Monday, November 10th, 2008
Jan Maxwell
From To Be Or Not To Be.
Two-time Tony nominee Jan Maxwell talks about whether she’s been influenced by Carole Lombard and Anne Bancroft, her film predecessors as the leading ladies of To Be or Not To Be, as well as the difficulty of working in a new play when the author was on the [...]
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
James Naughton
From The Master Builder.
Two-time Tony Award-winner James Naughton explains why he’s at home in the Irish Repertory Theatre’s The Master Builder and why it’s his three Broadway musical appearances which are really the anomalies in his long stage career. He also shares how a casual college audition launched him into acting; discusses his [...]
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Lanford Wilson
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson discusses the creation of his famed “Talley trilogy,” including Fifth of July, which stemmed in part from his equating an Eskimo folk tale with the war in Vietnam, and Talley’s Folly, now in revival at the McCarter Theatre, and how it grew out of an acting suggestion [...]
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Gregg Edelman
From A Tale of Two Cities.
Multiple Tony nominee Gregg Edelman describes about the creation of the new Broadway musical A Tale of Two Cities, including a song that was cut and that he misses terribly, and explains to Dickens purists where the musical’s plot diverges a bit from the novel. He also talks [...]
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Lynne Meadow
Artistic Director, Manhattan Theatre Club.
Just after returning from a year-long sabbatical, Manhattan Theatre Club artistic director Lynne Meadow talks about what she did and didn’t do during her hiatus and explains how she shared planning for last season and the coming year with interim artistic director Daniel Sullivan. She also recalls her childhood [...]
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