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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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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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Women Producers
This panel of producers (all of whom just happen to be women) — Tisa Chang, Elizabeth Ireland McCann, Amy Nederlander, Daryl Roth, Fran Weissler, and Elizabeth Williams — talks about the role of women in theater, how they are percieved, how they have come to the forefront of the theater community and how they [...]
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Dori Berinstein
Producer of Show Business.
Producer Dori Berinstein discusses the process behind creating the film ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway, her unprecedented chronicle of the 2003-2004 theatrical season, including how she winnowed 250 hours of film down to less than two and why the film’s narrator Alan Cumming largely ended up on the cutting room floor; [...]
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