Friday, June 26th, 2009
Ellen Stewart
Off-Off Broadway pioneer Ellen Stewart gave a candid interview to SDCF Executive Director David Diamond for a packed audience of theatre artists at ArtsConnection on June 13, 1994. The central focus of the interview is her founding and continued artistic leadership of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. She begins at the beginning, [...]
Posted in
Audio,
Director,
Producer,
SDCF Masters of the Stage |
No Comments »>
Friday, June 12th, 2009
Gillian Lynne
On February 4, 1996 the Drama League Directors Project co-hosted with SDCF a moderated discussion between Director/Choreographer Gillian Lynne and musical Director/Arranger Marvin Laird. In this candid discussion of Gillian’s life in the theatre - the prolific dancer, choreographer, director of musicals and straight plays speaks of the mentors who helped her develop her [...]
Posted in
Audio,
Choreographer,
Director,
SDCF Masters of the Stage |
No Comments »>
Friday, June 5th, 2009
Ron Lagomarsino
Fresh off of the successful opening of Driving Miss Daisy starring Dana Ivey and Morgan Freeman, Director Ron Lagomarsino sat down with SDCF’s Steve Kaplan in January of 1988 to discuss directing comedy for the stage. In this, the third installation in a series of three interviews devoted to the topic, the listener will [...]
Posted in
Audio,
Director,
SDCF Masters of the Stage |
No Comments »>
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Robert Whitehead and Brian Clark
In April of 1986, the day after their play The Petition, staring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, began its short lived run on Broadway, writer/producer Brian Clark and producer/director Robert Whitehead sat down with colleague Robert Pesola to discuss bringing serious work to Broadway. The two frame the discussion somewhat ominously; [...]
Posted in
Audio,
Author,
Director,
Producer,
SDCF Masters of the Stage |
No Comments »>
Friday, May 15th, 2009
Directing Shepard
Fritz Ertl sat down with George Ferencz to discuss Sam Shepard at New Dramatists in January of 1985. The conversation begins dominated by questions concerning the musicality of Shepard’s earlier work and Ferencz’s collaboration with Jazz legend Max Roach to stage them for the ShepardSets in the mid-eighties. The questions drift from [...]
Posted in
Audio,
Director,
SDCF Masters of the Stage |
No Comments »>
