembers his earliest days both at [...]

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Design (WIT #299)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Design
The panelists — lighting designer Ken Billington, costume and set designer Robert Jones, costume designer William Ivey Long, scenery designer Thomas Lynch, costume and scenery designer Tony Walton, and costume designer David C. Woolard — discuss the fields of study that led them to design; perceptible styles; the design of Six Degrees of Separation; how [...]

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Design (WIT #306)

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Design
Set designer John Arnone (The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?), costume designers Jane Greenwood (Morning’s at Seven) and Martin Pakledinaz (Thoroughly Modern Millie), set designer Scott Pask (Amour) and lighting designer Richard Pilbrow (Our Town) talk about what it means for a designer to collaborate on a show; how that collaboration works with other designers, [...]

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